Subj : Re: Prometheus
To   : esc
From : jack phlash
Date : Tue Jun 18 2024 09:18 pm

on 18 Jun 2024, esc said...
 
 es> Hey dudes/dudettes, I admit I've been living under a rock but I just saw
 es> Prometheus. In fact, I got into the whole "Alien" saga relatively
 es> recently, which is insane considering that the first two films are
 es> arguably perfect sci-fi horror movies.
 es> 
 es> Anyway I saw Prometheus understanding it to be a prequel/origin story of
 es> sorts, but I must be missing some pieces because it didn't really seem
 es> to explain much? I didn't see where exactly the xenomorphs came from and
 es> I don't know what those human ancestor things were all about, insofar as
 es> wtf did they bring to the story?
 es> 
 es> The movie was pretty great aside from that, also Idris Elba's wannabe
 es> southern American accent wasn't all that great lol.
 es> 
 es> Anyone have a different take on this one?

I actually really dig Prometheus, some minor plot holes and other silly stuff aside. As for it being an origin story, perhaps watching the direct sequel, Alien: Covenant, would fill in some more of those gaps for you. 

The connection is kind of lose and not as explicit as it could be. The gist of it is this: in Alien they find the alien face hugger from eggs aboard a crashed alien ship piloted by a giant humanoid alien ("the engineer".) In Prometheus, they visit a planet belonging to the very same race of giant humanoids and find the black goo biological weapon of sorts that mutates the shit out of everything and may or may not have been the source of the alien "xenomorphs" themselves being sort of biological weapons. Tinkering with said black goo to create xenos may have been the actual mission of Weyland and David (but more on that in the sequel.) There's also a whole series of hints around the giant humanoids themselves having created and/or attempted to wipe out humanity on earth in the first scene of the movie.

Clear as mud? :P

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