The Omega croissant

NICE thought! I never thought of that.

i bet ridley hasn't either lol

@ Windood Good catch. It reminds me of the 'Doomsday Bomb' from the movie Beneath The Planet Of The Apes Look on the rocket: Alpha and Omega. Charlton Heston detonated it destroying the earth at the end. [img]http://brokensea.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BPOTAAlphaOmegaPoster.jpg[/img]

Yep, thats pretty much identical, i was looking at someones photo earlier showing that it had been reversed (when parked) in some new footage, and then wondered what the shape could be a motif of, a lucky horshoe didn't seem appropriate, but knowing Giger i imagine he'd have been well aware of it. I've been reading through the weyland timeline and can't believe how much they give away in there. One of weylands parents was a professor of comparitive mythology. He's invented a way of receiving every aspect of a room he's not in (the HES device). David is also the name for his son (a jewish name for the line to produce the messiach/mesiah - promising everlasting life), and i noticed theres a language implant to facilitate communication in an unknown language. so it looks like david is going to be weylands hands and feet. Now i think davids motives are going to cause a conflict between providing "Daddy" with his everlasting life and his own desire to create life.

Haha good eye Windood ... never saw that to be honest lol ... and I watched the Omega Man last week too ...

I've got that on DVD but haven't seen it (meant to get Soylent green), any good?

Its not, if you read Alien the production book every aspect of the Alien and the Space Jockey ship is organic and sexuality in Gigers normal style The front opening of the ship is a vulva, and the main chamber is meant to be a womb, the two legs splitting off to the round edges are meant to be ovaries Its not an Omega symbol its a Woman's Womb, Alien was about the perversion of birth as a design point.

Oh and the Aliens Head is a penis, Giger loves Penises and originally in the first sketches nothing but throbbing grey penises everywhere, then it became our beloved banana head

i said it resembled omega, and it does. Ive seen the art for his womb and the birth cycle, and still think the ship more closely resembles an omega than anything else. besides a croissant of course :-)

@Windood ... Yeah it's a classic ... sort of 'I am Legend' really but in the 80's ;) ... oh and I love Soylent Green too ... @Grindolf ... Yeah I know about his sketches lol ... I have read a lot about the man to be honest ... ;) ...

Every time I try to read any symbolism into the shape of the original derelict, I can't get past the hammer/anvil motif displayed on the two ends.

Grindolf I agree with your observations on the sip's design as well. I still believe the technology on the original alien craft got 'infected' also, somewhere down the line. And we see the end result of the ship attempting to evolve itself into something alive.

I think the croissant is a woman's legs spread. Freudian thing I guess from Giger...