watching the movie "Prometheus" and loving it :) am about half way thru it, and a few interesting possibilities have occurred to me, and i'm curious to see whether any of them come to pass in this movie.
- i'm wondering whether these worms are seeding these planets with its favourite foods, or material for troops, or something. and then once in a while a "harvest" reports its readiness and is then, um, harvested, as it were, or perhaps a mining operation starts up, the ore being humanoid cattle. in this case - us. i wonder if it is worms. what with some contributing company during the intro credits being named "Dune"...
the tunnels look to me like they're made by worms.
and then agendas. the crazy hick geologist - just in it for the money. then charlize therone 's character. and then David! and the boss of the company (Weyland?)! and the dissimilarity of characters of the married scientist couple.
and charlize therone's character probably IS an android, too! and she probably doesnt even know it! :o
how bladerunner! :) (or androids dreaming of electric sheep-ish :D)

some things in this story just seem too implausible. like the utter carelesness, nay - stupidity! - of the whole crew taking off their helmets. or the fact that they would just go galavanting around this planet, without dispatching some drones to explore the place a bit first. but i suppose there wouldnt be as much drama then. but what good is drama when its set-up is so not believable?
i suppose it could have been like charllize therone's character said - the old guy needed some real believers. perhaps that was true of all the choices for all the crew members - perhaps the make-up of the whole crew  was engineered according to their character profiles. the cheapest candidates that fit the profiles were chosen. the ever present economical pressure. it just seems like charlize therone's character (what the hell IS her name?!) is like layer 1 of the company boss' presence to care for his vested interests, and david is layer 2. wonder if there is a layer 3...
is there then going to be a creation destroying its creator? as in the old company owner destroying the alien race that created us? or does that just get us to level 2c of a massive tree of tests designed to let species like ours chart out all the possible ways of being of beings resultant from planetary life packet profile 238H-53/67c?