Re: Official Alien Prequel/Prometheus Discussion Thread
-Everything is happening rapidly after the death of Fifield and Milburn. The time was spent advancing, not dwelling. Since Everyone is at different places most the time maybe there was alot of "oh crap its all over talk" offscreen, but since that is a major thing in nearly any movie where people are dying and you seem to want them to avoid typical crap, why would you want this anyways? Seems like a contradiction.
If the captain Janek would not been boozing and shagging, he would have seen or at least noticed the demise of Fifield and Millburn much earlier. But that's covered in my other point (stupid people hired).
Advancing the "plot" by rushing into action in these conditions is unrealistic behaviour for even the most enthusiastic scientist to do. Human beings are emotional unlike androids. Offscreen talk is just that, offscreen and as such nonexistent to a viewer. This creates unbelievable characters with no emotional connection to the viewer, just cannon fodder and monster-jerky.
- How many times did they have to say it was glitched for this to be picked up on? People dying, trying to complete what theey are there for and arguing over the best course of action and you think they should have been worried about what they were told was a glitch in the probe? Obviously Fifield and Milburn were worried about the probe, they(the film) showed that very well.
It wasn't glitched when Janek first spotted it and determined it wasn't moving. Pretty easy to track back to don't you think? Suddenly they care more about the dead Fifield and Millburn than possibly living engineer they have come all this way to find, that contradicts to their every other action in the movie.
-Another thing that seemed rushed or maybe she was in shock
So we agree the writing was bad, maybe because of pacing issues?
-I knew that machine would be a "clunky" mechanic involved in the movie by how it was introduced, but what conversation did you want? David on the trip out saying, "Hey, sorry we disagreed on leaving the space squid in you" I think her mind was reeling from all the ____ she'd endured plus David subtlety dropping the bomb that he "knew" Holloway wasn't infected via the air.
I'd expect somekind of confrontation from her after what they did to her. And him. Even if she was in shock, since she seems to be coherent enough to speak with Weyland about being wrong about the whole trip and to be convinced to continue her scientific endeavours. Not being surprised to see the old geezer is also odd, but this can be because of recent traumatic experience, just too much to take in. Still, that doesn't go with the squid caesarian issue.
Point is once events started happening it was an avalanche of crap, not like there was alot of breather time, it was one disaster to the next. Obviously there is room for interpretation and maybe some peoples interpretation is different from others, doesn't make it all bad, sometimes thats half the fun.
They could take a breather any time after the storm when Fifield and Millburn are showing zero life signs. After all it's not like the crew really cared about them. Actually they had time during the storm, but the time on the movie is rather wasted showing akward interaction between Janek and Vickers. Another good time to step back and think a little would be after torching Holloway. Yet again after zombie-Fifields attack. There was no real reason to rush into things except to hide nonexistent plot.
Holes in the narrative are really not fun to talk about, theories and speculation of underlying themes and plot are. But since we are talking about a (flaved) movie that is being defended so much here it is warranted, in my opinion.
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