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2015-12-10 21:34:45
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The Engineers' greatest talent is genetics, and biological creation and manipulation. They're so good at it, in fact, that they inadvertently created what we refer to as "The Thing". Ridley Scott's Prometheus and John Carpenter's The Thing (1982) take place in the same fictional universe. Much of Engineer activity is spent trying to put the genie back in the bottle, destroying Thing-worlds as they discover them.
-The Engineer at the beginning of Scott's picture is committing suicide in order to escape assimilation.
-The events of Carpenter's film have long since taken place, leading to the swift assimilation of all Earth by The Thing.
-Consequently, every "human" in the film is a Thing. They just all behave as if human, since this naturally comes easily to Things - to behave as whatever has been imitated. And they have no real enemies amongst themselves.
-Other engineer-related organisms and poisons can overcome Things, however, which is why events play out as they do.
-The revived Engineer starts for Earth immediately, because he either knows or has strong enough reason to (correctly) believe that Earth has been assimilated, which is why he's about to destroy it.
Since Prometheus implicates Alien, Predator and Terminator as franchise-mates, The Thing comes along for the ride with all of these. Earth-assimilation was completed around the time of the events of the first Terminator film, and things (like Sarah and John Connor) have a much harder time subduing inorganic enemies, like the Terminators.
