Ep. 21 - Prometheus - What Is The Golden Goo?

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  • @creepycraiyons3519
    @creepycraiyons3519 День тому +7

    Genetic Gasoline is honestly the best description I’ve ever heard of the black goo.

    • @slang1517
      @slang1517 17 годин тому

      Gasoline is fuel. Bad writing is the best description I've heard of the black goo.

    • @J0MBi
      @J0MBi Годину тому

      The writing is so bad they even forgot to add Predators WTF?

  • @denalihanzo2713
    @denalihanzo2713 День тому +4

    love ya whole series man amazing amazing amazing work WE LOVE IT PLEASE DONT STOP

  • @jon-darma333
    @jon-darma333 17 годин тому +3

    Hey great job and I so appreciate your videos. Thank you and Rock On

  • @bamhamer
    @bamhamer 19 годин тому +5

    Nobody knows. We don't know. Scott doesn't know. The script writers don't know.
    Prometheus and covenant should be non canon.

    • @J0MBi
      @J0MBi Годину тому

      How do you know that nobody knows?
      But you are right - we should go back to the canon being that Predators created Xenomorphs so they could have rad fights on top of pyramids in the jungle.
      I can't wait to see the conclusion to *that* story arc.

    • @bamhamer
      @bamhamer 57 секунд тому

      @ WHAT? no! We definitely should never go back to aliens vs predators 💀

  • @Flirtz420
    @Flirtz420 День тому +5

    Also it can withstand being put into alcohol which usually kills all microbes.

    • @TheFilmSymbologist
      @TheFilmSymbologist  День тому +1

      Yes, the black goo is quite powerful. Without a doubt.

    • @paulmascotti3645
      @paulmascotti3645 22 години тому +1

      They also don’t suspend things in alchohol anymore they have interstellar space travel and posess the ability to manipulate life at the molecular level

    • @punchout2418
      @punchout2418 20 годин тому

      ​@@paulmascotti3645 I'm pretty sure OP was talking about the goo surviving in alcohol when David slipped Holloway a black goo Mickey.

    • @slang1517
      @slang1517 17 годин тому

      Alcohol is made by microbes. Yeast converts sugar to ethanol, and it can survive in 20% alcohol.

    • @jatochgaatjeniksaan3307
      @jatochgaatjeniksaan3307 5 годин тому

      So can my liver

  • @michaelprime7621
    @michaelprime7621 20 годин тому +2

    Awesome series you are doing

  • @johnbarber9417
    @johnbarber9417 6 годин тому +2

    Another great take on a very underrated film. We learn in Romulus that the company wants the goo to enhance humans, make them more resilient, terraforming other worlds. The sleeping Engineer that wakes up in Prometheus, has an exo-xeno suit or growth? As do the other Engineers caught on holograms. While the Engineers at the beginning are more pure and natural. Idea being: *If* the exo-xenos left clues amongst humanity of their origin, why would the direction point to LV-223? Going in this direction, what if the exo-xeno Engineers, like the company, want to raise humanity to a higher evolutionary level? And perhaps, the pure Engineers are wanting to stop the exo-xeno Engineers from altering life they’ve created? I know some of this idea goes against the script, deleted scenes and mo audience translation of the waking Engineer’s dialogue with David. Maybe those clues were left out of the theatrical version for a reason? As production advanced, ideas were added to the plot that needed to be explored in a future film? Either way, there may be some type of schism between the exo-xeno Engineers and the cloaked ones? I believe that’s what you’re pointing out.

    • @TheFilmSymbologist
      @TheFilmSymbologist  6 годин тому +2

      @@johnbarber9417 To me, it certainly seems like there’s at least two groups of engineers. In episodes 1 and 2 I talk about the so-called star maps a bit more. I also mention them in episode 22.

    • @johnbarber9417
      @johnbarber9417 5 годин тому +1

      I’ll check ‘em out! Thanks for the content! 👍🏼

  • @jamesstaggs4160
    @jamesstaggs4160 19 годин тому +5

    I always thought the scene was on earth and it was meant to show them seeding the planet with DNA thus jumpstarting evolution.

    • @TheFilmSymbologist
      @TheFilmSymbologist  15 годин тому +1

      @@jamesstaggs4160 I think most people interpret the opening scene as depicting the seeding of life and taking place of Earth. There’s a strong argument to be made for this. But there’s no title card explicitly stating where this scene takes place so it’s open to other interpretations also, like the one I’m offering.

    • @shin_kikoho
      @shin_kikoho 4 години тому

      Pretty sure Ridley states it is in an interview

    • @TheFilmSymbologist
      @TheFilmSymbologist  3 години тому +1

      @ Ridley does talk about the engineers seeding life. He also says the opening scene doesn’t have to take place on Earth. Which should we believe? Should we believe both? Neither? Do you believe the things a magician says when he’s performing a trick?

  • @Flirtz420
    @Flirtz420 День тому +2

    Maybe all those cells multiplying turned into individual creatures n thus a army was born out of one person.

  • @genlob
    @genlob 23 години тому +2

    I'm enjoying your symbolic analysis of this story.
    Solve Coagula is one of the main tenets of alchemy, so my instinct would be that the engineer's sacrifice is to seed life. Occam's razor would suggest that it's on Earth where it's occurring.
    May your soul become their way back to us suggests the Kabbalistic idea that the soul's purpose/desire is to return to the source. It reads like an echo of an Orphic hymn.
    I hope Scott finishes his David trilogy and explores more of these ideas.

    • @TheFilmSymbologist
      @TheFilmSymbologist  22 години тому +1

      I won't deny that a powerful case can be made for the opening scene occurring on Earth and for it depicting the seeding of life.

    • @genlob
      @genlob 5 годин тому +1

      @@TheFilmSymbologist Your interpretation has a lot going for it. Titans vs Olympians, and fallen angels motifs.

  • @creepycraiyons3519
    @creepycraiyons3519 День тому +1

    But daddy I want a golden goo and I want a golden goo now…
    Peter Weyland (Weyland Wonka and the Black Goo Factory)

  • @MrCoalmin
    @MrCoalmin 19 годин тому

    Play it at x1.3 speed for it to sound normal.

  • @Flirtz420
    @Flirtz420 День тому +1

    Meow
    💙

  • @Flirtz420
    @Flirtz420 День тому +1

    💙

  • @AMGTT
    @AMGTT 18 годин тому +1

    My gosh we know what it is. It’s the last of the original deacon blood. They later created the black goo trying to recreate the deacon blood.

    • @TheFilmSymbologist
      @TheFilmSymbologist  15 годин тому +1

      @@AMGTT that’s one interpretation. This video offers another interpretation.

  • @TarpeianRock
    @TarpeianRock 7 годин тому

    Wouldn’t it be less dumb to collect some engineer DNA from tissue samples or blood instead of unnecessarily killing the subject to seed the planet ?

    • @TheFilmSymbologist
      @TheFilmSymbologist  7 годин тому

      @@TarpeianRock in the last few episodes, I’ve argued that the engineer in the opening scene is not seeding life.

    • @TarpeianRock
      @TarpeianRock 7 годин тому

      @@TheFilmSymbologist well, that just confirms that nothing, really nothing makes sense in this movie. You're welcome of course to try to make sense of it it but you're on a fools errand dear sir.

    • @TheFilmSymbologist
      @TheFilmSymbologist  6 годин тому

      @ dang it - I thought maybe I was on to something 🤷‍♂️

  • @Zfast4y0u
    @Zfast4y0u 20 годин тому +1

    another one tryin to farm views talking bla bla for just under of 20min, god forbid you cross the mark

    • @jamesstaggs4160
      @jamesstaggs4160 19 годин тому +3

      At least the script isn't written by AI nor the video narrated by AI. Nobody is forcing you to watch it. I guess 20 minutes has some significance on UA-cam that I'm not aware of but if he's doing things to make the video get more views or be recommended more being a small channel amongst a sea of other small channels I'd say that's kinda necessary if his goal is to be a full time UA-camr.

    • @Zfast4y0u
      @Zfast4y0u 18 годин тому

      @@jamesstaggs4160 this type of content no1 needs, its just endless yapping without saying anything. only one thing is worse then this, AI videos, thankfully we have channel blockers, shame just there is no official blacklist that users could share, so we can turn this channels down

    • @TheFilmSymbologist
      @TheFilmSymbologist  15 годин тому +2

      @@Zfast4y0u what is the significance of a 20 minute video on UA-cam? I’m trying to keep my videos at around 15 minutes or so for several reasons. The biggest one is because my computer and the editing program I use start to get painfully slow as the videos approach 20 minutes in length.

    • @J0MBi
      @J0MBi Годину тому +2

      Under 20 minutes and broken into chapters like this has been working for me, and yeah I think you are doing a great job of presenting different interpretations of this film for over 20 chapters now.