Question about Aliens - Prometheus related

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No I don't think the aliens are capable of space flight

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You haven't read my Alien VS My Little Pony fanfic.

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It's supposed to have been flown by the engineers, but Prometheus makes little sense.

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I remember the first half of that movie being amazing, but then it devolved into complete crap. I'd like to give it a re-watch someday though. It may fair better once we have more of an idea where the film fits in the Alien mythos.

The idea is that both human life and the xenomorph life is a product of the engineers. Hence the name "the engineers." That goop stuff is some sort of super evolution material that jump starts life and accelerated evolution. This is what is happening at the beginning of Prometheus when he drinks the stuff and drops it into the water thus jump starting the evolution of humans.

The xenomorphs are similarly created by the engineers. There is this whole theme of the Aliens series of the xenomorphs being this incredibly evolved super organism. This is an attempt to give them an origin, and then relate that also to an origin for humanity. This is why there are the engineers at both locations, both in the original Alien and Prometheus. There is also the implication that the Engineers were destroyed by their own creation, but there is less known about this.

This is all how it appears to me.

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I remember the first half of that movie being amazing, but then it devolved into complete crap. I'd like to give it a re-watch someday though. It may fair better once we have more of an idea where the film fits in the Alien mythos.

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SEE!!! The brilliant scientists who cannot read a map that their high tech drone has created!

FEEL!!! Their fear of the unknown world that could be filled with all kinds of disease deadly to man!

BE LIKE WTF?!?! When they suddenly decide to play with the giant vagina worms swimming in the alien water....

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The idea is that both human life and the xenomorph life is a product of the engineers. Hence the name "the engineers." That goop stuff is some sort of super evolution material that jump starts life and accelerated evolution. This is what is happening at the beginning of Prometheus when he drinks the stuff and drops it into the water thus jump starting the evolution of humans.

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I get all that. I was just curious if the spaceship in Alien, was being flown around by the xenomorphs because they are intelligent. Or if it was just another Engineer spacecraft that got over run just like the one in Prometheus.

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The idea is that both human life and the xenomorph life is a product of the engineers. Hence the name "the engineers." That goop stuff is some sort of super evolution material that jump starts life and accelerated evolution. This is what is happening at the beginning of Prometheus when he drinks the stuff and drops it into the water thus jump starting the evolution of humans. The xenomorphs are similarly created by the engineers. There is this whole theme of the Aliens series of the xenomorphs being this incredibly evolved super organism. This is an attempt to give them an origin, and then relate that also to an origin for humanity. This is why there are the engineers at both locations, both in the original Alien and Prometheus. There is also the implication that the Engineers were destroyed by their own creation, but there is less known about this. This is all how it appears to me.

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There is also the fact that the engineers then planned to send another ship with more of the black goo to earth. Had they planned this all along? Was this just the next step in creating xenomorphs as their goal? Was this in response to a real or perceived threat by humanity? Do engineers view xenomorphs as a tool, an achievement, or worship them as a sort of diety? Prometheus raised these and other questions but didn't really answer them. Hopefully there will be more light shed on these questions in the next movie.