While I don't agree with this, some of you may want to give it a read:
Why ‘Prometheus’ gets it all wrong, and why it matters
At the end of the day, Prometheus would have been much better off by not being about our beginnings. They should have looked at the cave drawings, saw that the cluster of stars did indeed have a planet that looked habitable, and go from there. No "it's what I choose to believe" lines, no tired old "They'll make me immortal!" subplot, and no random gratuitous zombies.
I'm sure that many think Shaw is a strong character by choosing to stick with her beliefs, but all I see is a writer attempting to make a character look strong with no real justification or even purpose. It's like someone who thinks that having guns is wrong, but later uses guns to kill dozens of people. At the end of the movie, our hero proclaims that guns are still wrong like he never wavered from that belief. That's not a character strength, that's a cheat. You can't just throw stuff that conflicts with what our protagonist believes in, and not have it go anywhere. In fact, this character is so poorly written, the conflict was there from the beginning and it wasn't even treated as a conflict!
Shaw's Beliefs:
- Is so religious that she wears a cross.
- Believes beyond a doubt that we were created by Engineers from space.
And yet I still get replies like this.
I think it tells a tremendous story.
Sorry it doesn't work for you.
I don't believe in pain- OW!!!! That hurt! Geez. Anyways, I don't believe in pain. Look! I'm hungry. Listen! It's cold. I have a map, but I don't use it even when I'm lost. Dead harmless creatures scare me, but hissing snake like creatures with teeth are just adorable.