Quote from: SM on May 08, 2017, 10:47:41 PM
Ridley has suggested that the decapitated Engineer was infected, so its entirely possible the others were running away from him.
QuoteThe deacon wipes out the Engineers on LV-223. I thought that was obvious from the start.
Not really.
What wiped out the Engineers at that base?
There are clues that a black goo infection outbreak killed at least some of the Engineers on LV-223.
- The Engineer who was last in the group running away (who got his head chopped off) was infected with black goo.
Were the Engineers running away from the last Engineer? It's possible.
- Foxcatcher is right that the infection of the last Engineer was fresh.
But the other Engineers could have seen that this last Engineer had been infected and wanted to get away from that.
- Were there other Engineers who were infected (like zombie Fifield, only bigger) that the fallen Engineer was looking for?
Yes, that's also possible. (There might have also been a Deacon on the loose that the last Engineer was worried about.)
- There are also hints in the dialogue of "Prometheus" about a possible outbreak which suggests that the filmmakers were considering this.
Shaw in the theatrical cut and Janek in the TC plus in a deleted scene talk about an outbreak at the LV-223 base.
* Added to this outbreak idea is the pile of dead Engineers who had holes in their torsos where Milburn/Fifield speculate that something could have
"exploded" outward
"from the inside" of those bodies.
- Also some of the Engineer stasis pods had holes in them leading to the idea that creatures broke through.
- This suggests that either Deacons or Xenomorphs (or both) got loose in the base and implanted creatures in some Engineers.
The viewer of course knows how the Xenomorphs could do that with eggs.
- But maybe the Deacons could also implant a creature inside of an Engineer in some way.
I base this idea on the ceiling painting in the Temple/Head room where a creature sits by an Engineer who has a gash in his side.
That might indicate that there was a process where creatures/Deacons were made to come out of Engineers in that Temple/Head room.
Those are some of my theories anyway.
- Overall I see black goo infection and Deacons (with Xenomorphs) getting out of control at the LV-223 base with panicked Engineers who could not control the death/destruction.