I’m
enjoying reading all these Prometheus
thinkpieces. (Indiewire collected some of the more notable ones here.) In a
way, I’m getting more out of those pieces than I did out of Prometheus itself. Not to say I didn't like the film -- I did. But going in I was told to expect a Big Idea movie, that if I went in anticipating an Alien
flick I might be let down – the way that had I gone into Blade Runner expecting a kick-ass
Harrison Ford sci-fi movie, say, I might have been similarly disappointed 30 years
ago. That the last thing I should expect from Prometheus was Alien 5. Except
that what Prometheus presented me
with was exactly that. And not in a bad way.
