Yeah, when you get right down to it, it does seem as though Scott have this trait, and having it makes you more likely to appreciate his work. I certainly noticed that the people who spent years attacking Prometheus on allegedly logical grounds tended to lack this trait. There was no fluidity of ideas and an actual disdain for people who read between the lines. Prometheus was a masterpiece of storytelling through implication, but some people want everything to be overt and explicit or they become angry. In fact, early drafts had David's POV shots showing that David and the Engineers see their architecture and technology as beautiful and light, not dark and dank. Scott was hinting that humans generally suffer from a lack of negative capability, with the exception of true visionaries like Shaw and maybe Westland. Most people are like Milburn and Fifield, which is why they hate those characters being depicted as fools.
