In a couple of years people will rewatch Prometheus and realise the decision to crown it as one of the most disappointing movies of all time was a rather big mistake. Set about thirty years before Alien, Prometheus inhabits the same world as the sci-fi horror, but deals with a totally different side of it. Whereas the original is concerned with extra-terrestrial horror and how many phallic symbols you can sneak into one movie, Prometheus has much grander aims. Dealing with the creation of humanity itself and what man would do if we could actually meet God, one thing it isn't concerned with is telling us just why the derelict is on LV-426. And that would have been fine had the film not been initially announced as a direct prequel setting up events. Ridley Scott has a knack of having rather open productions, which is great for speculation but means many of the early ideas fans latch on to could end up being totally irrelevant. Statements that the film had some of "Alien's DNA" were definitely there to temper the fans, but it didn't work. When the film arrived and it asked more questions than it answered, with few able to look past that this didn't really tie things together too much.
