7 Reasons To Have Faith In Alien: Paradise Lost

2) We’ll Finally Have Answers

So one big problem with Prometheus was how it ended on a typical Lindelofian cliffhanger, where lots of questions were asked without any answers being given. It left Prometheus feeling undercooked, and occasionally bordering on dispensable – what’s the point, after all, of setting the audience up for intrigue, without allowing for the pay-off? Why make a prequel to Alien at all if there’s ultimately nothing new added to the mythos? Thankfully, it sounds as though Paradise Lost will give us the answers we were promised in the first film.

Already, Scott has teased that Paradise Lost will see Shaw and David traveling to the homeworld of The Engineers, where they will “find out who would design such an awful bio-mechanoid creature”.

Reportedly, there will also be a more overt connection to Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in Paradise Lost, perhaps bringing us a step closer to the Alien story. Who knows, Paradise Lost may even ultimately end up making Prometheus into a more satisfying film, by delivering answers to questions its forebear set.