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Originally Posted by Ferox13
Why did the 'Space Jockey' DNA match human dna 100%, would that not make them..well...human?
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Basically, the humans are also engineered from the Space Jockeys' DNA, or Engineers as they are called in
Prometheus, as one of their milder creations. They were planted on Earth and left to flourish, with periodic visits from the Engineers to Earth keeping a tab on their progress. Which explains the maps by different civilisations at different points of time in history pointing to the same star map - a star map undoubtedly left by the Engineers.
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Originally Posted by Ferox13
SO the 'Space Jockeys' seeded Earth and then left clues for their creations to find them but those clues lead to what I think was so bio-weapon facility. Weird.
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Bang on.
Planet LV-223 is a testing ground for the Engineers and their bio-weapons. The planet's pyramid was full of such bio-weapons, some of them resultants from experiments gone so awry that even the Engineers had to flee the scenes (as deduced from one of the chase sequences). The Hammerpede is one such example, the gooey, sticky stuff inside the egg-sized containers is another, etc.
The Engineers undoubtedly didn't want to leave a direct clue to their location - humans had to find them out from the ships they left underground in LV-223. That is, if humans were tough enough to survive inside the pyramid till they found the spaceship entrance inside them. Like it was shown in the end, the whole planet has several other ships underground. Any such ship had maps and directions to reach the Engineers' home planet.
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Originally Posted by Ferox13
Also, why did they do all this only to want to destroy it in the end?
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They didn't want to destroy it all. They planted these bio-weapons and kept testing them further. The opening sequence is that of an Engineer who:-
A) Volunteered to be a subject for the sticky substance bio-weapon testing,
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B) Someone who raised their voice on the continuous production of bio-weapons and, as a result, was cast out and punished by making them forcefully feed themselves with the sticky stuff.
A sequence which might be more clearer in part 2.
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Originally Posted by Ferox13
Some of the things I couldn't figure out. There are also other bits I found strange/silly or illogical but they aren't really plot questions.
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Go ahead and post them. Others might also have the same doubts and they can be clarified for everyone's benefits.
That's the beauty of
Prometheus. It leaves you with questions and makes you think.