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Ripley8_David8
MemberOvomorphApr-10-2012 1:19 PM*Spoilers*
There has been plenty of past speculation on these forums that Vickers is the second android Ridley Scott teased at Comic Con last year. And as the stiff, buttoned-up corporate "suit" with the same yellow-blonde hair as David, she would certainly seem to lend herself to being an android.
But with the opening minutes of Prometheus now having been seen and described here and elsewhere online, the idea that Vickers is an android seems more convincing than ever. And the reason for that is because of how she is introduced in the movie.
If Vickers is already out of hyper-sleep when the audience first sees her, then for all we know, she could have been awake the whole time, like David. And even if she woke herself up, before everyone else (hence the trail of wet footprints and the fluid from the sleep chamber that she is dripping while doing push-ups), it still seems quite plausible that an android would have an internal timing mechanism that would make it capable of coming out of hibernation on its own, without the aid of an external computer.
In a way, it would be all too fitting if Shaw and Holloway were the "bio" Adam and Eve, and David and Vickers were the "mechanical" Adam and Eve who somehow precipitate the bio-mechanical nightmare of Alien. Prometheus is named after the Greek figure who stole fire from the gods; but in the movie, Shaw is religious, and I think there are some definite parallels between the Greek myth of Prometheus, and the Biblical parable of Adam and Eve's Original Sin, the eating of the forbidden fruit (which brought about the curse of death, as the story goes. Curse of death = xenomorph? As Scott said, "Don't f*** around with the gods.")
Perhaps what Sir Ridley said at Comic Con was a slip of the tongue, and David is meant to throw us off for the reveal later in the movie that Vickers, too, is an android (perhaps an industrial espionage agent implanted by the Yutani corporation, or just an undercover agent implanted by Peter Weyland).
Does anyone else think Vickers is virtually a sure thing now, as android?
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Zedwardson
MemberOvomorphApr-10-2012 1:26 PMI in another thread have thrown out this idea.
Vickers is a cold witch since she never had much contact with her father, who is Wayland.
I think vickers = Android is a red herring.

Ripley8_David8
MemberOvomorphApr-10-2012 1:37 PMNow that is an interesting thought. If she were Weyland's estranged daughter, it would make sense, then, why she would give such a disgusted look when his hologram talked about David being like the son he never had. Maybe he always hoped for a male heir, but got little Meredith instead?

Lambechop
MemberOvomorphApr-10-2012 1:43 PMMaybe he had a son but not the kind of son he wanted, maybe he couldn't accept his fathers egomania?

Ghost Solitare
MemberOvomorphApr-10-2012 1:49 PMI have to admit that I have wondered if Vickers was indeed a synthetic. Her demeanor and posture create a distance between herself and the other members of the crew. She is seen wearing business attire on a spaceship when the rest of the crew is dressed for comfort. I look at how she sits, how she stands. She isn't trying to blend in at all. Perhaps it's an image fixation, she wants to always be seen as professional, in control, commanding, etc. I don't know, but something about her just doesn't sync with her environment.

allinamberclad
MemberOvomorphApr-10-2012 2:00 PMBut does what we have actually support this directly?
If she was awake the whole time, her chamber would be empty and David might have noticed in 2 years.
On what we have in front of us, yes: it may be possible she is a secret synthetic, (and a Yutani spy on top of it), pretending to cryo-sleep in a bath of goo with everyone else - but she would be a secret synthetic spy who wouldn't seem to have the sense or spy skills not to draw attention to herself at the first opportunity, by waking earlier than everyone else and stomping around, fit as a fly, with a raging attitude.
OR: she might just be human.
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