Who is in the SJ chair?

Dunno, but as per the huge size and length difference to the orginal sj, it looks like it is a human in the suit.

@brego, i agree. the one getting strapped into looks smaller than the blue man. but i could be wrong.

I don't believe the scene depicts the space jockey being strapped [i]into[/i] the chair. It definitely looks like he is in the process of coming [i]out[/i] of the chair--"un-suiting", if you will. There are four places on the suit, including the "ribcage", that are unwinding, or loosening, away from the body of the humanoid in the chair. The telescope/gun is also starting to move up and away from him. It's definitely the blue guy in the chair: the evidence in the picture above is definitive.

i think the large blue humanoid is the space jockey and not a humen turned in to a space jockey. i think thay come up with this humen lookink space jockey so thay could do the hole thay made us and there like the gods and all that and thats y we look like them......

Yea, think its the blue guy/engineer. You can see the side of the humanoid head near the leftmost part of the elongated helmet. But why does it need the elongated helmet? If the blue guy has a humanoid head the helmet we see in the profile view seems like its accommodating something else... Possibly the chair is not a gun but an impregnation device, strapping the being down while the helmet serves as a protective shell for a facehugger to crawl in and do its work. The original Alien movie had the trunk (tail of facehugger?) extend further down along the rib cage...

I think you're right. It's the blue guy in the chair. It's also probably one of these space jockeys that Shaw encounters in the final scene where she's on the ground and someone is standing over her in the full trailer. The reason I think so is because he also has those same slits or whatever going down his legs.

@StarJockey, i tink so to about the Alien SpaceJockey; at the same time, the pic above, if it's a facehugger, no need for eyeholes no?

In comparison to the chair he may seem smaller than what he actually is, plus you can't see his body definition because he's being covered by the suit and helmet. But besides the slats, if you look at his eye, you can see it's the same color as the space jockey's. It appears to be black.

The blue humanoid is Weyland?

If the blue guy in fact IS a spacejockey this would be the first great disappointment to me. This is the "civilisation obviously not comprehendible by us" (Ridley Scott in Alien-DVD audio commentary)?? A guy in a blue rubber suit?? If he was an altered crewmember: OK, that would explain the human shape, I could live with that. But revealing after 33 years that a spacejockey is nothing but a blue guy with some xeno-characteristics on his skin - that's cheap and not worth the waiting. I don't like the idea that the thing in the chair is just a suit either. I always thought that that "thing" WAS the actual spacejockey and I always wanted to see more of him. What I didn't wanna see is that the spacejockey opens up like a closet and a member of the blue-man-group jumps out.

The blue guy makes me feel very uncomfortable, not cos he's so "scary", but cos he could ruin the whole thing for me. For 33 years now I wondered: Who are the space jockeys? And that's exactly what Prometheus is going to answer, Ridley Scott says. He also says that the space jockeys are a "civilisation obviously not comprehendible by us" (Alien-DVD audio commentary), and that's why I love the movie Alien. Finally, some filmmaker took the topic seriously: What would happen if we are confronted by a completely alien culture and technology we do not understand in the slightest? Hence the title: "Alien". No cheesy StarWarsTrek "aliens" with ridiculous make-up and costumes. I expect from Prometheus nothing less than to keep this idea up. That's why I could never accept that a space jockey is nothing but a blue guy with xeno-characteristics on his skin. That would be StarWarsTrek standard. If the blue guy is a "mutated" member of the Prometheus crew, then that's OK, it would explain his human shape. And I don't like the idea of that thing in the chair being just a suit either - I always thought "that thing" actually WAS the space jockey. I did NOT wait 33 years to see that the original space jockey is nothing but a box out of which jumps a member of the blue-man-group!

Is Holloway... he wanted so bad to meet the Gods he finally becomes one...

This is 1951's THE THING with the tall James Arness (from Gunsmoke) playing the title "creature". Look familiar?? If after 3 decades of mystique, if the "Jockey" turns out to be a color version of that, I would have to say that it would be COMPLETE LET DOWN!. [img]http://www.bmoviegraveyard.com/reviews/T/ThingFromAnotherWorld/TheThing035.jpg[/img]

Well we will find out soon, Ridley had said that the ship was carrying a cargo of Eggs and the Jockey is a Suit and he said that way before even Alien 3 was released. As for the size, study the chair and compare the chairs not the Jockeys, and indeed SJ in Alien seems bigger but by comparing the chair to Dallas from Alien etc, if the Chair in this movie is the same size it would make the SJ in this movie be about 9ft So again i would be almost willing to garuntee that the Space Jockey is the Blue Man in a Space Suit and its 9ft tall.