Post by Eλευθερί on Dec 26, 2017 7:30:32 GMT
They all assume that their creators would love them and answer their questions, but they were wrong. Their creators don't care about them at all and THAT is the point of that scene. It's a "curiosity killed the cat" type situation.
David asks the same question about us creating him. "Why do you think human's created me" he asks and the other guy answers "because we could."
Those all seem very likely. But the ambiguity-to-the-nth-degree is what I find very unsatisfying about the experience. We are just left wondering. Because while those possibilities could be true, they might also be completely off-base, and we'll never know. Similarly, one of the astronauts declares that the planet turns out to be just some sort of biological warfare experiment site. Seems likely. Except that that hypothesis could be completely wrong. We'll never know. Those snake-like creatures could be other life-forms that the Engineers created. Or they could have been the native species of the planet that were there before the Engineers arrived. We'll never know.
The title Prometheus and the decapitated remains they find suggest that the Engineer was a renegade among its own kind. But, again, we'll never know ...
