Very smart idea

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This hypothesis can be discarded by Ridley's commentary in the bonus content of the Alien anthology collection. He talks about the derelict and the Spacejockey, but interestingly, he says the ship was meant to be a bomber (probably with destination to Earth or a human colony). Personally though, I actually like the idea of self regeneration and punishment with the impregnation of several alien organisms. Although think about it twice, if that was the case, how would that help to develop an actual story for Prometheus, and how would the humans play out in this setting?

the bomber ship fit well with the presumed "ending" of prometheus ... in the other case ( the space jockey tied to the chair as prometheus ) the humans got the benefits and now will acts as "avengers" of that one "good" jockey against the "evil" jockeys

I have a suspicion the new crew consume the [b]milk of the gods[/b][i][/i] (probably spiked by Fassbender and Theron's droid/replicant characters) and morph into "jockeys" . Milk is also reference to the drink of Von Daniken's alien gods who inspired Ridley... If you look at the stills from Comic Con, there's a lot of focus on scans of abdomens, and a pic of a female crew member staggering out of a mess hall on hind legs :s...well, this is how things look to me :) I wonder if we'll see the xenomorph born from the jockey we know - it must be enormous, and how did the Nostromo crew avoid it unless it died in some final conflict with the Prometheus crew?

Keep in mind that Ridley has to come up with a story that a mass audience, and diverse audience can easily understand and follow, not just for the hardcore fans of the franchise, if people don't understand story they won't buy tickets, which then equals no sequel, I just think to expect a watered down version of things that will be easy for casual movie goer to follow

Interesting idea, but flawed. The genesis of the prometheus title i believe is much more generalized and directed at the philosophy behind the story itself. Your going first visually in your concept to Jacob Jardean's interpretation of Zeus's punishment for Prometheus, but think more abstractly. What did Prometheus do? He brought fire to man, he was always a champion of man, most of the gods found this to be particularly distressing in the myths. In Scott's new film I believe Prometheus to represent the advance of science. This concept can be supported by the antagonists of the original Alien: The Ship, The Robot, and the Alien itself (A biological weapon) Whereas the machines have been the go to golum of american science fiction cinema for the last 50 years it is now scientific progress that will take the front seat. The synopsis, as we know it so far is this...man discovers space jockey artifact on earth, man travels to space jockey world, man STEALS tech from the Jockeys and battle ensues, thus it is man's science, his curiosity and ultimately his inner golum and fatal flaw that represents the ideal of prometheus for us in this film. -Keep it up posters I love this S--T!