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Re: Prometheus [2012]
From what I understand of the livejournal post, the idea of self-sacrifice, the Engineer dissolving himself and using his DNA to seed life, cool.
But the post did not, IIRC, make a distinction between the dissolved-Engineer-blackish-ooze, and the black ooze found by humans.
In fact now that I recall more, the post posited that the black ooze IS the same, but causes different evolutions based on the psyche imprinted on it—hence Engineer self-dissolves in a good act leads to life-generation, humans lead to deranged zombies, earthworms become space cobras, and no effect from David (Did David actually get infected besides touching everything in sight? I don't remember. It's just as likely that David could NOT be infected because he is synthetic).
Now on to the space jesus theory. Jesus came from a barren woman, and the post tried to draw a parallel with Shaw being barren and giving birth to a squid. So is Jesus an Engineer, or an emissary created by the Engineers? How was Jesus created and why was he not a squid/proto-face-hugger?
The lifecycle of the squid diverges from Jesus and was lost on me—Did an Engineer self-dissolve, impregnate, and create Jesus? With what in mind? In the creation of life, is the self-sacrifice a seeding, or can it be so fine tuned as to create a specific individual with a specific template of mind and behaviour and a specific mission? If the process allowed for such micro-evolution, it also seems counter intuitive to the more maco-scale evolution of life that the Engineer's DNA seeds.
I think the theories of self-sacrifice, that we pissed off the Engineers, work within the story's framework but I'm finding it hard to fit Jesus into this.
Some other minor thing, the blog post mentioned the use of fire to kill Holloway—I thought that was just a nod to the flamethrowers in Alien(s).
From what I understand of the livejournal post, the idea of self-sacrifice, the Engineer dissolving himself and using his DNA to seed life, cool.
But the post did not, IIRC, make a distinction between the dissolved-Engineer-blackish-ooze, and the black ooze found by humans.
In fact now that I recall more, the post posited that the black ooze IS the same, but causes different evolutions based on the psyche imprinted on it—hence Engineer self-dissolves in a good act leads to life-generation, humans lead to deranged zombies, earthworms become space cobras, and no effect from David (Did David actually get infected besides touching everything in sight? I don't remember. It's just as likely that David could NOT be infected because he is synthetic).
Now on to the space jesus theory. Jesus came from a barren woman, and the post tried to draw a parallel with Shaw being barren and giving birth to a squid. So is Jesus an Engineer, or an emissary created by the Engineers? How was Jesus created and why was he not a squid/proto-face-hugger?
The lifecycle of the squid diverges from Jesus and was lost on me—Did an Engineer self-dissolve, impregnate, and create Jesus? With what in mind? In the creation of life, is the self-sacrifice a seeding, or can it be so fine tuned as to create a specific individual with a specific template of mind and behaviour and a specific mission? If the process allowed for such micro-evolution, it also seems counter intuitive to the more maco-scale evolution of life that the Engineer's DNA seeds.
I think the theories of self-sacrifice, that we pissed off the Engineers, work within the story's framework but I'm finding it hard to fit Jesus into this.
Some other minor thing, the blog post mentioned the use of fire to kill Holloway—I thought that was just a nod to the flamethrowers in Alien(s).
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