Prometheus Plot Holes

[vastin]

So, first off to preface, I did rather enjoy the movie. It was not awesome, but it was fun and it had a neat overall story with some cool ideas and great special FX. The female lead and the robot were both very well played in particular - and the captain gets some points in my book as well.

That being said, hoo-boy was there some implausible BS

Comments

[traceroo]

I found your review richly entertaining -- thanks for linking to it!

The small crowd of 4 with whom I went to see the movie today debated Shaw's intentions on finally meeting her makers. Ian and I are squarely convinced that she planned to ask them about their intentions -- and then unleash the cargo of black slime on them regardless of their answers. One other in our crowd disagreed, and thought her intentions were merely about curiosity and non-violent.

You also have to take into account the problem with prequels, especially those made many years after the original. Movie tech and FX are worlds improved now from the 1981 movie this precedes. If they used awesome video screens and communication capacity, how would that explain the worse tech displayed in "Alien"? Of course my argument loses water at the amazing Weyland hologram -- why include that, then? I have no clue

[last_real_angel]

The whole "want to destroy Earth" thing made no sense- so I had to make it up that the aliens were two factions- the ones who came to earth to create humans, and then the ones that didn't like them that wanted to blow shit up.

Now I feel better.

I can't believe they got decent reviews on rotten tomatoes.

[vastin]

Yeah, the whole 'they made us why they want to kill us?' story aspect is only confusing if you assume that all alien cultures are mono-cultures with a single goal and philosophical outlook.

That, of course, would be pretty unrealistic in and of itself. It's more likely that they'd be like us - factionalized, varying in culture and attitude, and somewhat less unitary in action than say, The Borg - which seems to be the assumed default social setting in many sci-fi franchises. :P

[last_real_angel]

But they didn't really explain it- I made most of that up out of thin air.

We're not even sure if the creator alien in the beginning knew what he was doing.

[vastin]

Oh, they make it pretty clear that he knew what he was doing. He's watching calmly as his own ship takes off, leaving him on a barren world - so he certainly wasn't planning on going home. Of course, his action does hint at some form of serious fanaticism on the part of the maker faction, as well as that of the destroyer faction. Classic religious schism?

Signs suggest that our lead archeologist is barking after answers that have already torn apart her creator's society - which of course is a direct reflection of David's position - though he has that advantage of being able to see his creators close up, so he is stripped of any illusions regarding their failings.