Prometheus vs Future Humans, a slumped over, giddily tired, narrative

I sort of think it could be what we end up doing:

seeding the galaxy with life, so we have options and can grow, explore, and expand the human race across the galaxy like wanderers… so for all intensive purposes, I think we are the space jockeys, sort of.

So let’s say we put all this lush life on planets, getting it ready for the future “us” when we need it….. but an intelligent lifeform, against ALL odds, accidentally evolve over time. When we visit back a couple million years later, there are cities etc….

We’re like uh oh. Those things don’t get that the planet is ours. Better clean them up because HEY WE ENGINEERED THAT.

Plan ahead, so you don’t have to constantly check up on the painstaking process of evolution…. and just set up a fail safe, so if some smarty pants *DO* evolve, you trick the shit out of them (because by that time the engineer space jockey aka my future humans, and they will be SMARTER THAN ANYONE ELSE), and as soon as they find something they get eaten by swarming “scrubbing bubbles” aka xenomorphs.

I know I am way off and totally sleepy. and that didn’t make sense.

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Also… HEADY geekiness.  My thoughts on why people are trashing Aliens on the Prometheus bored on IMDB. Please don’t judge me for wasting my finger strength:

I’ll give my two sense:

the Aliens world is huge. I doubt it’s even an issue of purists vs people who just love them all. I think most people get this, and the ones posting are simply more hyperbolic and opinionated, but this is what I think everyone *not* posting is thinking:

They’re two completely different films. One is a tense, psychological horror film about claustrophobia, the unknown, and male rape…. while the second is a badass sci-fi war film. Probably the best sci-fi war film ever made. Maybe. I dunno.

But they’re totally different. Just because they are in the same universe, and are sequential, doesn’t mean they can compare. It’s like comparing The Thing with Predator. Or… The Fly with Starship Troopers. Or Primer with Event Horizon. Or Jacob’s LAdder with .. you get the picture.

I know those analogies were off…. but there are very few universes that are as large as aliens, with as much spin off and back story. The point is they are basically two completely different genres of movies….

so when you are on the board for the first film, it is more akin to understand that the 2nd alien doesn’t really fit in the discussion of this film – aliens has zero subtext. Zero. That’s not a bad thing. Sometimes I might be not want to watch Alien and just want a mindless shoot em up rah rah rah crazy film. But Cameron isn’t known for subtext in his narrative. He’s from the school of being fairly literal… which is TOTALLY fine. IT takes all types of directors.

But as Scott said this has the first films DNA, it’s more appropriate to think of incredible subtext and ironic meanings, deeper intrusions into the narrative than just what’s in front of you.

So when people mention “I want a bunch of aliens and marines” on this talk board, it doesn’t really make much sense.

And there you have a ridiculously sanguine and measured ontological response.