8 Things Prometheus 2 Must Do To Avoid Being Terrible

2. Pick A Theme And Stick To It

What's Prometheus about, really? God? Existentialism? Fate? Self-determinism? Motherhood? Creation? Penises? There are dozens of potential answers to that question, each just as valid as the last, and that's one of the film's biggest problems: it never quite decided what it was actually really all about, and that caused major frustration among fans and critics alike. Many attribute that thematic uncertainty to Damon Lindelof's writing (and it's easy to see why, after his TV show Lost's infuriatingly ambiguous ending), but Ridley Scott's just as guilty of fudging the point of Prometheus by choosing to follow several different narrative threads and removing scenes that would have cast a much more definitive light on the nature of the story. Put simply, it would be nice if the audience could actually walk out of Prometheus 2 knowing what they'd just seen was really about and if the film's creators made a firm statement instead of waxing flimsily about the nature of humankind's relationship to its maker. It would certainly make it easier to write about...