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MemberOvomorphApr-06-2012 6:38 AMI enjoy all the plot ideas here but think we are being too literal with some of the things we see in the trailers. For example, a king has his reign and then he dies doesn’t mean we’ll encounter a king. It could be a referral to a species being dominant one day and history the next. The phrase is like saying every dog has his day, or 15 minutes of fame.
Because the movie is called Prometheus doesn’t mean that it’s based on ancient Greek mythology any more than Red Dwarf features small red people.
Also, RS has gone to great lengths to distance himself from Aliens 3 and 4 because of their silly plot lines, even so far as to have them ruled non cannon. I would be surprised if after declaring a movie about alien cloning (ie resurrection) as fan fiction if he goes down the route of time travel, ancient atlanteans, Weyland being an SJ, androids evolving in to xenos etc.
I’m not dissing the theories that are posted as they make great reading but I think they are wide of the mark. I think the movie will be set within believable realistic parameters that all audiences, particular the older generation like me who grew up with the film will believe and not on a way out there sci-fi premise.
Having said that, with my luck the I will be completely wrong and the film will be about an ancient time travelling xenomorph from Atlantis called Prometheus who becomes lost in time following a time travel experiment, temporarily taking the places of other people to put right what once went wrong and hoping that each leap will be the leap home.
No need for a virus, you just lay a few eggs and wait (Hadleys Hope, USM Auriga, Gunnison County), the xenomorphs spread eradicating all life by using them as hosts to propagate.
@ Neph - NO PROTO's, I do not not wanna see the Alien being created in this film. The Mural shows the Xenomorph already exists.
@ Wirnn - Hence the SJ's creating a second batch of children created in their new (suited) image specifically to eradicate the first batch of children (us, and others throughout the universe) created in their old image (humanoid tall blue guy), wiping all of the first batch of children from existence and returning the SJ's to their position as rulers.
To far fetched... its all about fate "the king has reign, and then he dies". Its the fate, the natural order for the SJ's to become replaced, first by the firstborn children then once again by their new Xenomorph children.
The Xenomorphs aren't accidentially altered in anyway or tainted... remember they are the perfect organism.
This is the same Derelict and planet (Archeron/LV-426) from Alien/Aliens, why confuse matters by having the ship crash, take-off and then crash again on the next planet. That's bad narrative.
@ Wirrn - I have a friend whom has Crohns disease, he's had it all his life, as did O'Bannon. While it isn't curable it is treatable with medication.
@ WTSPN - Once all suitable host have been used up the Xenomorphs will die leaving behind their eggs. SJ's come down, collect the eggs, eliminate the skeletons and hives of the Xenomorphs (think blue liquid in AVPR or War of the Worlds (Book not films) black fog). The Derelict in Prometheus/Alien is filled with said cargo of eggs.
If the short life span thing is true, it has never been stated in the films. The Xenomorph's would eventually die out, after how long we simply don't know.
Agreed CanadaPhil, I always thought that 4 day's was too short. I imagine the Xenomorphs probably have a decent lifespan to give them time to do their thing.
Exactly Sparky...
Dan O'Bannon and H R Giger are the Sci-Fi Horror equivalent of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, or James Cameron and Stan Winston.
