Origin of the original warning message intercepted by Nostromo...

Casey'splastictorso
MemberOvomorphMarch 22, 20123028 Views15 RepliesAlright,
So, I have this theory I’ve been playing with that I don’t thinks’ been examined.
Let’s say for the sake of argument that this isn’t a direct prequel blah blah blah, as Sir Scott maintains. Okay. Fine. However, it may be and Ridley could very well be messing with is. It really doesn’t matter at this point.
What matters is the Space Jockey.
To further elaborate my point here simply by demonstrating that Ridleys' flat-out stated (in one of those interviews a few weeks back) that the only physical connective tissue of the actual movies, in any real form, is that Weyland is in the film and will go on to be half the namesake of the company we all love to hate, I think we’re left with a bit of BS [b]SOMEWHERE [/b].
Obviously, the Space Jockey is the real linear tie.
Okay, to the meat of my point of this post as I’m digressing. Alllllll of the above in play and up for debate/conjecture, let’s talk message. That is to say, the original message picked up by the Nostromo in Alien. A series of clickidy audio-squirts with a strangely disjointed voice and a sudden scream/disconnect.
Knowing what we know now about (or perceive to know from what’s been pieced together thus far from the trailer(s), we’re in all probability dealing with the potential (until verified in the absolute) for mutation either by/from/ for or , potentially, inTO the Space Jockey(s) by at least some or even several of the Prometheus crew. We don’t know really. But let’s say it happens.
That in play, I’m gonna go out on a limb with the following neato theory for a “missing Link” that could potentially, physically bridge Prometheus (or any of it's potential cash-grabbing progeny) directly to Alien.
The consideration…Unless it’s a freakin’ Space Jokey turned “hero” who’s fuzzy up’d and befriended the Prometheus crew (Think Sloth from The Goonies-unlikely as the Space Jockeys seem to be pretty much nefarious types with no redeeming values or known history of abuse by Italian opera singing brothers or criminally inclined parentage, bent on doing very bad things to just about everybody anybody and for pretty much reasons unknown, and really, from a layman's pov, the fact that they, again, just seem to demonstrate an overall nefariousness all around AS Space Jockeys in general), I don’t think such a Space Jockey would send a warning out to avoid at all costs the crash site/planet.
Quite the opposite really. And in THAT case we could have an entirely NEW theory in which the sad result is that Ripley becomes "Class-A Cluster-F#ck, worst linguistics translator of the galaxy", and gets the reward from screwing up the message entirely, and pretty much lies at the heart of the blame for the unfortunate series of events she and her comrades wind up in in for the duration of the rest of the saga.
The Space Jockeys sending out a warning, for all intents and purposes, would be a bit akin to a Black Widow Spider , perched in the center of her scary web, about to lure in her unsuspecting prey, while simultaneously swinging wildly those glowing-orange airplane guide-in cones they use on airport runways as the flights taxi in, while also standing under a 50 gigawatt sign, flashing in bright flaming letters, "DANGER- STAY THE F AWAY!".
With an assumed, potentially nefarious type such as the Space Jockey...Just doesn’t seem logical.
What DOES seem inherently logical however, in the little tangent universe I’ve created for myself here in this post, is that we’ve seen evidence of struggling against both outside forces and internal to external body/mind/purpose transformation/mutation by at least some of the crew. Even if we're taking as example here the sexy-underwear chick staggering through the halls and/or convulsing sweatily in front of the mirror with the veins type of struggle. Same thing. Doesn't have to be magnanimous. Just innate.
The human nature (or indomitable human spirit-so common a theme of alien take-overs these days with regard to film heroes/heroins) fighting against, to the last breath in some cases (again, a running expectation in some age-old Sci-Fi tales), such hostile takeovers (nice WU business model tie in there lol) for the mere sake of one last act of their humanity.
[b] So, I offer the following as my neato theory to connect Prometheus (or its’ sequels) directly to Alien…
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Whomever the Space jokey is/was from the original Alien, it’s one of the Prometheus crew (even if this film somehow spans into a Prometheus sequel, this could potentially happen in Ridley's and Giger's Mecha-Bizarro universe of Time and bat-shi!t crazy Space-plot devices and mind-freak conceptions to what rules, I don't know) that’s been mutated into its’ final form…with, however, perhaps just a strand (there's that the indomitable human spirit angle again) of it’s original holdover host DNA intact. Let’s call it the “F-You Space Jokey enslavers- N_ucleic A_cid molecule”.
This molecule allows, in his/her/its' final moments, the crew member that’s been enslaved to the whim of the Jockey/God’s/whomevers by it's Space Jokey transmogrification , to, in one, final flipping-of-the-bird/self sacrificing recognition of his/hers original-but-quickly-fading, while-maybe-even-about-to-dually-chest-plode-while-this-is-all-simultaneously-happening-from-being-also-unfortunately-preggers-by-the first-potential-Zeno humanity, to sabotage the ship, and send the message out to warn anyone he/she/they should to stay the F away.
Unfortunately two things happened to make this warning not so effective (aside from WU being somehow in on the whole thing which I find sort of somewhat convenient, but whatever).
1. The now almost-completely-Space Jokey-mutated-Prometheus crew member is now, also almost, as just stated, entirely Space Jokey. This coupled with the fact that he/she/it is now also unfortunately wearing his/her/it's weirdo, glued-to-the-large-phallic-chair, Space jockey suit; which I can only imagine would additionally make speaking normally a bit on the difficult side (WWw-va-fffck-ii-f-haffeng—oo-meee?!) all by and in and of itself what with the large nose trunk and rather limited range of glued-to-the-chair-range-of-motion in general... Okay, well, probably not because of the second part there, but you get my drift.
Hence, even as he/she/it is , while still somewhere in the recesses of his/her/it's fast fading, leftover-human mind, thinking AS a former/ now almost barely human, on those innate, primal, "I'm still me under all these weird white bones in the chair" somewhat still existing human, “save the universe” or “at least my favorite pals from Earth” levels, unfortunately the Space Jockey transformation causes him/her/it to not be able to actually vocalize in the human tongue of his/her/it's original birth any longer. So there’s that.
And 2. ..
He he/she/it chest plods mid-message…bummer.
The end.
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No but seriously that's my theory...The Space Jockey who sent the original Message warning the Nostromo was a former Prometheus crew member.