The terraforming plot is useless,as is the part with the 2 xenomorphs at the end in the pyramid. Fifield mutation is pretty much pointless,doesn't serve any purpose ,forgot about him untill he came back and killed Vickers. Millburn was still an idiot playing with alien lifeforms.
There is no giant human head in this draft, no cave with giant heads either,even if they were in the concept art for the original alien prequel.
The part with the engineer in full suit shooting energy balst or whatever is too cheesy and comical.Glad id didn't end up in the movie.
The engineer killed David because he woke him up from cryosleep and he was already infected so he knew he would die. Thus he punished David.
I liked the part about the first alien on the ship.The one with translucent skin like a molusc. Also good was that they shoes different type of eggs with suid like facehugger in them, those being probably the versions that killed the engineers. Then there are the normal eggs meant for the humans,and they expanded on the fact that there are even more variations,all weaponized.
A few things that i don't like
-why the light beacon at the end? wasn't the audio signal enough? If this engineer outpost was abandoned for so long,why didn't the other engineers check up on them all this time?
-there are several pyramids along the ecuatorial line of the moon. I'm sure they would have founded when they terrafromed the moon in Aliens
-the number of years don't add up. sometimes there are 11000 years,other times there are 1600 years between visits. they say the trace back these cycles for many 11000 old cycles,but then David says that 12000 years ago was the last ice age or something,and that is when civilisation started to grow.
-the joke about the jesus being an engineer doesn't make sense,cause it doesn't fit in with the above dates they last visited us. no point in making the assumption
-in this version no one asks the question why did they created us and why they want to destroys us. It's like nobody cares in this version.
- also in this , because they don't ask the above question, it seems it's not arranged for a sequel. There is no way for them to leave the planet and go to the engineer homeworld and get the answers. Wttas doesn't care about these answers. it's even more madening than the open questions in prometheus
-people complained about nthe back and forth in prometheus, to many trips between ship and pyramid,to many times the action changes from one location to the other. well in this draft there is even more of that
-- even if David had some shitty lines in this one and acted like a Bond villain like others above me have said, i still liked how hw screwed Shaw over. but things like: ''i had to learn binary code and that allowed me to set myself free'' were really lame
-we have no idea if the purpose they were on this moon was for terraforming and create new life,or if it was the place where they designed their weapons. the script doesn't make it clear
-also confusing the mentions of the pyramids on earth. at one point in the script it's said humans constructed the pyramids to copy the engineers,but then they say the engineers made the pyramids to change the weather on earth too
-the part at the beginning with scarabs that eat the engineer then use his genetic material to inject new hosts is kinda iffy. i liked the disintegration via goo better and it fits with genetic materia from the enginner lands in waterfall/river->runs into ocean->creates sincle cell organisms/bacteria whatever that evolves into sea life,reptiles->that come on land and grow legs->rest of the evolution and somehow because of the goo it's somewhat progeammed that eventually humanoids will evolve from all of this.
-the ultramorph battle was pretty bad, and the part with the head put like a trophy above the module entrance was wtf, parody moment
I liked
- the hologram concept in the pilot room,the one that engulves the walls and ceiling and shows directly the view outside.
- i liked the way the engineers see
- the magellan falling and breaking apart in mid air
-the fact they explored more of the pyramid
In the end this would have meant a 3 hour movie,and judging from all the places they visit in the pyramid, the exploration of more pyramids on the moon, the scaning of more planets, the lenghty begnning and weyland presentation, the underwater find, this would have been more expensive to shoot, in line with the orginal budget Ridley wanted of 250 million.
But i still kinda doubt this is the real deal, and it's not just another fanboy fantasy. And if it's real i like that a lot of perceived bad things that were atributed to Lindelof,also find themselves in this draft too. And i think Prometheus was much better, introduced new concepts,and left a wide open door for the next installments with good questions to be answered and they don't have to rehash and milk the xeno anymore
