Different Space Suits

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Good observation!

Maybe it's an Evo-morphic suit that adapts to the environment and changes for what ever the wearer needs to survive

Great eye you've got there..I totally missed that...perhaps we're looking at two legs on this journey....

If some the rumors about the crew finding something on earth then going off into space to another planet are true, then the two different suits could be easily explained, one for earth missions, one for space.

Kind of what I was thinking @Engineer Prototype - Model GAJ84, but I can't quite get past needing the suit ON earth...you know?

True, but if you were going into an unknown enviroment wouldnt you want some kind of protection? Earth & space missions is the only explaination I can come up with apart form bad continuity. Then again I could be completely wrong and we might only see one suit in the film. Maybe the differences could have just come about in production and they stuck with them?

I really enjoyed Alien & Aliens was even better & then when the extended edition of Aliens came out that was an improvement on the original. I so looked forward to Alens 3 but it was such a disappointment. I just hope Promethius isn't.Not just for my sake but mostly for that of my teenage sons who are fans of the genre like myself.

When I mentioned two legs, I also considered two destinations in deep space. Also, a critical, detailed viewing of 'Alien' shows more than one style of suit on the Nostromo and Narcissus, respectively. i.e....the scene when Rilpey, Parker and Brett are using the tracker and find Jonesy in the locker, there are suits in the background of that storage area that look very different than the ones worn by Dallas, Kane, Lambert and Ripley. And when Ripley goes looking for Jones at the end, there's a shot in which you can see suits in the clear cabinets that she pulls the carrying case out of. They look a bit different as well. My point being...there's no reason they can't have more than one kind of suit and we're just seeing shots of different, separate, successive trips off their ship to investigate the "Establishment", as Ridley calls it.

Alien...Possibility of 'rank' for the different suits. Different colours may indicate the difference between grunt worker and mission commander or 2IC and the fact they were a mining transport. At the mining job site it may have been required that the commander or team leader wore a different style suit. Just a thought. As for Prometheus....surely it must be different environments. One for a anti contamination suit...the other built for differerent worlds or atmosphere.

Enderwiggin, Nice post.. She has a camera on her suit in the space jockey photo. And is that mace she has around her waist? Also note that some of the suits have neon orange trim..

I'm thinking that the suits with the orange tabs are like emergency suits that Shaw and Vickers have to don before they get in the EEV. I think Vickers is getting ready to put one on while running when Janek is putting his ship on a collision course with the SJ ship.

What if the scene where the two statues Jockeys is inside the spacecraft SJ? It may be that both women were ejected in pods of emergency to escape the impending collision with the spacecraft SJ. I mean, in the triler you will notice in the final scenes that Shaw wears the same outfit that we see in the picture with the SJ. On the other hand when Vickers prepares to escape in an emergency pod can find yourself having the same suit. @Enderwiggin I think you're right, it is possible that other suits with orange tabs are for emergencies. But the other is for missions in the exploration of the alien planet.

Nice shot Enderwiggin! I think that the suit Shaw is wearing in the "SJ statues" photo never appears in any other movie stills, neither wearing Shaw, nor some other member of the crew. Hyphotesis: a) terrible continuity error (but it´s not the tipical continuity error); b) what Engineer Prototype - Model GAJ84 said: maybe it is an early prototipe of the suit that didn´t stand in the movie. c) the "SJ statues" photo must be of a very special section of the movie _ maybe the last moments? _ where a change of suit was for any reason inavoidable (I don´t resist _ maybe Shaw pissed herself... :) ).

Don't forget that Shaw 'potentially' gives birth to something; so she may loose a suit whilst the Engineers / Jockey's impregnate her and also they may simply change their suits - women being women, choose different styles.........

ALL I THINK OF EVERY TIME i SEE A PIC OF RAPACE, IS CHRISSY HYNDE AND THE PRETENDERS!!!

Could also be similar to diving a wet and dry suit; two layered. I'm sure we won't be focusing on the clothing when we watch the film though. Hopefully a few shots of Vickers and Shaw with very little on will be more appeasing :)

we may be if they look aweful "In Film" and something has not sat right with them since I first saw them. They Look too far removed to me from those that appeared in "Alien".

I understand that 'bad suit feeling', however, I see it in the same way as you could explain the more advanced technology from Prometheus to the Nostromo. Say you were a Mechanic would you meet your future in-laws in your overhauls and old pick-up truck or would you wear your best suit and borrow your best cutsomers ferrari. The Nostromo is a mining vessel, which has probably been serviced so many times and doesn't have an original part on it. It is crewed by working class miners on minimum future space wages. The Prometheus is crewed by the best minds Earth has to offer on a top ground breaking scientific mission with the best technology, gadgets, suits, etc you can get.

I pointed this out a few weeks ago chaps, even mentioned I have spotted three variations of suit but n'er mind, interesting.