PROMETHEUS script floating around answers a lot of plot questions...

[GDS_Starfury]

so what I got from all this was this:

[mirth]

^that's why we keep you around

[BanzaiCat]

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I read the one where the Aliens show up on Earth and we nuke Jakarta before we're forced off world. One of the Steve Perry books I think. Been a long time.

Yeah...those characters should've been gone - knowing how he made 'em feel

I suspect Scott/Lindelof's actual plot was more insane and made less sense.

So, pretty much like any holy scriptures from any religion nowadays?

Jeepers, wrong thread. My bad!  O:-)

[Staggerwing]

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I read the one where the Aliens show up on Earth and we nuke Jakarta before we're forced off world. One of the Steve Perry books I think. Been a long time.

Yeah...those characters should've been gone - knowing how he made 'em feel

Badum-tish.

[JasonPratt]

so what I got from all this was this:

Except without the resurrection (because then the Engineers wouldn't want to black goo the planet so much, apparently).

Other than that, sure, that's the gist of it. But really the Jesus side is pretty minor other than being an excuse to save the world at the end of Prometheus. And since that part of the plot was totally obscured, it doesn't even count as a plot excuse to put the world in peril. (Perhaps relatedly, Lindelof or his occasional collaborator JJ Abrams, wryly remarks in an interview somewhere that once you spend a certain amount of money on a film or TV project, it has to be about saving the world. The context was Lost.)

[Nefaro]

I could as easily have interpreted the Earth creation scene as just another Engineer experiment.  Possibly another sort of bio-weapon experiment, or maybe some kind of planet seeding or food growing one.

Either way, it's obvious they thought they screwed it up and needed to start from scratch again.  Once they saw what the food they left in the fridge so long had turned into.  ;D