Why keep looking for answers and theories about this movie?
Nobody with power of decision involved in this movie stopped for even 5 minutes into think about any continuity, logic, canon or any other relation with the old movies and the Alien universe. If anything is slightly similar or reminiscent of the other movies, is just by pure chance! I am actually amazed that they keeped the shape of the juggernaut so similar to the derelict!! That is one of the few things of the movie I can't complain about, together with David.
they changed the facehugger to a stupid calamary, the eggs now are urns (this change does not annoy me that much really), the Space Jokey changed to an ominous and gigantic creature to a gay culturist with personality disorders, humans changed from well constructed and perfectly defined characters to a bunch of irrational and dumb asholes, they just pissed on all the alien life cycle, they even changed the damm planet for no reason at all!
Really, nobody, specially Lindelof or Scott give a shit about the universe, actually, they think it was not good enough and that they could improve it. They thought they could improve one of the most rich, clever, scary and mysterious world ever created in cinema. And even more, they thought they could do it without GIVING ANY f**kING EXPLANATION ABOUT THIS NEW WORLD!!
"Gigger"? bah! i can do better!
"Alien creature, facehugger, eggs, the life cycle etc." So old....A:R and AVP movies destroyed it....THEN DONT DO ANOTHER f**kING ALIEN MOVIE, and if you do, don't pretend that any stupid idea you can come with will be better than what was done before. Bold say some...pretentious I say.
"Script and Plot" We don't need one. We have Lindelof.
I have seen prometheus like 10 times already. Really, I try and try to find something to like on it, I really try, but every time I despise it more and more.
And about the sequel. Im gonna follow every single update, news or rumor about it, and Im gona watch it at the first opportunity I have.
But im 99.9999999999999999999999% sure that i will hate it.