The Mysterious Figure?

@Theusprom - look again at the two pictures you posted - 1 with the star map and 2 with the Space Jockey seat. Now look at the figure in both, and look at the "curved pillars" that make up the set, the figures head is at the same height... it is one and the same person! As for being David, who knows, but I do get the vibe of his presence in the mysterious figures stance, if you know what I mean.

fassbender's a droid, how can a facehugger impregnate him? it requires a live host. and if a mutated droid/human's the space jockey...oh man. imagine the outrage from all the fans who have some regard for realism and originality.

Biomechanics... perhaps an infection of grey goo.

I just said a vibe, I could, and hope i am wrong. But ironically BM could be right - some form of biomechanics from whatever is in the urns - David is the only confirmed non-human, so whatever is infected everyone affects him differently. Yes, I know, Pinnochio, but wasn't that a running theme in Bladerunner... The more and more I try to piece together all of this, the more and more I begin to worry.

grey goo is nanomachines. again, i'm talking about the scene from alien where they discover the space jockey with a burst chest cavity. and do you remember what they said about the facehugger? it keeps its host alive by supply air, clearly it requires a living organism. therefore the space jockey cannot be a droid. if anything, it has to be at the very least, a human. but hopefully not, because that would cheapen the story and make it resemble something by m night shyamalan on a bad day. why do you people not seem to remember details from alien? the last time i saw it was like a decade ago.

It could be both biological and mechanical. Some of us already are a bit of that. Take that to the microscopic level little cellular robots building structures out of proteins and manipulating the chemicals and elements it has available to it or that it can acquire. It's not that far fetched.

I don't understand why is it a problem for a Jockey to be from humans? Alien is also part human. Remember: if Alien comes out of a dog - it resembles a dog more. Maybe the space jockey is the "alien" but from another more profound host... I see no trouble with that.

so you're saying the facehugger operates on both the organic and inorganic? then why go after humans? why not latch onto a piece of machinery?

It looked like it may have gone after the machinery on the derelict in some scenes but it did not have much available. Maybe that is why they kept a laser over it to keep the termites out of the ship. Maybe it can do more with biological life and faster. If your going to terraform a planet you might have to have some kind of intelligent microscopic builders. I think the technology can rearranging atom the string level even. Engineering space itself.

[quote]@Theusprom - look again at the two pictures you posted - 1 with the star map and 2 with the Space Jockey seat. Now look at the figure in both, and look at the "curved pillars" that make up the set, the figures head is at the same height... it is one and the same person! As for being David, who knows, but I do get the vibe of his presence in the mysterious figures stance, if you know what I mean.[/quote] Lol, I know it's the same person, it was done to show the scale of jockey to human. That figure on the right isn't human, far too tall. Have you seen the guy playing the Engineer? http://twitter.com/clownfeet77

I must say the figure gives me pause, but earlier in trailer are they scanning a skull or a helmet. Seeing the figure from distance, I don't detect the signature bio-mech features from the chair. So the xeno/weapon must be a construct of the figure or a pet aquired through its stellar journeys. I'm just thinking out load, but I still can't shake my concerns. Only time will tell...

i know what you're saying, but you're still not addressing the inconsistency i brought up. why did the space jockey in alien have a burst chest cavity? obviously it means an alien came out. and an alien can only be produced inside the tissue of a living organism, as was evident in the scene where they looked at scans of kane's body and the facehugger. therefore, the space jockey cannot be a robot. it must be a live thing.

1. The goo has not been confirmed to be anything but goo. In fact it looks as though it is whatever is in the goo that is of importance. 2. No-one is saying that the mystery figure is David, we are all just throwing every theory we can around in our excitement, to try and figure out what it is we are seeing. The likelyhood is small, but not improbable - If the jockey's could make life out of nothing then surely they could do the same from an android, making him no longer an android. Yes, that smells of pinochio, so I hope I'm wrong. 3. I think its safe to say that we all know our stuff regards the ins and outs of the Alien, otherwise we wouldn't be here now would we. 4. Why not join in the debates, and the theories. Needless sarcasm and hostility is just that... needless.

[quote]i know what you're saying, but you're still not addressing the inconsistency i brought up. why did the space jockey in alien have a burst chest cavity? obviously it means an alien came out. and an alien can only be produced inside the tissue of a living organism, as was evident in the scene where they looked at scans of kane's body and the facehugger. therefore, the space jockey cannot be a robot. it must be a live thing.[/quote] Yeah, in a suit.

what's your point, theusprom?

It's a movie.

A work of fiction.

Don't we all feel a little less human when we have to wear a suit?

Like a robot.

yeah, but a work of fiction can still be consistent.