Prometheus - Part 2

[X Knight]

I echo the question........what's the deal with that giant head statue ( that looks human )?

 

[craigdbfan]

Nobody knows.

We'll find out once the film is released or if that plot detail ever gets leaked. So far to my knowledge it's unknown why that statue is humanoid in appearance.

 

[Carnotaur3]

I echo the question........what's the deal with that giant head statue ( that looks human )?

You want my opinion? I believe it's the Space Jockey's god.

 

[craigdbfan]

I'm willing to bet that the humanoid head is most likely somehow tied into how humanity came to be on Earth.

Space Jockeys have been referred to as harvesters I believe it's possible that humans were one of the experiments done by the giant head along with the space jockeys doing its biding. So in a way it could act as an overruling deity of sorts.

 

[X Knight]

interesting......

in our own ancient cultures, usually a giant head/statue/structure is built to honor a god/deity/ruler.......

so, if it turns out that giant head does represent a deity of sort, it is very curious as to why it looks so human in appearance.

perhaps the "master" alien race was much closer to humans than the space jockeys, xenomorphs, or your typical "alien" looking being........

 

[Gold Samurai]

The egg's chambers or whatever in front of the giant head seems to indicate a child/creator relationship.

 

[X Knight]

are those egg chambers supposed to be xenomorphs or the space jockeys?

 

[Thedudehimself]

I don t believe space jockeys are hatching from eggs. They re hatching from chairs

 

[superkong 500]

One thing that bothers me though, in Alien when the crew found the derelict ship and the egg and the jockey, it seems it had been there for a long time. At least one of the eggs had already hatched/opened (since we know that's how the jockey died) and I don't know the time span it takes for xenomorph eggs to open but its a very short one. So why were the other eggs still closed by the time the crew arrived. I mean one facehugger attacked the jockey but the other eggs never hatched until the crew came. That's without even considering that the ship could have been there for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

are those egg chambers supposed to be xenomorphs or the space jockeys?

Proto xenomorph most likely.

Face huggers or the equivalent ( before the alien used human as template, I assume the huggers were different too ).

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

One thing that bothers me though, in Alien when the crew found the derelict ship and the egg and the jockey, it seems it had been there for a long time. At least one of the eggs had already hatched/opened (since we know that's how the jockey died) and I don't know the time span it takes for xenomorph eggs to open but its a very short one. So why were the other eggs still closed by the time the crew arrived. I mean one facehugger attacked the jockey but the other eggs never hatched until the crew came. That's without even considering that the ship could have been there for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years.

The eggs were in statis ( remember the blue mist above them ? ).
It is not certain that the Jockey was killed by a chestbuster from the eggs in the cargo hold.

 

[dark_b]

i dont think the statue looks humanoid. humanoid would be something that looks similar to a human. from what i see it looks like a normal human head.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

The head is very Gigeresque.

 

[The Morningstar]

It makes me think the leaked plot details maybe true and time travel is involved. The head is based on David (Fassbender).

 

[Carnotaur3]

It makes me think the leaked plot details maybe true and time travel is involved. The head is based on David (Fassbender).

The leaked plot details were speculation posted by someone on IMDB.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

^^
I didn't read the leaked script but I hope no time travel is involved. I like time travel but not in the Alien Universe.
Btw, I read that this leaked script was fake and was written by a fan.

 

[The Morningstar]

Ehhh i dunno. I don't mind time travel if it's done well. And those plot details sounded really good for a fan made thing.

 

[DBryan]

Yeah I don't see time travel being a factor. I can see some sorta twist revolving around humans being engineered and placed on Earth, just like the xenomorphs were engineered.

Have any of you guys read any of the Alien books or comic books? Do you think there are any of those stories that ought to be adapted into a film? Certainly, one of the AvP trade paperbacks would have been 100x better than the AvP film.

 

[The Morningstar]

Na i don't think Scott would use other media to influence the movie.

 

[Destructus86]

I'm so confused on what the timeline is for this movie...does this take place in the past or the future? The suits the extremely hot chicks are wearing (oh the guys too) are futuristic...but then I hear about the Space Jockey's which are in the past....

 

[cherokeesam]

The way I see it, WY wanted the organism to study and to reproduce and control for monetary gain. If they could control it it could be used as a biological weapon and it would mean billions for them. As for the nostromo and its crew no matter what kind of ship it is they always have to respond to emergency signals. Of course WY knew there was a hostile organism on LV-426, they knew that the nostromo was coming from thedus and that their route would place them close to LV-426.

So having them respond to the signal was a given wether the company intended them to or not. But since W-Y knew the nostromo would pass close by they sent ash to make sure they responded to the signal and that the creature got inside the ship and back to earth.

Now see, *that* I can buy.
I think that random chance/dumb (bad) luck played the larger role in the Nostromo being the ones who got the distress signal. What I *don't* buy is the conspiracy theory that W-Y deliberately sent a tug crew to LV-426 as their "ideal" ship to bring home a cute 'n' fuzzy Xenomorph.

 

[X Knight]

Proto xenomorph most likely.

Face huggers or the equivalent ( before the alien used human as template, I assume the huggers were different too ).

hmmmm........

i dont think the statue looks humanoid. humanoid would be something that looks similar to a human. from what i see it looks like a normal human head.

I agree.......it looks very human. and that's what makes it so curious. just imagine if you visited a strange, alien planet, and then you came face to face with a statue/image/picture that looks very much human, very much like yourself. that would certainly raise all kinds of questions.........

Yeah I don't see time travel being a factor. I can see some sorta twist revolving around humans being engineered and placed on Earth, just like the xenomorphs were engineered.

don't know about time travel, but I can see the human race's origins on Earth tied to bio-engineering by aliens. the "twist" could be that the "master" alien race is not the space jockeys or some other humanoid like race, but a human ( or advanced human ) race, as evidenced by that statue head.

iow.......the human race did not originate on Earth.......we may have come from an entirely different planet, in a different galaxy, from a much more advance civilization..............

or perhaps, humans WERE the master race on some distant planet, but in our efforts to bio-engineer other lifeforms ( space jockeys? xenomorphs? ), we created something that threatened our survival. so, the only way to save the human race is to send our DNA to another planet ( Earth ), seed it, repopulate, and start all over......

 

[DarthMuppet]

Ash???
Ash couldn't even kill an unarmed Ripley. Yaphet Kotto's character (name escapes me at the moment) literally ripped him apart with his bare hands. How was *he* supposed to kill the entire crew?

Ash most certainly could have killed an unarmed Ripley, and would have if Parker and Lambert hadn't shown up. Remember, it took both Parker and Lambert to completely incapacitate Ash. If he had been successful in killing Ripley, afterwards Ash would have most likely snuck up on Parker and Lambert and done them in one at a time.

The company knew there was a signal coming from the derelict and knew it was carrying a biological weapon of alien origin. Ash was then placed on the Nostromo two weeks before the ship departed for earth. His main mission was to make sure that the specimens made it back to earth. The Nostromo just happened to be the ship where its course back to earth was close enough to LV 426 to make it look like an accidental discovery. The company was probably expecting for at least some of the crew to get killed(and had probably already programmed the freezers to "malfunction" at some point to eliminate any remaining witnesses), but when the ship never returned at all, there was most likely one of the biggest cover-ups in the company's history.

 

[The Morningstar]

Well the Company sent colonists to LV-426 before Ripley was discovered. They knew what they were doing. And in the extended edition of Aliens they sent Newts family to the Derelict Ships co-ordinates.

 

[superkong 500]

The eggs were in statis ( remember the blue mist above them ? ).
It is not certain that the Jockey was killed by a chestbuster from the eggs in the cargo hold.

Okay about the blue mist, but if they were in stasis how did one opened when kane came near? sure movement wouldn't deactivate the stasis status of the eggs, plus conveniently just one opened, the one that Kane happened to stumble upon. Unless somehow the eggs/ huggers have a biological radar which can detect body heat from a close by organism which would "wake it up".