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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stumblewyk" data-source="post: 5942317" data-attributes="member: 67606">Full disclosure, I've seen approximately 5 minutes of the entire Aliens franchise of films, and won't be seeing Prometheus, either.  The xenomorphs scare the bejeezus out of me.  Case-in-point, I allowed myself to be cajoled into riding the Aliens ride at Universal Studios with some friends while on a high school trip.  I had my eyes closed the entire time.  But I do find the Aliens films interesting - bleak sci-fi is attractive to my strange sensibilities, so I've read a lot about the movies, even if I've never watched them.So, that being out of the way, I've been following along with this thread, and I read the livejournal posting that Water Bob linked to.  I find deep, over-wrought symbolism to be fascinating, so this interpretation of the film intrigues me to no end.And then I saw Water Bob's comment below:Wasn't Damon Lindelof heavily involved with this film?  I was a devoted LOST fan, and as convoluted as that show became, honestly, 90% of the show's references and symbolism required some serious dedication to track down and analyze.  My wife and I watched VERY different versions of that show.  I was trying to find the answers to all the weird crap that came up on that show by reading the fan sites, solving the official puzzles, etc.  My wife was watching a really weird supernatural sci-fi-ish show and listening to me rant and rave about stuff.  And I didn't think for one second that LOST was failing as entertainment because I had to seek out explanations and interpretations in other sources and mediums - it made the show that much more rewarding for me.And Lindelof was 1/2 of the creative team behind LOST.If he had even a partial hand in Prometheus, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if you needed some crazy analysis to actually understand the movie.  Not at all.Now, I concede that asking your audience to go seeking out additional information is a far less risky proposition when you know that your audience will likely get a little bit more info in the next episode which is only a few days away than in the sequel which may be years away, but that doesn't necessarily disqualify the piece in question as being successful art.</blockquote>

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