The Big Giant Head

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.