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Cybr1D
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 5:05 AM
From user [b]Cvalda[/b] from http://www.avpgalaxy.net
Okay, I would have posted this in the Prometheus forum, but I didn't want to risk offending anyone. These ideas are pretty controversial, but I stand by them-what's more, my people at Fox have confirmed at least some aspects of this plot speculation. As such, SERIOUS POTENTIAL SPOILER WARNING!!!!
Now, as we all know, Prometheus deals with the Space Jockey race, and how we first encounter them. The trailer gives us this shot of a cave illustration discovered by Shaw and Holloway:
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We know from the trailer that this is a star map--but what of the figure depicted? This is, of course, an Engineer. Many, however, have not noticed the key clue to the whole mystery:
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More on that later.
So the Prometheus is launched by Weyland Corp to investigate. Upon arrival they discover massive alien temples, which they then go inside and investigate, discovering the ampule room, giant head, etc. They then move on to other parts of the temple-which is when trouble starts to happen:
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The sensors pick up several lifeforms in the vicinity, closing in on the crew. Here is where serious spoilers come into play, so BEWARE!
The crew is attacked by the temple's "guards" -- a host of SPACE TAPIRS, vicious, bloodthirsty killing machines created by the Engineers to protect the ampules while the Engineers are in cryosleep. The space tapirs also spit acid, by the way--Fifield and Holloway get hit in the face with some.
The crew beats a desperate retreat back to the ship. Fifield starts going crazy, because it turns out the space tapir acid also, like, mutates you into a space tapir. After a nasty rampage in the garage, the proto-tapir gets torched. Everyone conveniently forgets about Holloway. He sleeps with Shaw, and gets her pregnant with a Tapir baby, which rapidly matures. Weyland, realizing the power of the space tapirs, conspires to keep Shaw in cryo so he can extract the Tapir baby back on Earth and harness it for the bioweapons division. Shaw rebels and sneaks away to have the fetus removed. Horrified by her hideous offspring, she tries to attack it with an axe and kill it:
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The space tapir, which rapidly grows to maturity, fights back, but doesn't harm her. Then Shaw gets attacked by Holloway, who is now part man, part Space Tapir. He is about to kill Shaw when her Space Tapir child bursts through the wall and DESTROYS HOLLOWAY! It then corners Shaw in the hallway:
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Curiously, it does not kill her--instead, it sniffs her affectionately, recognizing that Shaw is its mother! A bond is instantly formed, as Shaw's maternal instincts kick in and she decides to protect her Space Tapir child at any cost. She confides in David, who being an outcast and an android, understands or something. The two form a plan to smuggle the Space Tapir off of Prometheus so it can return to the temple and escape being exploited by Weyland. David goes to open the hatch so that Shaw can escape with Space Tapir-only to find Vickers waiting for him:
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The two have an altercation in the hall as Vickers attempts to stop David and Shaw from releasing the Space Tapir. Shaw tackles Vickers, and David and Space Tapir run out of the ship and back to the temple. Vickers throws Shaw in the brig and says she is going to find Space Tapir whatever it takes. Shaw breaks down and begs Vickers to reconsider, says the Space Tapir is her child and that she loves it and Vickers would understand if only she had children. Vickers says "okay" and decides to help Shaw.
Meanwhile, in the temple, David and Space Tapir discover the Derelict ship's pilot room. David activates the holo-chart orrery and marvels at it. Unfortunately, he wakes up an Engineer, who kills him and starts to activate the pilot chair. Space Tapir sees David's fallen body and grieves for his friend:
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As the Engineer charts a course for Earth to reclaim it for his people, Space Tapir vows revenge-for killing David, for creating and enslaving the whole Space Tapir race, for everything. Space Tapir drags David's body to ampule room, and using the BIOFORM contained in the ampules, he fuses himself with David, thus making him half android/half Space Tapir-the first biomechanoid is born. Space Tapir then attacks and kills the Engineer, and then gets into the Jockey chair to try and stop the ship from taking off:
But it's too late, the ship is programmed in its course, and now Space Tapir is trapped in the chair! Space Tapir, who by this point has established a telepathic link with Shaw (ala ET), tells her of the danger to her planet, and tells her the ship must be destroyed and his life must be sacrificed to save humanity-he is, in fact, the metaphorical Prometheus of the title, stealing the Engineers technology and then dying in a fire to save humanity (Lindelof is apparently really proud of this plot point--who can blame him?). Shaw screams "NOOOOOOOO!!!" and then radios to Vickers what's going down, and Vickers convinces Janek to crash the ship into the Derelict. She escapes in a pod right before the impact. She meets up with Shaw on the ground and the two manage to outrun the falling Derelict. As it finally settles on the ground, Shaw tells Vickers they need to go inside and save her Space Tapir son. Just then Vickers rips off her face, revealing that she is another Space Tapir!
Unfortunately, as the last 11 minutes of the film has been removed from test screenings, this is all me and my sources have been able to confirm.
After having discovered this plot, I have to say I kind of like it. I think it takes the series in a fresh new direction and will really bring a whole new audience to the franchise and also enrich the experience of watching ALIEN!
19 Replies
DOLFINESQUE
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 5:16 AMdude if that is the real film and your not a clever graphic designer whos created a hoax then that is genius, i dont mind spoilers im interested in seeing the whole thing and experiencing it, but if it goes down the way your saying, then it sounds fuking awsomme.
DOLFINESQUE
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 5:23 AMIts definatly fake though, if you look at the tapirs head going close to shaws face its the same size as shaws head, and then in the pilot room its head looks like it would fit normally into the chair head section. Problem is that engineer is 5 times the size of humans, theres no scene in the movie whe humans enter the pilot room because they are to small. The pilot in that last photo looks like hes the same size as david, but hes not hes realy 4 times taller.
taylor Caudle
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 5:29 AMDude....this is OBVIOUS Photoshop.
You CLEARLY took the head of the Engineer while he's sitting in the suit, added it to some long-necked creature, matched the color, blended it,
and photoshopped it in.
Fake fake fake.
Treefrog
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 6:38 AMIf that's true, I'm going to be so pissed off. Sounds like total garbage.
iapetus
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 6:43 AMseriously, you can't expect us to buy that, pal...?
It happens I have had a discussion about that with @azalard the other day, for he stumbled on that theory on another site.
So I am nowhere near an expert, but I am going to give you a couple photoshop tips anyway (the job is not that bad actually, it's just about you thinking you can come up with "Ridley comes back to sci-fi and brings you the 'Space Tapir'" and thinking I'm not going to take it as a personal offense)
- First if you use an element from an officially released pic try to make it less obvious then just mirroring the head of the space-jockey suit (i.e. THE thing everyone focused on at some point)
- On the E. Shaw pic, there's some camera movement so you want to add a tiny bit of 'Gaussian blur' and slightly more 'Directional blur' (top-right to bottom-left) on your space-tapir. Also, the contrast should be toned down and it's color should be adjusted (temperature or a blueish filter added) to make it scream less "I am not lit by the same light she is". Finally, there's some noise+color noise that give some texture/grain to the image, you want to add that to make your tapir (sic!) less crisp.
- avoid changing the standard cinema image size ratio when everyone can see it's from a scene already shown in the trailers
- AVOID using that very same space tapir you created (can't stop laughing at that!) in the very same orientation, in another image... breaks the tapir-magic!
Anyway, you have a double dose of my sympathy dude, for my thought early on when I first saw the trailer was 'damn that helmet looks like a tapir!' and also because I could fall of my chair laughing just reading 'space tapir' so I can't imagine how I would go if I really happen to see that tiny space-tapir walking behind the pilot seat :D
Well, I guess I'd owe you a serious piece of apology then! haha
EDIT: @Cybr1D - oops you're not the one behind that, just re-read your first sentence... Well, you're not the target of my message but then you don't get the double-dose of my sympathy either! tah!
mathieu filhol
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 6:45 AMI respect cybr1d for all his loss of time trying to show us his views on the film. Ironic.
NoXWord
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 6:49 AMOne of the best takes so far!
I love the screenshots with the space tapir!
Ridley Scott will eventually tell us how the Queen was born.
Right now we have the Deacon; coming soon the Mercury, the May and the Taylor.
Kalaghan
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 6:56 AMTapir... Well, i was thinking I won with my "Space Platipus" but now I feel like a prick.
You won guy! Love it!
BigDave
MemberDeaconMay-10-2012 8:11 AMlol
I have to say FANTASTIC...
You read that plot and it makes some sence, untill your halfway through and then you can see its a joke.... but then you have to read the rest as you read half lol..
To be fair..... yes its fake its a joke..... but some of the elements are maybe very close to whats going on.
For Example.... maybe yes Shaw decides to take the Baby or maybe something else back to the Temple (maybe give back the stolen fire that upsets the Engineer). And David is helping Shaw, which is then why Vickers confronts David.... Yes that makes sence.
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BigDave
MemberDeaconMay-10-2012 8:16 AMOh about that Star Map Image....
And that strange looking animal......
Anyone seen the new featurette http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPQ6YnB3uik
At 59 secs on the floor their is a carcus and it does not look bipedal more like a 4 legged creature?
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David 1
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 8:18 AM"Curiously, it does not kill her--instead, it sniffs her affectionately, recognizing that Shaw is its mother! A bond is instantly formed, as Shaw's maternal instincts kick in and she decides to protect her Space Tapir child at any cost"
and
"Shaw breaks down and begs Vickers to reconsider, says the Space Tapir is her child and that she loves it and Vickers would understand if only she had children"
and
"Space Tapir sees David's fallen body and grieves for his friend"
and
"Space Tapir vows revenge-for killing David, for creating and enslaving the whole Space Tapir race"
and
"Space Tapir, who by this point has established a telepathic link with Shaw (ala ET), tells her of the danger to her planet, and tells her the ship must be destroyed"
and finally;
"Shaw tells Vickers they need to go inside and save her Space Tapir son. Just then Vickers rips off her face, revealing that she is another Space Tapir!"
MY GOD MAN! WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!
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azalard
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 10:13 AMThere are three general rumors out there:
1.) The Space Tapir Theory - I don't know about you guys, but this seems utterly ridiculous to me, and the person who wrote this article (the one posted above on the AvP forum) may have done it 'tongue in cheek'.
2.) The Weylend Theory - This was originally posted on that Tweet where the person 'tweeting' states that "old" Peter Weylend is secretly aboard Prometheus and eventually hooks up inside one of the SJ suits. I don't know if I believe this entirely, but the jury's still out in my opinion.
3.) The "Leaked" Script Theory - I read the script that was leaked online back in April. I have to admit, it's pretty compelling, and despite some obvious grammatical errors and typos, it's still more convincing then space tapirs and some anonymous girl's tweets. However, whether the script is an early draft or completely fabricated, I like the storyline in the script a lot less and tend to favor the Weylend Theory a lot more.
centrosphere
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 10:39 AMI think this is fake, but BigDave has a point: I also have scrutinized that frame of the featurette, and it seems that the crew actually encounters a dead body of something that resembles a four-legged animal.
takka_takka_takka
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 11:35 AM[img]http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/000/346/969638-cool_story__bro_super.jpg[/img]
Sky
MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 12:13 PMWhy that creature looks like mix of condor face with half broken elephant face?
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MemberOvomorphMay-10-2012 5:27 PMLOL Are there any inquisitors out there to value discussions awful or name people Ushbuck WTS
Anyway the cave illustration made me laugh and think. The tapir looks like on face trying hardly to make a shit possible forced by alien guy to do and some joyful terran contributors cheer cause tapir dung is very very precious and rare thing in whole universe. And then bigguy gets the prize by taking 6 of most precious.
Seems like six round shapes have unique symbols in each other. That may important. Bottom shape has like a running man (not Arni) figure.
While the mystery solves things goes forever severe or funny
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