My take on the new trailer

LTBecks

MemberOvomorphMarch 19, 2012606 Views2 Replies

Spoiler Alert “The king has his reign...and then he dies” refers to the Engineers. I believe the bald character at the beginning of the trailer is an Engineer from long ago. They created worlds, seeding their bioform (and genetic material – possibly one and the same) with different species they discovered. Humanity is one of these species. Over time, this bioform somehow became sentient and/or corrupted; ultimately infecting the Engineer race (explains why the black material is spreading throughout the Engineer’s body). The bioform infection caused the Engineers to grow Alien embryos (explains all the bodies in the trailer). I believe the giant head monument is a lab on the Engineer’s home world that contains urns with bioform material that humans were made from. There are likely monuments like this for every race the Engineers have developed. Before the outbreak, the plan was for the races that achieved sentience to discover this world, and meet their makers, so to speak. Now their home world is desolate and barren, and the Engineers have become all but extinct. While studying the urns, one of the humans becomes infected with the bioform much like the Engineers did and begins trying to infect the other crew (the jumping mohawk guy). At some point in the movie, the Alien progenitor makes an appearance, likely being an Engineer-based Alien who has remained loose in the ship since the outbreak. The big blue character is one of the last remaining Engineers who avoided this plague by going into stasis, keeping watch to contain the virus that destroyed his race. He becomes fearful of the visitors (likely David) who want to take the bioform off the world. David explains (while grinning) that “big things have small beginnings”. It’s likely that he is a company AI whose mission is to acquire technology at all costs (like in all Alien movies, the crew is always expendable). The Engineer sets out to destroy mankind for attempting to steal this deadly material. He would do so because of the likelihood that more humans would come to the world and violate the quarantine zone. His plan is to take the ship's eggs (that have been preserved for study) to Earth to punish the humans, already knowing the damage they can do. The Prometheus then crashes into the ship. The pilot then becomes trapped and some of the “cargo” gets loose. An Alien facehugger attaches itself to him. The fate of the surviving human crew will become the basis for the second movie. In Alien (79), the crew lands on this same planet (LV 426). They discover the same ship that collided with the Prometheus and so the story continues... I believe the Engineers are not malevolent, but a race of amazing scientists. But they are not above wiping out an entire civilization to prevent a catastrophe from spreading throughout the galaxy.

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March 19, 2012

LTBecks that is a very nice take! There are some questions I have about how this and ALIEN tie together, maybe you can shed some light on things. In Prometheus, the organism is contained in thin vials, but in ALIEN they are rather plump, leathery eggs. Clearly, the vials are artificial in nature while the eggs appear to have come directly from an organism (or we would presume). Also, the eggs in the original derelict were neatly arranged in rows- covered by some form of containment beam that also served as a form of alarm. If the eggs were there without the "layer of mist" and not so neatly arranged in the rows, I would be willing to accept that they all originated from an alien which emerged from a Space Jockey. So like others have said, this is possibly not the same derelict at all! This brings me to my second question. It has been discussed that the organism starts off in a more basic form, then acquires genetic characteristics from it's hosts. But the ALIEN hieroglyph in the new full-length trailer seems to show an almost full-formed adult warrior as we have come to know it. So... does the organism take over some of the host's genetic characteristics, or has it always had that form? Last question- in ALIEN, we see the Space Jockey's purported bones bent outward, but Ridley says those are not bones, that's a suit. Fine... but shouldn't the Space Jockey's *real* bones have been apparent under the suit in some form or another? It's almost as if they changed this facet of the story just to conveniently serve the larger Prometheus story.