What if shaw is a shapeshifter

This plot would make me angry. The only way it could possibly work is if Shaw didn't know what she was and even then, it would just be too contrived. This isn't an M. Night Shyamalan movie.

what if shaw saying "We where so wrong" is her saying that to an engineer ? what if shaw saying "there wont be any home left to go back to" is her saying that to an engineer ? i hope lindelof hasnt written a predictable pile of shit because if the script that should be written is in bits on these forums and not on that screen im gonna be pissed off.

to me this film needs a "Usual suspects" moment, it needs a twist that no one on a forum can come up with or else theve failed, for 30 years Alien held the mystery of the big guy in the chaire, if it doesnt leave us with another mystery and it predictably baby feeds us along a plot we knew 2 months before then Ridley needs to not bother with bladerunner 2 and lindelof should sink without a trace.

I don't think ANY of us have ANYTHING nailed down for sure. That's all I'm saying :-P And, um, yeah, Noomi and Ridley said she was the good guy. A few times, so I really don't think it'll pan out the way you're thinking.........

at the end of this film ill say either 1 of 2 things, ill say wow lindelof has blown me away did not imagine that turn and that outcome, what could that section of the movie mean though. Or i will say you know what i wish scripts where written by 25 guys all talking on a forum and collectively coming together with a unified all agreed plot and fox then gets in a pro to clean the rough egdes.

im a bit let down by the fact the engineers are not elaphentine beings as i always imagined them, i can take any more disappointments.

Yeah, but we don't know that yet... And you'd have to admit, Shaw being a sleeper Engineer is very close to the idea of Bruce Willis being a ghost the whole time, the sleeper Cylons in the new Battlestar Galactica, suggesting that Deckard was a replicant, or that Rosario Dawson was the mcguffin the whole movie. For the movie to be more suspenseful, it would have to set up that Engineers can look like us. To me, that idea is so played out in too many other movies. Plot twists even become cliché after a while. Quite frankly, it's billed as a sci-fi horror movie, not a sci-fi mystery.

Oh, wait. Hold up. Then what are those tubes on the Engineers' suits? Breathing apparatus of some sort? Well, it got pretty much got revealed that the tube isn't a part of their body once we saw the Engineers in the trailers. But, still. The question remains.

Dudes... saying that Shaw is a sleeping SJ is like saying that Vickers is one, or that Fifield is the first Xeno, or that Holloway is the big Giant SJ Head (they actually look a lot alike).

Either way, I wouldn't hold your breath for the Shaw being a shape-shifter nonsense. This is probably as much a reboot as it is a pseudo-prequel. I think the only reason Lindelof and Scott signed on to this was by doing something other than what people would expect, which would otherwise be very, very predictable. Would you rather have a predictable Alien movie where a facehugger nabs someone, the host dies and the alien grows up and kills people–while possibly starting a whole hive–and they introduce some new, stupid alien abomination until somebody blows everything up? = OR = Would you rather have a new story with new characters in a same/similar setting with new, probably more intelligent creatures with different things at stake? You tell me; which of those would be more "predictable"? Me? I'll take the latter a thousand times over.

Is this a stupid B-flick

Dudes, stop saying this is a reboot/reimagination. To be that the characters should be the same from the first film. And, no, this movie is called PROMETHEUS, not NOSTROMO...

this idea of somebody having an agenda and then turning round fits better with Vickers..

Why would RS ruin the alien franchise by introducing silly concepts like shape shifting

I have to agree with Kronnang here. Prometheus is not a reboot. It doesn't have the same timeline, characters, or even the same xeno. Now, to the OP, I wouldn't lose any sleep over a shapeshifter plot (or lack there of?)...that's not going to happen unless this the most epic fail movie of all time.

Shapeshifter? This isn't some lame episode of star trek TNG ffs. wait till you see the film before crying about how you can't take anymore disappointments, beginning to sound like a six year old. (apologies if you are six years old)

sorry - thats nonsense However I do reserve the right to hope that Peter Weyland contains the conscience of (or was) a fallen engineer, punished and left stranded on Earth...if anyone in this story is concealing an identity, I want it to be Weyland

What if she's a sparkly vampire!