Shaws body in 1979 alien!

God I give up!.... It seems a bit far fetched for me. Everyone seems to be clutching at straws to find some sort of connection to Alien. Ive not heard a good one as yet.

Yes! Biomechanic shares a very interesting point! I believe we are both on the right track to figuring out the mystery!

Yes! Biomechanic shares a very interesting point! I believe we are both on the right track to figuring out the mystery!

Hey Bio, Bud, I can't see it. All I see is something dangling down like an umbilical cord and thats it. Can you get me a close in on it without it getting overly pixelated. Regards, Rick

I'm thinking I see a hint of a mouth on the front of the thing. Tentacles would be its body, I suppose. More similar to the chestburster than the facehugger.

Yes.. I was coming up with the same conclusion... she gave birth to an egg.. but the odd thing is that it looks like she had a c-section, but left the umbilical cord attached, then put the egg into the swivel thing for some reason.. strange...

Biomechanic has hit the nail on the head! NOw - we all have read the tie-in to the orginal movie (I saw it when I was 17), so no we can wait to see the movie without ANY more questions/conjectures/what-if's on this science FICTION movie. Just enjoy it wit a large popcorn and cherry coke!

You see that figure moving in the top left of the frame? Haven't heard anyone else mention it.

"If she's female then the buster may be a queen" There is no queen in the original Alien story. I seriously doubt she is the space jockey. The ship is filled with thousands, possibly millions of eggs which could not be laid in that short of a time span by your alleged "Elizabeth Shaw space jockey queen"

Who/what is extracting the proto facehugger with the clamps? And in the upper left hand corner it's either a distorted reflection or it looks like an Alien imo

Some people were having guesses where this thing was extracted from. I present you with this. Umbilical cord, C-Section wound, Stitching. [IMG]http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj492/Dgoodman4521/ShawsBirth.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj492/Dgoodman4521/ShawsBirthHiLite.jpg[/IMG]

Yes, she definitely gave birth to something.

if you can get a close up of her stocmach in the HD trailer that's definitely a stitching from recent surgery.

I have the trailer in HD downloaded to quicktime so you can move it frame by frame, those staples are clear as day when you move the frames like that. I wonder how the vaginal birth would've turned out for her. Ouch, screw chest bursters, this movie has genital bursters. Giger must have been more involved in this than we were led to believe. LOL You know in the IMAX trailer it jumps out towards the screens right after it's extracted, so it must escape after this scene and that's when she tries to make it to David and Vickers to warn them and then collapses. The creature escaping from the Space Jockey's head in the leaked trailer looked just like this with tentacles. Same one? More than one? ( It was posted by Bellaisanalien a while back).

In one of the novels, Alien3 I think, Ripley is telling another one of the characters that the Alien on board the Nostromo was preparing to reproduce itself. The cut scene seemed to suggest that Brett was being slowly enveloped by a growing egg, fed upon by a larval facehugger. It would have been physically impossible for the drone on board the Nostromo to "lay" a full sized egg, so it had to deposit something like the earlier drawing, or attach some sort of small parasite on Brett that eventually cocooned and consumed him. If the scene in question is a facehugger being removed, then this is Shaw's death scene. In Alien and Aliens, any attempt to remove one of those usually resulted in some very bad things happening to the host.

It looks very much like an octopus or a squid!

my opinion is that the whole area is airborne with cells that infect the whole crew check out the guy looking at his eye ...he is changing !!!! that would leave it wide open for a queen and hunters to emerge ..then all the rest ..comes into place ....the thing in the capsule with the woman could be acting lick a fungi and releasing spores any comments on this theory ?

jc and biomechanic, this is similar thinking I used back in the 90's when compiling the alien lifecycle chart. Brett was injected or stung by the Alien with some kind of retrovirus that rewrote his DNA., Dallas was going to be the host to the new face hugger.

on the first frame of your .gif you can clearly see some kind of a umbilical cord going down from that embryo to her body like when a child is connected to mother after being born

My fear is that we will see Shaw chasing her baby ,,,to be honest i dont like the idea that much ... Its pretty clear that the protochestbuster/protofacehugger/protoegg is extracted from the belly as biomechanic say . two interesting notes 1) will be the first time that one is saved from being the host of an xeno in any alien movie ...we saw many promises before but ..everyone died ... 2) Later we see her to rebel against a medic...it would be interesting to think why