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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 18, 2013 at 12:59:24:
"That doesn't make sense to me for a variety of reasons--most notably the way the engineer's ship arrived, hovered and left after the sacrificial engineer drank the substance."
The ship that was hovering during the opening scene was not an Engineer's ship. It was a much larger ship, a Mothership, if you will, most likely belonging to the race of beings that created the Engineers. It was these beings that David and Elizabeth were headed for at the end of Prometheus, and presumably the subject of Prometheus 2.
"This makes no sense given the fact that the engineers themselves succumbed to the black goo, and appear to be all but wiped out by it."
The Engineers succumbed to the black goo (only) because the black goo became mixed accidentally with another substance that mutated whatever it came in contact with. I seem to recall David held some green colored liquid he used to spike the drink of Dr. Shaw's husband, who of course mutated rather quickly.
"The surviving engineer was clearly hostile to humans and disgusted by their creation (David). He quickly murdered every human he could, and headed for Earth, obviously to destroy humanity. There absolutely nothing in the film to suggest this engineer wanted to save humans. Once his ship was brought down, he went after the one surviving human. Did you think he was trying to save her, too? As for the theory that 2000 years ago was some kind of pinnacle of suffering and injustice, I don't buy it and there is nothing in the film to suggest that. Humanity has always been mired in evil and the engineers had seen enough to want their "error" corrected."
I don't think the Engineers were in charge. The ones in charge were most likely the supreme race represented by the Mothership in the opening scene. The Engineers were just carrying out instructions. The being that drank the black liquid in the opening scene was not an Engineer. He was one of the supreme beings, perhaps in a religious order of some kind. See attached photo of deleted scene.
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- 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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