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thaavi
MemberOvomorphDec-15-2012 1:36 PMPrometheus alternate
I wanted to get rid of illogical things that happened in Scott´s release and things that I didn´t like. I tried to focus more on the relationship between creators and their sons. Engineers and people. People and adroids. On the creation and sacrifice.And also I tried to explain more how the black goo works. Of course it was necessary to connect this film with the first Alien and at the same time to open door for the sequel. I tried to consider these aspects, too.
All your comments will be welcomed
Engineers. The creators of worlds. The creators of life. Fly through space on a distant planets. Transform them to make life possible. They produce its origin. Through themselves. It's their way to create offsprings.
They chose planet Earth as a place for their another experiment with life creation, because there are appropriate conditions discovered. They arrive on Earth, at a period when there are only plants and animals in a primitive form. One of the engineers sacrifices himself to give his genetic information to the environment and to accelerate the development of life and direct it in the intended direction. He swallows unique black liquid that causes his body to decompose. The break-up of his body causes release of bundles of DNA and it reacts and creates in the Earth environment combinations that lead to the formation of more complex forms of life and in the future creation of a mankind.
Engineers continue to fly to Earth to check their children and help them in their development. They are responsible for important discoveries of mankind, which will allow significant progress. For example, learn to make fire, using stones and bones as weapons, and later create their own tools, producing iron etc. They also interfere with the development of climate, so they build special stations in large pyramidal shape, which are used to adjust the atmosphere. They visit people, watch them, help them. Like parents and their children.
People gradually become more and more capable and independent. Their options increase. Their humility before the forces of nature and respect for life disappear. Engineers get to know it and they are concerned. They send their envoy to Earth, which has the task to lead people in this spiritual crisis. People have become too insolent and confident that they despise his help and kill the ambassador. This happens 2000 years ago. This ambassador is masked engineer and modified into a human so that it is easier for people to accept him. However, it has supernatural abilities. It is known among people as Jesus. Confronted with hatred and self-esteem of most people he understands that his task can not be fulfilled and the only thing he has left is to serve as a memento of his time.
Engineers see what is happening. Their ambassador is assassinated. People are fighting against each other, live in disharmony with nature and other living forms, which engineers helped to be created. Their capabilities are increasing and it seems that soon exceed the limits of the Earth and people will be able to spread their way of being farther into space. Engineers are disgusted. They decide to take action and are determine people like an unsuccesful experiment. On their arm base they prepare containers with that black liquid with its special effects. It acts on DNA, breaks it and causes a mutation. We hear that the mutation is primarily influenced by sentiments and intentions of its object. By its intentions and desires. By the character of inner energies. Engineers wanted to create another life from themselves, the fluid thus caused the release of their DNA and decaying body intruded into the environment, where it worked as a source and accelerator at the same time of evolution. In humans there was resentment, covetousness, wickedness, thoughts of warfare, envy, etc. The liquid began to operate under the influence of this negative energy and began to transform them into terrifying creatures. Deformed, sometimes even humorously. Hidden features began to get to the surface and affect the body form. Engineers would cause the black liquid rain to fall on the face of Earth. Violent people would be turned into predators full of attacking forces and mechanisms for destruction. Fake people would turn into chameleon like creatures. Timid people should shrank under the weight of thick layers of skin and shieldy substance. Greedy people would have grown huge arms and hands, big mouth to take easily for themselves all the things around them. Insanely passionate people would transform their bodies into a giant genitals like creatures, etc. There was no doubt that people would have perished so disfiguremented or murdered themselves in tantrums of madness and bring the end of their species themselves.
Engineers began gathering containers filled with liquid. Activate intergalactic ship. Run their navigation systems with a course for Earth. However, containers of fluid by accident release to land and spill a bit on a land of the planet that is not as dead as it seemed. There were small beetles in it. They were infected by fluid. Beetles began to change, to behave chaotic and hide to the various holes and corners. Liquid caused to them they soon became giant beetles with big claws and large pairs of legs. When the engineers saw what happened, they are afraid and began to attack the beetles. Beetles resist, there was a fight. Engineers were strong, but compared to the insects and their claws they are vulnerable. They seem to be overwhelmed. One of the engineers resolves for a desperate step, when all the engineers are on the verge of forces, backed into a blind alley. He activates the explosive, which swept all living nearby. The battle ended. The explosion killed every living form around. The planet became silent.
People are not visited by the engineers anymore and they determine their progress hemselves. War, terror, misunderstanding, greed is accompanied daily. Some people felt it is still not enough and wanted more. They refused to accept their destiny and the life circle. They wanted to get on the same level with the gods, be masters of life and ruler of birth and death. One of them was a billionaire Weyland. He built for his wealth space craft that should – thanks to on archaeological acknowledge and findings from the time of Engineers – lead him to the planet of Gods. Prometheus was a name of that ship that was supposed to like that hero myth, take away the gods´ secret and bring it to people. Weyland wanted to get their technology and especially for himself the mystery of the eternal life.
After many years of cosmic voyage, the crew finally arrived at the destination. However, they found only an empty base full of dead alien bodies. No encounter with the living gods of a mighty civilization. They were able to see what happened due the running slide show holograms. There was, however, something else. Containers with mysterious black liquid. Weyland knows he does not have time to research, his health is deteriorating, and his death is inevitable. He decides to act. He instructs the android to perform an experiment. Android invades black liquid into the drink of one of the crew members. It is a woman - the main researcher. She can not have children, though it is her greatest wish. She drinks a glass and her body changes start to happen. The desire to be a mother along with other conflicting movements of her mind, gives birth of a creation that has no parallel. The woman intrudes into the world an entirely new kind of life - it is the mother, the giver of life. But in an entirely different way than any mother ever. It is the one what we know from the movie Aliens. Scientist dies, instead there is an alien mother, in whose body constitution transformed that strong desire to give a birth to children, to protect them at all costs. Her reproductive system is able to lay hundreds of eggs. Her protection is equipped with a monstrous appearance, enormous power, massive endoskeleton and acid for blood. There is a confrontation with the crew. They don´t have the equipment and strength to defend the Queen and one by one the crew falls victim to her.
Meanwhile, Weyland and his entourage headed to inspect pyramid. Expedition led by android, who is able to decipher the characters used by engineers and learns to control their devices. He play the holograms and he also manages to run the last record before the engineers died. The content of the record was the plan from which imply that the engineers were heading to the earth to wipe it out. His expedition is frightened. Android, however, discovers another find. In one of the chambers in a dormant there is a hibernated engineer. The only one who survived the massacre. He hid and waited for the others to come to rescue him. He aroused in awe to see that the ones who woke him are those who were determined to be destroyed. He sees his creation as it tries to get to the level of the gods. Android uses his ability to speak the language of engineers and first request is to have the ability to have emotions. For him until now it is impossible and people treat him despisevely. And moreover he asks for Weyland the secret of eternal life.
Engineer discovers with astonishment that people could create this sneaky android who also wants to get closer to its creators - people. Engineer feels that everything has already crossed the boundaries.The rage grabs him, he murders old Weyland, throw android on the wall and kill other members of the expedition. In the rush he starts spacecraft with cargo containers with liquid, ready once on the way to Earth. It's a ship in the shape of a horseshoe, which we know from the movie Alien. He sits in the cockpit on a special odd-shaped chair, slips into his suit, put on a helmet and pulls up a giant telescope. He is ready to start for his ancient mission. The craft takes off. He does not know, however, that the queen got aboard. While the engineer piloted towards the Earth, she laid in one of the storage areas protected with a layer of blue laser hundreds of eggs with a strange parasite inside. When the engineer went on an inspection of his ship, disrupted the field and the egg began to hatch parasite - facehugger. It attacked him and put into a coma. The engineer woke up after a while, in another place, where he stumbled in a daze and did not remember fully what had happened. His memory is paralyzed by poison of the parasite. So he sits down again for his piloting device and continues on his way. In a few hours, however, the alien starts to move inside, tears his chest and gets out. Stronger and more terrifying than ever. Made from the Queen and the engineer. Precise and intelligent tool of destruction. Engineer died in his chair with a hole in his chest, the alien ran out deep into the ship, where he probably died after several years. The ship after some time without piloting crashed on a planet in star system Zeta 2 Reticuli. The planet later known as LV-426. On the planet, where later on cargo ship Nostromo captures the warning signals and lands here, and where the story of Alien and Aliens takes place.
Meanwhile, on the engineers planet android manages to crank up his backup source and can function. He realizes that he is alone, he did not fulfill his mission and return to Earth would mean his destruction. His creator was dead, on earth Weyland-Yutani company would likely sent him in this damaged shape for scrap. He decides to continue on his own. Because he was able to connect with engineers systems, he knows that on the planet there are more ships capable of flight. He discovered the coordinates of engineers home. Now free from his creators and his programmed purpose, he resolves to go for further knowledge to the worlds of Engineers.
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BLANDCorporatio
MemberOvomorphDec-19-2012 11:00 AMEh. In a sense, ideas are cheap, it's the realization that counts. I'm not in the mood to really pore over this and start finding the internal inconsistencies it must contain (because just about any piece of fiction has plot-holes and other moments of the author fudging it; that's why focusing on them isn't really that intelligent).
So I'll comment on the approach itself. The Space Jesus angle is a bit heavy handed and rather, well, parochial. This isn't being PC this is stating facts. When Jesus was alive and interacting with a few thousand people in ol' Israel, there were millions of others living in China. You'd think the Engineers would send an envoy there as well.
Simply put, if you predicate a message that one species addresses to another, you better make the message global.
Next, the idea that the Engineers intended to wipe humanity out because humanity is evil is as old as dirt (it occurs several times in the Bible, depending on what you count). It's been done a lot in other works of SF (for example, "The day the Earth stood still" and "Final Theorem"). I think it's even made its way into Star Trek at some point.
In other words, something fresher would be nice.
I actually like the idea of the black goo affecting its victims according to their desires. Others might not, because it has a magical ring to it more suited to Fantasy rather than SF, but hey, it has its charm to me.
Leaving the android alone to journey to someplace is a bad idea. It's difficult enough to make a story from two characters. It's even harder when you have to rely on just one. And unfair as it sounds, it's even harder than that to make a compelling story when the character isn't human. We are speciests like that. Not saying it cannot be done. But unless an author is a glutton for punishment and/or really confident in their story telling skills, they should not venture thusly.
One of the reasons I love Prometheus' ending is that -those- two characters are among the survivors. They have a complicated relationship with the target of their journey, AND with each other. It's also one of the reasons why, even though Spaihts original script is technically more coherent, I prefer the film as it was made.
The whole point of this is lost if you keep it a secret.

thaavi
MemberOvomorphDec-21-2012 4:20 PMthanks for your reaction and opinion, it was interesting to read. I know it´s a bit of cliche that thing about the gods and their anger towards humans. But their unhappiness is certain after what we´ve done to ourselves, to our planet and that we lost our humility. I wanted this conflict between us and our creators to be part of the story.
The thing with Jesus, at first I thought it was cheesy, but it grew on me. I think it´s a clever idea to incorporate something from the real human history if it can be related with the film. It´s a very brave idea and it would work. And about the global thing, at those times, as we all know, there were no global media, so Jesus was a leader that should bring a spark that set the flame. You don´t need to be so literal.
About the survivors: Shaw´s survival in the film is another of many things that just robs the previous films. It´s just simply an attempt to make another Ripley. I wanted badly to avoid that. Moreover the android character is the most interesting on the whole film and his further journey can have many surprising moments.

BLANDCorporatio
MemberOvomorphDec-21-2012 4:31 PMirt. [b]thaavi[/b]:
David is one of the more interesting things in the film, that's certain.
Other opinions are available, but I'd add Elizabeth to the list of interesting things. She not only survives; there's more at stake for her than just a pulse here, as there's the whole spiritual angle she has to deal with, how her view of the world needs adapting to new evidence.
One of the film's biggest problems, again, imo, is that it tries ... and not really ... to be an Alien prequel. Which makes some people pissed off that the Deacon shows up at the end, in the way it does.
And, that same problem can be seen in how Shaw really is set up as a kinda Ripley-lite.
I stress, there's more to her than Ripley-lite. Spaihts' script had Ripley-lite surviving. But, since Prometheus is this "is it/isn't it a prequel" thing, the comparison will be made, regardless.
As for the Jesus angle, it's not that I want to be literal, but it's that I think the scenario proposed is ... unfitting its aspiration. Supposing the Engineers wanted a global message, there'd be many messengers to cover the span of the globe. Alternatively, they would need to allow time for the message to spread- a lot of time, it turns out. All the while, somehow, being certain that no distortion would occur.
And in any case, if one such messenger were to meet a grisly end, that's no reason to doom the planet.
The whole point of this is lost if you keep it a secret.
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