Quote from: motherfather on May 17, 2017, 05:26:43 PM
So, does anyone have an idea what creatures those eyeworms were meant to be that were crawling around Holloway's eyelids?
Were they normal worms that live on the eyes/eyelashes of humans? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex_folliculorum
Were they miniature trilobites?
Were they enlarged versions of the rod-like particles that can be seen floating in a single droplet of goo on David's fingertip?
Were they something else?
I have a film theory about what the black goo did to Holloway and Fifield.
And recently I've come across information about some of Ridley's ideas which fit my theory.
* What the black goo can do;
1. To small organisms in the human body? As seen in "Prometheus", the black goo quickly changed small worms into large lethal snakes.
- Many small organisms can live in the human body.
One of them is the Acanthamoeba;
What can that do in our world?
QuoteWhen present in the eye, Acanthamoeba strains can cause acanthamoebic keratitis, which may lead to corneal ulcers or even blindness.[11] This condition occurs most often among contact lens wearers who do not properly disinfect their lenses, exacerbated by a failure to wash hands prior to handling the lenses. Multipurpose contact lens solutions are largely ineffective against Acanthamoeba, whereas hydrogen peroxide-based solutions have good disinfection characteristics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthamoeba#Acanthamoebic_keratitis2. I imagine the black goo affecting small organisms like that in a person's body.
- For instance, this "common single-celled eukaryote", the Acanthamoeba, quickly mutates into a multi-celled worm.
3. This has now become a little black goo monster in a human, along with many other small black goo infected monsters.
And they begin to take over the host's body.
That would be what was affecting Holloway and what reached a more final stage with Fifield.
* That was my film theory.
- Here is information from Ridley which supports this idea.
It comes from an article written by Omegamorph (who is on this site).
Quotethe story still hinged on the Engineers' bioweapon — a black fluid that triggers virulent genetic and physical mutations to whatever organism is exposed to it. The new creatures of the film would be inspired by abyssal animals, parasites, and other odd wonders of nature. "Ridley is a great and ghoulish collector of horrible natural oddities," said Spaihts, "real parasites and predators from the natural world. He had a tremendous file of photography of real, ghastly creatures from around the world – they're chilling, some of them! He would tell these tales with relish, of wasps that would drill into the backs of beetles and plant larvae, or become mind-control creatures. Terrible things happen, especially the smaller you get. As you get into the insect world or the microbial world, savage atrocities are perpetrated by one creature on another. And Ridley was thrilled with all of them. They inspired a lot of the designs and a lot of the ideas we tried."
https://monsterlegacy.net/2013/03/04/prometheus-trilobite-deacon-hammerpede-alien/* This underlying concept fits what happened to Holloway and Fifield in "Prometheus".
- The black goo is causing rapid mutations of multiple tiny parasitic organisms in the human body.
- The parasites grow much larger.
- Then the black goo parasites take control of the human's mind causing the person to become an out of control monster.