I searched & didn't find any threads on this since the film was released. Do we really know that the big albino bald guys in Prometheus are the engineers? It took me a few viewings for the question to come to me. I think the closest we come to knowing for sure is when Millburn asks how Shaw knows that they engineered us & the best answer she's got is only "it's what I choose to believe." Since the release of the behind the scenes pics with the "elders" & Scott saying something like "you don't want to show God in the first movie" (feel free to source that quote for me) could those guys be the real engineers? Since Prometheus is apparently close enough to AtMoM that Del Toro quit his adaptation, wouldn't that make the bald guys in Prometheus (mistakenly called engineers) the Shoggoths? In AtMoM the Shoggoths have no purpose in life except to read the thoughts of the Elders & do their bidding until at some point they rebel, wipe them out & take over their Antarctic city. Now that the bts pics have come out it looks like the bald guys' purpose is to be sacrificed by the older ones. I presume against their will, since the flying saucer stays around until the sacrificial one drinks the goo.
(as I type this I just remembered that the end credits call them engineers... doh)
That might explain some of the things we see in Prometheus, like why the humans get sent to what turns out to be a military installation. When the star maps & cave paintings were made on Earth, it was an engineers' religious or ritual place (Scott said that too, at least about the ampule room), but by the time Prometheus happens the Shoggoths have rebelled with their derelict spacecraft & urns, etc & taken it over. I guess it could also explain the guy's hostility to the humans after waking up especially when David spoke the (real) engineers' language. It could also explain why Scott would say Paradise is sinister & unsettling, since by the time Shaw gets there it will be occupied by genocidal Shoggoth-engineers & so on & so on. Assuming Lindelof, Scott, the cast & everyone else have told the truth would this contradict anything that is definitely known about Prometheus, either what is shown onscreen, or in the bts stuff or what has come out in interviews?
(as I type this I just remembered that the end credits call them engineers... doh)
That might explain some of the things we see in Prometheus, like why the humans get sent to what turns out to be a military installation. When the star maps & cave paintings were made on Earth, it was an engineers' religious or ritual place (Scott said that too, at least about the ampule room), but by the time Prometheus happens the Shoggoths have rebelled with their derelict spacecraft & urns, etc & taken it over. I guess it could also explain the guy's hostility to the humans after waking up especially when David spoke the (real) engineers' language. It could also explain why Scott would say Paradise is sinister & unsettling, since by the time Shaw gets there it will be occupied by genocidal Shoggoth-engineers & so on & so on. Assuming Lindelof, Scott, the cast & everyone else have told the truth would this contradict anything that is definitely known about Prometheus, either what is shown onscreen, or in the bts stuff or what has come out in interviews?