re: After giving Promet[h]eus a shot on cable

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I'm not saying we are all in disagreement, but usually a film is clear for both sides. This one just isn't.

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I agree. It's a far from perfect film but I did find it challenging and interesting. It also has some genuinely tense scenes.

As for the abortion scene... really? You don't see it? Are you just trying not to? Matricide? Yeah, there's that. There's also the foreshadowing of destroying your creation, as well as the parallel structure of the same (the Jockeys destroying us). Also, since we can agree the squid isn't human, what is it? What makes us human? Is it more human than the robot? Both are engineered, and the squid has the added benefit of being from our genetic material and being incubated in the womb. Only I think we'd find it less human than David. Why?

There's also that abortion is contrary to her Christian faith, yet she rejects that teaching in the face of necessity. But she picks her cross back up after the scene, as if her faith is restored. Meanwhile, her husband has his faith destroyed by the discovery, but hers is strengthened. There's also the fact that David started the whole ball a-rolling by infecting the alcohol glass.

We also have the baggage of the alien movies, and we know the aliens to be "female", in that they have queens and lay eggs. Otherwise, they are asexual. The first Alien movie had a classic riff on pregnancy with the chest-bursting scene. This is just the same song, different verse. For a movie so strong with "female" and "mother" themes, its interesting we talk of "mankind". The first Alien has an easy Feminist reading, as does Prometheus: female leads, questions of motherhood, paranoia of pregnancy, and a distrust of the patriarchy. Here she has to use a machine designed for a man and is literally bound in shackles for the procedure.

Sure, no subtext whatsoever.