That's the case here, I loved Prometheus despite its writing flaws.
Main ideas were great and I really expect to see the continuation
of that smart philosophy flowing through the movie core.
I like action, pure horror, monster chasing the cat... but I prefer more
smart movies with a lot of symbolics etc.
That's what separates original Alien which is a horror but with a great amount of symbolics
and mystery and Prometheus which is a great philosophy-mythology-mystery mix
from Aliens, Alien3... and that shit of Resurrection. So Prometheus and Alien together have
that same spirit and that's why I liked Prometheus despite its flaws and periodical bad writing.
P.S. Just listening to Ridley Scott and Sphaits/Lindelof Prometheus in-movie commentary.
I hear some understandable explanations of some poor/illogical/strange situations in Prometheus...
e.g. This part of commentary when Ridley discuss about pyramid scene draw my attention because
it was not discussed before (or I dont know about that discussion):
Quote
RIDLEY SCOTT: In the room, there is a mural on the ceiling... which looks it might be human... but it looks like a human--
It's very mysterious because it looks like a human in a form of distress. And maybe actually a human in terms of being sacrificed
to the idea of this evolution. Kind of, rather, what I call really dangerous creation. What they've created here is really
dangerous (*Engineers created black goo?). It's a little parallel to us, like if we have capsules of Ebola which is fundamentally incurable.
Once it's out, it's out...
I believe Ridley indeed intended Engineers to be Space Jockey, that was even mentioned during in-movie
commentary (Lindelof spoke how that is dangerous because everybody expected some strange creature but then said its interesting after all that Space Jockey is humanoid because of that bigger picture) but I suspect he wants to make a twist regarding the overall idea that was presented in Prometheus. Prometheus was kind a move of perspective, we saw what characters saw and understood what they understood but they were completely in the dark except one person, or rather robot - David. So in a funny kind of way, Prometheus story is a kind of illusion which can be completely transformed in Covenant. Ridley even spoke about this.
When commenting about opening scene Ridley asked the questions: Is this a scene from the past
or from the future and then said it could be on Earth but thats not so important. [from movie commentary]
There are even more ambiguous questions
e.g. Are Engineers gods? Not really says Ridley. Who is the god?
Was that an invitation on that cave painting or warning, who painted it?
Are there two opposed factions of those Engineers? Whats that black goo?
Why did the want to destroy their creation? etc. Answers are never going to be plain/final or direct,
that's the point; but those kind of questions point up that there is more than meets the eye and ear.
You see the level of ambiguity developed in Prometheus and characters did not completely understood the bigger picture except mysterious and a bit sinister David:
In the scenes where David is looking over the writing above the door to the Big Head room Holloway asks if David can read the script. David answer was not yes or no (a robotic answer) but perhaps. Thats the most interesting thing... (he is hiding hes understanding of things from his masters/humans)
The original story or state of thing is hidden in Davids memory because only he understood what was going on there on LV-223. His mysterious quotes like "Big things have small beginnings" or "To create one must first destroy" suggest that we ll see that true picture in the next movies.
