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That's disappointing. I dig the whole Prometheus back story.
Same here. I understand the arguments made against the two prequels about them not being really alien; but I found the actual main character of David very interesting and well portrayed:
Man’s ideal creation, superior in many ways, yet without a soul. Bound to his creators, yet fully aware of their inferiority. At the same time desperate to emulate them and yet filled with violent resentment. Hungering for meaning and understanding, but never able to truly grasp either because he is after all, still a machine.
Then they also opened up a ton of questions about the engineers that might not get answered now, which also sucks. Are they all dead now? Why was the sleeping one hostile, and on an apparent mission of genocide to earth, after they seeded our life at the start of the movie?
I would have enjoyed to see how their story ends, presumably with the events that lead to the original crash site on LV-426.
It was answered the xenomorphs are a genocide the planet kind of issue.
The what was answered, but was the why answered? , and the xenomorphs were created by David using the materials the engineers used to do the genocide. They weren't made by the engineers directly