10 Movie Mysteries That Should NEVER Have Been Answered

Now here's a movie mystery that Ridley Scott couldn't wait to ruin for us. Prometheus is riddled with problems, mainly stemming from a complete lack of internal logic and featuring the thickest group of individuals to be sent into outer space before Finn, Poe and Rey won that coveted award three times in a row.

The Space Jockey was the bizarre moniker given to a creature from Scott's 1979 haunted-house-in-space nerve shredder Alien. Designed by equally scary Swiss vampire HR Giger, the Jockey was a clue, a plot device placed on LV426 to bring the unsuspecting crew of the Nostromo to their deaths. The crew logically assume, like us, that this ship intentionally lands on the barren planet to maroon both it and the alien parasite gestating inside its chest. A signal is issued, not as a distress beacon but as a warning to keep away from the vessel.

Scott decided to expand the Alien universe into a larger attempt at explaining the origins of the human race and the creation of a pathogenic biological weapon that would become the Xenomorph itself. Using the Space Jockeys, now renamed the Engineers, as the literal creators of worlds, the once perfectly sublime plot device now changed the entire setting of believable world building corporate mining missions.

This had the same unfortunate effect of the Star wars prequels, shrinking the universe of the Alien and removing the mystery of the eponymous terror, now nothing but an experiment or, even worse, a pet.