God is Dead
Gavin
MemberTrilobiteJanuary 14, 20122656 Views45 RepliesThis new interview with Kate Dickie has got me thinking...
First of I'll list what we know, adding the elements of Kate Dickie's interview:
1. Humans discover they were created by an alien race, not god.
2. Humans travel for 5 years to the planet with the answers.
3. Humans discover an ancient temple and the famous ampule room.
4. Humans grab a helmet/skull and at least one of the ampules.
5. Humans return to their ship as a storm/explosion hits
6. humans study helmet/skull and an ampule.
7. Someone mutates, Shaw pregnant, skeletal monstrosities stalking them.
...Unknown Gap...
8. Derelict takes off, human ship crashes into it.
9. Derelict crashes, Shaw and Vickers barely survive.
Of course there is the mystery of old bald guy, but that's another discussion.
What has got me thinking is the Space Jockey remains in the ampule room, the helmet/skull, the eerie emptiness of the temple and ampule room, the mention of the skeletal monstrosities and the creation of life idea.
Why would the crew go so far - for proof of their creation and for answers. But what if all they find is the ampule room and a dead alien. No answers, just more questions. What if god, or in this case our creators (Space Jockeys/Engineers) are dead. But surely if these guys could create life they would have a means to cheat death. what if our arrival on the planet resurrects them and sets of a chain of events that leads not to the creation of the Alien but the resurrection of the Alien, from times gone by.
We go looking for our god, and answers, but what we uncover is the truth that our creator is the devil, an ancient evil with an ancient army of demons (the Alien). Is this what Ripley meant by "...Its about everything..." and "...Its Epic..."
January 14, 2012
I agree BM, buried among the the lame ideas.
Come on Guys... Big, BIG, EPIC, I want my jaw on the floor.
I bet Ridley is wetting himself with laughter at how small we are thinking, do you wanna be laughed at.
January 14, 2012
Take these three ideas...
1. Shaw pregnant with proto-xeno facehugger, facehugs SJ, Queen lays all the eggs.
2. Human mutates, becomes an SJ and decides to attack earth.
3. Urns become eggs (???) and the Alien is born, to be used against the humans.
I find these ideas small. one ship, one cargo of eggs, thats not very epic. Instead try this...
1. Humans go to temple and steal stuff.
2. SJ's (yes plural) are woken from a very, very deep sleep.
3. 100's, thousands maybe millions of Derelicts awaken throughout the universe, each loaded with eggs.
4. The xeno is revealed to ancient, old than man.
Now thats epic.
BTW bioformer, or as I call it magic snot, thats not very Epic really.
January 14, 2012
Think of a dark, menacing version of 2001
