Comments by "Ronin Dave" (@RoninDave) on "Prometheus - The Franchise Killer" video.

People got sick of me complaining about Prometheus because I couldn't get over how stupid it was and how pretentious twats could defend it with pseudo-intellectual posturing. One of biggest problems I had with the story was the overall premise that started the story - two scientists with no evidence other than a cluster of circles in various ancient depictions concocted a story about the Engineers (a name that made no sense) who created humanity and apparently told ancient humans offscreen about their planet. Even the Ancient Alien guys try to come up with more evidence for their theories but these guys didn't even back it up with myths or hieroglyphs. It was just "these circles mean aliens created us and want us to visit them" and that was enough for a multi-billion project funded by an old man who thought this would also mean these aliens would know how to save him from death. Who needs logic anyhow? Then it turns out the planet is a military science experiment lab - why would they have told ancient humans about that place? They wake up an Engineer and instead of being amazed at humans being there and 2000 years having passed decides to kill them and launch on his original mission of destroying Earth for some unknown reason (funfact - it's been hinted that the death of Jesus was their reason for destroying Earth. So Buddhists, Hinduists, MesoAmericans deserved to die for the death of someone in a backwater area of the Roman Empire? FFS) without bothering to check if his home planet was still around, if the mission still had the go-ahead, and if he was going to get 2000 years of back pay. So the Engineers apparently told humans about the lab planet and when they show up, they get mad at them for doing so? And finding out the creepy xenomorphs of the original was the creation of black goo made by angry careless Engineers and a wayward android kind of ruins their mystery.
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That makes it even more stupid. Why destroy the entire human race because of the death of someone in a backwater area of the Roman Empire? What did the Chinese, Indians, British, Japanese, Meso-Americans, Africans, native Australians, etc... have anything to do with Jesus's death? Plus the guy was asleep 2000 years and doesn't check if the mission was still on or that his planet was even still around?
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with education standards eroding it may indeed
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@eduardorivera4343 no one is debating this film except why was it made? If not for the tie-in with the Aliens franchise it would have been another forgotten sci-fi flick.
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@nhmooytis7058 The origin crew were basically space truckers doing a job when the distress signal caused them to wake up. Neither the company nor android knew what was about the alien until after Ash did his studies and the company became interested in its potential.
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