Ugh when I read interviews of Lindelof I cringe. His "vague is good" argument is a laughably transparent attempt to divert criticism from his extremely flawed, amateur writing.
If you want to do big ideas about science, resolve those ideas with science. Not with religion. Nothing against religion. It's just bad writing to present poorly conceived scientific ideas then say, "Well, it's due to something beyond explanation."
A movie is different than a tv series. A movie should have a self-contained plot. You can leave answers unquestioned, but those answers must not be critical to the plot. I saw a comment somewhere which said Prometheus is the first 3 episodes of a 12-episode tv season. Gee, unsurprising from the hack writer of Lost. And I'm not a bitter Lost fan. I watched that show knowing it was going down the tubes with horrible writing, and I didn't expect answers to all the questions they raised. It had great moments and strong characters but the mythology was trash.
Lindelof is completely oblivious. It's maddening because all of the extremely valid criticism gets swept to the side because people either "don't get it", "want to much information", "are haterzz", etc. If so many people agree on these criticisms, surely it's not a fluke?
Guy doesn't want to think he is anything less than the savior of sci-fi.
Ugh. That Lindelof has friends in very high places (JJ Abrams) is the main reason he gets these high profile projects.
And now I'm starting to really jump on the hater bandwagon. Trying very hard to still like Prometheus. It feels like TPM all over again, but the evolution of my feelings on the movie is more accelerated (days vs. months or even years).