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MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 10:25 PMBased on the teaser and trailer...
It looks like the "invitation" may be in fact a warning or trap. Similar to how in Alien the derelict ship sent out a beacon that was presumed later to be a warning. Now what if we know it was a lure.
Also, the invitation has a picture of a very large humanoid presumably the SJ which means it's a species that predates us and not just David evolved.
When Shaw says we were wrong it's highly likely that she is referring to the invitation. What if the SJ's are destroyers of worlds and are in no way shape or form benevolent or spreading life. When a species finds them they "collect" their DNA to reuse as they see fit and then deploy a ship to destroy their home world. Think like a roaming galactic collector that harvests life for it's own purposes and then kills the source.
The fact we look like them but smaller ie: the giant head would lead me to believe we are related somehow but just how I am not sure.
Also, the ALIEN forming in the wall could be a security system and the first actual Xeno that we know and love. When a life form walks in it's scanned and a Xeno based on that life form is created. Once activated it seeks out life and reproduces to eradicate every living thing.
The URNs or Ampules may have nothing to do with Xeno's but the SJ's just designed the Xeno to reporduce in a similar manner. Like an architect that uses a certain style to all his buildings.
Also, at the end of the trailer shaw is on the ground and it looks like a human size SJ is standing over her. What if that is David and the mutation on his android body turned him into a pseudo SJ while maybe it turns humans and others into monsters or some kind of Xeno....
Thoughts?
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ArchEtech
MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 11:11 PMMy take is the "destroyer of worlds" seems a little too comic book villainesque. Not because they haven't, or couldn't, or aren't going to try and destroy earth, but simply because it seems kind of simplistic for an ancient advanced being.
More likely the Engineer race is dead. They died because of their own foolishness, greed, and scientific god complex, and humans are going to follow in their footsteps by opening up a tomb that was never intended to be opened again.
Preston
MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 11:27 PMFrom the trailer it seems that the SJ interacted with early man, and that bad things happen once the humans follow the pictographic map. Amongst the bad things that happen are the derelict launching to go to Earth for nefarious purposes.
This suggests that the invitation is a trap. If it was a warning, it really need not be left at all. Space is vast. The chances of stumbling upon the planet by sheer happenstance are fairly remote. Furthermore, from a probability standpoint, each of several long shot possibilities would need to occur:
Humans develop technology without killing themselves off along the way
Humans would have found their way to the trouble planet on their own
Humans are able to successfully find and interpret the warning.
Each of these is fairly remote without an outside hand controlling events. Which suggests a trap.
But the trap seems far fetched as well. What's really to gain by the SJ's elaborate multi-millennial trap? If the wanted the planet, it was there's for the taking long ago. Why wait till Humans had developed sufficient technology to wipe them out?
ArchEtech
MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 11:27 PMAs far as David, we don't know for sure.
But I think one of the crew gets a taste of some corruption and intends to fly the gift back home for everyone else to enjoy!
ArchEtech
MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 11:33 PMPreston I agree. It's too simple. It's contrived and overly elaborate to use such means and methods to destroy or take over a planet, when you could just fly there and do whatever the hell you want. I don't even think the Xeno creature makes a good weapon. maybe something else worse would, but then you're still back to the "why" go to so much trouble, and what is there to gain. The joy of burning bugs with a magnifying glass? Maybe but still kinda.... Ehhhh.. On the plot.
EGR101
MemberOvomorphMar-20-2012 11:52 PMI don't think that the Space Jockeys or the Engineers are destroyers of world or villainous DNA collectors. I think we are the threat to the Galaxy Peace. As shown by the TED2023, the ambitions flaunted by Pete Weyland is kinda frightening. Imagine billions of such species, intelligent, cunning, adaptive, greedy, destructive - that is human isn't it? What if we are the ones they need to quarantine? What if when we arrive on that planet, we become the parasites. And those monstrosities are security measures to keep us away for, umm, good.
Bedhead7
MemberOvomorphMar-21-2012 2:03 AMI would agree with that EGR101, but what is the big deal with lv-426? Why put the trap there? It's a barren world. Why not just wipe the humans out before they develop technology?
richard80
MemberOvomorphMar-21-2012 3:51 AMI am thinking about the fact that Scott has used the term DNA a lot when talking about the film and how this is the start of the story. What if the alien itself started out has a mutation like the film the cave once it infects its host it causes great changes so the host can adapt to its environment. This would link the alien to us
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