All the Misconceptions of Prometheus Explained

[BlueMarsalis79]

You even tried to bandaid it in the Report right? Just does not work.

[SM]

Don't remember. Possibly.

[SiL]

I get questioning whether the film deserves to be as maligned as it is but acting like none of its well documented issues exist is a stretch

[SM]

I love Prometheus and there is a lot of shitty media literacy which leads to dumb questions for which there are obvious answers.

But quite often there isn't and something was just poorly executed.

[The_Foxcatcher]

Fact.

You can see the entrance they came in through when Holloway asks Fifield to start mapping.

Also, the hammerpede thing.  Millburn ran away from a dead alien lifeform, but wanted to cuddle a live one.  The inconsistency and lack of explanation of the inconsistency is the problem.

Nope! You must be mistakening it to a torch light.

They cross a corridor and then they activate the pups. There were 4 pups and each 4 of them hovered into 4 different directions. So there were atleast 4 other corridors in that Alley. However, we see one such corridor to which Holloway flashes light and then more two when the pups starts hovering.

Like I said, Scott wanted to maintain pace and didn't want to bore the audience with each and every details. Same like in Alien, we just couldn't understand how the alley ends the crews directly climbing into the Pilot chair platform without us seeing any doors/airlock/corridor.

There are logical deductions that they may have passed through more areas and the audience are expected to have common sense of knowing that a film can't be 8 hour long to spoon feed every details.

You & your brother SIL can keep arguing, but I see there's no point in discussing this further with you guys who have not paid attention, does not bear logical deductions and are desperately trying to nitpick.

[SiL]

The film doesn't show us the maze you insist is there. The film shows they walk down an alley into the structure and activate the pups.

It's not the audience's responsibility to invent information to explain problems.

[The_Foxcatcher]

The film doesn't show us the maze you insist is there. The film shows they walk down an alley into the structure and activate the pups.

It's not the audience's responsibility to invent information to explain problems.

The Pups hovering in 4 different directions (other than the exit corridor), itself establishes the Mazy structure; film-makers don't have to show it in detail. Audience with common sense can readily deduce; they don't need spoon feeding.

[SiL]

The Pups hovering in 4 different directions (other than the exit corridor), itself establishes the Mazy structure;

The maze structure of the interior of the building, yes, not the maze structure of where they just came from.
If they were in a maze-like structure on the way in Holloway would logically have asked him to start mapping sooner.

Http://youtu.be/yO-eduvo904?si=49fpvGRSSTPIGy91

[The_Foxcatcher]

The Pups hovering in 4 different directions (other than the exit corridor), itself establishes the Mazy structure;

The maze structure of the interior of the building, yes, not the maze structure of where they just came from.
If they were in a maze-like structure on the way in Holloway would logically have asked him to start mapping sooner.

Http://youtu.be/yO-eduvo904?si=49fpvGRSSTPIGy91

Yes...you see this....there are so many corridors (4 atleast) -all near to each other & other than the corridor they passed after entering the pyramid making it a total 5.

So let's say Fifield and Milburn arrive this point. Now...here, they have options to enter 4 corridors (other than the one they just exited).

The Storm weather have already darkened the outside sky and you know that the entrance hole was a shallow hole and not straight into the pyramid external walls.

4 corridors.....all dark....and they have to choose!

[SiL]

You're shifting the goalposts here. You said they passed through a maze like area we hadn't seen to maintain pace, now you're saying the maze is the well-mapped interior.

You also said SM was mistaken about seeing the entrance and it would be torch light he saw, now you're saying the storm would block the light from the entrance?

Fifield was the one giving directions to the crew. The pups were his devices and he knew how to read their maps well. Him getting lost requires some kind of explanation and the film doesn't give one.

The script did and it's a wonder it got cut.

[The_Foxcatcher]

You're shifting the goalposts here. You said they passed through a maze like area we hadn't seen to maintain pace, now you're saying the maze is the well-mapped interior.

You also said SM was mistaken about seeing the entrance and it would be torch light he saw, now you're saying the storm would block the light from the entrance?

Fifield was the one giving directions to the crew. The pups were his devices and he knew how to read their maps well. Him getting lost requires some kind of explanation and the film doesn't give one.

The script did and it's a wonder it got cut.

I never said they passed through any maze like area. I said they passed through a corridor which led them to the area where they activated the pups.

SM said that in that scene the entrance was visible.  I denied it saying that he must be mistakening a torch light as the entrance.

What I meant that the dim outside light wouldn't have illuminated the area (between the entrance and the first corridor) in order to identify the right corridor to enter during their return!

[SiL]

They do cross the first Corridor. Scott wanted to maintain pace. The alley was too dark. There may be other corridors, since it was an alley.

Here you say there may have been more corridors where they entered.

Watch the movie again. They passed one corridor. And you couldn't see the entrance hole in that area through which the crews had to crawl through.

Here you say they couldn't see the entrance they came through when Fifield activated the pups, even though you can.

If that's not what you meant it doesn't read it like, sorry.

The movie does a very poor job justifying what happens. It's ok to acknowledge the film has flaws.

[The_Foxcatcher]

Here you say there may have been more corridors where they entered.

What I meant was there may have been more corridors after they passed the first corridor (in the area where they activated the pups). And then my 'may be' was confirmed by the Video which you shared, there indeed were other corridors, basically tunnels (4 atleast) through which the Pups hovered in.

Here you say they couldn't see the entrance they came through when Fifield activated the pups, even though you can.

What I meant was that they passed one corridor. If they had not, then the entrance hole would have been visible.

 
Anyway, one can opt to self-interpret with whatever clues available or can label it as a flaw. None of them are wrong. Amen!


 

[SM]

Somebody wake up @Local Trouble

He gunna dig this.

[Local Trouble]

Somebody wake up @Local Trouble

He gunna dig this.

It doesn't count unless you make a video with that title.