Ship to ship combat? Prometheus trailer of trailer.

Yes Spartacus, you are probably right, but it is a shame, because this is something we see over and over again in films.

yes, you are right and I agree...it is in a way and I never thought of it in that regard until now when you mentioned it, but I may have one thing that'll give you some hope...I am NO expert and it's just an educated guess and that's the best thing for you..because RIDLEY SCOTT is almost ALWAYS completely unpredictable! I remember thinking, and still do to this day, that the suits made him cut out a lot of that scene in Black Rain in which Andy Garcia gets his head cut off by a Samarai sword. The final scene just doesnlt look like something he approved...what i am tryng to tell you is you may still be right, and he may want me thinking the way ia m deliberatly, it's a vice of his, to get us all looking the wrong way befiore hitting us on the head wiht some awesome idea or angle we never thought of.

@Slakkers I like your way of thinking! It makes sense to me atleast. It could be possible too that the people/xenos aboard SJ ship aren't even evil, but realize what humans have let out of the Vault (with giant head) and it's containers and try to stop it from leaving by shooting Prometheus down and killing every human? Maybe the stuff in containers is so dangerous in their view that they don't want to come play a doctor, and would rather purge the danger along a barrel of a gun? Maybe big part of the plot is that both sides misunderstand each others objectives? This is actually pretty usual and normal plot development in many Hard SciFi stories. I just can't see Mr. Scott doing a SciFi movie with so obvious plot that everything is clear as a day when half of the film has been watched (as many of todays action oriented movies are). Some movies nowadays even reveal the whole plot in trailers, you then just have to concentrate on fancy action!

No, I just see it as they ram a ship into another ship. I doubt we will see much in the way of fire exchanged between either of them. Also, Live free or die hard is one of the worst films ever made. Horrible in every way.

@Ghorgul - Who are you the typing police?. Who cares really?...........................................................................................................

I think what we are seeing in this latest trailer-trailer is the prometheus on a collision course with the alien ship, an escape pod is launched and then, as seen in the first official trailer, the two escapees, who by this time have landed, are running away from the crashing ship.

I agree the theory of the Prometheus crashing into the ship, i just thought it might be interesting to see ship v ship. But i guess the collision of both ships would show the crew's desperation more, which would be rather effective, i mean you don't just ram a state fo the art research ship (correct if wrong) into an alien craft or anything. Thanks for all your responses on my first post btw guys.

@You have my sympathy It could really well go like that too. I'm counting on Prometheus firing some hidden AA-missile against SJ-ship though ^^ Saturdays trailer needs to give us more information! Plus I really think the SJ ship flying and firing red coloured energy/laser weapon and ripping Prometheus to pieces with it would look spectacular in 3D! BTW We always refer the human ship as Prometheus, but is this even certain knowledge?

All that debris, Spartacus, falling around Shaw and Vickers, I believe it comes from the Prometheus as it is completely obliterated while the derelict, being made of unkown materials likely durable beyond our understanding, remains intact as it is knocked from its trajectory.

I still highly doubt the collision theory. Why? Because in the 1st trailer we can see SJ ship rolling and Shaw + Vickers running away from it while there are burning pieces falling. Earlier we are shown that SJ ship falls, then shown it rolls, with burning pieces falling. I still can't see how Prometheus could collide with SJ ship, remain airborne while SJ ship falls and starts to roll and explode in air so burning pieces are falling while SJ ship is rolling. It makes no sense, to me atleast. My new theorycrafting: There are two SJ ships, Prometheus shoots/drops one down some way, the other SJ ship destroys Prometheus after this. I can't really agree with the argument that Prometheus is unarmed because it just is "unarmed research vessel". Why do we see atleast 2 pistols + 1 flame thrower in the trailer if the ship is unarmed? I think it's reasonable to assume that the company would do anything to take what they can, so in this light they could arm the ship with Missiles. This is not some university or UN research vessel after all.. But I really have no way to explain why Vickers would use escape pod...