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MemberOvomorphJun-03-2012 2:32 AMOh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear ... 35,000 year old technology that uses SOLID ROCKET FUEL?
Come on.
For me, any machine that has PLASMA for control system, really should just have some sort of SILENT anti-gravity propulsion system. Reference: the Nebuqednezar in THE MATRIX or 'something', anything else other than [i]SmacSonic(tm)[/i].
Screw the convoluted and non-dramatic fiery-smoke chase scene. Could have just left it with the opening iris escape element; that would have sufficed.
When it 'takes off' I really couldn't believe there were FLAMES pouring out of the arms of the thing. It looked wrong, like it was flying BACKWARDS.
For me, 'the derelic' ALWAYS flew arms first. Anyway, I'd have preferred a fully explanatory final scene with David/Shaw actually activating the second ship and setting coordinates for Engineer Home.
The 'derelict' should have BLINKED OUT with some sort of hyper-drive vanishing act, leaving a gorgeous vortexial hole in the overcast sky, after it lifted into the sky.
Maybe it's just me.
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abordoli
MemberOvomorphJun-03-2012 3:20 AM35,000 years old? So what did the juggernaut that force landed on LV-426 over 1 million years ago run on? Coal?
Gahlaktus
MemberOvomorphJun-03-2012 4:14 AMFlames, you say? The Juggernaut takes off backwards? I haven't seen the movie yet but it sounds as if you're saying that flames are emitted from the arms, or prongs of the Juggernaut, and that the prongs are the rear of the Juggernaut? Sounds like a Cylon Raider.
I'd always thought the opposite, too. Somehow, it seems only right that it should be propelled by means of silent anti-gravity, or some such. Perhaps even
emitting a scream, or war cry like a Shadow Battlecrab.
Custodian
MemberOvomorphJun-03-2012 4:17 AMAbortdoli,
Prometheus has NOTHING to do with Alien, or being an Alien sequel - that's why.
:)
Gahlaktus,
I really like your last sentence in that post. Indeed....
:)
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Gahlaktus
MemberOvomorphJun-03-2012 4:21 AMFreeplanet:
I'm right there with you! What does the Juggernaut sound like?
Additionally, are you saying that Shaw never gets in the pilot chair and that she isn't enveloped in the space jockey suit?
Gahlaktus
MemberOvomorphJun-03-2012 4:25 AMAbordoli: your timeline for the derelict is like mine, at least a million years ago.
Whatever those eggs are they couldn't have come from LV 223. So, those xeno eggs precede the so-called proto-xeno of Prometheus. Hmmm!
Custodian
MemberOvomorphJun-03-2012 4:45 AMthe EGGs and the PODs, that was just another visual gag to make you think you were watching some sort of Alien prequel.
I guess the supposition is, "You can turn water into wine," in that those egg(pod)s in that position could REFRACT your mind's memory of the Queen Alien room they discover in Alien film.
But Prometheus and Alien are not the same lineage, beastline wise.
That additional 'tagged on' ending, I hate; HATE.
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Custodian
MemberOvomorphJun-03-2012 1:37 PMGahlaktus,
Shaw couldn't fly that thing in a million years.
:)
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cthulhu-666
MemberOvomorphJun-13-2012 12:27 PMhave you seen bio-mech starship LEXX and its series?!
maybe it could have anihilation propulsion system, if ship
can hold amounts of matter and antimatter (usually in magnetic field container).
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