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I actually prefer the first poster - it´s more implied and in tune with the mystery surrounding Prometheus. The trailer isn´t showing too much, why should the poster.

I feel like the first poster was darker and really embodied the darkness of the upcoming film. This international poster...its cool but not as mysterious.

I like both the recent posters for me it hasn't lost any of its mystery it just more Illuminated in the second one but still has an Unnerving mysterious foreboding... i'm happy.

The thing i most find Intriguing is a short interview i have seen with ridley and he says i am locking away all the best stuff until the picture is due for release now that's interesting but expected but he knows how to appeal to our anticipation, sc fi enthusiasts are the most detailed and passionate of any genre i think.

I agree with you on both of your points - seems to me we havn't seen a lot of what would make this film "about everything" more epic.

I believe as the months roll by and June gets closer, more things, Trailers and different designs in posters will come out....

I think you are right Db, I was looking between Shaw's arm and body, just above the pouch on her belt, you can just make out part of a base similar to the one opposite. If they are environmental suits, then a hallway would be as good a place as any to store them and two sets give symetry. Be a bit cramped if four SJs' tried to change into the suites at the same time though.

I bet they´re not suits but statues. Someone here in the forum put a small image of the big head chamber scenario, it seems that there are two giant hands at the entrance gate. So we have: Big Head, Hands at the Gates, Four SJ at the corridors. Seems to me SJ´s civilization is adept of heavy statuary. Not unheard of, if you ever have seen the "Ridleygrams" for the pyramid in "Alien", that was not shoot because the Fox suits don´t baked the budget.

Love your member name... best one here. Yes, it certainly would be cramped in such a case. I'll admit I was a bit disappointed when Ridley announced they were suits. There was something about the grotesque mystery of that thing in the chair being a unique species all its own... void of human conscience, etc, etc... But if a mutated human (human size-ish) were to open and enter (or get consumed by?) one of those biomechanical suits after sampling the food of the gods... well, it might be a little less cramped? (At least inside). "We become the invading organism... (take that chestburster).

....but why so many suits if their is only one chair?

Despite the Greeks and Romans, Earthling´s statuary often depicts persons with clothes...even armor. :) So, to imagine that the four SJ´s are statues of people with suits isn´t a stretch of imagination...

"there are two giant hands at the entrance gate" to the chamber with the big head? I havn't seen those - anybody got a picture they can post?

I got a feeling those 4 things in the pics are statues. Reason being, Shaw isn't wearing a helmet so I think this scene is from the temple or whatever discovered on earth - and being a temple these Jockey's / engineers were probably worshipped as gods & you'd expect statues/idols to be all over the place. Just what I think anyway...

Looks to me like a "Laugh In The Dark" at Myrtle Beach !!!

@ RickK That might also explain the gumboots...cause surely real jockeys won't wear those...it's always been the one very unsettling thing about that pic....those gum boots!

Correction: "You have my sympathy" - Love your member name... best one here. RickK: Why does Shaw need a space suit on earth (helmet or not)? I think maybe the atmosphere is breathable at this point, (or she's begun to mutate)? Good point about them being statues... they do love their sculpts... Perhaps the chair engulfs the engineer (victim) with the suit? Therefore creating a trapped occupant and no escape? Sucks to be him/her. A "dead"-end career perhaps?

@ pjr, Sadly, I can´t find that thread just now, but I downloaded the pic _ it´s very small. I´ll try to upload it here later, it´s in my home computer.

Here's hoping that "space jockey = Suit" is a RED HERRING , totally agree that it's a disappointing idea. it's way more 'alien' to have a conscious pilot being that grew out of the ship, way more in keeping with alien's body-horror theme and way more like biotech taken to taken to an extreme.

centaurian_slug> Agree 100%... trying to make the best of a (potentially) disappointing situation. Gotta' trust the man in charge. He's never let down... yet.

I think whatever the space jockeys are be it a suit or some enormous creature/ life form or some bio mechanical jack device for the engineers wont matter if the film is compelling and Believable , the interesting thing is the intelligence behind them and the motives they have thats the intriguing bit for me just what sort of creature are they, what kind of alien species travels in this manner, and are they the creators and destroyers of life and who created them ?

centaurian - I follow your "SJ is a suit"-fear, especially because "Alien" really didn´t imply that. On the other hand, if Ridley decides something was "hidden" inside, I´d love to see what it looks like. Maybe it´s blue, big and looks like an idealized human being with sharp features and a biomechanical back ;-)

sorry 4 that fellas my bad, was trying to get rid of the double post. still working out the kinks, again, my apologies.

Spartacus, did I miss something? You do a great job!

Visualizer... Avatar?

You better be kidding, or you'd be starin' at the business end of a hissy fit ;-)

I dunno'... The whole long braided hair - phallus thingy that plugs into stuff... sounds kinda' Gigery to me.

At first, the idea of the SJ, as we know him in 'Alien', being a suit bothered me.....it got under my skin a little, just like everybody else, and then it began to simmer in the back of my mind, ultimately growing on me a little, and only because...one, we still don't know what the hell is supposed wear that thing to begin with...two, the simple idea that it's a suit makes you wonder even more the kind conceptual state of mind of its creators. What kind of thought process and thus, living thing, envisions that as a viable design for a suit? That, in itself, is a bit disturbing....three, there's still the possibility, with Dallas' pronouncement in 'Alien' that the SJ is growing out of the chair, that the suit serves as a means to biologically fuse its occupant with the chair, and thus, the ship. The wearer biomechanically fuses with his own technology; it's still odd, still weird and definately still damn cool.

Brundlefly?

The Borg? All I'm sayin' is someone or something fusing with tech... Has been done to death in the sci-fi realm. Hope it's a fresh idea... Those are much too rare these days.

@ pjr this is the picture I uploaded which centrosphere was referring to (it's now enlarged). [url=http://sulaco.picturepush.com/album/190146/7383747/Picture-Box/Prometheus-Set-2.html]Hands[/url]

Thank you Sulaco for the link to that very interesting picture! I remember now awhile back I saw that but didn't notice the hands - the enlarging of the picture now has helped me see them, and I appreciate that!

That´s it! Thanks, Sulaco!

I know the blending with tech thing has been done...what I'm referring to is a temporary fuse, as in the pilot, by wearing the suit and fusing with the chair, essentially becomes the ship in flight. He operates the craft by being the craft, in a sense, and when it lands, he disengages from the chair, breaking the fusion and he can remove the suit and go about his business.

You all seem to be forgetting that tall, very humanoid figure in the navigation chair chamber. He is OBVIOUSLY some sort of alien being/construction/mutant that will get in the chair and the suit will grow around him. If that DOESN'T happen in the movie I will be VERY surprised.

NineteenHundred...that's who we're talking about.....read the whole thread.

Heh, if we look like the SJs because they made us in their image, [i]and[/i] they are irredemably evil beings..... that would go a long way in explaining human history, and make a mockery of every imaginary monster we've ever created, in attempting to convince ourselves that we aren't monstrous. You don't get that particular irony, if the SJs look like "scary monsters." Anyway, whatever they end up looking like, it's really what they've done and what they do, that matters.....having said that, I have a feeling that the big blue dude in the trailer will look more than Giger-freaky enough, up-close.....even if it turns out that he isn't an SJ. ;)

yes and that top notch crew is clearly visible in all the material we have saw until now ....all top notch quality ... Director is great ...Crew is great ...actors are great ...what we fear is the plot :p

yeah i agree Frantz there was a sc fi film written by Jon Spaihts recently i can't remember the tile but it all took part in russia and the reviews were less than complimentary. That is a concern but the cast and Ridley claim its great script and Ridleys held out for thirty years for a decent script so fingers crossed it will all come together.

Don't forget...........Damion Lindelof took over the re-write with Scott, so, no worries there my friend

I definitely feel Dr. Venkman .. lol