History WhatAnIdiot / Prometheus

'''You'd expect:''' That, since Janek can see the stranded team members' location on his comm system and can direct them, he would tell them to wait near the entrance of the structure until morning. Or, failing that, he would tell them to stay exactly where they are and not touch anything - literally, anything besides the course of action he takes. \\

'''The result:''' An extremely dangerous kicks up with only 15 minutes of warning; most of the expedition makes it back to the ship just barely in time, but two members can't get out of the structure in time and are stranded overnight, resulting in their deaths.
* The ship has landed in the planet and they are exploring the Engineer structure in their spacesuits. Holloway detects with his scanner that carbon dioxide levels are low enough for the air inside to be breathable. \\
'''You'd expect:''' The crew to wait to perform analysis in order to rule out the possibility of microorganisms, pathogens or any kind of hazard the air could be carrying before even ''considering'' working without their suits. Still, even although it were deemed to be safe, they should keep their suits hermetic anyways in order not to bring with them any terrestrial biological residue that could deteriorate and/or modify the environment. Most of the crewmembers are either scientists who will know the importance of asepsis in an exobiological research or space pilots who should be familiarized with the consequence of not following containment protocols. \\

'''You'd expect:''' Them to leave immediately and don't look back. After all, both of these men were smart when they bugged out during Shaw's discovery of the first Engineer body in this very room. Milburn is also a biologist, so he should completely know the risks of approaching an unknown creature. Even if he is really that fascinated with the damn thing, it's much safer to retreat for now and maybe return later with a support team and adequate tools to capture and analyze the creature. Heck, even someone without an extensive education in biology would probably notice the creature's striking similarity to the terrestrial cobra and give it a wide breadth.\\

'''Even worse:''' They actually look back to the spaceship, yet still keep running straight, clearly trying to outrun it lineally. They don't even consider simply getting out of its way.\\

'''You'd expect:''' Him to notify the others and have himself placed in quarantine or at least medically examined.

* Two members of the expedition team (Fifield, a geologist, and Milburn, a biologist) set to leave the alien facility and return to the Prometheus. The first of them is the mapmaking expert of the crew and the controller of two floating cartographic drones that are presumably still mapping through the tunnels. \\

* Captain Janek receives Fifield's signal in front of their cargo door. He tells the crew the open it to check him, and they all see what seems to be Fifield's corpse bent over in a bizarre posture. \\
'''You'd expect:''' The crewmen to approach it cautiously and weapons in hand. They have just witnessed Holloway getting horribly mutated and have every reason to think Fifield might have suffered the same fate. \\

* Shaw realizes that she had sex with her boyfriend after he'd been infected with a biological agent that heavily mutated and killed him. She's pregnant--despite being sterile--and a surgical suite extracts a freakin' octopus monster from her womb. \\
'''You'd expect:''' Shaw to alert the ship's medical team that she should be placed in quarantine to see if she's infected, or- at the very least- tell '''somebody''' that there's a mutated octopus monster in the captain's cabin. \\
'''Instead:''' She doesn't breathe a single word to anybody about anything that happened, and the octopus baby is completely forgotten about until it becomes Chekov's Gunman and kills the rampaging Engineer at the very end of the film. \\

* Mr. Weyland orders David to wake up the sleeping Engineer in order to convey his wish for more life. \\
'''You'd expect:''' That he understands they are dealing with a creature whose motivations, abilities and power (or even ''sanity'', as it's likely the last thing the Engineer saw before going to hypersleep was the dramatic demise of his race) are completely unknown, and as such, that they have to act with extreme caution in their interactions with him. \\
'''Instead:''' As soon as the Engineer is awake and looking at them, Weyland orders David to issue not a request, but a ''demand'', without any kind of introduction or preparation whatsoever. (In a deleted scene, the Engineer gets understandably angry at this, yet Weyland still addresses him a way that even by human standards would be incredibly rude and overbearing.) \\
'''Even worse:''' Weyland orders one of his bodyguards to hit Shaw while in front of the Engineer, thus offering him a free show of how petty and violent humans have become. \\

* Shaw and Vickers are seeing how the fallen Engineer spaceship has landed on its round edge and is tumbling towards them. They run away before it crushes them. \\
'''You'd expect:''' That they look around in order to try to pinpoint where is the spaceship going to finally stop in order to avoid the place. Their helmets allow enough peripheral vision to get a good view over their shoulders and it will not take much extra time. \\

'''Even worse:''' They actually look back to the spaceship, yet still keep running straight, clearly trying to outrun it lineally. They don't even consider simply getting out of its way. \\

'''The result:''' The spaceship catches up with them, crushes Vickers, and almost crushes Shaw, who trips over and only then comes up with the above solution.
* With everybody dead except for a decapitated and treacherous android, Shaw is stranded on the planet. Said android knows how to pilot an Engineer spaceship, which is done basically by playing a flute and pushing buttons. However, he asks her to reassemble his body and trust him for the rest of the journey. \\
'''You'd expect:''' Shaw not to trust David. He previously killed her lover ForScience and absolutely nothing will stop him from doing the same to her if she lets him. In their situation, she should keep David's head disembodied, take it to a spaceship and demand him to program it automatically for the journey, the last while explaining to her what he is doing in every step in order to prevent a trap. This is admittedly not devoid of risks, but it is still the safest plan. \\
'''Instead:''' She trusts David fully and repairs him. \\
'''The result:''' ''Film/AlienCovenant''.

'''The result:''' Nothing this time, but in an alien planet with unknown lifeforms it might have happened literally anything. The next film, ''Film/AlienCovenant'', would show it in a very graphic way.

'''You'd expect:''' Them to leave immediately and don't look back. After all, both of these men were smart when they bugged out during Shaw's discovery of the first Engineer body in this very room. Milburn is also a biologist, so he should completely know the risks of approaching an unknown creature. Even if he is really that fascinated with the damn thing, it's much safer to retreat for now and maybe return later with a support team and adequate tools to capture and analyze the creature. \\

'''You'd expect:''' The crew to wait to perform analysis in order to rule out the possibility of microorganisms, pathogens or any kind of hazard the air could be carrying before even ''considering'' working without their suits. Still, even although it were deemed to be safe, they should keep their suits hermetic anyways in order not to bring with them any terrestrial biological residue that could deteriorate and/or modify the environment. Most of the crewmembers are either scientists who will know the importance of asepsis in an exobiological research or space pilots who should be familiarized with the value of containment protocols. \\

'''You'd expect:''' Them to leave immediately and don't look back. After all, both of these men were smart when they bugged out during Shaw's discovery of the first Engineer body in this very room. Milburn is also a biologist, so he should completely know the risks of approaching an unknown creature. Even if he is fascinated with the damn thing, it's much safer to retreat for now and maybe return later with a support team and adequate tools to capture and analyze the creature. \\

'''Even worse:''' Janek clearly senses something is wrong with the body, yet only mumbles it to himself instead of yelling at his crewmen to stop and take caution. \\

'''Instead:''' Once the Engineer is awake, Weyland doesn't ask, but ''demands'', without any kind of introduction and in a way that even by human standards would have been incredibly rude and overbearing. \\

'''The result:''' If the Engineer wasn't already convinced he had to go back to the Earth to destroy mankind and reinitiate life in the planet, he probably became so by this point, and if he was, it didn't help a bit. He kills Weyland and his crew and activates his ship to carry on his plan.

'''You'd expect:''' Shaw not to trust David. He previously killed her lover ForScience and absolutely nothing will stop him from doing the same to her if she lets him. In their situation, she should keep David's head disembodied, take it to a spaceship and demand him to program it automatically for the journey and explain to her what he is doing in order to prevent a trap. This is admittedly not devoid of risks, but it is still the safest plan. \\

'''You'd expect:''' The crew to expect to wait to perform analysis in order to rule out the possibility of microorganisms, pathogens or any kind of hazard the air could be carrying before even considerating the possibility of working without their suits. Even although it were deemed to be safe, they should keep them on and hermetic in order not to bring with them any terrestrial biological residue that could deteriorate anything in the environment. Most of the crewmembers are scientists and thus will know the importance of asepsis in an exobiologic research, and even the non-scientists should be familiarized with the value of containment protocols due to their presumable experience in space travel. \\
'''Instead:''' Deciding not to choke in that atmosphere is fair enough for him, Holloway ''takes off'' his helmet. \\

'''You'd expect:''' Them to leave immediately. Run out of the room and don't look back. After all, both of these men were smart when they bugged out during Shaw's discovery of the first Engineer body in this very room. Milburn is also a biologist, so he should completely know the risks of approaching an unknown creature. \\

* Captain Janek receives Fifield’s signal in front of their cargo door. He tells the crew the open it to check him, and they all see what seems to be Fifield’s corpse bent in a bizarre posture. \\
'''You’d expect:''' The crewmen to approach it cautiously and weapons in hand. They have just witnessed Holloway getting horribly mutated and have every reason to think Fifield might have suffered the same fate. \\

'''The result:''' The thing gets up, revealing itself to be a mutated Fifield, and promptly wreaks havoc, killing at least three men.

'''You'd expect:''' That he understands they are dealing with a creature whose motivations, abilities and power (or even ''sanity'', as it’s likely the last thing the Engineer saw before going to hypersleep was the dramatic demise of his race) are completely unknown, and as such, that they have to act with extreme caution in their interactions with him. \\

'''The result:''' If the Engineer wasn’t already convinced he had to go back to the Earth to destroy mankind and reinitiate life in the planet, he probably became so by this point, and if he was, it didn’t help a bit. He kills Weyland and his crew and activates his ship to carry on his plan.

'''You’d expect:''' That they looked around in order to try to pinpoint where is the spaceship going to finally stop in order to avoid the place. Their helmets allow enough peripheral vision to get a good view over their shoulders and it will not take much extra time. \\

'''Even worse:''' They actually look back to the spaceship, yet still keep running straight, clearly trying to outrun it lineally. They don’t even consider simply getting out of its way. \\

'''You’d expect:''' Shaw not to trust David. He previously killed her lover ForScience and absolutely nothing will stop him from doing the same to her if she lets him. In their situation, she should keep David’s head disembodied, take it to a spaceship and demand him to program it automatically for the journey and explain to her what he is doing in order to prevent a trap. This plan is admittedly not devoid of risk, but it is still the safest route. \\

'''You'd expect:''' The crew to expect to wait to perform analysis in order to rule out the possibility of microorganisms, pathogens or any kind of hazard the air could be carrying before even considerating the possibility of working without their suits. Even although it were deemed to be safe, they should keep them on and hermetic in order not to bring with them any terrestrial biological residue that could deteriorate anything in the environment. Most of the crewmembers are scientists and thus will know the importance of asepsis in an exobiologic research, and even the non-scientists should be familiarized with the value of containment protocols due to their presumable experience in the space and other planets. \\

'''The result:''' Nothing this time, but it might have happened literally anything. The next film, ''Film/AlienCovenant'', would show it in a very graphic way.

'''You'd expect:''' Them to reach their destination safely. If they get lost, all they have to do is checking Fifield’s wrist computer for the three dimensional map of the corridors he just created. \\
'''Instead:''' They get lost, but none of the two comes up with doing such a thing. \\

'''The result:''' Milburn and Fifield are left to their luck, leading to yet the next point.

* Shaw realizes that she had sex with her boyfriend after he'd been infected with a biological agent that heavily mutated and killed him. She's pregnant- despite being sterile- and a surgical suite extracts a freakin octopus monster from her womb. \\

* Mr. Weyland orders David to wake up the sleeping Engineer in order to ask his wish for more life. \\
'''You'd expect:''' That he understands they are treating with a creature whose motivations, abilities and power (or even ''sanity'', as it’s likely the last thing the Engineer saw before going to hypersleep was the dramatic demise of his race) are completely unknown, and as such, that they have to act with extreme caution in their interactions with him. \\
'''Instead:''' Once the Engineer is awake, Weylands doesn't ask, but ''demands'', without any kind of introduction and in a way that even by human standards would have been incredibly rude and overbearing. \\

'''The result:''' If the Engineer wasn’t already convinced he had to go back to the Earth to destroy mankind and reinitiate life in the planet, he probably became by this point, and if he was, it didn’t help a bit. He kills Weyland and his crew and activates his ship to carry on his plan.

'''You’d expect:''' That they looked around in order to try to pinpoint where is the spaceship going to finally stop in order to avoid the place. Their helmets allow enough peripherical vision to get a good sight over their shoulders and it will not take much time for them. \\

'''The result:''' The spaceship catches on them and crushes Vickers, as well as almost Shaw, who trips over and only then comes up with the above.
* With everybody dead except for a decapitated and treacherous android, Shaw is stranded on the planet. Said android knows how to pilot an Engineer spaceship, which is done basically by playing a flute and pushing buttons. However, he asks specifically for her to recompose his body and trust him for the rest of the travel. \\
'''You’d expect:''' Shaw not to trust David. He previously killed her lover ForScience and absolutely nothing will stop him from doing the same to her if she lets him. In their situation, she should keep David’s head disembodied, take it to a spaceship and demand him to program it automatically for the travel and explain to her what he is doing in order to prevent a trap. It is admittedly not devoid of risk, but it is still the safest route. \\

Prometheus was the god of forethought in GreekMythology, but that's not an attribute displayed by the ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' cast.

'''You'd expect:''' Them to leave immediately. Run out of the room and don't look back. After all, both of these men were smart when they bugged out during Shaw's discovery of the first Engineer body in this very room. Milburn is also a biologist, so he should completely know the risks of getting near an unknown creature. \\

'''You’d expect:''' The crewmen to approach it cautiously and weapons in hand. They have just witnessed Holloway getting horribly mutated (and getting killed) and have all the reasons to think Fifield might have suffered the same fate. \\
'''Instead:''' They stroll towards it casually and unarmed, and one of the crewmen even ''kicks'' it. \\

'''Instead:''' She doesn't breathe a single word to anybody about anything that happened, and the octopus baby is completely forgotten about until it becomes Chekov's Gunman and [[spoiler:kills the rampaging Engineer]] at the very end of the film. It's only by sheer luck no other crew were killed by the thing, since the cabin containing it was ejected before Vickers could board it and evacuate.

'''Instead:''' Once the Engineer is awake, Weylands doesn’t ask, but ''demands'', right on and in a way that even by human standards would have been incredibly rude and overbearing. \\
'''Even worse:''' Weyland allows himself to have one of his bodyguards hitting Shaw in front of the Engineer, offering him a free spectacle of how petty and violent have humans become. \\

'''Even worse:''' They actually look back to see the spaceship, yet still keep running straight, clearly trying to outrun it lineally. They don’t even consider simply getting out of its way. \\
'''The results:''' The spaceship catches on them and crushes Vickers, as well as almost Shaw, who trips over and only then comes up with the above.

'''You’d Expect:''' Shaw not to trust David. He previously killed her lover ForScience and absolutely nothing will stop him from doing the same to her if she lets him. In their situation, she should keep David’s head disembodied, take it to a spaceship and demand him to program it automatically for the travel and explain her what he is doing in order to prevent a copout. It is not devoid of risks, but it is the safest route for a smart person. \\

'''The Result:''' ''Film/AlienCovenant''.

'''The result:''' The thing gets up, revealing itself to be a mutated Fifield, and promptly wreaks havoc, killing at least three men. \\
'''Even Worse:''' Janek clearly senses something is wrong with the body, yet only mumbles it to himself instead of yelling at his crewmen to stop and take caution.