Prometheus: The Biggest Question

As you all know, I recently completed a two-part blog post about all the questions left in 'Prometheus', well there was one question that I couldn't properly answer, and that is why do the Engineer's want to kill us? Well recently more theories have appeared online, and a lot of them are very interesting, so I've done my homework and here it is, a potential answer to the biggest question in 'Prometheus': Why do the Engineer's want to kill us? WARNING! CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS!


It's important to note that certain things were cut from the final cut, at the beginning of the film when the Engineer kills himself in order to create life, there was originally a second Engineer, an older Engineer. It is thought that this scene was supposed to be referencing God giving up his son for mankind, in this case, he is sacrifices his son for the creation of mankind.

Next we need to look at how long the decapitated Engineer has been dead. In the film they date the Engineer at being dead for just over 2000 years, now if we go back 2000 years in our history, what happened? The crucifixion!

After that lets take a look at the scene where David is in the control room of the alien ship and he is standing in the middle of a massive hologram of the universe. David is holding a hologram of the Earth in his hands and the hologram indicates a small area in Africa, which is roughly where it is believed that the first civilization began (there is obviously no proof of this and I am merely grasping at straws here). So maybe early civilizations worships the Engineers as Gods, which would explain the cave paintings we see at the beginning of the film.

It was establish that the black goo on the ship and the black goo at the beginning of the film are two completely different substances, the stuff at the beginning of the film is for creating life, the stuff on the ship is for killing. So the ship was clearly a war ship.

So what do we have so far? The Engineer's created us, and we came to worship them as Gods (depicted in the cave paintings), then over time they were perhaps forgotten about by future generations, or considered just a myth. Then Jesus comes along, and he is crucified and we start believing in/worshiping God and his son. At this point the Engineer's become annoyed, because in their eyes, they created us (one of them even gave his life to create us), then mankind starts worshiping someone else and giving this new God, the credit for our creation. So the Engineer's set off to teach us a lesson by sending a ship full of containers of the black goo, which I imagine would been released on mankind as a form of disease or plague. Only on the way something happened, the there was a breakout, killing all but one of the crew, then the ship crashed on one of their planets. We can assume it was one of their planets because there were more than one of the Engineer's ships there, so perhaps the area was abandoned due to the outbreak on the crashed ship (in case it got out).

Now, over 2000 years later, imagine you are the Engineer, who has been in a coma for more than 2000 years, and you awaken to find that the small, inferior beings that your people created, have now advanced so much that they have tracked your people down and traveled through space and are now standing in front of you asking for immortality. You'd be terrified! So that's possibly why the Engineer attacks. Fear. Then the crew of the Prometheus crashing into his ship to prevent in landing (and probably nearly killing him) so that would have made him really angry.

So there we have it, Ridley Scott was taking a shot of religion in this film, and the Engineer's wanted to kill us because they didn't feel appreciated anymore, and the Engineer on the ship, attacked through shock and fear. Of course all of this is just speculation until someone from the film comes out and confirms it, but I think this is an accurate assumption.

Here's on last question that has had people talking a long over the internet. I touched on it a bit and that is What is the creature that bursts out of the Engineer's chest? There is speculation that it is the alien queen. It cannot be the first Xenomorph, because in the ship you can clearly see one in a carving on the ceiling. So the Engineer's have clearly encountered them before, perhaps they created them, or maybe they worship them. So yeah, some believe that it is the Xenomorph Queen, and that we'll see more of it in the next film. Obviously if it were true, then it would have to somehow get onto the ship that crash lands on the planet in 'Alien', so I'm guessing that there's a chance that whilst Shaw and David were searching for another ship in order to go and confront the Engineer's, the creature manages to get onto the ship, and whilst future events unfold, the creature grows up, and eventually causes the ship to crash and lays all those eggs we see in 'Alien'. Again, it is all speculation, we will have to wait and see.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog post, I wasn't expecting to do another one about 'Prometheus', but there has been so much talk about it that I had to! I am seeing 'Prometheus' for the second time tomorrow, it is rare that I see a film twice in the cinema, the last one being 'The Avengers Assemble' and before that 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull' (don't ask why I saw that one twice, I really don't know, I hated it the first time round!)

Get in touch if you have any questions of your own, or if you want to comment/correct me and what I have spoken about in this post.