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Not buying into the location of egg chamber in ground, funny this post is up as Im watching alien as Im typing this, :) am at the part where ash just opened the hatch. anyway, in the egg chamber , the boundary layer is to help keep the eggs moist , notice all the moisture droplits when kane is looking at them., and kane walks along a elevated path, that would be used to look at cargo on either side. plus the opening at the far end to the left, could be a extrusion of the derilict at it end tips externally.....or something poured acid,and it ate a perfectly square hole thru the hull to were the creatures dug down into the planetoid,the surface is rock, lava -based so, its hard, but I just cant follow it that way.....

Since you have the video in slow-mo back to just before the egg opens when Kane is checking it out. Look closely. The water drips UP. Not down.

I've always thought the same thing bigbirdjimmy. Considering the fact that the Space Jockey had been dead a long time, you have to think about how long those eggs have been their? How were they able to sustain themselves for so long. Probably do to the environment from which they were in. Its sure a topic to ponder on. you've just been FACEHUGGED! [img]http://s14.postimage.org/btdff8ejj/AVPFACEHUGGERGIF2.gif[/img]

@Rick-I looked at the thread titles but didn't see anything like this. Sorry I am bringing it up again. If its not the ship and it feels like the tropics, maybe its in a volcanic lava tube or something like that. I really don't know exactly where this would be, but it would have to be engineered by the space jockey because of the "blue seal", and the neatness of the eggs and egg chambers. Also what are the odds that Kane was lowered into the last working egg chamber. Maybe all the chambers work and the blue haze/seal activate its self when detecting motion. Maybe it activates or "wakes up" the eggs? The eggs could be like insects in deserts around the world here on earth. When it rains after years of being dormant and dried out, they hatch and come to life. They, the aliens, are compared to insects all the time. Who knows.

Nice link Cinefan. The bar looks awesome!

I would sell my entire house and all its furnishings, except my fish Ripley and her tank the Nostromo, to be a part of these films! Especially if i could meet the extraordinary Noomi Rapace and the amazing Ridley Scott. But i mean really, who wouldnt?

Hate to bring up old threads, but unfortunately the larger humanoid you see in the picture next to the chair is not a space jockey. I have a sneaky suspicion he might be an early android. He's too small to be an actually space jockey. Simply compare the size of the being in the space jockey chair from the original alien to the empty chair in the film and you can see the helmet clamp and realize that this person isn't the SJ. We have not seen the Space Jockey yet. It could also simply be a mutation to a crew member. Furthermore, if you study his suit closely you'll see a smoother shinier texture to the lower half of his body that is NOT present on the SJ suit. Also take note of the horizontal lines on the pants. Again, they're not present on the suits shown in the stills. A personal theory is it's simply a person who has been mutated and has swelled inside his suit. I think that's a battered and damage space suit that the team members were wearing and has simply tightened around him after he's become enlarged. I'm 110% sure though we have not seen the Space Jockey yet. I think we're going to be in for a treat.

Agreed Xenophobe. Im thinking along the lines of a couple of Gigers landscapes in his various books. Basically a cross between formed and unformed structure and fluidity, very Alien to our eyes, horrid and beautiful at the same time. As Ridley once said "you dont know if its going to Fuck you or Kill you!" Getting even more excited.

lmfao I bet all the Riddler fan bois on here are foaming at the mouth over this. Cant allow any of Camerons work in Ridleys, can we? lol

Both Directors were visionarys with regard to their respective Alien films IMO, some of the camera work Cameron instructed was Brilliant and included a lot of very well thought out Reverse Photography!

Be sure to check out all the great member/staff art in an earlier thread entitled: The Giger Project. You guys rock!

LOL!!!:) Have you seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ajVAVvGTQ EXSPERMINATE!

@Cypher that's a fo-hawk on guy in lab, I think its same guy shooting pistol while others escort out sick lookin bald guy (halloway?)

@craigamore German trailer is great quality and shows a little more of some frames, Thx. When David is pulling green stuff from canister you can see more of its container, and markings on side verifying it is one of the ampules.

@Shambhala: That is a good png with good resolution. You just need to open the picture in new window to see it in full resolution and things become clearer. @Membrane: If the jumping guy is the same as the smoking helmet/burning face guy. Then there should be a big scar on the left (his right) side of the forehead. The thing burning is just above the left eye. With the jumping beardyman there is something in the middle of the forehead. @danrald: his eyes are still there, they are almost closed in the picture. But they´ve sunken as if he has been loosing fat/soft tissue on his face. It is possible his head has elongated towards the back but it is unclear in the picture. Top of his head looks bigger in proportions than face but the missing fat tissue could be the reason. @jbsmit3@gmail.com: If you look at the picture in full resolution it looks to me the guy has a reddish cut/streak of blood on his forehead. To me it looks like a cut not mutation. The guy has beard. This gives 3 possibilities. 1: So he had it already when they landed and then this is a totally new unidentified character. 2: He has been comatose/critical and the beard has grown during that time. 3: He has been out on the planet for a while without a shave and has now returned to attack the crew. The time it takes to grow a beard like that... few months? If he´s been without a shave then his mohawk should be gone with hairgrowth (1cm/month). So me thinks he had the beard all along and the change in him has been relatively fast. I think this is a character yet to be identified and there has to be at least two guys with mohawks (the other one in med bay had no beard).

@Shambhala: That is a good png with good resolution. You just need to open the picture in new window to see it in full resolution and things become clearer. @Membrane: If the jumping guy is the same as the smoking helmet/burning face guy. Then there should be a big scar on the left (his right) side of the forehead. The thing burning is just above the left eye. With the jumping beardyman there is something in the middle of the forehead. @danrald: his eyes are still there, they are almost closed in the picture. But they´ve sunken as if he has been loosing fat/soft tissue on his face. It is possible his head has elongated towards the back but it is unclear in the picture. Top of his head looks bigger in proportions than face but the missing fat tissue could be the reason. @jbsmit3@gmail.com: If you look at the picture in full resolution it looks to me the guy has a reddish cut/streak of blood on his forehead. To me it looks like a cut not mutation. The guy has beard. This gives 3 possibilities. 1: So he had it already when they landed and then this is a totally new unidentified character. 2: He has been comatose/critical and the beard has grown during that time. 3: He has been out on the planet for a while without a shave and has now returned to attack the crew. The time it takes to grow a beard like that... few months? If he´s been without a shave then his mohawk should be gone with hairgrowth (1cm/month). So me thinks he had the beard all along and the change in him has been relatively fast. I think this is a character yet to be identified and there has to be at least two guys with mohawks (the other one in med bay had no beard).

That is 100% correct, well done man. This, was one fantastic film!

it was indeed one of the best

What about the massive claw/scratch type marks above the monoliths eye(s)?? That looks more than weathered effects.

i see attacks on the crew by fellow crew members, vickers killing crew, s j's and xenos... epic scenes of the dawn of man. DNA tampering with jaw dropping consequences. a true cinematic experience!

the xeno ancestory is suggested to be much bigger so maybe it is a battle scar on the giant head.....

Chuck Norris is the most dangerous creature in the known universe!

I think some of us are starting to see things Out of the teaser trailer because they cannot wait for the movie and overanalyze the images. Hope Fox releases an over 2 mins trailer Soon to avoid insanity ;)

Hi! As you should know french is an extremely precise language... and the trailer is very explecite: I can not say who is talking but it's the same female voice talking with a panic voice: -Vous ne comprenez pas? (How come don't you understand?) - Écoutez-moi... C'était une erreur... (Listen to me! It was a mistake (to do that) - J'ai eu tort... On aurait jamais dû... (It was my mistake... We should have never did that...) -Je suis désolé... (I am so sorry...)

Vous ne comprenez pas could be better translated by: How come you don't understand? Shabou

I speak the language fluently as I live and grew up in Montreal. Our French here however is a ittle less formal than in FRANTZ haha and we have the much over the world desired "POUTINE" and "SMOKE MEAT" hot spots. Here's a good addittion to your list. "je ne comprendre pas" { I do not understand} "Ou sans les Cinema?" {Where are the movie theaters?} & "Vouler-Vous venir hez moi"? {Would you like to come over to my place?} Cheers man !

there should be a "c" in there, it is "chez moi" but the editor does not work for me from this PC at work. my bad. typo.

Thanks for the translation @Shabou

Space jockey = the mysterious alien pilot in the derelict Space jokey = another alien in prometheus That turns anything the human crew ask him into a joke XD

Why did the xeno cross the road?

Hi all i have one of the images from Prometheus and so i changed the gamma in photoshop to make it brighter and it seems to show one of the space jockeys decapitated on the ground. Is there any way of uploading a Picture without a URL link?

@Tassader; it's already on here on a previous post. You can only upload from a URL link so if you are uploading you need to use a site like 'photobucket'.

AFAIK the production crew of "Alien" themselves are the guys that first coined the term "Space Jockey".

The set with the deceased alien creature, which the production team nicknamed the "space jockey", proved problematic as 20th Century Fox did not want to spend the money for such an expensive set that would only be used for one scene. Ridley Scott described the set as the cockpit or driving deck of the mysterious ship, and the production team was able to convince the studio that the scene was important to impress the audience and make them aware that this was not a B movie.[44][49] To save money only one wall of the set was created, and the "space jockey" sat atop a disc that could be rotated to facilitate shots from different angles in relation to the actors.[16][49] Giger airbrushed the entire set and the "space jockey" by hand.[44][49]

AFAIK the production crew of "Alien" themselves are the guys that first coined the term "Space Jockey". I think you'll find the term 'Space Jockey' originally appeared in a Robert Heinlein Sci Fi novel, 1960's..

When Ridley said that "The Space Jockey is a suit", maybe what he really meant that he is the outer-space equivalent of our modern day "suit", you know corporate yes man. So when the Gods instruct the SJ to drop viral eggs on Earth, the SJ just went: "Yes, Sir!" without question. He is a f-ig suit!

Not to mention that all aliens we saw in the movies are not older than a few months and most are only A day old or a few. Maybe they become the space jockey? or they just age and die without further Metamorphose.

That Giger art, the one used as your avatar seems to indicate some kind of higher being/"intelligence" being responsible for the beginning of the Xenomorph life cycle. Hmmm. . .

I never felt there was another stage to the life cycle per se, I think the Xeno is the final product however if you consider the deleted scene from the first film then that hints at another intermediate stage in forming the egg from bio mass and presumably some kind of intervention from the xeno itself. I always sided with the idea that these things were a very well designed weopon but the more and more I dwell on this I am coming to the conclusion that their creation was a complete accident. If you think about it the life cycle is completely inefficient, what is the point in having an egg stage, if the egg does not then hatch the finished article? Surely an efficient killing machine would reproduce much quicker and either give birth directly (ike a mammal) or the egg would produce an infant creature straight away? This raises another interesting question for me - is the facehugger actually the 'big cheese' so to speak as this is what pops from the egg? And if the xeno is capable of producing its own eggs (minus the queen concept) then is the xeno the 'carrier' and not the other way around? Which came first.......? questions, questions

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