Instead, Prometheus is an exploration of creator vs created and the need to find answers no matter the cost. If anything, Scott views Fassbender's android David as the "Alien" of the movie ...

is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war-and mankind itself.

Both movies have their crews led by scientists who have abandoned logic in favor of blind belief. In Prometheus, the crew is ...