In Reply to: Promethius questions....MEGA SPOILERS. Don't look if you ain't seen it. posted by Enophile on June 16, 2012 at 15:15:32:
1) Who was the guy at the beginning?
He was one of the interplanetary "engineers" who sacrificed himself and DNA to seed the universe with life much the same as them.
2) Why did you think the engineers wanted to kill the humans?
My first instinct is to say they didn't like the results of their "seeding" of Earth. Since the hit team was timed to leave around 2,000 years ago perhaps they were displeased at the Judaeo=Christian religion for giving credit to the wrong people. Where they not of Olympian size and pale to the point of being gray? Maybe our racial diversity upset them. We have no frame of reference of their other work except that there DNA was a perfect match...which poses the question as to why we didn't look like them.
3) But then....who told us about that specific star grouping to put into the ancient paintings/carvings, which obviously took place long after we came to exist?
They apparently came back telling ancients who they were and where they lived. The fact that Idris Elba (Captain) made a rushed statement to explain this was an "engineer" military installation and not their home clouds the issue somewhat. The time of each artifact pointing to their planetary system could have been well before their ultimate displeasure with Earthlings.
4) Then, if we weren't meant to exist, why would Promethius point us toward the planet that was manufacturing our demise rather than the home planet of the engineers?
Didn't they land on the Moon of a large planet because of the similarity of it's surface to Earth's? The "engineers" could have well come from the orb next door/
Remember, there was more than one ship available so there might have been other planets that needed cleansing also.
Note: The Bible speaks of nephilim walking the Earth and consorting with mortal women.
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- Yes indeedy!! - mpathus 18:01:42 06/19/12 (4)
- RE: Yes indeedy!! - Jazz Inmate 20:12:55 06/19/12 (3)
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