4 SJ's in hallway with Shaw, not 2...

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Couldn't find this in a Google search, not sure if it's been discussed. My apologies in advance if it has. There are 4 SJ suits in the hall with Shaw, not just 2. Look above Shaw's head in the enhanced photo in this link: [url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=85998]Your text to link here...[/url] Filmophilia-Here is an excerpt from Ridley Scott's discussion, "Therefore, who is that, inside that [Space Jockey] suit? That wasn’t a skeleton, that was a suit. And if you open up the suit, what do you get inside it? And why were they going, where were they going?" I suppose it's as good a place to store the boimechanical suits as any. (Reminds me of a castle with suits of armor in the halls). Do the suits in the hallway already have sleeping occupants? Unlikely since there are what appear to be stasis chambers in the SJ room already. So if the suits are empty, where will their occupants come from? If the SJ (humanoid) shown in the trailer by the empty chair is too small to reach the chair's controls, will he be able to once he's inside the much larger suit? How many stasis chambers are there vs. how many "survivors" (and I use that word loosely) from Prometheus?

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January 23, 2012

I dunno'... The whole long braided hair - phallus thingy that plugs into stuff... sounds kinda' Gigery to me.

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January 23, 2012

At first, the idea of the SJ, as we know him in 'Alien', being a suit bothered me.....it got under my skin a little, just like everybody else, and then it began to simmer in the back of my mind, ultimately growing on me a little, and only because...one, we still don't know what the hell is supposed wear that thing to begin with...two, the simple idea that it's a suit makes you wonder even more the kind conceptual state of mind of its creators. What kind of thought process and thus, living thing, envisions that as a viable design for a suit? That, in itself, is a bit disturbing....three, there's still the possibility, with Dallas' pronouncement in 'Alien' that the SJ is growing out of the chair, that the suit serves as a means to biologically fuse its occupant with the chair, and thus, the ship. The wearer biomechanically fuses with his own technology; it's still odd, still weird and definately still damn cool.

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January 23, 2012

Brundlefly?

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January 23, 2012

The Borg? All I'm sayin' is someone or something fusing with tech... Has been done to death in the sci-fi realm. Hope it's a fresh idea... Those are much too rare these days.

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January 23, 2012

@ pjr this is the picture I uploaded which centrosphere was referring to (it's now enlarged). [url=http://sulaco.picturepush.com/album/190146/7383747/Picture-Box/Prometheus-Set-2.html]Hands[/url]

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January 23, 2012

Thank you Sulaco for the link to that very interesting picture! I remember now awhile back I saw that but didn't notice the hands - the enlarging of the picture now has helped me see them, and I appreciate that!

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January 23, 2012

That´s it! Thanks, Sulaco!

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January 23, 2012

I know the blending with tech thing has been done...what I'm referring to is a temporary fuse, as in the pilot, by wearing the suit and fusing with the chair, essentially becomes the ship in flight. He operates the craft by being the craft, in a sense, and when it lands, he disengages from the chair, breaking the fusion and he can remove the suit and go about his business.

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January 23, 2012

You all seem to be forgetting that tall, very humanoid figure in the navigation chair chamber. He is OBVIOUSLY some sort of alien being/construction/mutant that will get in the chair and the suit will grow around him. If that DOESN'T happen in the movie I will be VERY surprised.

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January 23, 2012

NineteenHundred...that's who we're talking about.....read the whole thread.

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January 23, 2012

Heh, if we look like the SJs because they made us in their image, [i]and[/i] they are irredemably evil beings..... that would go a long way in explaining human history, and make a mockery of every imaginary monster we've ever created, in attempting to convince ourselves that we aren't monstrous. You don't get that particular irony, if the SJs look like "scary monsters." Anyway, whatever they end up looking like, it's really what they've done and what they do, that matters.....having said that, I have a feeling that the big blue dude in the trailer will look more than Giger-freaky enough, up-close.....even if it turns out that he isn't an SJ. ;)

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January 24, 2012

Lame comparison but I'm assuming the SJ suits are similar to those aliens of Independence Day, biomechanical of some kind?? Kind of fused into the SJ itself, would be the best and most viable kinda suit to have when going planet to planet. . .

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January 24, 2012

If the engineers are going to be viewed as our Creators / Gods - and God created us in His own image, well I'd halfway expect that they should be human looking - if this is where Ripley is going with this story - and it looks that way - then I'd be very disappointed if the SJ's didn't appear human. That's not to say I like the whole idea, I think the SJ's had a lot of potential to be pretty creepy if the way we see it in Alien was it's true form. I agree with you LyleP - that concept was way too advanced for the rest of the movie. LOL!