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Kozmoz
MemberOvomorphJune 24, 2012I firstly want to say that I enjoyed Prometheus, The film has its flaws but it challenges me to think about big ideas and concepts about existence and I love it for that.
Why did the Engineers create us? That answer is simple. Our own Search for other extra terrestrial civilisations has shown that the cosmos in its vastness is barren when it comes to other forms intelligent beings.
The engineers IMO revere intelligent life, without this the cosmos is a barren void. There are plenty of worlds that contain basic microbe, plant and animal life but nothing that is advanced or has evolved self awareness. Most life forms that have the potential to evolve into intelligent life are wiped out due to some cosmic cataclysm before evolution can run its course and produce intelligent technological societies.
The engineer that seeded the earth sacrificed his own life by donating his biology, using his genetic genome to create a line of evolution that has a high probability of producing complex organisms and eventually us. The result of this ritualistic sacrifice is a race of Self-aware and intelligent beings that share the genome of their creators.
Why did they choose to destroy us?
The clue to answering this question lies in the cave paintings discovered by Elizabeth Shaw at the start of the film. The God like figure in those paintings is pointing to a star system and Dr Shaw interprets this as an invitation to go and find them.
I believe this to be true, the paintings are an ‘invitation’ but not just in the literal sense. The figure that is pointing to the star system is not only inviting us to join them. He is challenging us to aspire to become greater then we are.
In my opinion, the engineers represent physical and spiritual perfection. They appear to be physically superior, but the demonstration of how willing they are to sacrifice themselves to create new life shows that they are a race of beings that are selfless and have a high spiritual awareness.
For us to earn the approval of such beings, and meet their expectations we must not only grow as a technological species but as a selfless and spiritually aware civilisation.
Had we achieved this, the base on Lv 223 would have been occupied by emissaries waiting to make contact and guide us to the next stage in our evolution. Instead, we failed and the military were sent in and the base was converted into a facility for manufacturing our demise.
I don’t believe that the engineers decided to wipe us out because we failed to worship them, a highly advanced intellectual race would not be so childish or petty. The whole point of religion is to seek a higher level of spiritual awareness, it was never about worship. This is the problem with religion in the real world. All to often we miss the point.
The collection of pictograms that we see at the start of the film show us that the engineers were very patient with us and sent emissaries for many thousands of years to teach and guide us towards becoming something greater than we are. That is the whole point behind the cave paintings. “Aspire to be like us and join us. When you are ready this is where you will find us”
We worshiped them like gods because through the lens of an ancient human the engineers would easily be seen as supernatural deities. But worship is not what the engineers were ultimately after.
In the end, the human race squandered what we were given, 2000 years ago Mankind was brutal, (and unfortunately we still are) we waged war for greed and power and enslaved those that were seen as inferior.
Through an act of selfless sacrifice, the human race was given the gift of existence and instead of using it to aspire towards a higher state of physical, mental and spiritual being, we were squandering it.
Time to wipe the slate clean and offer the gift of existence to a species that could potentially be more worthwhile.
This is my interpretation of the film, a purposeful look at existence, religion and the origins of human life.
@ Hadley's Hope...
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and the OP is stating a different theory to that suggested in the thread you link.
Furthermore, and to answer the assumptions you state...
A) The Engineers are virtually identical to us physically and genetically, and it's pretty clear the film is stating the Engineers are our creators.
B)It's also very clear in the film they intended to wipe us out, not only 2000 years ago but again when they woke up the surviving Engineer.
If you have some other, provable explanation then please voice them...
As you state the answer the OP gives is different, therefore it is not a duplicate thread, it is another member stating a different theory to that offered by the OP in the thread you link.
Also, the points you bring up are valid points, but they do not disprove the theories of the assumptions of the OP of this thread, rather your points ask questions posed in the film to which no current answers are known. Therefore we as fans of the film and the universe in which it is set hypothesize, postulate and speculate theories, ideas and assumptions to answer those questions. That being the purpose of these forums.
You have your opinion, your views, your theories and your assumptions, and I have mine, and the OP of this thread has theirs.
What I think richie is trying to say is that the contents of the urns could be deployed in the atmosphere, whereby it would spread across the Earth unseen, infecting people by both contact, and consumption of food and drinking water, much like how the "spores" were spread in Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.
if this kidnap theory was viable, I would expect remains/evidence of humans within the temple on LV-223. Instead what we see are hundreds, if not thousands of urns containing the means to produce a Xenomorph MKII.
A possible theory as to how it could be spread via the atmosphere is by dropping the urns from orbit, which then burn up upon entry into our atmosphere, spreading the contents as previous mentioned. Lots of urns would help ensure a widespread deployment of the substance to infect the ecosystem of the planet.
Personally, I actually think the idea of dispersal in the atmosphere makes a lot of sense, and is a viable theory for how the Engineers may have intended to spread the substance. It would also have the means to bypass 2094 technology, and is an effective deployment method over the deployment of eggs.
Not wipe out but harvest, as for the later visits, that is discussed in this [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/7023]THREAD[/url].
To summarize - those that invited us after the 2000 year mark may not have received the "memo" that the game plan had changed, or it could be, as another posted suggested another faction of Engineers.
