In Reply to: The Green vial and black goo posted by geoffkait on August 19, 2013 at 06:08:11:
It contradicts your previous assertions, too.
Bottom line: there's no point in reading whatever you want into the details of how the black goo was packaged in the cannisters. What matters is the actual narrative and script; what is shown and said in the film to support one theory or another.
Given all that was said and shown in the film, all you can really say about the canisters and the substance(s) inside is that it's designed to wipe out populations. It follows that if the engineers are headed to Earth with a ship full of the canisters they wanted to wipe out mankind. Several of the characters in the film came to this conclusion; it is supported in the script and you have said nothing specific to the film that suggests the engineers had a different motive.
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- 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)