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In Reply to: RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism posted by Jazz Inmate on August 17, 2013 at 16:39:03:
I realize the first scene could be interpreted at least two ways but in the context of the entire movie the most plausible way is that the "sacrificial engineer" was a Christ figure on Earth at some point in time after the Dawn of Man. His death was not punishment but was a personal sacrifice so that others might live. He swallowed the black goo from the sacrificial bowl and allowed his genetic material to mix with the water that would eventually be consumed my anyone who drank the water. The black go kick started evolution, creating man in the image of the Engineers.
The Engineers, especially the sacrifical Engineer at the beginning, present Prometheus because they gave "fire" to man, fire being the advanced DNA code of the Engineers.
The black goo created mutants when it accidentally became mixed with other substances, such as what happened when the crew of Prometheus stumbled on the huge building filled with cannisters of the black goo.
What the last Engineer apparently wanted to do was carry out his original mission of kick- starting the human race that at that too-coincidental time 2000 years ago had become mired in a different kind human sacrifice (gladiators), religious persecution, war, etc. He was not headed to Earth to destroy it, but to save it.
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- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - geoffkait 04:29:06 08/18/13 (28)
- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - Jazz Inmate 12:59:24 08/18/13 (27)
- The Green vial and black goo - geoffkait 06:08:11 08/19/13 (23)
- These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - Jazz Inmate 08:56:54 08/19/13 (22)
- RE: These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - geoffkait 09:10:44 08/19/13 (21)
- RE: These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - Jazz Inmate 09:22:37 08/19/13 (20)
- RE: These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - geoffkait 10:22:48 08/19/13 (19)
- RE: These musings have NOTHING to do with what is actually presented in the film - Jazz Inmate 11:00:01 08/19/13 (18)
- Like Chinatown what is presented in Prometheus ain't necessary what's really going on. - geoffkait 15:43:53 08/19/13 (17)
- Chinatown is a "whodunnit" in the film noir tradition - Jazz Inmate 19:35:22 08/19/13 (16)
- If you don't think Prometheus is a whodunit you must have watched a different movie. - geoffkait 04:32:46 08/20/13 (15)
- You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 18:41:20 08/20/13 (14)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 06:52:47 08/21/13 (2)
- 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)
- 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)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 06:43:03 08/21/13 (10)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 11:47:13 08/21/13 (9)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 16:52:57 08/21/13 (8)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 16:13:31 08/22/13 (7)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 18:16:09 08/22/13 (6)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 20:09:25 08/22/13 (5)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 04:22:34 08/23/13 (4)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 10:45:08 08/23/13 (3)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 12:45:19 08/23/13 (2)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - Jazz Inmate 08:01:14 08/25/13 (1)
- RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien - geoffkait 14:35:44 08/25/13 (0)
- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - geoffkait 14:04:57 08/18/13 (2)
- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - Jazz Inmate 09:19:42 08/19/13 (1)
- RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism - geoffkait 11:10:34 08/19/13 (0)
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