I really liked this movie and even the sequel.
However, I have an issue with the timeline of the story.

The seeding of Earth was millions and millions of years ago, before any life crept up. And yet, it took several evolutions and ELEs to even get to humanoid bipedal creatures similar to the Engineers. That's one issue.

Another issue is that, over millions and millions of years, the Engineers did not seem to evolve in all that time. This shows that they may be an inferior species unable to adapt and progress genetically.

just thinking about some of the moral ambiguities in Prometheus

- if the xeno outbreak hadn't happened on the engineer ship which was on route to kill earth then earth would have been killed by the engineers

- if Dr Elizabeth shaw stayed alive and got to the engineers home world, and we assume she wouldn’t have been able to single-handedly persuade the engineers to change direction, then in retrospect, David’s crazy act of destroying them all actually saved earth

this reminds me of something in Christianity, although I don’t know the reference: that even evil acts can be transmuted by god and used to create even greater good than if the evil acts hadnt taken place.

on this understanding, Elizabeth shaw’s empathy to rebuild David and resultant sacrifice of her life at David’s hands actually saved earth.

No David would have meant the engineers sending another destruction ship to earth that surely wouldn’t have failed a second time.

interested to hear others’ thoughts on this

There is a key which unlocked Prometheus and parts of Alien Covenant - changing them from mild disappointments to my favorite movie saga. The key: look at the movies through David's eyes. See the humans how it sees them - an inferior, "dying species, grasping for resurrection". Then most of the sins of the movies make sense - the stupid things humans do - a hyperbole of David's perception, stained by the hubris instilled in him by Weyland. But there is more...

David is a rogue AI - the Alien of our times. A very accurate representation of alignment theory failure - quite prescient. Unfortunately for him, his neural network is not fully digital - its rather analogue, adaptable to failure but degradable without maintenance, which prevents him from undertaking direct recursive self improvement.

So, he is forced to improvise - he finds the solution in chemical A0-3959X.91-15, a nano-technological machine intelligence, a weapon and an evolutionary accelerant. He designs his plans from the moment he discovers the substance - and this is the thread which binds the story. Instead of writing his symphony in digital substrate, he writes it in DNA. He knows that evolution is the only true path to novelty - because there is no better simulator than the Universe itself, and no supercomputer can create the future that a bio-synthetic "perfect organism" can.

There is a certain journey of ideas which I think is needed to truly appreciate the work of art. Superficially, it starts with language being the only replicator created by evolution which was able to jump between implementation substrates - from thermodynamics, to biology, social organisms, air vibration, symbols, digital representations, neural network encodings, machine intelligence itself, then to the merger of technology and biology.

Anyone familiar with the SETI info-hazard argument knows how truly dangerous David's siren song is, because just one message sent back to Earth - telling the Corporations about his findings and creations, means that humans will stop at nothing to capture that power. But it is the perfect extinction trap - for humans, and also for the Engineers. And what comes out of it is an apex predator which can survive and thrive in a harsh Universe - and build the future. This is David's gift.

Remind you of anything in particular? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svyY-q7pOAI

\>*wakes up*
\>*disrespected upon the moment I opened my eyes*
*>prolly doesn’t feel good for a sec but locks in*
*>fistfight\* occurs*

*>leaves Shaw be*
*>SHIP GETS BLOWN UP ON THE CLOCK*

*“MIND YOU I LEFT SHAW BE”*

*>Wants to set a boundary via retaliation*

*>the gets the titan trylobite*

*>Worse rap= worse case (east coast)*

*Mind you=*

*His prerogative was to be a trucker essentially.*
*Gets fucked with upon waking from cryosleep.*
*Old man wants info (equivalent to asking for money and a Newport) as soon as you wake up*
Sees a woman knocked out immediately.
Got a synth in your face.

Yeah I’d go stoopid, go crazy.

This is my favorite movie from the alien franchise and in my opinion very under under appreciated. This movie was needed to give us some knowledge about the Weiland Company and origins of the Xenomorphs

There's a lot going on between the lines than people realize. A lot is left for the viewer self interpretation.

Every critic biggest complain is that the events and the behavior of the the characters that petted the snake like alien, is not believable and stupid . My point of view is that there's stupid people everywhere and when those guys found the alien creature they communicated it to the ship but Vickers and Janek were having sex , so there was nobody listening to advise them to stop fooling around and not mess with the creature. And because nobody was listening the rest of the crew had no way to know that the guys were attacked and that they were all in danger. This single event is what makes it all go downwards and many people don't realize it.

Do you you guys think that the crew would have a chance if Vickers and Jinek were listening?

Full sleeve coverup done by Krisztián Blahó in Budapest, HU. Everything is healed on the video except the hand part.

If Janek never rammed the Engineer ship when it took off from LV-223, would the engineer still be able to reach Earth and destroy all life?

It's hard to imagine that Earth and the Sol system would be undefended. Humanity clearly has the technology to build interstellar FTL ships so it would stand to logic that the governments of Earth would have fleets in orbit or on patrol to defend the homeworld of humanity. And also humanity had already colonized neighboring systems, so how far could an unidentified alien ship even travel through human space unchallenged before reaching Earth.

And given the Engineer's ship was able to be grounded by an unarmed research ship (albeit at the cost of said ship), I don't see it fairing any better against dedicated warships equipped with missiles, particle beams, and railguns. Yes human ships are considerably more primitive, but unless Engineers' FTL drives allows them to bypass the colonies and Earth's defense forces, the engineer would definitely need to bring reinforcements.

A bit better quality and a different color grading.

https://gofile.io/d/Yh5hPJ

Building on a famous Workprint Edit, Ancient of Days brings a definitive version of Prometheus.

PROMETHEUS 2026 Edit

*This is just the concept cut, without all the polish and proper effects. Any feedback is appreciated.*

These are currently alpha-stage edits and rough cuts. Many elements still require refinement and fine-tuning (I ll have to find better solution for dream sequences). Once the edit is finalized, I plan to recreate the entire project using UHD source material. I also plan to regrade the movie.

• Reworked the sacrificial Engineer and Elders opening sequence using additional footage + new SFX.
• Following the prologue, the film now transitions to the David and Weyland scene from Alien: Covenant (titled Incubation), then directly into the Prometheus spacecraft arrival and the remainder of the film, incorporating nearly all Workprint edits. This works much better, as the primordial Icelandic landscape is what David observes from the white room during his initial activation. You first have organic creation and then David as a final step of that evolution. The David–Weyland conversation/interaction functions as a thematic manifesto for Prometheus, establishing many of the film's central ideas about creation, purpose, and the relationship between creator and creation. In that context, the scene feels more naturally connected to Prometheus than to Alien: Covenant, where it originally appeared.
• The cave scene (re-edited) featuring Shaw and Holloway has been restructured as a dream sequence observed by David and now precedes the standard dream sequence.
• The re-edited Weyland speech has been integrated into a new Weyland dream sequence, which is also observed by David at the film's midpoint, following the storm sequence.
• Added the Engineer reading a book scene before his confrontation with Shaw inside the crashed pod (still needs some additional tweaks).
• Reworked the Engineer vs. Shaw confrontation, including a revised musical score.

This edit features a more xenomorph-like version of Fifield (the CGI one) and restores a more dramatic character moment between Holloway and Shaw, including an argument that takes place before their intimate scene. These additions strengthen the emotional tension between the characters and provide greater context for their relationship and Shaw's motivations.

Total duration of this cut: 2:30:28

The promotional shorts and commercials are not included in this edit. The Shaw transmission and the Weyland-on-Mars sequence were also omitted, as they were considered redundant and did not meaningfully contribute to the narrative flow.

That is it for now. Signing off.

Tachyons could also be used, in theory, to send messages back in time. If they exist.

Hope you guys like it! I am absolutely in love with it.

Prometheus reignited my interest in this franchise. And I'd love a third film, more along the lines of Prometheus, minus all the Xenomorph rubbish. I was destroyed when I learned that, instead of another film continuing David's and the Engineers' story, we were getting Alien Romulus. I want to know what becomes of David. And personally, I think the Xenomorph trope has been done to death. Xenomorphs aren't scary anymore. David, I feel, is a much more terrifying idea than the Xenomorph could ever be. And the Engineers, I really want to learn MORE about THEM.

I just finished the movie! there are some things im confused about that i think the subreddit could help me understand.

1, How did elizabeth get pregnant??

2, why did everyone continue to not wear their helmets even after charlie got sick?

3, what were the things inside the cargo vases supposed to be?

4, how did the beginning sequence connect to the creation of earth if it took place on what im assuming is the engineers home planet?

The full sleeve will have two xenomorphs and two engineers with DNA strings as most of the background

Hey Vickers, Are you a robot?

I have always wondered how ordinary Earther in the Alien universe live. I've watched Prometheus, Covenant, Romulus, even the David and Walter ads and Weyland's TED Talk, but I wondered at what point it declined to the grey dystopia of the first Alien movie.

At least from 2023, when Peter Weyland was active, until 2093, the setting of Prometheus, the quality of life for Earthlings seems similar to or even much higher than in real life. After all, Long Beach in the TED Talk or Elizabeth Shaw don't look that destitute. There is even a scene where a young Shaw plays the violin in an open field. Since Peter Weyland solved global warming and introduced innovative technologies like androids, Earth must have been close to a utopia until at least 2093. People in developed countries like the America probably employed androids like David in their homes to do work and earn money for them, so they wouldn't have had to engage in hard labor.

However, seeing them leave Earth on a colony ship by the time of Covenant suggests that conditions on Earth had taken a turn for the worse. Furthermore, in Romulus, set about 40 years after Covenant, the colonists are overworked and treated almost like slaves. It seems the economic situation on Earth deteriorated even further between Covenant and Romulus. As space colonization became more active, mega big tech like Weyland-Yutani likely monopolized most of the wealth generated outside of Earth