Prometheus Revealed?

Gavin
MemberTrilobiteApril 04, 20123308 Views103 RepliesA bit of a misleading title, but not quite, let me explain...
You know that feeling you get when something is one the tip of your tongue that you've been trying to remember/solve, well I'm getting it with Prometheus. Here's the pieces of the puzzle...
1. At least 5 Harkonnen Castle inspired temples, presumably each one with a big head and lots and lots of mysterious ampules.
2. A big pile of dead Space Jockey's
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3. The Derelict, underground in a purpose built hangar.
4. Shaw giving birth to an unknown organism.
5. The Xenomorph depicting mural.
6. A big, blue humanoid inside the Derelict and attacking the crew.
7. A mutated crew member attacking the crew.
8. An Eel/worm based organism infecting Holloway.
9. The crashing of the Derelict.
10. The invitations left behind on Earth.
11. The UFO at the waterfall.
12. And finally, Ridleys comments in Empire magazine about an intelligent race on Earth before the fossil record.
I have all/most of the pieces of the jigsaw, but its just a hairs breadth out of reach, I know if I can just find the common thread I can figure this out...
April 04, 2012
I think there is/was a war between the blue guys and the SJs you see dead in the trailers. Or between the SJs and some unseen race. The blue guys, if they are all built the same as the one in the trailer, are too bulky too be the more slender looking SJs.
Or, as has been speculated in the past, there is some really dangerous new alien that is able to cleanly decapitate a SJ.
All of this has been discussed at length in the past week. I also believe that the alien resin will play a part in this film, and it's possible that's what is in some of the urns. It's ability to build structures and create organic life would be of interest to Weyland
April 04, 2012
@ Sparky - I ignore all fake leaked scripts. You should know that by now.
@ Fanboy79 - I believe that the "company" element will be born in Prometheus. I suspect they become small players in a big story, of big proportions, and the Xenomorph is but one
@ Kane77 - I don't doubt it, but we have enough of the beats, the elements, of the story to piece 95% of it together. The only thing that's missing is the WHY, and we just need to figure that bit out.
April 04, 2012
@spartacus
okay so the space jockeys are space travellers who have designed the alien to wipe out planets so they can inhabit them.....that could be true sort of disappointing being that most alien movies are about sliens wanting our planet :(, but the whole vials being program thing is definitely interesting, this means that the alien that comes from a jockey will be distinctively different than one from a human, dog, horse, etc.....the only question is if the xeno were desinged at what point of their evolution where they able to procreate on their own....is there a queen somewhere down there??/
April 04, 2012
Ok...so we feel some kinda WAR figures into this somehow and that "Prometheus" gets into the middle of it....fair enough...and/so... what comes next..?...
April 04, 2012
fanboy, love it, your post is saying the same thing better than I did, let me think it over a bit and thank you...awesome post.
April 04, 2012
@"snorky"-> And I go with whatever annoys you in particular the most and makes sense to me. you should know that by now !
April 04, 2012
Looks like the war has already been fought, with the SJ suit looking guys losing. Now that leaves the blue guys, who I believe are either benevolent or practical; the squid/worm-like organisms; infected, mutated crew; the rumored "super" alien.
the blue guy is either helping David with some goal or acting on his own outside of the crew's conflict with the organisms and infected; or acting to stop us from spreading to other parts of the universe that we have discovered from the star map.. The organisms are either something the crew lets loose from the urns, or are already lurking around (in the trailer we see some alien goo being stretched between two fingers, so these things may be skittering around leaving goo trails behind, like the original Alien). The infected are infected by something in the urns. The jury is still out on the super alien.
April 04, 2012
looking over the trailer again i am convince that shaw is not giving birth if you freeze frame that thing it is entirely too big to come out here stomach and her not show signs of a basketball in her belly and whoever is holding it is at her head as the chamber she is encased in opens....thoughts
April 04, 2012
If we work on the principal that the invitation was in fact a warning, then we can assume that the warning was "let sleeping dogs lie" - in other words don't go there, else face the wrath of what sleeps there... the Space Jockey's. But why are they asleep, why point us there, why all the dead SJ's.
But, if it was in fact an invitation, which also makes sense, why are the SJ's there? To guard, to protect. Guard, protect what and why?
April 04, 2012
the goo between davids fingers has to be some parasidic dna cause it is the same substance that is in some type of dish on top of one of the urns as one of the crew members looks it over and there is a scene where david has his face over the same goo but it looks as if it is dancing check out the trailer.....i think this substance in its original form can bond with anything synethic or organic maybe that is why the space jockey is a biomechanical being like the goo fused with david ....maybe that is him in the begining scene where the voice says "every king has his reign, then he dies..."
April 04, 2012
Or it was neither invitation or warning, but the doing of the artists who created the pieces. The dot formation is buried in the human subconscious, crossing cultural lines. The artists themselves didn't even know what it meant, but they were compelled to put them down anyway.
April 04, 2012
The goo is the same stuff the Xenomorph secretes to build eggs, walls, cocoons. We see in Aliens how it begins like a gel and eventually hardens to something resembling fiber class. How do you think they were able to convert the atmosphere station into a hive?
I believe Shaw is using the med station on herself. Why create such a device for a film and not have it relate to the plot in some significant way? I believe she detects this thing in her body somehow, whether through feeling or seeing it under the skin, and uses the med statiion to remove it.
April 04, 2012
Ok so the war is over, maybe that can help account for the severed head in med lab...LOL.
April 04, 2012
okay lets work on the invitation or warning theory here...one thing is for certain......some other life form once maybe not necessarily inhabited but visited our planet, that being the case i dont think invasion is accurate because they had already been here hundreds and thousands of years ago. what we have to consider here is that at some point we have developed the technology to travel eons away trips that take years...this particular journey takes 5 years travel time.....
April 04, 2012
@ biehn_bandit - I agree on the goo, its not important, but a sign of life.
@ Sparky - My thoughts exactly.
Well one things for certain, the temples are Space Jockey in origin. I just rewatched one of the new trailers and the same markings found on the temple walls are also found on a switch that opens a door - David in front of door with a red scanning orb hovering beside him.
So why would the UFO guys invite us to/warn us from a SJ planet.
and what of Ridley's comments in Empire magazine, about an intelligent race on Earth, before the fossil record.
April 04, 2012
i think its good not to assume shaw gives birth or has something grown inside of her cut out. there could be numerous things going on there but i get the feeling that weyland and vickers are behind it. i do remember reading about charlize theron having an idea for her character that they used in the movie. i dont remember how it was worded because it was almost a year ago when i read it but, she described it like a plot twist for her character arch. as if there was a different motive for her character all along, and thats why ridley put her in the corner of scenes and made her look like she was "lurking". anyone else remember reading that? maybe this needs its own thread.
April 04, 2012
Snorky...In just asking you hit/slapped that biaaaatch...a "warning"...why...they have some vested interest in Earth! Maybe they need some element they are running out of or some same ol same ol like that.