The opening of the movie is stunning in its visuals, but pretty incomprehensible without any context. It's hard to tell why exactly the Engineer-- that's the blue muscle-bound alien creature standing by the waterfall-- has opted to drink the black goo, where is he, or really what's going on in general, and it's never explained in the rest of the movie, just simply left for viewer interpretation.
Our Theory: What we are seeing in the beginning is the creation of Earth. The giant ship which is different from the ring-shaped one we see later in the film, weirdly has landed on Earth to drop off the Engineer so that he can terraform the planet and make it sustainable for life.
We think he drinks the black goo to break down his own structure and spread life on Earth through his own DNA, but that doesn't really explain his surprise while he's disintegrating and if the Engineers do have the same DNA as us, it's hard to say why the Engineers had to be broken down in order to create humanity.
Prometheus is covered from beginning to end in a mysterious black goo, but while it seems to play a very important part in the story it's never really explained what it is other than a weapon of some sort that the Engineers plan to use against Earth. Whenever the different characters are exposed to it is seems to have different reactions, be it with the aforementioned Holloway or Fifield, who gets a face full of it in the Big Head room.
Our Theory: The black goo is the earliest evolutionary stage of what we've come to know as the xenomorph. It is theorized that even the first living things on Earth began as single-cell organisms that evolved and adapted with the environment to become more complex.
This is presumably what happens with the black goo. As for why it has a different effect on different people is yet another mystery. So much of what we discover about these alien caves comes from these kind of pixellated shadows that reveal the past, from the hordes of alien creatures running away from something terrifying to the Engineers on the bridge of the ship that David witnesses targeting their ship toward Earth.
A lot of what Shaw later assumes about these aliens-- including that the Engineers created a weapon that killed their own people-- comes from these shadow images. But what on earth are they, and why can we see them? Our Theory: This is one of those sci-fi things we honestly like better unexplained. Things are just different in space, and especially if you consider that the shadows aren't memories exactly, but simply a glimpse into an earlier part of the timeline, these shadows seem like a fun spin on actual outer-space science.
A lot of these unanswered questions are frustrating, but for this one, we'll keep the mystery. David doesn't have the capacity to be evil - he lacks the ability to feel emotions and simply follows directives. So why would he take the opportunity to poison Holloway with the black goo for seemingly no purpose? By the end of the film there is no explanation given as to why the android would kill one of his co-workers.
Our Theory: While the rest of the crew on-board the Prometheus was looking for the origins of life on Earth and our creator, David had a very specific side mission: to find a way for Weyland to live forever. Therefore, it's possible that David decided to dose Holloway because he wanted to experiment and see if the black goo they found would be the key for Weyland.
It's also possible he saw the black goo as the potential to create alien weapon creatures, which a company like Weyland could exploit-- though he might not have counted on that weapon attacking his crew so soon.
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EscapeSet replied to Help figuring out name of obscure alien movie or tv series. The closing shot of the film witnesses the end result of this altercation: The birth of the alien creature, as we know it in Alien — an ultra mutation, derived from an ET body and a human DNA-weaponized DNA fetus. Update, am: A trusted colleague has informed me that I have this all wrong — that Nostromo lands on a different planet, one which apparently has another of these ET ships sitting around. How did these alien mutants manage to spread across the universe?
I feel a sequel coming on. David, partly in a bid to save himself and partly because he finds Elizabeth a curiosity, lets her in on some of his observations: Yes, there are indeed other alien ships here, and he knows how to fly them.
He suggests going back to Earth, and she says she wants to find the ET home world. So they take flight, going who knows where cough, sequel! The era of the Alien begins. How did you guys solve the riddle?
David, and Shaw was sidelined as a result. However, an early draft of Covenant by writer John Logan provided more of a bridge between the two movies and filled in a lot of blanks for those upset with Shaw's eventual fate. In the years between Prometheus and Alien: Covenant , Scott would provide the occasional hint of where the story was heading, but some of his comments could be contradictory.
He claimed for a long time the Alien definitely wouldn't appear - only to confirm it would before production began. Shortly after Prometheus , the director teased the sequel would have found Shaw and David reaching the Engineer homeworld, which Scott called " Paradise" - only to find the planet is anything but.
Shaw was still very much the lead during this period, with Scott even labeling it essential that she and David remain alive.
Sadly, no synopsis or early draft of this iteration have surfaced, so it's hard to know how the story would have played out. Concept art from by Khang Le — back when the project was still called Prometheus 2 —hints at a much different take to Covenant.
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