After watching the movie last night for the first time, I've just finishing reading this whole thread. Man...you guys completely amazed me! How freaking beautifully you (particularly Ferox, CG & Posher) pointed out all those plot-holes, little flaws & questions and even more fascinatingly how V came up with all his answers & assumptions with much logic & sense!! The voices of true fans!! Kudos guys, always glad to have friends like you.
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Unless the explanation which I provided earlier - either they are siblings of humans, or they are an advanced, evolved or mutated version of humans. Maybe the Engineers are how humans would develop and evolve into, in the distant future.
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This adds to my theory of Engineers being an example of human evolution in the future. And it could also explain why the Engineers resembled humans so much in outward appearance.
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The look of the Engineers was clear - they were shown to be a superior race than man, a "super-man" or super being of sorts, hence the close resemblance to humans, yet the super-sized, beefy, body structure. I wonder if the title Prometheus refers to them now, instead of the humans - the ones who stole the "fire from the gods" (ability to give life) and now, pursued to be prosecuted/punished by "the gods", are forced to take their "gift" away.
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Anyway, I think I can't add more what you have discussed so far, pretty much agree with V's assumption about the Engineers. They have somehow managed to grab the great substance or somewhat a key to the "secret of life" thing on their hand & then did some bio-weaponry sort of experiments that resulted some unpredictable or unwanted outcomes. The thing is it can go either way, as V said, they can be an evolved or mutated version of humans from future or a different & superior sort of intelligent race/creatures that may (as in the opening part) or may not have something to do with creation of human life on earth. But I like to guess they aren't exactly the main or only source of life in universe; more likely an intelligent humanoid creature trying to play God more successfully than human or any other life form ever did before. But yeah...the original leaked script clearly indicates that they are the sole creator of human life; so question is whether Scott & Co. follow that path or put everything into more darker & religious tone in the next phase.
Btw, I saw the film on a superb quality pirated dvd that I rented from my nearby store. Most probably they just downloaded a recent dvd relase-copy (& then copied it into the discs) which got that above "deleted" Weyland confronting Engineer scene. :)