Turag Brookback

My biggest problem with Prometheus is that other films like Alien versus Predator, whether you’re a fan of it or not, show that the Aliens have been around for a very long time already. Long before the crew of the Prometheus set off to find the Engineers at any rate.What follows is purely speculation on my part:I choose to believe that the Aliens already exist and that the Engineers are aware of them, perhaps studying them. Why? They are perfectly evolved killing machines and if you want to create a biological weapon capable of wiping out an entire species, they’re a good place to start.The Engineers could have created the black goo based on the Aliens, deconstructed their DNA maybe, to produce a substance just as dangerous but – supposedly – more manageable.We know that the Aliens mutate in embryo form to take on the attributes of their host, so it makes some kind of sense that the goo would have mutagenic properties too. In this case, however, it mutates those it infects to give them attributes of the Aliens; such as the worms having acidic blood, Fifield becoming more bestial and, in my opinion, attacking in an Alien-like way. Shaw’s “baby”, fertilised by the infected Holloway, had several similarities to a Facehugger, including its method of impregnating and it grew very quickly, like newborn Aliens. The creature at the end was, of course, very Alien-like.So that’s how I choose to see things anyway. Prometheus is not so much the origin story of the Aliens, but rather it showcases the effects of an experiment based on them. Perhaps the Engineer at the beginning of Alien was in the middle of studying them when it all went wrong for him.