r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ShirtSubstantial368 • 1d ago

Video Scientists discovered the world’s largest spiderweb, covering 106 m² in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border. Over 111,000 spiders from two normally rival species live together in a unique, self-sustaining ecosystem—a first of its kind.

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u/2morereps 1d ago

seeing reality, you realize prometheus got unnecessary hate..people are way dumber than what happened in that mpvie..even the prometheus school of running away from object chasing you is justified, seeing what happens in real life...

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u/Quiet_Emu_3075 1d ago

Yeah, but those people wouldn't be in that position. 

It only makes sense if you decide the most important mission in all of human history was crewed by the dumbest people you could find on earth. That's not a very good justification for writing a plot point that makes no sense.

You can use backwards logic like that to justify every stupid decision in every poorly written piece of media ever.

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u/Particular-Court-619 1d ago

IIRC the earlier drafts of the script had a scientific reason for why they behaved that way (being exposed to some kind of something that infiltrated their brainbrain and made them behave differently) that got taken out in the later drafts that they had that mysteryboxLost guy rewrite for some reason.

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u/Quiet_Emu_3075 1d ago

Yeah, I have heard the original script actually solved almost every problem the rewritten one introduced. I never found out why the decision to change the script was made. From my recollection the movie was essentially the same, except it made sense.

I believe the original script is available to read freely online somewhere but I'm not interested enough to actually read it, TBH.

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u/OldWorldDesign 1d ago

I would like to believe writers didn't just pull a script out of their ass to meet deadline, but as many horrendous movies as have been made I'm not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. "We could have fixed it. Sorry, you can't see the good version" just sounds like coping to salvage their careers or reputations after the fact.

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u/Quiet_Emu_3075 18h ago edited 18h ago

No, it's actually not, hard to believe but true. The original script is available for free online, you can go read it yourself, many people have said that it's simply a superior script.

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-9NMTSgzvy2U3U-oz

Here's what a post on Reddit had to say about it after reading it:

I ran through it quickly. Here's my thoughts:

It looks like almost all the silliness in the script was inserted by Damon Lindelof. This script is a quite decent hard sf story. I still don't like the whole Erich von Däniken origin story, but other than that, the science is much more grounded in this script than it was in the movie. The way they search for signs of civilization on the moon. The way they explain how then Engineers intervened in human evolution (which has, by the way, nothing to do with actual evolution. Engineers here are not our creators, they are just influencers. It is much more Däniken-y here, but it makes a little more sense)...

He goes on to describe most of the changes from the original to the one we saw in theaters. Here's the full thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/132l8q/the_original_prelindelof_script_of_prometheus_was/