Space Jockey communications with Prometheus Crew

Jeffomorph

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The other thread wondering if the deleted scene warning signal in ALIEN is the space jockey voice got me wondering... How do you think the Space Jockeys and/or Engineers will communicate with the crew of Prometheus? Some possibilities I can think of are: They will speak in English-- (we have studied your transmissions and learned your method of communication). The voice might be digitally altered to make it unique, but still understandable. They will speak through David--Possibly some digital format that data can decode and relay to the human crew members. They will speak telepathically--Could be in the form of an inner voice, or through some sort of vision. This could be cumbersome to the movie if there is a lot of communication. Also the possibility of Empathic communication. The crew doesn't communicate in the typical sense, but instead the beings project feeling/intent at the crew. Example would be love (if they are good), or Malevolence. Any thoughts?

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January 26, 2012

Jeffomorph, that's just one of the aspects of this film I'm looking forward to. If not telepathic communication, but some sort of voice/verbal, I think some bizarre sound effects will be called for this and many other things no doubt. Can't wait.

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January 26, 2012

would be more mysterious if they spoke among themselves without anyone understanding what they say. would be too much like star wars/trek if they spoke english lol

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January 26, 2012

Did you just call David Data in some weird Freudtrekian slip?

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January 26, 2012

What made Alien great was that there was no communication with the xeno. It was just there to eat and breed. No negotiations, no truce. When's the last time you held a conversation with your chicken nuggets? It's simply there to serve a purpose. Food. Did you apologize to them for eating them? Did you think it was necessary? I hope there is no communication. I feel the SJ's are a single minded race who are only interested in furthering species (theirs/others?) whether that species agrees or not. Think Ligers. Did we ask their permission to screw around with the gene pool? I hope SJ's are void of communication, consideration and conscience.

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January 26, 2012

When's the last last time you had to ask a Liger for permission to screw with its gene pool? How about your chicken nuggets? Do you ask them permission/apologize to them before eating them? I think/hope the SJ's won't communicate. They won't need to. It's not necessary to their mission. Breed/eat/repeat. That's what made the first Alien so mysterious, there was no communicating/negotiating with it... only surviving... or not.

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January 26, 2012

i guess a distress signal or sos/warning or whatever it was is not considered communication then?

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January 26, 2012

How are they going to tackle the overwhelming evidence for primordial man the huge head if we are to believe is some monument to man or the creators of men must address mans early development ie Neanderthal and the lineage from that point onwards. Unless of course we go into the adam and eve scenario and eve was created from the ribs of a space jockey aghhhh.

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January 26, 2012

I'm with Db on this one, conversing with us would be like us trying to converse with an ant. Although there has to be some way the crew become aware of their malevolence. if they speak English, it just wont be right.

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January 26, 2012

i always thought women were another species lol

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January 26, 2012

@alteredstate: Sure it is. I stand corrected as to the literal definition of communication. Was it code? Binary? Morse? Whatever it was, was it an invitation to an ambush? Or does Shaw leave it as a: "stay the f___ away", before the chestburster kills her inside te SJ suit?

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January 26, 2012

you could be right there with the last comment db

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January 26, 2012

[quote]How do you think the Space Jockeys and/or Engineers will communicate with the crew of Prometheus?[/quote] With a heap of dirt thrown in their face from the ship landing. I'm starting to doubt we'll have any verbal communication at all with the jockey's. We'll just be observers, making our own mess and problems before finding out "it's not all about us". Shaw might even see the jockey(s), with her and David figuring out bits along the way. Ridley loves all that implied stuff.

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January 26, 2012

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January 26, 2012

Theres always the possibility that the tall guy is a messenger between the Space Jockeys and Us.

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January 26, 2012

Yes snorkel bottom i was wondering that its part them part us and is translating sounds a bit corney though not the sort of thing Ridley would come up with or like

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January 26, 2012

depends on how it was handled, as a translator it would suck, but as a "butler" with an agenda, that might be interesting.

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January 26, 2012

IMO the tall/bald guy is more important than a servant, butler, or mechanic. That big giant noggin of his in the ampule room shows his importance and leads me to believe that he IS the big kahuna in the story. There are two possibilities. He is a Jockey sans suit, or he and the Jockey are seperate species. If it's the latter, my guess is that the Jockeys answer to him. @Biomechanic Thanks for catching my David/Data slip lol I assure you it wasn't intentional. Now back to the communication theory--I think the ultimate creep factor would be if they beings completely ignored the crew for the most part. Then when somebody messes up or takes something they shouldn't, they finally turn their attention to the crew... And that is a bad thing.

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January 26, 2012

One idea (pretty much mine to be honest) could be that the icon, the big head is a representation of what man will look like in a thousand or so years. Thus when we arrive on the planet our greeter is an example of that, a highly evolved human born by the Space Jockeys to relate information to us, our history, our purpose etc. Maybe he is Prometheus...

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January 26, 2012

I like the "ant" comparision of Enderwiggin. But I think things will develop differently. For one thing: the baptism name of the movie itself speaks volumes. There is a strong suggestion of a tentative of "cathcing up". Thus I think that SJ´s will do everything to us but ignoring us.

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January 26, 2012

@Snork You think this highly evolved human (blue guy) steals something from The Gods, then tries to escape, and the Gods unleash their biological weapon against him, which bursts through his chest, while he is in the chair/control seat...