1st January 2012, 11:15 AM
I'm pretty sure, and you guys are free to pull up some quotes to contradict me if you like, that Ridley Scott doesn't think he's making a documentary about how civilization on Earth got started.
2001: A Space Odyssey, Mission to Mars, StarGate, the writings of HP Lovecraft, Halo, Quatermass and the Pit, and others deal with alien intervention in human [or other races'] civilization and development. Star Trek even dealt with the idea of the major races all having a common ancestor, which seems to be what Prometheus is leaning more towards rather than "aliens helped the Egyptians build pyramids".
2001: A Space Odyssey, Mission to Mars, StarGate, the writings of HP Lovecraft, Halo, Quatermass and the Pit, and others deal with alien intervention in human [or other races'] civilization and development. Star Trek even dealt with the idea of the major races all having a common ancestor, which seems to be what Prometheus is leaning more towards rather than "aliens helped the Egyptians build pyramids".
Sometimes you get the scorpion.