The Big Giant Head

Is the big head an alien identity or a human one. I guessed if it where part of the human storyline it could be a prequel to 'Mother', perhaps a combination of AI ship control and an artificial brain like Ash and Bishop. If its alien and Gigers got something to do with it ... well then it probably has a penis for a tongue.

"ya- rrright!?"

Here's my take: The big 'human' head represents the species the SJs are cultivating in that chamber with all the eggs/urns. Maybe there are other chambers with other species SJs are cultivating. It has been rumoured that the SJs created the human race, so why not other races, including the xenomorphs. Maybe we'll see their chamber with a giant xenomorph head.

Sorry guys but which picture from the comic con did the big head come up???

My thought is that the giant head is perhaps the father of us all. I can't help but be reminded of the Olmec who possibly remembered who created them and built statues in honor of these Gods. Then generations later came the Mayans who may have been visited again by the creators who shared some further knowledge or perhaps unleashed evil demons upon them or both. Here is an interesting read: [url=http://www.gaianxaos.com/GalacticMayanFinalMission.htm]Mayan Info[/url] The head may be part human, part machine, part God. God created man in his own image but who is to say God needs a body? Maybe only the head is grown because his body is the ship, eyes are not present because they are the ships sensors? Nose and ears are present though? Maybe it is a biomechanical experiment from something else and has some left over features? Maybe it is just how this creepy stuff works in this strange world. It's abstract. Maybe there was a plan many years in the making where father meets mother? Maybe it was planned on earth and only certain beings knew about it. I still would like to think Vickers is an android that turns into the space jockey and the eggs were made from humans in stasis. The Prometheus ship may have had thousands of humans on their way to colonize a new world. Perhaps she hijacked them for something else, not necessarily anything to do with xenomorphs. Maybe all androids have a special part to play. Why was Ash forced upon the crew of the Nostromo? Obviously they know more than they let on. If Vickers is the head of the company but also an android then perhaps the androids were never made by humans. Maybe they created the company with a special elaborate agenda in mind. I think the android's plans got screwed up when humans came across the alien eggs and brought one on the Prometheus, maybe out of curiosity maybe in a deliberate effort to kill Vickers. Or not just more random thoughts : )

If you time dialate enough 4:20 can be forever : )

It'll be interesting to see if the head is alive or not.

Possiply inspiration from ridley scott commercial for Apple in 1984. Connections to prometheus. Possibly ridley scott inspiration from 1984 Apple ad- inspiration for prometheus? Check this out, man with elephant trunk- like aircleaner?, woman running through corridor coming to a big human head (big brother). Creapy bladerunneresque sound.  Please bear with my poor english skills. [url=http://v8.lscache1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=30e970875720807d&itag=7&begin=0&ratebypass=yes&title=Apple+Macintosh+1984+Superbowl+Commercial&ip=0.0.0.0&ipbits=0&expire=1324105653&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,ratebypass,title&signature=1050B4B7A455ED335AF2344B29453061920187A5.7DB604E7FA4413FDF4F38447708065032AFCDE33&key=ck1] [/link to video]

LOL my head is exploding from all the theories... [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/afropulse.gif[/img]

Interesting parallell Takeshi, nice observation. Are you Hungarian by any chance? your last name gives it away. (i am).

Oh cool thanks, I read the plot sounds very original. Saving our personalities and memories to a file..

Whomever it was that mentioned that this room probably contains human related samples in the urns, with another room with an Alien head surrounded by urns containing Alien related samples is probably right IMO. These ampule rooms could be categorised storage rooms, each containing samples of a certain species with a monolithic icon of the species within the room.

I really don't think there are other relics. I think the face was carved by ancient humans and given to the aliens when they revisited Earth and they put it in their ampule room to honor us, their most advanced creation.

But we don't know, Giger has a preference (amongst others) to draw such big heads of various forms and of various creations... [img]http://cinephilefix.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/li-hr-giger.jpg[/img] [img]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-knJ3xYM0Vpo/Th0XQpM-j4I/AAAAAAAABIA/hDi1U1QOAXU/s1600/giger_necro%2B02.jpg[/img] ...whose to say that their isn't a room with a giant Alien head, surrounded by ampules, and many, many others, each with one of their creations stored within. The monolithic icon could be a symbolic version of a label - think of a folder in "My Documents", the urns are the files, the room is the folder and the icon is the name/title of the folder.

My understanding of the Big Giant Head to date is that it is a BioMechanical Control device used for one of the Engineer's ships.

Whose to say we haven't, that maybe what they find on earth, but that capture from the pre-trailer suggests to me that it is a marker for the contents of the urns in that room. We are all assuming that the Jockeys made us and the Alien, why stop there, why not create many other forms of life for many other planets and purposes.

exactly, I understand your idea BM but it is my belief that the giant head wasn't constructed by us, but by the Space Jockeys. Why do I think this - look at the detail on the side of the big head in the last pic you posted, it is similar in design to that seen on the outside of the derelict and the inside of the map/pilot room, thus it is my opinion that this head was constructed by the Space Jockeys, not only as a marker so that they know what samples are within the urns, but also as a greeting/confirmation to us when we discover the truth about our origins... which is what the film is supposed to be about.

the explanation I came up with as to why a Human Looking Head is that some Alien Intelligence viewed their first human space traveler as a sort of God and made it in Man's image, the man they saw first.

Time will tell, but think of it this way... We find whatever it is we find that leads us to travel to a distant planet and to that room. Once there we find a huge human head overlooking a vast amount of urns, and (presumably) an empty Space Jockey suit. We grab the Space Jockey's "helmet" and one of the urns and head back to the Prometheus. Inside the urn we find a configuration of four vials stored in some green goo. Inside each vial is genetic material for various lifeforms on earth, with one of them containing human genetic material... That's my bet. Regards other rooms, I don't think they will be shown as such, most likely inferred, for example... As the crew leave the ampule room with the "helmet" and urn they walk past a passageway leading to another room. In the mist and dust more urns/ampules can be seen on the floor, and the silhouette of a large Alien head overlooking the urns/ampules.