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I always go back to Prometheus when talking about the "Idiot Ball" because it’s the gold standard. You’ve got these world-class scientists sent on a trillion-dollar mission who don't even know what they’re doing there until they wake up from cryo, and then they immediately act like children playing in a backyard.
The second the sensors say the air is "breathable," they’re ripping their helmets off like they’ve never heard of a space-virus or a spore. It’s insane. Then you’ve got the biologist, a literal professional, seeing a hissing, alien "space-cobra" in a clear threater posture and his first instinct is to try and pet it like a stray cat.
And don't even get me started on the guy who literally mapped the cave with high-tech drones being the one who gets hopelessly lost in it. Or the "Prometheus School of Running Away from Things" where you run in a perfectly straight line under a falling, circular ship instead of just... stepping to the left? It’s like the script needed the plot to happen so badly that it just stripped every character of their survival instincts and professional training.
Compare that to competency porn shows, like the Martian, where they FEEL like the best of the best
I used to hate Prometheus but caught a second viewing years later and came around a bit. The running only straight thing is… yeah. But I’ll defend the inclusion of stupid scientists as a key part of the story because the movie goes out of its way to show that these are people only interested in getting paid, which suggests they might not be the best scientists. Yeah, it’s a “trillion dollar mission,” but I’d assume that in the future that trillion dollars isn’t as much as it might be for us. So these are, perhaps, the cheapest scientists that Wayland can buy, the sort of guys who’d give up years of their lives and careers to fuck off on a starship based solely on the premise of “we might find the aliens that made us.”