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 22, 2013 at 16:13:31:
The Engineers were advanced robots, not unlike the replicants of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. They were bio mechanical inventions of the super race that was hinted at in the opening scene by the Mothership. The reason the last Engneer reacted so violently was he was, like David, infuriated by anyone giving him orders. David waa also infuriated by being ordered around, but like Lawrence of Arabia and the burning match analogy early in Prometheus he was able to deal with it, "the trick is not minding that it hurts." What hurt was being ordered around by the (inferior) crew and even by Weyland. In Blade Runner it was the replicant Roy Blatty who killed his creator Tyrell (who, like Weyland, was the head of a big high tech corporation) after he explained to Roy the facts of life - that his life expectancy could not be altered - by gouging his eyes out. The eye thing again! Lol. In Prometheus it was similar, the last Engineer tore of the head of David, Weyland's creation, and used it to kill Weyland after David told the Engineer Weyland wanted more life.
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