06-11-2012, 09:22 PM
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21st Century Schizoid Fan
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More speculation at http://www.memphisflyer.com/SingAllK...etheus-part-ii (p.s. I'm not sure I buy all of his last paragraph):
Spoiler!
#2 Lindelof has noted in interview that when he was young he thought Alien and Blade Runner existed in the same world. That’s an interesting idea, and one I think that is subtly suggested in Prometheus. Janek ask Vickers if she’s a robot, and it’s a question I was certainly thinking.
One crackpot theory I have is that Vickers really is a robot, a replicant such as those seen in Blade Runner. The nerd take away from Blade Runner is that it’s about a robot who doesn’t know he’s a robot (a point endlessly debated for going on 30 years now). How apropos would it be if Prometheus had the same thematic note, but that it also doesn’t truly reveal it’s secret in the film? Vickers tells Janek she’s not a robot, and ostensibly proves it by sleeping with him. But my recollection from Blade Runner is that Deckard and Rachael (who is definitely a replicant) have sex. Vickers having sex doesn’t shake me off the trail.
Charlize Theron plays Vickers quite coolly, and her essentially flawless (approaching non-human) physicality makes for perfect casting. Also, David calls Vickers “mum,” and Vickers calls Weyland “father.” Echoes of each other, synthetics looking at the world as children?
So I choose to believe that Vickers is in fact a replicant, bridging once and for all Alien and Blade Runner. And so I also believe that Vickers wasn’t killed by the crashing Derelict but in fact stood up after it ran over her and had quite the realization, finding herself not dead and probably damaged to the extent that she could see evidence of her syntheticness. I speculate that soon after we see Shaw and David heading to find another Derelict, they encounter Vickers and she joins the merry band. Vickers is on the ship heading off to Engineer home planet.
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