8: ''I'm a geologist, I fucking love rocks!''
The scientist and geologist travel all that way only to run scared of a discovery that should have had them crying tears of awe. They have just discovered an alien corpse but instead of having some degree of scientific curiosity, their first reaction is to run. We all know the real reason this was in the script was to get these two characters separated, but it was done in the most lazy way and they had the worst motivation for doing so. You are scientists! Are you not wondering anything about what you have found? You are one of the first humans to see it! And wouldn't they have been pretested before the long and expensive space flight so that you knew they would actually do their job rather than run. Why is no one on the ship telling them to shut up and stay put. Charlize Theron was very quick to to tell Holloway and Shaw that they are ''employees'' because Weyland funded the trip, so does that not apply to the others? And before anyone says that one of them is a geologist and that his specialty is rocks, I got that when he shouted 'IM A GEOLOGIST..I FUCKING LOVE ROCKS!!'' But he's still a scientist and he should have shown a slight interest in what they found. Also, how did they get lost when the cave was mapped in 3D and their positions were being tracked? We know the script writers wanted them to separate from the group and get killed but we also know that they cant get lost because there is a detailed map on the ship with which they are in direct communication with. The writers wanted these two to get killed and didn't care about how many plot holes they made in getting these two to their doom. Lazy!