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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 5941099" data-attributes="member: 63">My main complaints are the scientific irrationality of it. Why would you think that introducing a drop of weird goo into the drink of a human would have any real reaction, other than perhaps causing the guy to die of an infection? What would that accomplish? You have advanced medical and biological exam equipment on the ship. Use that. Don't just randomly toss goo into someone's food. Nothing had yet occurred that would rationally have made the characters think &quot;this might be some sort of transgenic super-science goo that will turn our archaeologist buddy into a monster.&quot;Also, especially after a character hangs a lampshade on &quot;Darwinian evolution&quot; making the theory of &quot;Engineers created humanity, and happened to have a genome that makes perfect sense as part of earth biodiversity, despite coming from another planet&quot; very unlikely, I just couldn't help but lower my opinion of the movie.I dunno, maybe in the sequel we'll learn that 2 million years ago another alien species came to earth, picked up some humans, and developed the Engineers, who eventually got high tech gizmos of their own and eventually decided to annihilate the crucible of humanity. I could buy that. Crazy religious zealots think &quot;those humans suck; we're spacemen now, so we have to kill earthmen so we are not corrupted.&quot;Still doesn't make sense why you'd use weird, thermodynamics-defying mutants to do it, instead of good old fashioned lasers and missiles and stuff.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 5941099, member: 63"] My main complaints are the scientific irrationality of it. Why would you think that introducing a drop of weird goo into the drink of a human would have any real reaction, other than perhaps causing the guy to die of an infection? What would that accomplish? You have advanced medical and biological exam equipment on the ship. Use that. Don't just randomly toss goo into someone's food. Nothing had yet occurred that would rationally have made the characters think "this might be some sort of transgenic super-science goo that will turn our archaeologist buddy into a monster." Also, especially after a character hangs a lampshade on "Darwinian evolution" making the theory of "Engineers created humanity, and happened to have a genome that makes perfect sense as part of earth biodiversity, despite coming from another planet" very unlikely, I just couldn't help but lower my opinion of the movie. I dunno, maybe in the sequel we'll learn that 2 million years ago another alien species came to earth, picked up some humans, and developed the Engineers, who eventually got high tech gizmos of their own and eventually decided to annihilate the crucible of humanity. I could buy that. Crazy religious zealots think "those humans suck; we're spacemen now, so we have to kill earthmen so we are not corrupted." Still doesn't make sense why you'd use weird, thermodynamics-defying mutants to do it, instead of good old fashioned lasers and missiles and stuff. [/QUOTE]

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