Larger plot themes and mystery of blue guys possibly solved.

So what do we know about the larger plot elements? A month or so ago, the comments from the cast, Damon, and Ridley still seemed a little scattered, but now I think we can really start to narrow things down. Here are some quotes I think reveal a lot about the larger plot elements. I know most of you have probably read them already, but bear with me. My theory about the blue guys is below. ---------------- You've talked about the idea of these post-apocalyptic films having been done to death. Is Prometheus your way of going in the opposite direction and wondering about the beginning of life? [i]It is, and I’ve got to check [for spoilers] very carefully here, but it is about the beginning of life and ’what if’. It’s a giant ’what if'. Has this ball that we’re sitting on right now been around here for three billion years or one billion? Either way, it’s a long f---ing time. It’s only our kind of arrogance that says ”We’re the first ones.” Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it. In recent memory or legend we keep talking about wonderful, weird things such as Atlantis – what is that?[/i] -------------------- [i]It’s basically about trying to find out if there was intervention in the birth of civilisation on planet Earth by other beings, which we come to know as Engineers, and whether they had a master plan in mind for u[/i]s. ------------------- [i]Certainly, it makes an argument that will move away Darwinism, let’s just say![/i] ----------------- What does the title mean for you? [i]The story of Prometheus is the idea that if you’re given a gift from the gods, do not abuse it and do not think you can compete. He stole fire and they had his entrails torn out everyday in perpetuity by an eagle as a punishment. Every night they'd repair and then the eagle would come back in the morning and rip his liver and his kidneys out again. It’s perpetual purgatory. Basically, don’t f--- around with gods.[/i] --------------------------- [i]What if you could meet God but God turned out to be the Devil?[/i] So, I think we can draw some pretty certain conclusions from these quotes. Here's my shot at them. 1. We are not the first hominids. There was one or many civilizations on earth that existed before us. This also hints at the possibility of the other races that existed on earth having been destroyed by the "gods,” possibly for the same reason our destruction is threatened in this movie. I keep thinking about the second Matrix when you find out the destruction and rebirth of the human colony is cyclical. This is where I would bring in a concept from a previous post of mine concerning the temple. I think the temple is designed to adapt to whatever creature enters it via DNA analysis. Hence the breathable air, human carving, and the eventual change of the walls you see in the preview. Also, the blue guys appear to be hominids, right? What if they're a previous race from earth that reached the temple and was destroyed by the SJs, but some survived in the temple somehow? Or, what if the blue guys are the gifting race and they left earth a long time ago for some reason, but passes on the gift of intelligence and instructions on how to find them to another hominid (us) before they left? 2. Mankind, and possibly the civilizations that existed before us, was "given" something by a more advanced race. Given the quote about Darwin, my guess is that they intervened in the evolution of man to move us toward intelligence. 3. There will likely be some greater purpose for this gift that shows us to be an insignificant part of a much larger process and the gifting race will see us as a part of that process, nothing more. The adaptable temple is part of this process. 4. We do something that doesn't sit well with them. This may be as harmless as attaining a certain level of intelligence or attaining certain capabilities, or it may be something we’ve done related to the temple. It may also have something to do with the actions of Weyland and Yutani, which since Alien have played a sinister role. What do you guys think? Can we say with any amount of certainty that even one of these four points will be part of the larger story?