Creature at start of trailer

its david

There isn't a search function implemented yet. I think the bald guy is a human mutated into a blue jockey. If you pause it and brighten the picture you'll see he is turning blue.

DJAB: Can I ask you how you, or somebody else, came to that conclusion? just watching the trailer, I can't see any resemblance. Was it discussed elsewhere? Thanks.

My thoughts were that it was an Engineer in primordial Earth's past seeding the planet with life. I think that the gray stuff collecting in his hand is the stuff used to create life and he's about to drop some out of his hand and into the water. From there, evolution takes its course. I also think it's probably the opening scene of the movie; setting the stage for the story.

That sounds pretty good. It could very well be.

Not sure, but this guys seems to have the same problem.. well, he's in a little more pain... [img]http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/2463/veins.jpg[/img] [url=http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/2463/veins.jpg]Large[/url]

Rick: Oookaaay! What is a 'blue jockey'? Did you mean Space Jockey? And now your saying humans mutate into the SJs! You are part of the "staff". Surely you're not leading us on! ;)

I strongly suspect it's Holloway in the process of mutating into a proto-space-jockey.

I thought it was a human with some kind of either nano-type infection or a human being transformed by same..... Looked like a person to me anyways...... Now, hasn't it been speculated that the Engineers can change biological and inorganic materials like that?

we briefly touched upon it in a recent forum called "giant space jocky from alien vs ardvark in prometheus"

@SNARK: It's already been fairly clearly established from what we've seen that both A) crew members undergo biological transformations, and B) the "space jockey" is actually a biomechanoid space suit of some kind worn by some other being altogether.

The difference between the veins in that picture above and the guy at the start of the trailer is that the guy at the start of the trailer has fewer, larger, and more ordered "veins". The blue man's veins don't look like proper veins but more like moving tattoos; they go in a specific line and don't branch off as much as the guy in the picture. If the guy in the start is an Engineer, I think that maybe his skin is always moving--the lines are always traveling about his body. I can't prove any of it, but that's just what I interpret from it.

Here was my take about him: [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/2095]What I Saw[/url] Hope posting links like this doesn't come off as pretentious it just sure beats writing the same thing over and over again : )

dtrisml: Holloway mutating into a proto-SJ!? Where'd you get that one from?

Great screencap danrald. I can't help but think it's David which is odd, it looks like his jawline and teeth. SNARK, Holloway is infected by something for sure, we can see this when he looks at his eye in a mirror - there's something small and twitchy in it.

Perhaps the gods need manpower to accomplish the work of creating life, I can think of 2 reasons for this: 1) The gods are metaphysical entities that created the technology to terraform worlds biomechanics and insert life in them, but they need physical beings of nature for the task. Then the invitation is for humans to reach Zeta Reticuli to alter their DNA to have pra appropriate and evolutionary characteristics to handle the chair and get the job done. 2) The gods are the liquid from the Urns. The invitation is to enter a human body and thus to fulfill the demand of creationism. PDD: You must not forget that there is a possibility that humans are mutated monsters, ie primitive versions of the Xenomorph.

I could see the movie set up the situation where Shaw and Holloway are in a relationship and something happens to him that makes him some sort of monster that she has to kill, but is conflicted about killing.

I think scott plans on addressing some the same issues he did in blade runner regarding artificial life. Mans need for control and superiority leads him to create life "David" and become his god but if David is completely self aware with soul will he take the same route as man and have a need to create life and feel superior. i thought maybe he gets infected by the primordial facehugger he extracts with his bare hand, and since everybody is dead set on the Bio-Mechanical theme its not entirely impossible that the mystery goo improves his man made body turning him into a completely new being. I think the scene we see at the beginning of the trailer is what has become of david at the end of the movie.

If it is Holloway mutating, then what we see at the start of the trailer is actually the end of the story. ie. He can only be infected once he got there. If it is him, where is he? The planet they're on surely doesn't look like it has water!

I think whoever is seen at the beginning of the trailer is likely also the same figure who we've previously seen activating the chair array (pale, bald, muscular human-looking male). At least it *feels* to me like the same being (and also note the resemblance to the "head".