Prometheus

[Andrew]

Considering that everything that immediately followed involved running away from monsters and dodging falling spaceships, she never really had time to load them into her suit anyways.

[Fe 26]

Scott and Lindeloft seem to leave a lot of the overall story unrevealed but I think the xenomorphs were already pre-existing bio weapons made by the Engineers given that the first Alien film had an egg chamber and in Prometheus the installation has a wall mural depicting a xenomorph style creature. Perhaps the mural of the xenomorph and the big Engineer head seen at the installation represents a sort of religio-scientific society that reveres the xenomorph as the perfect organism able to both raze and give new life but that's just conjecture on my part. ]

See, I don't get how that works though. They made a point to show us that the engineers and humans have the same DNA. Why would the goo react differently? Can the shit really pick up the intent of the person in the room?

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

It is obviously all about intend.

[Fe 26]

If you got time to be a smart butt, why don't you take some time out to pay for the shipping on those snes games?

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Lol. Totally forgot about that.
Brb.

[Will]

See, I don't get how that works though. They made a point to show us that the engineers and humans have the same DNA. Why would the goo react differently? Can the shit really pick up the intend of the person in the room?

Engineers and humans have matching DNA but it seemed to me like that match was done at it's most basest level.

When the Engineer seeded whatever planet that was with his DNA (via the black goo) it was extremely broken down. Humanity has a sort of basic blueprint from the Engineers but they're also diluted/divergent from them given that humans didn't look exactly the same nor were they as strong or as intelligent. That being said, humanity's intelligence was shown to have progressed so far as to be able to create A.I., manage deep space travel, and even speak their ancient language through David which they may or may not have perceived as a threat.

I don't think the black goo picks up the intent of the person in the room though, for the most part it seemed to turn organisms more aggressive and monstrous. Perhaps the ultimate end result of the black goo is the xenomorph albeit through a serious of processes.

[Dolemite]

This.

But this movie never says that it's the first time xenomorphs were created, it just shows you which mutations ended up creating them, so no retconning.

Add to that the Engineer's mural clearing showing a xenomorph and what do you get? I don't fucking know.

[Fe 26]

The captain was probably right and the moons were military science facilities for the engineers. And something went wrong or their own government turned on them and terminated the project along with the scientist. The ship and surviving engineers were probably the soldiers that did the deed and were awaiting orders or were charged with guarding what was left of the project. That would explain the hostility.

Hell, maybe what we saw in the first movie was the failed experiment? And Prometheus is about a second installation and how their government cleaned up the mess?

[Will]

The captain was probably right and the moons were military science facilities for the engineers. And something went wrong or their own government turned on them and terminated the project along with the scientist. The ship and surviving engineers were probably the soldiers that did the deed and were awaiting orders or were charged with guarding what was left of the project. That would explain the hostility.

Hell, maybe what we saw in the first movie was the failed experiment? And Prometheus is about a second installation and how their government cleaned up the mess?

Yeah I think Captain Janek's rationalization makes a lot more sense than any other theory with regards to the military/scientific installation.

What tends to puzzle me the most though is why was that one Engineer cryo-frozen all that time? Did he manage to destroy whatever Xenomorph/experiment killed his crew and became the last survivor of the ship? Did he cryo-freeze himself or was he some sort of back up in case it all went awry? Was he really headed for earth to try to destroy it or was he really trying to go home? I mean, he wasn't stuck there or anything given that the ship could launch and Shaw found another ship in the area which who knows what happened to THAT crew?

[MechDeus]

Scott must have had different ideas about the aliens than most of the comic and paper back writers have had. They were always just treated like a species of bugs that were as old or older than humanity.

I'm willing to bet Scott gives zero fucks about the spin-off stuff.