Warning, this post is literally nothing but spoilers for Prometheus. I mentioned in my review that the script had numerous plot holes, and I really need to vent them out, so I’ve listed them below. Do not read this until you’ve watched the film, and if anyone can fill the holes in for me please go ahead. I repeat, do not read this post until you have seen the film.1. Why is David riding a bicycle and shooting hoops? Is he trying to impress someone? I understand why he’s developing language skills, as he’s researching things as yet undiscovered, but what’s with the sports? He’s a robot!
2. When Holloway sees the lines on the planet that prove the alien presence, why does no-one suggest scoping the area out for a while? Even just a little fly around would have been nice.
3. What exactly are the holograms for? David starts one in the caves and another on the Space Jockey deck, but who are they for? They’re useful for him and us, but who made them? They could be some kind of ship’s log, but if so couldn’t someone have said that in one line of dialogue?
4. When Shaw, Holloway, David and Ford flee the caves, outside there’s two go-karts and a minibus. Two get on each of the karts, and no-one gets into the bus, yet they all drive off (at the time we assume Fifield and Millburn are in there). Who is driving it? You could argue that there’s a nameless crew member that stayed behind as a driver, and headed off to avoid the storm slightly too early for the others to get in, but there’s no proof of this.
5. Once David has rescued Shaw and Holloway, Janek mentions they don’t know where Fifield and Millburn are, but there’s a map showing their position! He uses it in the next scene. Plus, Janek seems pretty lackadaisical about two members of the crew being stranded on an alien planet. He practically says LOL. Also, how convenient is it that everyone has a surname beginning with a different letter?
6. Why does David cave in to Vickers’ threats? He’s a robot, there’s not a lot she could do to him.
7. Millburn the biologist is supposedly cowardly, as he is easily convinced by Fifield to run away at the site of a decapitated body (understandable), and later when he hears there’s a lifeform somewhere nearby, he says he’s heading in the opposite direction. So why, when he and Fifield go to the vase chamber, does he suddenly want to make friends with the alien there? He can’t even see the entire creature, so for all he knows it’s some giant beasty with a strange proboscis. Why did they even decide to stay in the cave full of weird bubbling vases anyway? It’s the exact room, with the dead decapitated body outside of it, that they ran away from earlier.
8. Millburn and Fifield die when no-one is watching the monitors, because Vickers and Janek are getting it on in her quarters, right? Firstly, how come Janek didn’t order someone else to watch the monitors, and secondly, even if no-one was there, don’t these guys have TiVo? Just rewind the feed and see what happened. We have it in 2012; I’m guessing it’s still around in 2094.
9. Why did Janek, the captain and pilot of the ship, go to investigate the disappearance of Millburn and Fifield? Surely he’s pretty integral to the running of the ship.
10.What exactly was David’s plan with the black goo? He gave some to Holloway in his drink; did he know he would have sex with Shaw and impregnate her with an alien? If so, why did he do that too? Was he curious, or trying to kill Holloway? Why?
11.Why did the infected Fifield come back to the ship to try and kill everyone? He was the one character I really wanted to die, and he’s the only one who came back to life! Typical. I thought Millburn would have come back with a chest-burster in him, seeing as an alien went down his throat and Fifield had his face melted with acid. Also, why did they go out and investigate Fifield’s clearly dead body (the helmet is smashed with a deadly atmosphere, and his legs are bent over his shoulders) seeing as there’s no way he could have just turned up there on his own, being dead and all.
12.Why does David tell Shaw she is pregnant? If he wanted an alien specimen, surely telling her will just make her try and abort it, and if he wanted to kill her, then not telling her will result in the alien bursting through her stomach and killing her that way. Being pregnant with a baby alien was probably the last thing she was expecting, especially seeing as she was barren and had only had sex 10 hours ago and not before for 28 months.
13.After she wakes up from being sedated by David, Shaw finds it pretty easy to escape from the medics and run to Vickers’ quarters with no-one chasing her. No-one comes for the entire time she is in there.
14.After the impromptu caesarean I could have done with a scene of Shaw breaking down from the intensity of what she’d just gone through. In the past few hours she’d lost her husband, found out she was pregnant when she thought she was barren, discovered the ‘child’ was in fact a killer alien, had a caesarean whilst fully awake and watching it, had the cut literally stapled shut and then fought the creature that had just gestated inside her. I’d say that warrants a little exasperation.
15.Did I miss a scene where everyone on board found out about, and was cool with, Peter Weyland being on board the ship? After Shaw’s surgery the rest of the crew seems OK with him being there. It was pretty damn obvious he was going to be onboard too, seeing Guy Pearce was highly billed in the opening credits. Stop doing that kind of thing. And making Vickers his daughter is pointless, unsurprising and ridiculous.
16.Ripping David the android’s head off is a nice nod to Ash’s fate in Alien, but is it possible for a robot to survive one of these films? Please?
17.When Vickers and Shaw are running from the crashing spaceship, why in the name of LV426 do they not run sideways? I hate when films do this. There’s something rolling behind you in a relatively straight line, so instead of getting out of the way you decide to race it. Insane. Shaw only survives because she trips and rolls out the way. I did like that the last two alive were the two main women, just like in Alien, and similarly the blonde dies and the brunette survives.
18.Shaw’s air supply is supposedly running out at the end of the film, yet she’s barely been away from the ship. Earlier, Fifield and Millburn were away for longer, and were expected to survive overnight when they got stranded. Yes, they were in the chambers with breathable atmosphere, but they had to keep their helmets up because it was going to get cold, so they must have had to survive on their own air supplies.
19.The alien that Shaw had aborted grows pretty fucking huge seeing as it’s had no organic matter to feed on other than a little blood Shaw left behind.
20.At the end, Shaw is told that there are other ships. Does she check them all for surviving Engineers, or just leave in the first ship she finds? I’d have much preferred that the final shot be of her silhouette, with an axe in one hand and David decapitated head in the other, heading off to take out the surviving aliens.
Wow, I didn’t realise I had so many problems with the script. Am I being too harsh? Or stupid? Was a lot of this explained? Let me know.
*EDIT* Thanks to everyone for all the comments and page views so far, the response I’ve had from this is phenomenal. It turns out my list of plot holes wasn’t quite complete, and many of you have posed a few more. I’ve tried to give credit where it’s due, but apologies if I’ve left someone off. Also, some of these get a bit science-y, and I’ve not researched any of the theories, so please don’t shout at me if they’re wrong. Sections in brackets are from me.
21. How exactly did they manage to reanimate a head that’d be dead for several thousand years? I’m pretty sure in 77 years time that technology isn’t going to be available. Also, why did it explode? – Anon
22. Organic molecules do not form in oxygen-rich running water. – Anon
23. It’d be nice if they’d clarified at some point why the Hell the Engineers wanted to kill humans, and why did they think that the black goo, which creates a completely different, far more dangerous race, would be the best way to do it? (Personally I think it was for sport.) – J/Michael Shaw
24. The DNA was a perfect match, yet the Engineers are big, bald and pale. (My personal theory is that had the physical differences are due to environmental differences between Earth and LV-223 in terms of gravity, proximity to the Sun, etc.) – J
25. If the Engineers created humans, did they also create all the other life on Earth? From what, and how are they all different? Did all the different species evolve from that one Engineer? If so, how are we all different? – J/areanimator
26. The crew are really very unprofessional and lacking in protocol for such an important and well funded mission. (Perhaps these were the only people willing to sacrifice 5 years of their lives for a wild goose chase.) – Anon
27. Could they not have detected the oncoming storm, seeing as they just arrived from space? And don’t they have larger versions of Fifield’s ‘puppies’ they could send down to scout out the terrain first? (Hell, can’t they send the ‘puppies’ into the caves from the safety of the ship? There could have been aliens waiting just inside the cave for them.) – Anon
28. You can’t run around after having your body cut open to your uterus, even if the wound was closed with some stitches. Your body goes into complete shock, the stitches cannot make up for the fact tissue was cut and muscles were cut which are essential for your core, and by extension for your body to perform any kind of walking movement. – Anon
29. The two co-pilots at the end didn’t really need to kill themselves. They say Janek is a bad pilot (really? Weyland paid a fortune for a crappy captain?) but he doesn’t really do a lot of piloting, in fact he even says “Hands off” of the steering to crash into the ship. There’s also apparently a member of Weyland’s security who doesn’t go down to the planet with Weyland and co, who Janek is essentially killing at that point too, but fair enough it’s for the good of humanity. – Anon
30. Why do the cryo-beds have a function that allows David to see their dreams? (Possibly to see if they’re in distress or suffering some kind of psychological trauma from the cryo-sleep, but that’s a stretch). – Beta Max
31. Why was the medical machine only male-calibrated? OK, it was probably there to operate on Weyland, but it makes little sense to make machinery just for men or women. – Anon
32. How did the Engineer survive the toxic LV-223 atmosphere without a helmet when he attacks Shaw at the end? He must have needed the helmet to breathe, yet made it from the crashed ship to Vickers’ crashed pod pretty easily. – Anon
33. Why was it a secret that Weyland was on his ship, and why was it pegged as a surprise reveal that Vickers’ was his daughter? (Hollywood tension-generating bullshit.) – Anon
34. Why did the Engineers point all the ancient civilisations towards a military installation? (My guess: the Engineers thought we might have come back all guns blazing, so sent us to a battle-ready moon/planet instead of their home world.) – Anon
35. Once they discover that the Engineers have the same DNA as humans, they don’t make the logical connection that what killed the Engineers will probably kill the humans too, and no extra quarantine methods or safety precautions are put in place. – Areanimator
36. The Engineers were running away from something, yet ran towards a room full of deadly black goo that presumably they manufactured. (The room had the giant stone head in, meaning it could be of religious importance, and they thought prayer was their only option at that point. Alternatively, they may have been running towards the room to trap the black goo inside.) – Areanimator
37. The hologram of Earth resembles modern Earth, rather than how it looked at the damn of man. –The Movie Waffler
38. Why did Weyland think he could just rock up to an alien moon, have a nice chat with the Engineers and that they could give him immortality? (He was nearly dead, so was probably grasping at whatever straws he could reach.) – Anon
39. Apparently the Engineers were trying to leave LV-223 because it had all gone wrong, but how? There was no trace of active aliens on the planet. (They may have been trying to seal off the experiment going wrong into the cave with the vases, but one Engineer tripped and got decapitated by the door?) – Lisa
40. After decapitation, David’s head manages to stay pretty damn close to his body, even after takeoff, crashing and rolling all over the place. Seems pretty unlikely unless the white ‘blood’ is a damn good glue. – Christophe Abi Akle
Oh, and for those of you looking for a more informed, science-based look at the gaping holes woven together to form the net of this film, check out Stephen Gaskell’s post over at Creepy Treehouse.
Life Vs Film 
The young alien queen at the end of prometheus probably roams the planet till she finds another ship then lays her eggs.The eggs hatch, the face hugger gets one of the engineers. He wakes up oblivious to the fact he's been impregnated and heads for his destination(sitting in his captains chair). The alien bursts out his chest, he crashes on lv426??? How does that sound?
What did David say to the surviving engineer that pissed him off so much ? He went postal immediately afterwards.But seriously, have they deliberately made this version so ropey to allow for some lucrative director's cuts, special editions et al ?
Ahh, at least that's one question cleared up for me!
Sounds like it could work, the queen could even catch a ride on the ship with the engineer. I'm guessing Scott's going to do something much more unnecessarily complex though, that will leave far more plot strands open.
Yeah that makes sense.
Hi Tim,Your English is fine, it's actually quite good compared to the rest of the Internet!I think the robe was meant to show it was some kind of religious sacrifice. I'm guessing he came from the saucer, the saucer was making sure he carried out his mission to create life on Earth, then went home. It's still unclear as to whether creating life was an accident or not. Maybe the engineer in the robe was testing the goo on a deserted planet, with the ship keeping a safe distance. If it wasn't meant to kill him, the engineers in the ship could have flown away in fear of what might happen. There's a few theories about why they showed us where their weapons facility was. I think they wanted us to go somewhere that they could kill us from if we posed a threat. If they showed us where their home planet was, they would be at risk if we were dangerous.Thanks for reading!
It definitely would have been a lot better if they'd given the script a couple more rewrites. Thanks for reading.
Looks like it, maybe in a sequel there could be two queens fighting it out for dominance, that'd be pretty sweet.
I think they wanted to leave some questions open for speculation, like Scott did with the space jockey in Alien, but they left a few too many. All beign well we'll get some more answers (and a few less questions) in a sequel.
I think the biggest problem is this: if the Alien at the end is made from the union of the child of a human woman who has been impregnated with goo (how would the goo get into the male protagonist's semen?) and the big giants, how come there is an anatomically correct sculpture of an "Alien" in the chamber where the giant head is?
Engineer goes mental. kills everyone – Shaw runs away up the tunnel. If i'm right in thinking the ship is buried at the deepest point of the cave system then how on gods earth does she get to the surface before the ship has even taken off?! The only explanation I can offer is that the sandy wind that blows up the tunnel as the ship is taking off blows her up a conveniently placed vertical vent!
So the atmosphere outside is deadly but inside it's breathable, with no air-lock or anything. So they all take off their helmets – and leave them somewhere! They don't know the breathable air extends throughout the whole building, they don't know it's permanent, they don't know they won't get lost or come out through a different exit. Just one more spectacularly dumb move by supposedly intelligent people.
Are you sure? I don't mean to doubt, but I completely missed that sculpture if it was there. If it is, then that blows most of the theories here out of the water. Perhaps an Engineer has been killed by the black goo before and created an alien (it would look quite similar if it was from the union of the child of an Engineer and an adult Engineer, as they have the same DNA as humans) and the Engineers believe this creation to be some kind of evil spirit or deity that they prayed to?
Valid point, I'll add it to the list, thanks!
Yep, you travel for 2 years and 4 months, costing billions of dollars, and the first thing one of the leading scientists just takes off his helmet, just to check. It's ludicrous and pure dumb Hollywood BS.
Maybe it was a fossil of an alien, from when they killed the engineers.
Yeah that sounds like a possibility. I'm going with a statue though, seeing as the Engineer head was perfectly preserved in the vase chamber, so it would make sense that an alien would be too, unless it decomposed somehow to become the weird black goo.
If the pup scanner thingies were there to pick up signs of life (which they did- one of them could detect the still alive engineers beyond the door inside the alien ship)- why didn't they detect the worms?
Has anyone even mentioned how amazingly fast Noomi (post-op) was, to cover so much distance with only 2 mins of air left… and with 30 sec to spare? Or how CT was so quick getting into her suit after running down corridors, and having boot trouble, again after a 2min warning? Does time pass slower on LV223?
The major plot hole for me was: why did the Engineers go around all these ancient civilisations leaving star maps, pointing to a planet that was at that time deserted, which they later decided to turn into a war factory to make a bio-weapon to wipe us all out? Shaw dated that Engineer head at 2000 years old, the star maps left on Earth were all much older. If they liked us at that point why didn’t they leave a map to their home planet? Or if they intended to wipe us out all along and wanted to trick us into coming to the Planet of Doom, why not build it in our own solar system instead of one “several light years from Earth.” Also what was Shaw's actual job? At first she was supposed to be an archaeologist, but as the film progressed she morphed into this all-round super scientist: Reanimating 2000 year old decapitated heads, analysing DNA, operating on herself…
Maybe the Aliens wanted to create life and when they did tried to nurture it like a parent would to a kid in playschool "That's it tommy, enslave a bunch of other kids to help build your pyramid" etc but we got too cocky and ended up taking over, attacking our makers. Then they flee and realise what a mistake we were (we do crave power). They possibly were creating a biological weapon to wipe us out (By attaching onto our DNA – hence why it could affect them too) but it became too unstable, unpredictable and (again like us) agressive. The fact the ship was programmed for earth may not have been true. David walks around the map and picks earth out. That could have been the navigation asking where would the pilot like to go?Also he says something to the Alien in the ship and it strokes his head, then flips out. What did he really say? How long had he been speaking with the Alien, maybe this was not their first time speaking (David was left for some time on his own there after listening to the heartbeat of the alien in the chamber).HMMMMMMMM! See good sci fi raises questions, just like Alien.
ooooooo that's a good one from Alien. My only explanation is that the computer on Alien was far more basic and as it was a mining ship, less likely to be programmed for reverse cycling languages. David is left for two years, maybe he had more time than the ECIU. Also David doesn't return to earth so far, obviously he never does to relay that info over.Also, in Aliens the reference of "Another bug hunt" could have been because LV226 was infested and other shit got out. Maybe it's the birth place of all these "Bug hunts"
although what were the Aliens running from in the holographic recording? Why is it never seen? Where did it's skeleton go? How come there is no evidence of other creatures. My theory is, Maybe there was a war between the Aliens. Some were in favour of destroying earth and other places. Some were not. So a battle happened…thus there only being one type of body on the planet. Think James Bond film where the villain builds a big base where he fires a missile from only to have the British secret service raid it and blow them all away.
actually scratch that last comparison, it makes it sound lame. But it is plausible. Humans fight amongst ourselves, why not them too?
Good point. Maybe they were too small? The pups probably wouldn't pick up bacteria, so they probably have a size cutoff point maybe. There should have been a line of dialogue ("They'll find anything bigger than a womp rat") explaining that if it;s the case.
Well it's more of a surprise that Shaw can walk at all after the operation. Maybe having an alien growing inside gives you super powers of healing and speed.
I think Shaw was a generic scientist, along with Holloway, but you're right she does seem to be fairly adept.
It's very possible that the Engineers could have been fighting amongst themselves. It's been suggested on here that the creation of life on Earth may have been done by a rogue group, and the others may have wanted to kill us, seeing us as an abomination unto whatever it is they believe in.Yes, good sci-fi does raise questions, but I think the amount this raises is possibly too many for its own good.
Saw it last night. One thing that didn't make sense to me was when they entered the planet's atmosphere – how did they just happen upon the pyramids. I mean I don't recall them doing a scan of the planet beforehand and they could have entered the atmosphere from literally anywhere, yet when they came in just around the corner they found them!
…decided (around 2000 years ago) that humanity ought to be wiped out… Maybe crucifying Jesus was the last straw.
decided (around 2000 years ago) that humanity ought to be wiped out.Maybe crucifying Jesus was the last straw.
Heres one, supposedly this was a precursor to the aliens movies and that the space jockeys somehow are related to the aliens. In the original Alien, the viewer is left wondering what exactly happened to the space jockeys and what their correlation to the creation of aliens are. Apparently, the ending of the film shows that the first alien was created by an embryo implanted in a space jockey. When the alien pops out of the space jockey, it resembles somewhat of a de-evolved form of a xenomorph implying that it was the first xenomorph and ready to evolve into what we know today, this all happening in 2094. However, in the Alien vs Predator series and Predator 2, the same xenomorph form we know have already been existent before this movie. So what was the point of that alien being born if those aliens were already existent more than 2000 years earlier for the predators to hunt? What…the..fuck? As an Alien fan, I am severely disappoint at the many inconsistencies this movie has to offer.
Not sure if these has already been posted but…In the opening shot, why does the 'engineer' kill himself when he sees the disc emerge? Only for it to fly off before he's even dropped into the waterfall? Who did the disc belong to?In the other Alien films (and Alien vs Predator films) the Alien takes on part of the DNA of the host. However in the final shot of the alien bursting out of the 'engineer' it has somehow taken on his suit. It should in fact be a pale white alien.To say I'm massively disappointed in the film and still reeling from how bad and predictable is, is an understatement.Great blog by the way!
Which begs the questions that are these pyramids dotted all over the planet? Does each one have a black goo vase chamber? Or maybe something worse? Good point.
I think they chose to ignore the existence of the AVP films (as indeed do I), in the same way that Terminator Salvation ignored the ending of Terminator 3.
How did they find the alien ships so soon after entering the moons atmosphere? This would be like finding a needle in a haystack.
Thanks, and thanks for reading. You make a good point about the saucer at the start (I'd pretty much forgotten it existed, I got so caught up on all the other plot holes).As for the alien not looking enough like an Engineer, I think the alien only takes on some of the physical characteristics of its host, for example the one that grew out of John Hurt in Alien didn't look like a human at all, but it was bipedal and had two arms and a distinct head, whereas the weird dog-thing in Alien3 was a quadruped with a longer tail.I wasn't as disappointed as you I think, it was still a decent film, it just needed some more work on the script.
Yeah it seems like a bout of good old fashioned Hollywood luck, or there were ships literally covering the surface.
wtf dude you missed the MAIN plot hole and focused on the most meaningless non-trivial bullshit, granted i didn't read all the points you made but 3/4 of the way through I was fed up wit what you were bringing up.So first one alien sacrifices himself for life on earth.Then we find out that the facility is for military purposes and that they are developing deadly biological weapons and were intending to test them on humans. (certified by the actions of the woken alien)The girl is aware of this.Then she says "lets go to there planet" Now I assumed that was because she was going to use the biological weapons on the aliens. but then she says shes going to ask them why they changed there mind on killing the human race…. WTF they didn't! that's why the alien attempted to do it again.that was the main plot hole!
He/she is right… during the scene where they first venture into the "head room" Holloway goes off towards the back of the room.He shines his torch through something that appears green and says "this is just another tomb". Whatever this 'thing' is is never explained, nor explored further – it's just another unanswered question in this film, of which there are many.I know that doesn't add to explanation, but I thought I'd clear it up for you.
Small thing but the geologist claims he "effing loves rocks man" and then lands on an alien planet and proceeds to show NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in the rocks there… in fact everyone who is on the ship seems utterly disinterested in the fact that they have landed on a new planet which might explain the origins of man. They look like people working in a factory waiting for the whistle to blow throughout the whole film… also when the alien boneship crash lands very close to the two women, wouldn't that sort of impact at that close range just turn them into a bloody pile of mush and bone? that whole scene was like an expensive level of an old Crash Bandicoot game. grrrr the more I think about that film, the worse it gets.
That's an interesting theory, and would bring a new level of depth to Shaw's religious views. But it might not have been the crucifixion that Engineers had a problem with, it could just as well have been Jesus' birth…
Thanks for the clarification. Might have to go and see it again and get another look.
The Engineers did change their mind, in that they originally created humans, then changed their minds and decided to destroy them. Shaw has been built up throughout the entire film as being a very curious person, and at the end all she has left in the universe is a desire to know more about the origins of humanity. She has no husband or parents left back on Earth, and was willing to travel for 2 1/2 years on a whim, so it's fair to say she wants to know more about the Engineers. If she has nothing left to live for, why not go for more information?
Both good points. I'm guessing they tried to make the characters more relatable to those of us who aren't necessarily excited about our everyday jobs, but this is inexcusable when they should be showing a mixture of boundless excitement, curiosity and apprehension at everything new around them.
Oh Ridley, you could have stolen fire from the gods themselves, yet instead it’s a trip to A&E as you burn your fingers on the frying pan of the hype.Let me start by saying that this film is actually not too shabby, and it looks astoundingly good. However, if I wanted to look a something beautiful that has very little in the way of plot, I'd have gone to an art gallery. The film wasn’t bad, but it lacked the depth of character that is necessary for a truly great film. I like dark characters, but not everyone on the ship has to act like a massive arsehole, there needs to be some likeable characters to balance it out. Obviously Shaw is a good character, but you can make cases for the entirety of the rest of the crew being people you wouldn’t want to hang around with, examples being: The ridiculously negligent captain Janek who basically says "u mad bro?" when two of his crew get trapped in the dome,The two co-pilots whose only character development is a bet in which the winner gets a hundred credits to put towards a "striptease fund" for Vickers,The aforementioned Vickers being the biggest corporate C.E.O bitch imaginable,The geologist Fifield is hugely aggressive and ridiculously cynical (and he's the voice of reason on many occasions!), The biologist Milburn, who tries to be friendly, but then acts like a weedy kid hanging around a bully (Fifield) and picking up the bad habits, Weyland himself, who is a typical rich live-forever-at-any-cost ruthless bastard,David is a crazy android who does whatever it takes to sate his massive curiosity (brilliantly played, excusably and necessarily nasty however),and even the boyfriend Holloway who at first comes across as alright, then has to spoil it by being impatient("I wanna open my presents." -___-), fairly smug throughout, and to top it off is unnecessarily hostile towards David (I know David turns out to be morally questionable, but this hostility predates David's more questionable tactics).Hardly an advert for humanity. I'm surprised David didn't just kill the whole crew out of embarrassment for his creators. Now, obviously I don’t think that all the characters in the film need to be honourable and just, but this amount of unsympathetic characters is bound to (funnily enough) create an unsympathetic audience.The other problem with the characters in Prometheus which has been much highlighted in the comments is the contradictory nature of the crew. I don’t normally have a problem with complicated characters, as humans by nature are a complicated bunch, and we tend to act very differently and adapt to different circumstances, disregarding morals for the "greater good" or even personal benefit for example, which is why I liked District 9's Wikus Van Der Merwe so much, but the nature of the crew of the Prometheus is beyond stupid. It’s Lazy. This is what annoys me about the film. They just needed to give the script another two months of work, and they could have made a fantastic piece of cinema. Still, it looks gorgeous, and it gives Mr. Scott an opportunity to release a director’s cut to massive critical acclaim and financial success.
Why did Charles get the same exploding-head virus as the humanoid aliens when he was infected with the black goo, but when he had sex with Shaw, she was impregnated with a Face-Hugger baby instead of becoming infected with the same virus?
Why did Charles get the same exploding-head virus as the humanoid aliens when he was infected with the black goo, but when he had sex with Shaw, she was impregnated with a Face-Hugger baby instead of becoming infected with the same virus?
When the crew see the first hologram of the Engineers, they run into the room full of Black Goo Vases. The last of the four is a little slower and ends up getting killed by the shutting door. What happened to the other three? They all ran into that room, and the the body of the one killed by the door is nice and preserved, but when the crew enter that room their bodies are nowhere to be found.
Maybe if the goo is in your blood stream it has a different effect to being just free inside the body? In the blood it cam infect everything, whereas in the womb it's got the right environment to grow? Just guessing.