Quote from: SiL on May 14, 2024, 08:23:10 PMHe wouldn't have run from the dead bodies like a prissy little bitch though.
Quote from: SM on May 14, 2024, 10:19:49 PMHe saw the dead bodies, thought 'Get lost!' then took it too literally.
Both of them only saw one dead body before getting lost. They find the Engineer pile later on while exploring the complex to get out. And the one with the maps was not only extremely anxious, but also high. A spiraling, bad trip combination.
I maintain that Fifield and Millburn weren't actually dumb, just simply in a situation out of their league to no fault of their own.
The Prometheus mission was so classified that nearly the entire crew didn't even know where they were going or why. They were briefed about the main objective literally prior to descending upon LV-223. Millburn probably thought he'd be doing biology things for the mission and Fifield, geology things.
The crew just found a dead, decapitated human-like body in a temple on a distant planet light years away from Earth. That decapitated Engineer was the second alien life-form humans had ever discovered, with the small, harmless flatworm being the first just moments prior. Millburn and Fifield freaked at the situation they found themselves in.
I doubt Millburn expected to find
any life, let alone an intelligent giant humanoid population. Clearly, he was in over his head and decided at that moment, along with Fifield, that they'd be better off going back to the ship realizing they were of no help to the crew or the main mission.
Quote"And I don't really have anything to contribute in the gigantic dead body arena, I'm gonna go back to the ship."
However, what was in Millburn's wheelhouse was handling a snake-like creature, which he'd likely done before given his very hands-on excitement for their
"First Alien". He says
"I can handle this" while showing off to Fifield, and finds some confidence in that very specific, familiar-to-him situation. He had his helmet on, so he'd be protected if the Hammerpede did spit venom. And lastly, by Earthly standards, and given the Hammerpede's size, it couldn't possibly have had the strength it eventually displayed while breaking Millburn's arm.
