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Shaw's Baby - Face [SPOILER]

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completelyterrified

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Saw an animated gif of Shaw's baby being removed this morning, saw this, and figured I'd post it for discussion given that we think we've now seen this little fella all grown up. Here's a screen cap take from said GIF: [URL=http://imgur.com/hV6ff][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hV6ff.png[/IMG][/URL] You can clearly see the littlun's "face" in the medi-pod glass as it moves. Flipped here to make it clearer: [URL=http://imgur.com/DdwHi][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/DdwHi.png[/IMG][/URL] Looks a little like the typical "grey alien" sort of face, or even a little like the aliens inside the suits in Independence Day. Either way, thought it was interesting, and I've not seen it posted elsewhere either (if it has been, apologies - search function brought up nothing). It kind of also proves that the "tentacles" end of the beast is definitely the "front" end, not the "tail" end, as a few people have claimed.

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PUNX
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A agree with others here that the face moves in relation to the glass by her feet so is at a completely wrong angle... as for seeing a face in there, maybe that's something to do with our own genetic heritage. We respond to faces instantly and that has been an established philological fact for a long time... seeing things in the reflection of a domed shape is like seeing stuff in clouds!!! Just my humble opinion!
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if the internet had been arounf pre-Alien in 79 the exact same criticisms would have been levelled against the Xeno. "oh its just another man in a suit" "oh, it looks like a giant insect, how original" "oh it has acid for blood, how original" "oh its a haunted house film, how original" "oh its a ten little indians film, how original" really, the film sucks already because you've seen less than half a second of tentacles? best you don't go see it then? imagine what a full minute of it would do. I T I S O N L Y A F I L M
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You forgot this one-''oh its a guy wrestling with a tentacled flipper flap poke snake thingey, how original''.
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If anything its shawa face screaming and saying "no". Looks to me like a reflection of someone standing outside the pod but it's upside down so I'm not sure.
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@aintnozeno wrote, "Tentacles do not exist on any animal that lives on land, and it just isn't scary." This. This exactly. It's as if somebody in the creature design department saw the "octopus walks on land" YouTube video and said, "Hey! An excuse!" [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjQr3lRACPI ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjQr3lRACPI [/url]
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Also: [url=http://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-there-is-no-walking-with-tentacles.html]http://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-there-is-no-walking-with-tentacles.html[/url]
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I'll add that I in no way think this film will be a bad one. I have very high expectations for it. And, I must say the thread on "Giger's art" here in the spoiler forum has me rethinking my previous post. That thing- whatever the heck it is, has potential.
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Okay it's actually damned creepy when an octopus wriggles across land. Ewwwww

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This is one creature out of many we have not even seen yet. This may have nothing to do with shaw/engineer encounter. I doubt ridley would make a killer octopus taking over the prometheus. Something larger is at play here.
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Okay, yeah. I'm gonna try very hard to suspend my disbelief and instead argue for the possibility that, as an alien lifeform (or hybrid alien/human), this creature has very different anatomy & physiology that would allow it to have land-tentacles. Besides that, even though tentacles have been done to death, tentacles are still so-very-Cthulhu... I can't hate on that.
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MAybe the tentacled creature we are seeing is just Shaws big baby, and the real monster has yet to been seen?

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