space jockey chair

Sorry...I just don't buy that. It's always seemed like one of two things...either the pilot's chair for the 'Space Croissant' as Ridley's called it, or it's a telescopic device of some kind related to that massive holographic map.

I think we may wel find out just what it is in June

Heres a thing that has surprisingly just occurred to me... In the trailer we see the chair rise up from underneath the platform, yet underneath the platform in Alien was the egg chamber. Could this be how the Space Jockey gets Facehugged - An egg opens, out comes the Facehugger and climbs into the chair, chair gets raised, Facehugger sneaks out, Space Jockey takes his place, Facehugger waits and then WHOOP, gotcha.

Hi all, excellent discussion. The SJ chair is the part that fascinates me. What we see in the Prometheus trailer is not the same room that was in Alien. There are large 'hibernation' pods on the floor of the SJ room in the trailer. The size of them makes me think the SJ is already inside the pod or the humanoid behind the "S" in the photo-still is going to enter the pod and increase in size. But why would the SJ bio-suit not be in the same room? Any thoughts? Love this forum.

Has anyone out there constructed a replica Space Jockey Chair as a PC workstation ? WANT!

Pilot's command chair and/or weapon's console?

Snork, that is a brilliant little theory right there. Since Shaw and David have been fiddling around on the ship, they might have coerced the hugger out (accidentily or otherwise).

Space Jockey Chair = Penis = Camera

lol. no.

It's Mel Gibson's hate gun.

i always figured that apparatus / canon / thing was an multiple functioning device, and now with the addition of the holographic element like the star charts configurations, i'd guess that instrument controls the drive of the ship, etc. there are angles in other pics of the apparatus where you can see what looks like a large pair of human lips at the tip of the device, more of Giger's psychosexual design i guess all in all, i'd say that device serves as a primary control center for the craft argh! i can NOT wait to find out if all these questions will be answered in PROMETHEUS, or if it will leave me with even bigger questions damn....

[quote] Member Posts: 34 Send PM RickK › Posted 01/23/2012Moderate It's Mel Gibson's hate gun.[/quote] LOL [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/1a1Gib.jpg[/img]

I have a simpler and unsexy theory. Maybe some of you have heard of the "most famous unfilmed scene" of "Alien". It´s in the script and also was graphically depicted in a "Ridleygram": the "Nostromo" would have an "observation dome", where Dallas and Ripley were meant to protagonize a "love scene": [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CcjaNCJXX34/SqWj9Q_W2OI/AAAAAAAAAcc/3SGwOAiQfsw/s1600/ALIEN-27.jpg[/img] You can see that the position of Dallas is totally similar to the position of the SJ in the derelict. If the scene was ever filmed, the parallel would be almost impossible to pass unremarked. Personally, I think the idea of an observation dome with a telescope and a chair is completely out of place in a scenario of advanced technology, but it´s insertion in the movie was tailored to convey to the audience the feeling that although alien, the SJ technology was functionally similar to earthiling´s .

Another view of Nostromo´s "observation dome": [img]http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CcjaNCJXX34/SqWj9AfR99I/AAAAAAAAAcU/HzMH8u5fw0s/s1600/ALIEN-26.jpg[/img]

What does Space Jockey Skull look like? What animal?

None with which we are familiar, which is the point, I'd say. : )

Wrong, look again

"i'd say that device serves as a primary control center for the craft" What is the primary control center of a FILM