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Originally Posted by smutnut
Another thing I didn't like was the fact that almost all the characters in it were cannon fodder and obviously so, not the way they did it in Alien. I couldn't even understand why some of the characters were in it at all except to be killed unnecessarily. It didn't add anything to the story or explain anything or even set up more peril (most of the time)
That whole subplot with the old man. I mean give me a break. What was the point. He's a genius and then boom he's dead.
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I do agree with that. The old man being on the ship was a total waste of time and served to real purpose when they just killed him off so fast. Had he been given eternal life or something, then it would have worked. But he was on the ship, he suited up, then got killed by his maker, or God. Kind of silly and the irony of this man spending a trillion dollars or whatever it was to meet his maker, only to be killed by him, wasn't clever at all.
At the very least, it would have been cool to see the engineer put his hand on his head and pour all universal knowledge into his head, so much so that it melted his brain and killed him while giving him all the answers to life at the same time. Like OK, you want to know... here it is. BAM! He gets to know it all but it kills him. That would have been better maybe.