icemann on 27/4/2017 at 09:03
Oh man. Now we need a prologue to the prologue. They can't just end it right there.
Thirith on 27/4/2017 at 09:55
Wouldn't that make it an epilogue? Or a postprologue?
icemann on 27/4/2017 at 13:21
That too
Pyrian on 27/4/2017 at 16:17
Oh god I'm spoilering trailer speculation...[spoiler]So, wait, is the Engineer homeworld the same place as the colonization? If it's not, how do these stories end up intersecting? If it is... Well, that would take a lot of explaining.[/spoiler]
Kolya on 29/4/2017 at 23:10
"Look on my works ye mighty and despair!" is taken from Shelley's poem (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias) Ozymandias and is actually to be taken ironically. The theme of "Ozymandias" is the inevitable decline of all empires despite all their their pretensions to greatness. Saying these words while discovering a thriving alien civilization seems to betray a misunderstanding of their meaning.
Pyrian on 29/4/2017 at 23:36
Please tell me everyone here already knew about Ozymandias' quote?[spoiler]I've done a bit of digging and apparently (in another trailer) David bombs the engineer homeworld with the ship's cargo of black goo. Oh, dear...[/spoiler]
Starker on 30/4/2017 at 02:29
I'd wager most people who have had English classes in school know about the quote.
Sulphur on 30/4/2017 at 03:55
Ozymandias was also the subtext to Prometheus, with about all the subtlety of a claw-hammer to the skull.
Kolya on 30/4/2017 at 07:49
Sorry if this is old hat to you. This poem may be part of every English class in English speaking countries, but it's not that well known elsewhere. I just noticed that it seems wrong for the situation.
Starker on 30/4/2017 at 11:27
Possibly? Kind of difficult to tell without knowing the exact context of the quote in the movie.
