A beautiful Prologue

Rating: Null/10 (6 June 2012)

Well it had to be done sooner than later. Prometheus, a ship designed to breach the deepest parts of space in order to find the origin of earth. A team of scientists land on what is later called LB426 from Alien the first movie, where by the anthropologists discover that a species had landed before them two thousand years before. The co leader of the team Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) is a woman who is destined to know why the human race was created by this species, only to be destroyed later on after they awoke. It is surmised that this race was a warrior race who uses planets they seed as a practise ground for hunting. Now Shaw (Rapace) learns of the dubious nature that the species was designing, and a mutagen which alters a hosts body for the more brutal outcome of their prey so as to make the hunt even more desirable. I thought this was a great way to explain why the alien we know of wasn't introduced until 'Alien' movie. I often wondered who was the race that sat in the famous chair that Lambert, Dallas, and Cain found in the first movie. Now I know. The effects were superb, as well as the scientific aspects of the Prometheus's controls. The story fits so well to show the public what happened before the Nostromo set foot on LB426. It was also interesting to see one individual in the first part of the movie commit suicide. Most likely because of his view on why the human race should continue. Perhaps he was a lone outcast who sympathized with us humans, which is why he took that unique poison. Or maybe he just wanted to evolve to the human state before he died. In either case, this was a great preempt to the Alien Phenomenon which has rocked the world since 1979. And Ridley Scott is by far one of my favourite directors. And also, to those who expected to see the more Famous Xenomorphs, you should have done your research. Remember, the ship which the Nostormo crew found was a derelict space craft. It was not from there. It simply chose the planet as a resting place until the right time to head to earth came later. And one other thing, remember when the Nostromo crew found the alien sitting in the chair? That was the same one which Shaw fought off on the life boat. He made it back after his attack by the creature Shaw aborted in order to see if he could use the ship once more. When he couldn't, he chose to remain there. That's when the embryo he carried inside of him burst out. Hence the description by Dallas in 'Alien'. Xenomorphs were the by product of the alien race Shaw and her crew discovered. So basically the Xenomorphs were the offspring of this species. So when Shaw, and David finally escaped the planet, using another ship, the dead ship and its new single Xenomorph started to create those familiar eggs we all came to know. Most likely a queen. And when they died off, the eggs were left behind for someone else (Nostromo) to find later. See? how simple it is?