Quote from: Eva on Jun 02, 2012, 11:45:10 AM
Quote from: RICH-ENGLAND on Jun 02, 2012, 11:35:19 AM
@eva.
but the problem is, if he was the only engineer here, and sacrificed himself to create life without his race knowing, then how did any humans get knowledge of them and the star system to draw the maps etc?... the maps imply that the engineers must have been visiting and possibly helping our development at least over a few thousand years. or at least one visitation which resulted in the knowledge spreading round the world (which makes less sense).
That's not what I wrote. I made a clear distinction between the sacrifice engineer and Prometheus
Prometheus would have arrived at a late stage, when humans were somewhat emerging and starting to get a basic grasp of technology in the form of tools and such. The Scotland painting is 35.000 years old and might have been made shortly after his first encounter and interaction with humans. He would have returned at several occasions, revealing himself to different civilizations through the ages and the depictions of him interacting with humans have survived.
It's left for us to wonder what his motivations could have been. Selfserving or did he have benign intentions on our behalf?
yes, sorry for the confusion, i didnt mean you wrote that, i was a little distracted when writing that and didnt word it properly.
i like your theory, it works, but i really dont think ridley/lindeloff have even thought about it properly, it just seems like they just put it in hoping nobody would notice or question it too much.. hopefully they will take note and make a working explanation in a sequel.
personally i think david and shaw (and possibly the whole crew) are meant to be prometheus, david for stealing and messing with the black stuff, shaw for taking them there (the pregnancy being related to the eagle pecking prometheus liver).
but i dont know, all our theories may be wrong, maybe lindeloff will come out with an explanation as he eventually did with his lost ending lol
thanks
rich