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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shmokes on June 15, 2012, 02:21:10 pm ---I would definitely characterize it as creepy. And awesome. And creepy.

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See the movie.  It wasn't creepy in the slightest.  It was neurotic, slightly effeminate, and lacking empathy.  Basically it was every scifi android cliche you would expect in a maintenance robot that may have a hidden agenda.

If you took HAL and put it in David Hyde Pierce you get Fassbender.

lordnacho:
Just saw, was no better than any teeny horror movie.  I guess their $1 trillion budget for the mission couldn't afford smart scientists.

A geologist that can map caves, but gets lost walking back out.  A captain that would rather have sex than care about his crew(can't blame him really).  A biologist that wants to play with an alien snake


--- Quote from: SNAAKE on June 14, 2012, 04:44:32 am ---only thing I was curious about is how the "engineer" planned to destroy the earth. wtf did he have on his ship to completely destroy the earth and everyone in it... :dunno

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My theory was poisoning the water supply.  That one little drop the android put in the guys drink either was going to kill him or turn him into a monster and immediately made him shoot monster spunk.  The ship was full of that crud

Wait, wtf was the beginning with the "engineer" all about?

dre-w:
(Sorry I can't hide my text bc of Blackberry so possible SPOILER ALERT) I already asked that.. Supposedly they were creating life..  What I got from that scene was maybe he was betrayed and left behind.. and maybe they were just trying to get the point across that the "black goo" is a big No No.  I got nothing from that scene that would suggest we might have came from them..

lordnacho:
Sorry, was just rereading the thread. 

Left behind, he started life, they planned to come back to get rid of it.  Hmm I guess. 
Why did the last dude take a nap, hoping for backup someday? 

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: dre-w on June 18, 2012, 11:21:37 am ---(Sorry I can't hide my text bc of Blackberry so possible SPOILER ALERT) I already asked that.. Supposedly they were creating life..  What I got from that scene was maybe he was betrayed and left behind.. and maybe they were just trying to get the point across that the "black goo" is a big No No.  I got nothing from that scene that would suggest we might have came from them..

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Supposedly, it's that they create life through self sacrifice and that gives their creations a soul (and allows them to live forever "as gods" in a way).  
Humans do not, which is why the android cannot have a soul.
It can be argued that this is why the engineer starts killing everyone after looking at the android for a second.

These themes were sporatically dropped in as vague sidenotes, but it was hard to pick up on them because they weren't really worked into the standard issue alien adversary storyline.

(I'm figuring we're on the second page of this thread, so anyone who doesn't want to see spoilers shouldn't be reading this far in anyway)

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