Found this picture

nlpg
MemberOvomorphApril 06, 20121021 Views26 Repliessomewhere on the web in a forum similar to this, never seen it before… might be fake? I found it on hollwoodhardware, the post was taken down not even 10 minutes after posting.
doesn't look like neville's artwork but could be a non-official sketch?
hints at david merging with some organic thing or whatever, becoming the clear-domed creature we all know. the concept makes sense in a way that the overall alien look has the same materials as the androids and spacesuits, thinking of translucent dome, tubes etc.
anyone?
http://tinypic.com/r/2vulpud/5
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April 06, 2012
I think that's fake. I hope the great prometheus twist isn't something obvious like david turning into the first xenomorph or something cheesy like that.
Anyway, good find, nlpg
Have you heard of phoenix asteroids?
They glow in every color of the rainbow...they travel endlessly through space...
April 06, 2012
I dont know what to think....upon looking at the pic i immediately saw all the shots of david looking at things with glee and the scene of the xeno checking out the cat in the box at the end of Alien in my head.
Whats got me thinking is, do Weyland's Androids even have DNA? How would a bioformer even react to a "synthetic" substrate?
What wouldve happened if the facehugger attached itself to an Android?
April 06, 2012
@galzu
Maybe thats the true mystery/horror/ twist of Prometheus?
Or maybe its goes to show how truly terrifying the SJs technology can be?
hmmmm?
April 06, 2012
Actually if you think about it, wie are Talking about engineers and Engineering New lifeforms in particular. And since Ridley Scott is apparently using a lot of gigers old pre-production work or is referencing to it, the biomechanoid elements might even be of a higher importance than in the alien sequels (think of the Alien becoming Gradually more organic than mechanic).
What if the whatsoever organism - or slime - adapts to any thinkable host, in this case the new creation of man, a machine-man, turning it into a totally new work of never before seen design.
Maybe David is the reason the alien is so durable and hostile because it is half a machine with no feelings?
Somehow it makes sense from a creature design point of view, and it follows the logic of the Prometheus myth, too: the gods take man's creation and turn it agains him.
Whether this image above is original or not, the theory it suggests is remarkable.
April 06, 2012
Sir Ridley also recently said in an interview on regarding what to take away from the title "PRometheus, Don't F*** with the gods" or something to that extent. I mean really, If i was walkin around a creepy ass pyramid on an alien planet and i saw some goo.....I'D TOTALLY MAKE DAVID TOUCH IT FIRST. just sayin.
April 06, 2012
Unless someone on the crew had the brain of a hamster,[i] no one[/i] would touch it......but then, if people didn't do stupid things, there wouldn't be many stories to write or movies to make.
April 06, 2012
Maybe they make David examine it, thinking nothing could happen to him. Only to find out that the worst happens?
Maybe we have two aliens here: space jockey parasites that enter holloway, transforming him and engineering slime that reacts with David.
April 06, 2012
David totally is the starting point. I think that is why there is so much emphasis on him. The cross between the xeno and biomechanical all starts with David.
Big things have SMALL beginnings, hence the viral video of the birth of David.
April 06, 2012
Ridley didn't have a queen in Alien, his xenomorph was able to change Brett, and Dallas into eggs without one. If he's rewriting the story he won't need Cameron's Queen.
April 06, 2012
I know, but I thought Aliens was still canon. Plus, changing those crewmembers into eggs was so silly, come on. They only put that scene back in for extended sequences in later versions. If everything RS intended was canon, then why don't we end the film with the alien killing Ripley?
April 06, 2012
@Galzu
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I dont know what to think....upon looking at the pic i immediately saw all the shots of david looking at things with glee and the scene of the xeno checking out the cat in the box at the end of Alien in my head.[/quote]
I am glad you mentioned this. I have been thinking this for weeks! I will be curious if that picture/clip of David looking at those "wiggling slugs" with what looks to be gleeful curiosity still comes across this way to me after I see the scene in context during the movie.
April 06, 2012
This is where the overall theme of King/Engineer wanting to be reborn, being visited by aging King/Engineer wanting secrets of universe (Weyland), each carrying their children (humans from SJ, robots from humans) does have eerie symmetrical logic. And probably weird consequences.
Were the SJ's waiting for us to bring them the next wave of evolution? Our robots? So they could have a go at them?
Ok then, what do you get if you use the SJ technology to infect a robot instead of a human? Do you get an SJ with silicon based skin and acid for blood? One without true feeling or remorse? A perversion of an SJ mixed with a robot? Is this why Ash was so interested in the discovery in ‘Alien’?
The facehugger and the apparatus David pulls from the canister share one aspect: they’re both probably devices to inject/impregnate. Oddly similar. The facehugger seems more life-like than the synthetic nanotech type claw thing in a canister. But, then again, what is a ‘living thing’? Really? Maybe that's the question of the movie (and oddly of Blade Runner as well).
April 06, 2012
Still not sure why some say David turning into a xeno would be cheesy. I don't car either way (like I've said before, I just want a great sci-Fi film), but many concepts/ideas have all been done before in one media form or another. Just because one of the crew may "turn" into something other than human doesn't automatically mean the movie is cheesy or that Ridley is simply rehashing used concepts.
April 06, 2012
I still think that the true horror of the movie is that the Engineers are able to make what they want out of what they want. I still think that David and what happens to him will be a HUGE part to the overall story of this movie.
April 06, 2012
I posted this link a few days ago. Seems the androids have Silicon based muscles. Ash said the facehugger he was examining was made of Silicon at least in part so... And like Constealltion88 says and I have said before, we know nothing about SJ tech, maybe they can make it work with anything no DNA required.
Click!--->[url=http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Synthetic]Android Biology[/url]
Wat
April 07, 2012
David is like Pinochio, he just want to be a real boy lol
But yeah, its strange because just last night I was thinking that maybe David is going to be cause of all the sh*t that goes down and eventually morph into a xeno. He seems VERY fascinated by the goo thing and stuff....and Ash himself was also fascinated by the xeno.
I also think our gods/creators(the space jockey) are pissed that we are playing god/trying to compete with god, by creating "life" ourselves(David)
I think David turns on us by unleashing the Jockeys tech.
Sounds kinda too cheesey and obvious though....
April 07, 2012
Creators of our own destruction--It's what I've been saying all along, and not cheesy by any means. On the contrary, it's both brilliant and tragic.
No idea how it will play out, but it's been obvious from the Ted Talk, and the David8 commercial, that there is a distinct emphasis on the human creation of this android. One way or another, I'm betting he is integral to the plot.
As far as organic material goes, seems like a reasonable possibility given the current technology.