{"id":2376,"date":"2012-07-05T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T04:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2012-07-05T21:53:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T04:53:47","slug":"more-on-prometheus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=2376","title":{"rendered":"More on Prometheus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my cow-orkers pointed out there&#8217;s a popular theory going around that Prometheus is all about classical mythology in an SF setting. \u00a0Most SF movies are, but the theory outlined <a href=\"http:\/\/cavalorn.livejournal.com\/584135.html#cutid1\">here<\/a> actually does a pretty good job of explaining some of the more baffling aspects of the movie. \u00a0I&#8217;m not equipped to spot this kind of stuff, not having a religious background and not having studied mythology.<\/p>\n<p>The links and videos at the bottom of his post provide some good counterpoint though, and if you invest the time to read the article I suggest you also watch the videos &#8211; especially the first half of the Akira the Don one (the second half is irrelevant).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to what is said in the latter, an obvious flaw with the Space Jesus theory is that wiping out humanity because we nailed their peace teacher to a tree is a pretty hypocritical lesson in peaceing out, space dudes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s nothing wrong with weaving mythological references all through a movie, even an SF movie, it still doesn&#8217;t feel like a well-put-together story. \u00a0Also, I wish people would stop relying so heavily on this material &#8211; consider the underlying values behind things like the Prometheus myth. \u00a0They&#8217;re outdated in that they severely undervalue life &#8211; depending on how they&#8217;re told, they&#8217;re almost death propaganda. \u00a0I&#8217;d like to see some more sensible SF flicks made to establish new, pro-life mythology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my cow-orkers pointed out there&#8217;s a popular theory going around that Prometheus is all about classical mythology in an SF setting. \u00a0Most SF movies are, but the theory outlined here actually does a pretty good job of explaining some of the more baffling aspects of the movie. \u00a0I&#8217;m not equipped to spot this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-filmreviews","category-reviews","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}