Giant Freakin Robot

The “re-enactment of David’s character arc in Prometheus” animation was hilarious!

I think the idea of Vickers being a post-op transsexual fits perfectly within the whole picture. It falls into the same category as “being human” in the Prometheus universe: to have been created as something that you don’t feel you are, and what that means to your maker.

My take on it is that Vickers didn’t feel like the man she was born as, and so decided to shape her existence to match her own image of it. Weyland has probably rejected her after her sex change, maybe because he was offended by her obvious dislike of what she was given by him (specifically his gender). I think it’s also very likely that Weyland employed genetic modification to ensure male offspring, further explaining his discontent. His creation did not only dislike what he created it to be (in his “image”, I might add), but it has changed itself to its own liking.

Having sex with the pilot would make Vickers feel accepted and appreciated (by a man) for being a woman. That could also be why she didn’t simply cut herself to prove she’s a red-blooded human. I personally think that sex, and more broadly reproduction, is the only area where gender should matter, yet her father/creator doesn’t seem to feel te same way.

She may now look very much like a woman, but her behaviour is traditionally masculine (rational, cold and tough, as opposed to emotional, warm and soft). It might be a reaction to her fathers rejection: desperately trying to earn his recognition as being his offspring, and perhaps ultimately to be deemed worthy of his heritage. Her male genetic “blueprint” could also be the reason for her masculine behaviour, which would draw a parallel to David, who is made to look and act convincingly human, but is also fundamentally not what he’s supposed to resemble.

Despite his human looks and programmed/emulated behaviour, David will always be an android, and because of that he is not accepted as being equal (or superior) to humans, who are his creators. The humans even seem to feel threatened by him, which appears to somewhat hinder him in executing his purpose. He studies Shaw because she is clearly a woman of faith and emotion, which could be seen as distinctively human traits. He recognizes that there is a lot he can learn from her, which would draw another parallel to Vickers, who envies David for being recognized as something she might never be.

I have a few issues with Prometheus, but I certainly don’t have bitter hatred towards the film as so many others do.

I think it’s a film that people will debate about for many years to come and I can’t help but feel there is another cut (or three lol) to come much like Blade Runner.

When you read the kind of garbage the actors and screenwriter are putting out, you realise that you were right to regard Prometheus as the worst piece of insulting crap of all time. Of course for pre-pubescents, coherent storylines and superb execution don’t matter. But for those of us who’ve made it through university, Prometheus is a cartoon pretending to be a ‘piece of art’ resulting in excrement on the big screen and coming out of the mouths of the people involved.

What keeps bothering me is how Meredith dies. The wagon wheel of death! Elizabeth falls over and just rolls out of the way where Meredith keeps running in a strait line in the space ship’s path to be crushed. Just bad…

I think it’s obvious Vickers wasn’t a Cyborg just by the way she was acting. Unlike David, who was so obviously a cyborg, she acted human. Albeit, a very cold human, but still human. She did push-ups, she sweat, she cried when speaking to her father (and btw, she was behind closed doors when she cried with him, where her “secret” wouldn’t have been revealed to the crew), she had sex, she screamed right before she died…which of course means she felt fear. David had essentially no human emotions at all, and he especially felt no fear. It’s not even clear from watching the movie that David even felt anger. Yes, David had his own agenda, but it’s not clear he felt anger, at least not in the way humans do. There are, of course, many other examples of her human-like traits in the movie, but those are first to come to mind. Simply put, it’s overwhelmingly obvious that Vickers was human. I think that Prometheus teased at a lot of things because it likes to make people think, but viewing the movie objectively, she’s human. At any rate, since she died at the end of the movie and was never revealed her to be a cyborg, you have to assume she’s human until proven otherwise. But I doubt the next Prometheus sequel is going to re-tread on this topic, so case closed, she was human!