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RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien

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In Reply to: RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien posted by Jazz Inmate on August 20, 2013 at 18:41:20

You wrote,

"Weyland already made it perfectly clear: he wanted to learn from the engineers how to prolong his life. This is not a mystery."

How did Weyland know his spacecraft Prometheus would come in contact with Engineers on its voyage? How did Weyland know that the Enginees held the key to his longevity? Since it was the first voyage of Prometheus, Weyland would not have been able to make the trip previously. So, it's a big mystery.

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RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 11:02:39 08/21/13 (1)
> > How did Weyland know his spacecraft Prometheus would come in contact with Engineers on its voyage? < <

Because Shaw and Holloway convinced him that their theory was correct.

> > How did Weyland know that the Enginees held the key to his longevity? < <

Because Shaw and Holloway convinced him that their theory was correct.

> > Since it was the first voyage of Prometheus, Weyland would not have been able to make the trip previously. So, it's a big mystery. < <

It's not a mystery. Weyland appears before the entire crew as a holographic image very early in the film and explains all this. Did you miss it?
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- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 18:05:50 08/21/13 (0)
  It should be pointed out that Dr. Shaw's theories about the Engineers were wrong, which means Weyland's explanation to the crew at the beginning was also wrong.
  
  As Dr, Elizabeth Shaw says to Weyland towards the end of the movie,
  
  "But you don't understand. You don't know. This place isn't what we thought it was. They aren't what we thought they were. I was wrong. We were so wrong. Charlie, Dr. Holloway's dead. We must leave."
  
  I still maintain, she was wrong about the intensions of the Last Engineer. I think Ridley uses the character of Dr. Shaw to show how beliefs can flip flop back and forth based on the latest evidence. But I don't think Dr. Shaw ever gets the entire truth, she only gets little bits of it.

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