8 Things Prometheus 2 Must Do To Avoid Being Terrible

6. Tell A Complete Story

Much of the frustration with Prometheus comes from the fact that it doesn't actually really end if you think about it for half a second. The whole film plays like the elongated first act of a better, less ponderous sci-fi novel: Spaceship crew heads to unknown world to discover the origins of humankind, finds out they were created by aliens who changed their minds and the survivors of the experience set out to find the remnants of said alien race. That's Prometheus in a nutshell. Does anything feel complete or satisfying about that story to you? If Prometheus is going to have any chance at not disappointing on a major scale, people are going to need something concrete, a story with a definite beginning, middle and end that isn't just an excuse for set-piece after set-piece and one that justifies the promise of the last film's ambition. There's only so much that an audience's unsatisfied anticipation can take, you know.