THIS!! ALL DAY!!!
I had to watch the shit twice to get it all together again. The plot holes are not as big as everyone thinks too. The whole flick was about beginnings and endings. The idea and the power of God.
HERE WE GO:
1. God is the alpha and the omega. We know that when God or the Gods were here - they revealed themselves as such.
2. The engineers are just that - engineers. All they do is test and experiment on life forms. They can create or destroy at will so to us they are God or Gods.
The alpha.
3. The black goo was a biological weapon. If their experiment goes wrong or does something they dont like they unleash the goo and thats it.
The omega.
4. The scientists were all good until they got in the shit. Once the realization of what they found hit them, they lost all sense of logic and reason. Some behaved irrational, others tried to keep cool.
The alpha.
5. David did everything he thought was a move forward for the expedition. He thought himself above the humans he was supposed to be subserviant to and tested his god complex on them.
The omega.
6. One thing is purpose. No one had any faith or belief except for Shaw and Weyland.
Shaw and Weyland are the beginning and the end to the whole trip respectively.
7. The alpha - the micro organism in the black goo altered the maggot that became the snake that poisoned and killed the two scientists. The micro organism digested in Holloway altered his sperm. The sperm merged with her eggs are became the living uterus squid. The squid killed the engineer -
The omega.
8. Another thing is motivation, Ridley is clearly showing what a team of people with their own seperate motivations produce. Nothing. They were not a team. Not gelled at all. No one had the others interest at heart. They didnt know each other, all from different corners of the globe, didnt like each other and cared for nothing but the money involved with the mission. This is a clear metaphor for humanity.
9. Stringer Bell - the captain - becomes
the omega when as probably the dumbest person on the ship, he uses common sense to figure the whole fucking plot out. Simplicity at its best. Vickers - the hbic - was
the alpha because she ran the whole shit and set everything into motion in the beginning. All her intelligence and logic meant nothing in the end when she couldnt even run the right way to escape death. See what Ridley did there?
10. Movie story is as simple as they come but because we expect more to be explained to us we overthink what the fuck we watched and it SEEMS to make no sense. No, it is NOT a prequel - the ships dont match, the timeline is off, the aliens dont match, the planets dont either and the xenomorph was born full sized as a HYBRID. It is the first of its kind -
the alpha. Not the same xenomorph from the Alien films -
the omega.
Because people are stupid, this flick wont see cult status until decades down the road. Like Blade Runner. I misunderstood what I watched the first time. The second time, I understood everything clearly.
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then I saw the ending and thought of all the earlier parts that reminded me of the parts of Alien I seen and realized it might've been a prequel
aradise..? 
