PROMETHEUS: WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE, DARLING?

In case I ever want to really dig into Prometheus by Jon Spaights and Damon Lindelof a few thoughts/notes for myself from the first viewing as a starting off point:

-  David and Meredith Vickers look a lot alike, but one is presented as male (robot) and one as female. Weyland gravitates towards his son even though he admits he isn't real.
-  Weyland's introduction includes a warm introduction to David (the son he never had) and doesn't even mention his (presumably real) daughter.
-  Weyland creates a freaking perfect son who is fictional man named David.
-  The Captain wondering if Meredith was a robot (again someone seeing a parallel between her and David).
- The Captain setting up a Christmas tree. (Off topic:  I just love the hilarious image of him packing this fake little Christmas tree with all the trimmings for this long space journey. The peeved look on Vickers' face was priceless). It's VERY significant that it's either Christmas or he is presenting the date as Christmas (do we know which)? I know the Captain is clearly a fan of Christmas, but more importantly, this whole movie is about faith, losing faith, atheism, questioning ones creators/The Creator, and everything surrounding these themes. Look what happens on Christmas on this movie. Look what kind of "presents" the characters get.
- Surviving. David's vision of survival. Elizabeth's vision of survival. Meredith's vision of survival. Weyland's vision of survival. The biologist and geologist's vision of survival.
- Charlie's sacrifice -- the unintentional one (when David infects him) and the intentional one (when he makes Vickers kill him because he knows otherwise Elizabeth would never save herself and leave his side).
- The Captain, his crew, and their sacrifice.
- The scene where Elizabeth cuts that monstrosity out of her body. The "baby" wasn't Charlie's, it came from somewhere else. Again, Christmas. David says it is special and not a regular fetus. Let's think about this...does this seem like a distorted version of anything else you have ever heard of?
- Man, I wonder how this movie isn't flipping people out and not in the way that I've seen in which people are crying "plotholes" and just incredibly squicked out (although I was too, I was waving my hands in front of my face through the whole movie)? It's so bleak and dark and stark and beautiful in places.
- It's a tragedy. Yes, it's an unabashed freakin' tragedy but in that sort of nihilistic "what can you do about it?" kind of way. It is what it is. You keep moving. You play basketball. You watch movies. You dream. You make love to people. You try to live. You try to just keep going.
 - Okay, I was somewhat surprised by the ending, but I was NOT surprised, you know? Because some people out there might be stupid enough to think this is a happy ending, and it isn't. It isn't at all. There is NO good way this can end on this journey no matter where they go, even if she finds the creators. And the creators are the same as us, so they can't answer THE question that some others wanted answered -- the question of the meaning of it all, the question for God (or the gods). And David points it out as well -- what if the answer is the answer Holloway gives? What then?
- "There's nothing."
-  Loneliness. Loneliness even with more than one person there.
-  "it's what I choose to believe"
-  "She's a beauty." What are you on?
-  What does each character believe in and care about?
-  How do people try to protect themselves?
-  Where are people's actions coming from? What impulses of curiosity, vengeance, stubbornness, desperation, loneliness, misguided excitement?
-  The engineers and weapons of mass destruction.
-  David's movie. The quote's meaning is obvious, but what about the rest of the movie.
- More I'm probably not thinking of at this time.