“The unknown is far more terrifying”: Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ Prequel Deserves to End in a Mystery as Fans Believe Origin Story Will Derail His Nightmarish Vision
- Fede Álvarez's highly anticipated Alien: Romulus opens to positive comments.
- Fans demand Ridley Scott to answer questions from 2012's Prometheus.
- Alien: Romulus is connected to Prometheus in a few ways.
SPOILER ALERT FOR ALIEN: ROMULUS
Ridley Scott’s Prometheus is a science fiction horror movie that is the fifth installment in the Alien franchise. Scott and James Cameron reportedly developed the idea for Prometheus to be the prequel to 1979’s Alien. The movie is set in the 21st century and centers on a crew of the spaceship named Prometheus, which follows a star map. After arriving in the distant world, the crew discovers a threat that can extinct the human species.
Upon its release, the movie received positive reviews from the critics as well as the audience. Some of them criticized the fact that there were a lot of unresolved plot points, but in general, the movie has received praise. James Cameron also stated that Prometheus seemed like Ridley Scott’s return to science fiction but did not hesitate to state that something in the movie didn’t add up logically. Now fans of the Alien franchise wish to have answers to the unresolved plot points of the movie.
Fans demand Ridley Scott to answer the unresolved mystery from Prometheus
Serving as an interquel between Alien and Aliens, Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus recently released and opened up to positive comments from the critics as well as the audience. But the success of Alien: Romulus took the fans back to Ridley Scott’s 2012 Prometheus, which serves as a prequel to his 1979’s Alien.
According to The Guardian, the movie, which was well received by the audience, left the fans scratching their heads because of the unanswered plot points, including, Why the engineers changed their minds and decided to destroy life on earth. Or how did the constellation get onto all those ancient cave paintings and artifacts? Why would the engineers provide a map anyway? etc.
One of the questions is the origins of Xenomorphs, and according to MeriStation, a theory has been accepted that engineers created Xenomorphs to use them as weapons. But no explanation has been given. So, an X user tweeted,
I like to think that engineers did not create the Xenomorphs but rather they were replicating something they once knew, as depicted in the mural from Prometheus. I hope what that was is left a mystery forever. The unknown is far more terrifying than an origin story.
They further mentioned that one thing they liked about Alien: Romulus’ last sequence is that all of the genetic tinkering resulted in the distorted version of the Engineers. A nightmarish genetic reverberation.
Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus’ connection to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
Alien: Romulus is out in theaters, and according to Games Radar, it has a very divisive connection to 2012’s Prometheus. The reports describe that with humanity struggling to survive, the Weyland-Yutani space probe developed Compound Z-01, which they extracted from the Xenomorph. It has been reported that it was created to be used on human beings.
Similarly, in Prometheus, black goo was developed by engineers to be used as a biological weapon. The publication noted that it’s safe to say that the same substance has been used in both movies in the hope of advancing humanity. This gets more clear when in Alien: Romulus, the audience gets to see a hologram of Steatite Ampules that were introduced in Alien: Covenant, which are urns to store black goo.
One other thing that was also pointed out that connects both movies is the Offspring. Isabela Merced is pregnant, and while early in the movie her child is human, it changes after she injects herself with the compound to survive. She gives birth to an egg with acidic blood, and later the baby breaks the egg and grows into something that is called the Offspring.
In appearance, the offspring appears with a skeletal body, a sharp tail, and a second inner jaw like a Xenomorph. Interestingly, the face resembled Engineer from Prometheus, which reportedly tracks given The Offspring, is partly born from the black goo. Cailee Spaeny defeats the Offspring, but fans wonder if it is going to appear in the probable Alien: Romulus sequel.
Alien: Romulus is out in cinemas.
