SJ suit and Facehugger

omg omg omg omg omg (dancing up and down furtively waving hands a -la- homer) whatever it is in those shots it can't be good for the crew. WRT a hybrid alien based on the form of host- remember in A3 the dog was the next host and the alien looked decidedly different as a result. So I'm firmly of the view that the SJ likely had an impact on the look of it's chest burster. I also hope the SJ isn't wearing an exoskeletal suit as some of postulated. Since in the original we see the fossilized bones. I'd like to think any suit would have disintegrated away over time leaving the SJ's fossilized body behind. Footnote- the SJ seat coming out of the floor in the trailer- how cool is that

I think you right the SJ is infected before he sits in the chair / cockpit before getting chestbusted.... I think thats also the room where they create the Biomechanical life so when the SJ is in the middle of the creation process he gets chestbusted and it all goes horrifically wrong? Like the created eggs become corrupted the bioweapon is altered to that of the xeno by mistake... Although the xenos display intelligence they do come across as without a soul don't they so for all we know it could be david has a part to play in this.... We will find out some more in a few days but will probably raise new questions

That thing that the other thing is bursting out of in that GIF reminds me of a Chozo statue from Metroid.........

Ahhh...'Metroid'...haven't thought about that in years....I loved that game, had the the sequel for gameboy....that was great, drove me bats crazy though.

It was supposed to craigamore.... that's why I loved all of those games ;-)

The chestburst occurs clearly AFTER the space jockey sits in the chair, since the suit is fused to it (at least that's how we see it in Alien). Of course, they could adjust the plot and make the chestburst occur before he is attached , and that a weakened and wounded Space Jockey tries to leave the planet, just to be hit later by the prometheus.

Yes the logical thinking would be that the Space Jockey is infected before fusing with the cockpit, and knows full well of its own impending demise. But here is the interesting bit: we know the legacy signal was a warning not a distress, so did the Space Jockey ditch the Derelict or actually fail to take off before succumbing to a chestburster? What you believe depends on whom you think the Space Jockey is, and what its motives are. Some say the Space Jockey is bad, and the Derelict was destined for Earth, but human intervention put paid to that. Others say a benevolent Space Jockey defied its own kind and aided the humans in sabotaging the Earth campaign. I religiously believe the Derelict was heading for Earth but it was Shaw - incubating an alien - who donned the Space Jockey suit (Goldilocks-style problems I discussed months ago), and took the Derelict out of autopilot and grounded it, before perishing herself. But how do you explain Shaw outside the Derelict, running away from the debris?, I hear you shriek. Well, I would say that is merely a preceding scene after which, the Derelict is still operational.

Yes the logical thinking would be that the Space Jockey is infected before fusing with the cockpit, and knows full well of its own impending demise. But here is the interesting bit: we know the legacy signal was a warning not a distress, so did the Space Jockey ditch the Derelict or actually fail to take off before succumbing to a chestburster? What you believe depends on whom you think the Space Jockey is, and what its motives are. Some say the Space Jockey is bad, and the Derelict was destined for Earth, but human intervention put paid to that. Others say a benevolent Space Jockey defied its own kind and aided the humans in sabotaging the Earth campaign. I religiously believe the Derelict was heading for Earth but it was Shaw - incubating an alien - who donned the Space Jockey suit (Goldilocks-style problems I discussed months ago), and took the Derelict out of autopilot and grounded it, before perishing herself. But how do you explain Shaw outside the Derelict, running away from the debris?, I hear you shriek. Well, I would say that is merely a preceding scene after which, the Derelict is still operational.