Metallic look of things

I think the crew are laser scanning the room in particular the alien relief on the wall. A science team of course would document their research and that technology does not look alien to me. In Alien we aren't suppose to know that the blue mist was created by a laser that was just what the effects team used. It was simply a way to realize Giger's concept. A glowing mist itself was just surrounding the eggs and I always thought it was to give the eggs a warning that their was life near.

I think the jacked-up bald dude is most likely an SJ. You can see all kinds of biomechanical stuff going on with this figure, which is probably a CGI overlay on a motion-captured, digital enlargement of some jacked-up actor. We're likely to see significantly more of the actual biomechanical workings of the non-human characters in this movie than we ever saw in "Alien." As good as it was, the alien xenomonster would have fallen apart in terms of credibility, had we ever gotten a good, long, brightly lit look at it. At the end of the day, it was really just a tall guy in a rubber suit with some animatronics......and gallons of slime.

I see the story about humans being used to ressurect the dyeing Engineers. It makes complete sense that the metalic ampules are used to maintain genetic code which will transform a vessel (a specially designed vessel; namely a human) into an Engineer or something else. My theory is the wheelchair man comes into contact with a very small amount of the bioformer when the team discover the alien dna on Earth and he slowly starts to transform into a part human / part Engineer, maintaining some of his human morals. The others who come into contact with concentrated bioformer are less compassionate to humans or more concerened with their own resurrection ................. This being the case I believe the large humanoid is the part human / part engineer, but I'm hoping their will be something more Space Jockey like :)

I'd go with a lot of that. What is likely is that the jockeys are waiting for the arrival of humans and intend to interact and share their knowledge with them. Maybe use them to regenerate their species. But the crew get greedy setting off a war.

I still don't hold out and hope for any crazy monster xenos not even toward the end.

From Ridley Scott in June, 2011 "The (space) journey, metaphorically, is about a challenge to the gods. NASA and the Vatican agree that is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way. That's what we're looking at (in the film), at some of Eric von Daniken's ideas of how did we humans come about." It involves the hypothesis that the technologies and religions of many ancient civilizations were given to them by ancient astronauts who were welcomed as gods." The explanation goes further as to interpret the drawing you see here below from tomb of Mayan ruler Pakal as a possible comparison to the Space Jockey seen in Alien, a character Scott has already said would be central to the Prometheus story. I am not sure about that "Micro Changes" But I am More and More sure of one thing more than anything else the closer we get to June...and it is this... This film is going to spend a lot of time focusing on the Engineer's !!! [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1a1pal.jpg[/img]

Scott's own words regarding the xenomorth, "he’s now in Disneyland in Orlando and no way am I going back there"; instead, the alien will be reenvisioned as a progenitor of the received form of the Xenomorph, and Scott contacted H. R. Giger for possible artistic collaboration. pro·gen·i·tor Noun: A person or thing from which a person, animal, or plant is descended or originates; an ancestor or parent. ................. I have high hopes we will see a creatures, especially looking at the amount of references to preduction crew related to effects, design, puppetry, etc both to creature design and prostethics :)))