Ok loved this movie but I'm so confused with a few things.
Throughout all the deep research and explanation of the architects' being the originators of humanity, could the writers not explain how cryogenics worked or how a fuel could be burned over so many millions of miles and not consume every inch of that ship!?!
"They" deemed an explanation as not important to the story. Just take it at face value. This was not a Michael Crichton story or David Weber story. Both of them like to explain tech aspects of their stories.
Storage room when breached the climate changed and thus the mural did as well. Was a Queen Alien also present?
I don't believe so. The source of the alien critters was the mutation goo.
Earth origin … when the architect drank that nasty soup, not once did he show fear in what he was doing, not until his leg broke and he looked at his arm fading away. So why was the other one fearful of being violated for larva injection? That planet had no life on it either?
The one who was impregnated at the end? I think what happened on Earth was a ceremony where one of the Engineers (Architects from Halo?
) volunteered to sacrifice himself, although my personal view is there would be an easier way to seed the planet. As we saw holograms of Engineers running away, I think it's safe speculation that they all did not have sacrificial death wishes.
What happened to the first mutated alien that sieged the first ship? How come it didn't try to enter the other chambers and then proceed to eat the other architects' sleeping? Did it die of starvation? Because no forced sign of entry was made, and the goo they leave behind when salivating was present when the people saw the bodies (or just before)??
Left to speculation. Which ship?
Most importantly, that dude that called the diggers dummy's and those sensors his pups … how come he did mutated, and not breed an alien?
Results are not consistent.
Fifield, the geologist was the one who got sprayed in the face with acid, but he had his helmet on which then melted and he fell into the goo. Exposed, he was mutated, just like the boy friend, Holloway was exposed by a naughty robot and he started to mutate. The other guy Milburn, the biologist was eaten by the eel thingies.
Another unknown is how much mutation takes place? Remember they spoke of this place as being a bio-weapon site. It's possible what happened on Earth was in the name of good mutation, while this location was about bad mutation used as a weapon.
The biggest mystery is why did they change their minds about Earth and after creating life, now want to harm it? Unknown. Maybe we were big disappointments to them...
Really this story has to be taken for face value or "just" entertainment. If you are familiar with how evolution takes place, environmental pressures change outcomes, and that if you seeded the planet with fragments of your DNA to create primitive life forms, there would be no guarantees what you'd end up with. The basic premise of the movie is that it was aliens who seeded the planet with life or altered the life that was all ready forming there, and then after humanoids developed, they had a relationship with early civilizations. I can buy it.
