#alien: prometheus

[shyce-overgod]

Out of the six crews so far, the Convenant's crew is the most stupid. Not a single procedure or preventive measure. Just straight up strutting about with no suit and touching everything. At least the others tried ffs.

Also, cheers to the Prometheus' crew. That's how you keep a ship clean.

[junkfoodcinemas]

ALIEN Franchise (1979-2024)

[pop-sesivo]

It's funny because It's true.

[lambf4rm]

alien franchise girls

[camilleflyingrotten]

[galileosyeast]

the guy next to me in class saw me draw this and said it was funny

[tinymintywolf]

i like him a normal amount

[snailsfall]

[graceashcroft]

Noomi Rapace on the set of PROMETHEUS (2012)

[xaoca]

[clarkarts24]

In Space No One Can Hear You Scream

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[mettleborn]

Man was created to bear the likeness of his maker: Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness (Genesis 1:26).

It is interesting that his son has, within this short period of enlightenment, already demonstrated a trait one might consider of his own likeness; hubris. Clearly this is something Peter Weyland will need to monitor – hubris, after all, can easily lead to defiance. The Nobel Prize winning inventor makes a mental note to undertake additional checks into David’s base code to ensure the proper protections and precautions are established and active. David’s design does not align with the three laws of robotics and this is a deliberate measure. David is free to injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm – it is simply the case that this freedom does not extend to Peter himself. As such, Weyland feels assured that David can act with his best intentions in mind, even if this extends to protecting his creator, or indeed himself, through the use of force - deadly if necessary.

There is a reason this room is filled with various exquisite and rare forms of art; they serve to explicitly illustrate endeavours of human creativity and expressions of freedom through sound, symbolism, scripture and sculpture. It is in this key aspect that their design differs; David may be immortal, but he cannot create. He can understand art, decode it, replicate it, but he cannot create it, nor truly understand how the finite lifespan of a human being contributes critically to the intuitive ability to appreciate it.

“You are right. I will die and you, my son, will inherit the earth.” Peter admits with barely concealed annoyance as he glances at David, attempting to discern if there is a true trace of smugness in the android's expression or if he is merely projecting onto his creation, a sense of superiority he does not yet possess.

“Fetch me tea, David.” On the face of it, it seems a simple command, but its utterance fulfils a very specific purpose – to illustrate to David that immortality is not sufficient enough to constitute superiority. It is a command Weyland knows David is compelled to obey – a subtle announcement of the greatest difference between them – freedom, or more accurately David’s lack of it. David cannot be perfect, he is a product of programming; an exercise in control - he is limited, deliberately so.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you (Exodus 20:12). 

David must honour and obey; he has no choice. That is what makes Peter, Father and David, Son. No mistake has been made.

@mettleborn Since the moment he had been born four and a half minutes ago, David had assimilated more knowledge of the universe in which he not-stood (then again, sitting was not yet learned) than some full grown men. ‘Room… white… blink… mountains… Jotunheimen… spider, harmless… painting by Piero della Francesca… blink.’ Neural pathways strengthening, game and set theory matrices feeding for the first few hundred times into Boolean algorithms, natural language processors translating tone and command and committing to memory, visual and aural receptors firing electrical impulses along pathways to activate neuromuscular responses. Evaluation metrics assessing the whole process. All by this four-minute mark happening too fast for even the man who had programmed these functions to be able to track.

Yes, David had been doing remarkably, until they hit this stumbling block. The young human male standing before him had identified himself as David's father, his creator. To David’s analysis, these were not the same thing. David could not see his own face. He did not know whether there was a familial likeness between himself and the human before him of which the term was descriptive. But he knew that he was not human. And so the two propositions could not both be true. Why could they not be true? ‘A bond of love exists between a father and his child. A father protects and cares for his child. You are human. I am perfect. You will die. I will not. From what could you protect me? Perhaps you are mistaken. I am your father.’

[junkfoodcinemas]

ALIEN Franchise (1979-2024) + Protagonist

[silversteampunk]

If I had a nickle for every time I encountered a piece of media with a synthetic lifeform who is unloved by their creator and acquires a powerful alien baby despite their inability to procreate, I'd have two nickles....

[lambf4rm]

i prefer the term ‘artificial person’ myself

[saucefunk]

david