It's not as sporadic as you think. I think the women were no more than 10-12 feet apart from one another and had hell raining down on them.

I certainly don't want or need them to explain everything to me. They don't need to tie up every loose thread, but It needs to seamlessly connect the end of Prometheus to Alien. Since they didn't do it in this one, I hope they do make a sequel.

Basically, I just need to understand who the 'Space Jockey' was in 'Alien' and how he became infected. Was he on this planet where 'Prometheus' takes place? Did he leave in a hurry trying to get away and became infected or was his ship just another ship out there holding the black goo pods?

Is the ship that was found in the first 'Alien' the ship that Shaw and David are leaving on at the end of 'Prometheus'? Did it have an Engineer aboard which was awoken? Was this just another Engineer ship out there? Just too many questions. I want answers!

David's motivation in infecting Halloway

the fate of the Space Jocky

I feel David was jealous that humans could create and decided to destroy. Yes, there is more to it than that but that's the long and short of it.

Yes to the first paragraph.

Maybe or maybe not to the second praragraph. If it did have engineers on that ship, I'm sure they were in stasis. Don't think Shaw and David would wake them up this time out.

Did the film place that scene on earth? I missed it if it did.

For all intents and purposes, there were only 8 we spent real time with. Seems kind of silly to nitpick that there'd be all of 17/18 people on a ship of that size on a mission of that nature.

Why does this need to be important?

I wrote it off to sheer wonderment of being on a planet clearly also occupied with intelligent beings. I can easily see that impairing judgment.

Or just because it'd kind of suck to be stuck in a hole on a strange planet surrounded by bodies.

Again, I totally missed something here if that's what happened. I thought there was already soil in that area that the worms were in. Wasn't under the impression at all that the team introduced them.

Well, it worked. I mean, dead boy opens his eyes and looks around. So maybe there's some technology there that the characters understand, but you don't?

I thought interference with the storm was keeping them from getting the maps.

Why does this need to be important?

There are many reasons he would have done this. I was glad the movie left it open.

Have you ever seen Shaquille O'Neal and Warwick Davis? No way those guys have the same DNA.

Again, guys thought they were on some kind of mining mission or something and they wake up to find that not only are they investigating the possibility of other life in the universe, but that it's intelligent and may have 'created' us. I've no problem with that throwing off people's judgment.

I can see someone going into a bit of shock and not knowing what to do after a little tentacle pokes out of their eye.

True, but perhaps there is other reasons why they were awaken or perhaps it was part of the ships programming. Wake up the sleeping giants when the ship is airborne. I don't know, but something has to be explained as to why and how they find an Engineer in 'Alien' with something that burst from inside his chest.
Was he just another engineer who had an outbreak occur aboard his ship? Was he present when the others on the planet in 'Prometheus' were killed and he happened to get away but was ultimately doomed because he was infected already?

I already posted my thoughts on the potential sequel. I said that maybe the crashed ship on LV 426 is that of Shaw's ship. What if Shaw is the person inside the "Space Jockey" suit in Alien? It would kind of make sense, because then those aliens on LV 426 would have evolved to what they normally look like. They carry the human DNA strands, too.

That, or it could be another random ship that crashed there. The engineers are all over the place.