I mean why would an alien race create life on earth just to wait a million years before wiping them out? Seems like a pretty stupid plan.
That comes up in the film itself, Shaw says it.. "They changed their mind.. why?" That's what she's referring to.. they liked us for a while, then they changed their mind and wanted to kill us. What did we do? She even asks the Engineer that very same question. Oddly, I think that if he had understood the question, he might have answered it.
That's probably the main goal of the second film's story, is finding out why.
Okay. Question. If it was calibrated for a male, and clearly the good doctor was female.. then .. just where did it happen to pull that embryo out of? I mean, I'm guessing it was in her uterus, the alien DNA having been .. ahem .. deposited there earlier by her boyfriend. I'm thinking a machine calibrated for a man is going to have to deal with the fact there is an unrecognized organ there to cut into. As a clue, sure, but it seemed to get over the fact it was operating on a woman pretty easy to make a big deal out of it being calibrated for a man..
There's a huge difference between "calibration" and "programming". Everyone's assuming that the medpod was completely devoid of any programming on female anatomy, which obviously wasn't the case (such things are probably hardwired). It just wasn't
calibrated for anyone other than Weyland, and didn't contain the specific program needed for a C-section.
Another thing, the "pilot" dies in the escape module and not in the chair like he or "it" was found in Alien, what gives?
This:
What does surprise me is how many people thought this took place on the same planet as ALIEN and the Engineer was the same guy found in ALIEN. Must not be very big ALIEN fans....
I'm guessing a lot of people are relying on years-old memories of the original film. The planet looks completely different, the ship itself looks completely different, the nice, even row of Dune domes and safe landing places is missing, all of the bodies are missing from the pilot's chamber.. none of this seems to click that it might not actually be the same ship.
Rather annoying, actually. People ask all these questions, but don't seem to pay attention enough to spot such radical differences between the two films. If they were supposed to be the same ship, at least some effort would have been made for continuity. They didn't bother because it's
not the same ship.