There are NO Space Jockeys!

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When the crew lands, there are no space jockeys. The SJ ship is already there. It's a giant collecting and storage station. The crew creates an SJ (in their likeness, the one in the trailer) by accidentally screwing around with the urn goo and each other. On another part of the ship (remember it's huge) are the eggs (or maybe they show up later?) Obviously, at some point, the SJ gets infected... It stands to reason the humans have a hand in that too. We screw ourselves. One more thought, Ridley loves symbolism. The simple egg cracked with light for the original posters and ads for the first film... why not use a more realistic looking egg from the movie? Because it made the point simply. What's on the Prometheus poster?

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January 21, 2012

A dark ovoid head with a sliver of light at the bottom? I read a comparison between this and the original Alien poster either on here or another board a while back.

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January 21, 2012

I like your suggestion, but how come the stone faced statue and the so called space jockey in the trailer look so much alike... when the statue was made before human interaction and the scene in the trailer is after human interaction... i think the space jockeys are their own entity, but look like us because they made us from their own image

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January 21, 2012

YOU ARE THE SPACE JOCKEY? you are not! Ultimate li Mr Giger is the space jockey

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January 21, 2012

@Db While I think your tie in with the original ALIEN (infected Jockey and Eggs) probably won't materialize, I have had a similiar theory about the space jockey. The short version on my theory was that the SJ's are looking to obtain perfection (like the borg) by assimilating as much genetic diversity as possible. They seed life across the galaxy, and leave a trail of breadcrumbs back to their lab/temple. When a worthy species deciphers the breadcrumbs and show up, they inevitably set in motion events leading to the recreation of the SJ with newly infused genetic material from the new species.

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January 21, 2012

@Jeffomorph - That's the best theory I've read on here so far I think, bravo! Good thinking there! The only negative would be, alotta people will say "Oh Ridley Scott's just copied The Borg here!". . .

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January 21, 2012

Nothing wrong with a bit of star trek inspiration. I find the borg a very intimidating species. not that have ever met one in real life, lol. but you get my meaning. Its hard to be original in this day and age, with all taboos broken and of course, the interweb. I'm confident Ridley will do his best to give the Jockey's as much of an original angle as he can. I will be quite disappointed if the Eater island head isnt used as more than a 2001 monolith type object. I read somewhere that its the derelicts brain, sorta like the SJ's version of 'Mother'.

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January 21, 2012

If we created the creators of us, then who created the space jockey ship and chair?

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January 21, 2012

"If we created the creators of us" LMFAOROFLPMSLOL

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January 21, 2012

@eloso813: I think the giant head is in the derelict space craft because the space jockeys expect humans to find it and not some other race of creatures. The ampules that the head watches over are rewards for humanity making it as far as they have evolutionarily and technologically speaking. This is like monolith in 2001:A Space Odessey. Of course we have no idea how to safely use the contents of the ampules and proceed to damage ourselves!

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January 21, 2012

@GreatBoosUp I think what they have in the urns is not rewards for our ingenuity & curiosity. I think it is the new Xenomorph to wipe out the crew so to ensure that the knowledge of man's origin does not pass to the rest of humanity. You know what happens to those who eat from the Tree of Knowledge. The ship, the crew, Prometheus.

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January 21, 2012

@Db....in regards to the cracked egg from the ad campaign in 79', I believe Ridley, much as Love and respect the man, didn't have much of anything to do with the concept if I remember right. It was the idea of a graphic designer hired specifically for that campaign and he's the one who brought that to the table, complete with the heiroglyphic lettering style of the title they even used in the trailer and title sequence of the film; and the studio just went gaga over it, signing off imediately.

There are NO Space Jockeys!

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