Why? :|

you're on an alien planet in a cavern where you found dead bodys of enormous creatures, whith you there's only another person and a strange snake-like creature sneaks up to you and what do you do ? you start pet il like if it was a dog ? the options are:

1-you're dumb;

2-you clearly don't see the danger of a form of life where those enormous creatures died, which implies point 1

Ridley Scott has not been in his prime for quite some time, but Prometheus was just different level of terrible.

The earlier movies definitely gave the impression that the aliens were around before humans were. Aliens and predators had a connection that suggested they knew of each other for a long time. Predators liked to hunt them too and have been doing that for a long time. I think it would of been better to show the xenomorph's origin as you said where they evolved on some hellhole of a planet and were brought out into space by some foolish race like the engineers.

Oh, the Yautja predators. Those predators are cool. I wonder if they can shove Predators in there in the mix without making a mess out of the story, you know, with the original story from Prometheus and then tying that to Aliens and all.

Yeah, when I first saw that giant dead creature in the spaceship when Ripley and co. get in contact with the Aliens species for the first time, I always thought that the alien crew died for messing with or being ambushed by Aliens in the planet.

But, now we have another official explanation to what happened. :)

@Predators - just a tiny nod would be enough. Something subtle like the Alien skull in Predator 2. They could show the famous Predator symbols of counting down somewhere, somehow.

@rest - I had a different vision as well. I think Scott went overboard with putting too much symbology into this movie. Kinda what I feel about Matrix 2 and 3. Instead of making a great movie, he tries to push as much philosophical message as possible and the movie suffered.

AKA Easter Eggs R Us

:)

Well, that might occur to the onlooker who knew shit will go down even before he saw the movie. However, maybe he was aware that the creature could be dangerous, but undererstimated the potential, since he was wearing a supposedly protective suit.

And there was no indication that the "enormous creatures" were killed by those slimy worms.

Honestly, if I was on a different planet and just saw a space snake... I'd sh!t my pants and there's no way in hell I'd try to play with it. We have snakes on planet earth, that's enough clue. Plus there's no way in hell that thing is tamed, it's obviously driven by basic instinct so... Yeah. This scene is disgustingly dumb and watching it causes physical pain. There is no defending this stupidity. Especially since the dude is supposedly a very smart bloke.

Really not interested. At least they were smart and didn't call it prom 2. The screwed up the story, is making me pass on this. I don't care if it was FOX or the writer's fault. They messed up. I don't have any hope for this prequel story anymore.