In a idea that is persevered since “Prometheus” launched in 2012, followers have posited that Meredith Vickers, performed by Charlize Theron, is the second android on Weyland’s mission to fulfill their makers. The earliest roots of it appear to pop up on Stack Alternate, a well-liked discussion board, on the very weekend of the movie’s launch. It factors to Idris Elba’s Janek needling her as a doable android, the male-only med system, and her contentious relationship with David (Michael Fassbender). The one drawback is, it is a horrible idea, primarily based on vapors, that undermines one of many few clear themes of the movie.
In reality, Meredith is a harsh, ice-cold particular person whose hurts have been nurtured in her (nature vs. nurture, of us) by the dismissive and probably misogynistic Weyland, who wished a son so badly as a substitute that he had one constructed. She’s meant to be the ironic mirror to the charming, hotter David, the apex of Scott’s “Blade Runner” and its more-human-than-human design philosophy. The creation of the son is one in all Ridley’s little theological jokes that runs all through the franchise (and a core theme of Scott’s religious follow-up, “Raised By Wolves”); David is thus parallel to the Engineers, who open the query of what of our evolution and religion is definitely pure and actual. Vickers is humanity at its most flawed. That is all it’s, gang.