Ridley Scott's Prometheus (spoilers within)  Page 102 boo wrote: I watched this the other night (regular, 2D DVD). Beautiful to look at but copious amounts of huh? The thing that gets me most, above all the other 'Why did they do that? Why did they ignore this? etc etc was this... It's set in 2085 (iirc), so less than 100 years from now. As it stands, all the evidence we have available to us suggests we are alone in the universe. We currently have Curiosity grooving around on Mars, and if it were to find evidence of even a single celled organism, it would be the most world-shattering event. It would prove that We. Are. Not. Alone. And yet, on the strength of the sort of evidence that Erich von Daniken has been bandying about for the last 40 years, they hop a few bazillion miles across the galaxy, and when they actually find a full blown civilisation, not just a few cells, their scientific response is, 'Oh, cool! '. Couldn't take anything seriously after that point. This. Where was the awe, wonderment, trepidation and so on, it would be an emotional roller coaster and the implications of such a phenomenal and frankly, scary discovery would be huge but it's treated with less significance than the cave paintings they find at the beginning. All this followed up by insanely stupid behaviour. I'm gonna take my helmet off - you crazy cheeky chappy - yeah lets all take our helmets