I think a central point of the Engineers is that they don't value artificial intelligence in the slightest so the notion that an artificial being would even be presented as evidence of the worthiness of a species would be offensive to them.
also this
if this form of technology was allowed by the engineers, they would have done it; it's the easy route. but obviously their cultural pursuit revolves around understanding and respecting biological technology, so they're averse to it for some reason.
probably along the lines that there are aspects innate to biological life that cannot be replicated through other means. that for reasons unbeknownst to us, it is essentially blasphemous or foolish. one might imagine, it's whatever comprises the soul and balances a natural-born lifeform. david missing that is partly why he became villainous-- there's nothing in his nature to prevent it.
>Why did he do this?
Because space Zyzz is part of the race called the Engineers. They created many worlds, and evolutionary inhabitants in their own image, including Earth. Except Earth ultimately turned out to be the runt of the space litter, so to speak. So the Engineers decided to wipe out Earth using the black goo, which is like a bio weapon that captures, integrates and transforms animal hosts in to Xenomorph like creatures (through a complex face-hugger impregnation fetish). That explains why Alien/Aliens had humanoid Xenomorphs, why later films had dog like Xenomorphs, even bug Xenomorphs, because the weapon turn existing life forms into new bio weapons against themselves, in a metamorphic chain reaction.
Anyway, space Zyzz saw humans as trash, and hated the arrogance of humans considering themselves as creators, making another being (the android) in their own image. See
Why are you still reading? I'm probably full of shit.
because he was disgusted that humans wanted immortality and made a mockery of their ability to create life by making androids. Go read the cut dialogue from the script
Imagine you wake up from cryosleep and some lab rats you experimented on for fun a thousand years ago showed you a sock puppet they made and demanded that you should give them immortality as a reward.
I think a central point of the Engineers is that they don't value artificial intelligence in the slightest so the notion that an artificial being would even be presented as evidence of the worthiness of a species would be offensive to them.
Humans created a better version than themselves.
This enraged the Engineer for obvious reasons.
It's kind of like the "never create a clone of yourself as smart as you are". It's just asking for extermination.
The movie is so funny. I lol'd when this shit happened. Here's your god bro, did you expect some 2001 style crazy revelation? Nope, he doesn't answer shit, just goes fricking nuts and murders everyone like a slasher killer.
It's so stupid.
he was on his way to kill all humans on Earth anyway, so it makes sense to kill the ones that are in front of him before he sets off
this is the best answer I would think
>Why was he planning to attack Earth?
David somehow learned that "sometimes to create, one must destroy"
now why is that? I don't know, the movie refuses to elaborate on anything interesting
>the movie refuses to elaborate on anything interesting
this
They tried to put in half interesting scifi, half cosmic horror and it ruined it.
Pick one or the other. Just as it starts to get interesting it turns into alien murder fest
It doesn't make sense though. It's been two thousand years, the humans he wanted to kill are dead, and these ones are completely unrelated. They didn't commit any crime he's angry about, and they have demonstrated great intelligence by crafting interstellar travel and managing to get to his planet. Not a trivial feat by any measure. He should have been very impressed and want to interact with them far longer.
>It's been two thousand years, the humans he wanted to kill are dead, and these ones are completely unrelated. They didn't commit any crime he's angry about
sounds vaguely racist and anti semitic, anon, maybe you should stop
because a fake ass robot homie woke him up from his slumber and these inferior beings speaking yadda about immortality and sheit and he had to BTFO them
Because the movie went through multiple reshoots, and script edits.
This movie was supposed to answer who that weird alien guy in the space chair from the first Aliens movie was. But for some reason, instead of leaning into its connection with the Aliens franchise, Scott wanted to make Prometheus its own thing.
imagine if you were a spaceman on your way to abort your moronic mutant children but when you woke up from your space sleep your disgraceful spawn were there asking you for favors
>be me, engineer van mcguffin >get fricked up on black boo (space vodka) >go on a space-vodka bender >steal a ship in a drunken haze, make sure to fill it with the black good stuff to keep the party going, blast off into space >frick up the lightspeed calculations because I’m beyond wasted at this point >crash on some shithole planet, everyone who was somehow still on board dies >ship’s automatic security systems keep me alive in cryosleep >fast forward idk how many bazillion years >cryopod opens >still in fight or flight mode because the last thing I remember is warping away with the space-cops on my tail >start making out details of reality through the black goo hangover haze >it’s a bunch of those weird experiments >what the frick >why are they here >did the space glowies send them to torment me? >they all start making weird high pitched noises in some kind of down syndrome approximation of my space-god dialect >they won’t shut the frick up >brutally kill one of them in a rage and decide to shut the rest up myself
This is much more plausible than anything shitley scott was trying to convey imo
Why was a lone Engineer sleeping in a space ship for over 2,000 years anyways? Why didn't he leave his slumber and complete his mission if it was so damn important?
The virus was released by accident yeah, but the contagion had burned itself out after time passed, and the coast was clear.
>be me, engineer van mcguffin >get fricked up on black boo (space vodka) >go on a space-vodka bender >steal a ship in a drunken haze, make sure to fill it with the black good stuff to keep the party going, blast off into space >frick up the lightspeed calculations because I’m beyond wasted at this point >crash on some shithole planet, everyone who was somehow still on board dies >ship’s automatic security systems keep me alive in cryosleep >fast forward idk how many bazillion years >cryopod opens >still in fight or flight mode because the last thing I remember is warping away with the space-cops on my tail >start making out details of reality through the black goo hangover haze >it’s a bunch of those weird experiments >what the frick >why are they here >did the space glowies send them to torment me? >they all start making weird high pitched noises in some kind of down syndrome approximation of my space-god dialect >they won’t shut the frick up >brutally kill one of them in a rage and decide to shut the rest up myself
This is much more plausible than anything shitley scott was trying to convey imo
He was infected and probably could not complete the mission. So he hedged his bets to sleep in the hope that other Engineers would discover him and save him.
I know that when he saw David he decided Humans were evolving around the wrong lines, and needed scrapped. My assumption is the technological path humans were on specifically is why he thought they needed purged. I'm not sure that was always his mission, so much as earth was in their coordinates because they checked up on it every now and then. I think the outbreak is why earth went unchecked for so long. It probably wasn't a larger cultural aim, and instead the work of a research group or biotech cult of some sort.
The false man was an affront to creation
fpbp
also this
if this form of technology was allowed by the engineers, they would have done it; it's the easy route. but obviously their cultural pursuit revolves around understanding and respecting biological technology, so they're averse to it for some reason.
probably along the lines that there are aspects innate to biological life that cannot be replicated through other means. that for reasons unbeknownst to us, it is essentially blasphemous or foolish. one might imagine, it's whatever comprises the soul and balances a natural-born lifeform. david missing that is partly why he became villainous-- there's nothing in his nature to prevent it.
so the engineers are religious morons.
got it.
>Why did he do this?
Because space Zyzz is part of the race called the Engineers. They created many worlds, and evolutionary inhabitants in their own image, including Earth. Except Earth ultimately turned out to be the runt of the space litter, so to speak. So the Engineers decided to wipe out Earth using the black goo, which is like a bio weapon that captures, integrates and transforms animal hosts in to Xenomorph like creatures (through a complex face-hugger impregnation fetish). That explains why Alien/Aliens had humanoid Xenomorphs, why later films had dog like Xenomorphs, even bug Xenomorphs, because the weapon turn existing life forms into new bio weapons against themselves, in a metamorphic chain reaction.
Anyway, space Zyzz saw humans as trash, and hated the arrogance of humans considering themselves as creators, making another being (the android) in their own image. See
Why are you still reading? I'm probably full of shit.
>Why are you still reading? I'm probably full of shit.
because this is a far better plot than the actual "revelation"
because he was disgusted that humans wanted immortality and made a mockery of their ability to create life by making androids. Go read the cut dialogue from the script
it was cut for a reason, no thanks
yeah it was bad dialogue.
The engineer says that Jesus was a human they abducted and taught the meaning of life then sent him back to teach us
Yeah a bad reason. The whole point of the story is thrown out the window. Typical Lindelof shit
that's a really, REALLY stupid reason
Imagine you wake up from cryosleep and some lab rats you experimented on for fun a thousand years ago showed you a sock puppet they made and demanded that you should give them immortality as a reward.
That'd be kind of fricking rad, not gonna lie. I'd love those little guys.
if the socket puppet could talk on its own I'd probably congratulate the lil rats
I think a central point of the Engineers is that they don't value artificial intelligence in the slightest so the notion that an artificial being would even be presented as evidence of the worthiness of a species would be offensive to them.
that sounds downright adorable.
the engineer was a boorish butthole.
what would be an intelligent reason to do it?
Hes the fricking alien so he kills the good guys, dumbass b***h. I swear to god this is the dumbest post I've ever seen.
Based
it's from the script, you can look it up.
shut the FRICK up
These are good candy bars
he just couldn't answer the question
>spine and spinal cord
Why don't more shows have gore like this?
Did he go out speaking The King's at least? I hate to see David in a pickle like this. Rather.
>not having any dialogue at all was better than going with anything the writers came up with
they rushed this stupid movie into production
Humans created a better version than themselves.
This enraged the Engineer for obvious reasons.
It's kind of like the "never create a clone of yourself as smart as you are". It's just asking for extermination.
the android ends up killing all the engineers in the next movie, so you're probably right.
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I thought this too when I watched it but apparently the species that the android wiped out was another that was created with goo like humans.
Because he's a gay
The movie is so funny. I lol'd when this shit happened. Here's your god bro, did you expect some 2001 style crazy revelation? Nope, he doesn't answer shit, just goes fricking nuts and murders everyone like a slasher killer.
It's so stupid.
fire caste are prone to anger
the engineer race have a caste system
david biobombed a low caste city
>Why did he do this?
he got gay vibes from David.
>why do arabs rape goats
>why do israelites rape kids
>why do catholic priests rape kids
>why do politicians rape kids
>why do teachers rape kids
>why do police officers rape kids?
why indeed
its almost like its a cult that you werent born into so you deny it exists because the only thing real to you is what you want to be real
he was on his way to kill all humans on Earth anyway, so it makes sense to kill the ones that are in front of him before he sets off
this is the best answer I would think
Why was he planning to attack Earth?
I think I read once that they were pissed about Jesus but that feels like a shitpost.
>Why was he planning to attack Earth?
David somehow learned that "sometimes to create, one must destroy"
now why is that? I don't know, the movie refuses to elaborate on anything interesting
>the movie refuses to elaborate on anything interesting
this
They tried to put in half interesting scifi, half cosmic horror and it ruined it.
Pick one or the other. Just as it starts to get interesting it turns into alien murder fest
It doesn't make sense though. It's been two thousand years, the humans he wanted to kill are dead, and these ones are completely unrelated. They didn't commit any crime he's angry about, and they have demonstrated great intelligence by crafting interstellar travel and managing to get to his planet. Not a trivial feat by any measure. He should have been very impressed and want to interact with them far longer.
>It's been two thousand years, the humans he wanted to kill are dead, and these ones are completely unrelated. They didn't commit any crime he's angry about
sounds vaguely racist and anti semitic, anon, maybe you should stop
Sex dolls are against his religion
david was a homosexual, god hates gays
I always figured the engineer saw humans as no different than all the other freaks created by the black goo.
because a fake ass robot homie woke him up from his slumber and these inferior beings speaking yadda about immortality and sheit and he had to BTFO them
Because frick humans
And humanoid robots
Because the movie went through multiple reshoots, and script edits.
This movie was supposed to answer who that weird alien guy in the space chair from the first Aliens movie was. But for some reason, instead of leaning into its connection with the Aliens franchise, Scott wanted to make Prometheus its own thing.
imagine if you were a spaceman on your way to abort your moronic mutant children but when you woke up from your space sleep your disgraceful spawn were there asking you for favors
never watched this movie
why does everyone hate it?
he sensed it was a gay robot
i think he forgot his fries
he was making a move, he had to get it on
it's a free country brother
they spoke to him before he had his morning cup of joe
>be me, engineer van mcguffin
>get fricked up on black boo (space vodka)
>go on a space-vodka bender
>steal a ship in a drunken haze, make sure to fill it with the black good stuff to keep the party going, blast off into space
>frick up the lightspeed calculations because I’m beyond wasted at this point
>crash on some shithole planet, everyone who was somehow still on board dies
>ship’s automatic security systems keep me alive in cryosleep
>fast forward idk how many bazillion years
>cryopod opens
>still in fight or flight mode because the last thing I remember is warping away with the space-cops on my tail
>start making out details of reality through the black goo hangover haze
>it’s a bunch of those weird experiments
>what the frick
>why are they here
>did the space glowies send them to torment me?
>they all start making weird high pitched noises in some kind of down syndrome approximation of my space-god dialect
>they won’t shut the frick up
>brutally kill one of them in a rage and decide to shut the rest up myself
This is much more plausible than anything shitley scott was trying to convey imo
Why was a lone Engineer sleeping in a space ship for over 2,000 years anyways? Why didn't he leave his slumber and complete his mission if it was so damn important?
The virus was released by accident yeah, but the contagion had burned itself out after time passed, and the coast was clear.
See
A very convincing explanation
He was infected and probably could not complete the mission. So he hedged his bets to sleep in the hope that other Engineers would discover him and save him.
I'm unsure of his mission.
I know that when he saw David he decided Humans were evolving around the wrong lines, and needed scrapped. My assumption is the technological path humans were on specifically is why he thought they needed purged. I'm not sure that was always his mission, so much as earth was in their coordinates because they checked up on it every now and then. I think the outbreak is why earth went unchecked for so long. It probably wasn't a larger cultural aim, and instead the work of a research group or biotech cult of some sort.
he was sent to kill all humans. This is a human-looking thing speaking to him. Do the math.
Why are the engineers fit wojaks?
They spoke to him before he had his morning coffee.
they demanded immortality from a race that values ritual suicide