Your thoughts on the proto-type Alien?

i can't see immediately how this proto alien evolved into the alien we know from the other films. I'd like to agree with wilv that this proto alien's more of a "cousin" than an ancestor to the aliens. However, the circumstances of how the proto alien occured are quite unlikely to have happened before the proto-alien was created to form the alien and face hugger represented by the carvings on the wall. think about it, an "engineer" would have had to assimulated the black goo (which presumabley genetically modifies all cells somehow), then fucked another engineer ON THAT SAME PLANET which was a GROUND FOR EXPERIMENTATION of supposedly BIOWEAPONS, and not for making ur self at home and setting up a little engineer family. Unless ofcourse they intended to create this alien by doing so. infact, i'm starting to think that's it, but the alien produced from that wouldn't be so different to the proto alien since the engineers are meant to be human more or less. but who am i to say? i have no idea exactly how different the engineers' DNA is to humans so meh.

I recon tho, that the engineers deffinately set out to create the alien, but eventually it/they must have obviously broke free and taken over at some point and possibley stowed away on a spaceship while the planet was being evacuated, hence why no aliens were found on the planet. this leads me to think that the alien was genetically modified further from a proto alien created, similar to the one at the end of prometheus and created under similar circumstances (engineer afflicted by the goo screwed another engineer and had a proto-face hugger baby). and maybe it broke free because it was just too good, they made it too dangerous.

we don't know what anything in this Lindelof-Scott co-production is, DO WE? I mean, let's be honest with ourselves for, oh, just another 4.3 microseconds before stumbling back into denial that we know what it's all about. Eh?

i like it, but i think the teeth look silly

We have to remember the ambiguity of the movie. We also have to consider which do we ignore or do we take all on board. 1) What we see in this movie. 2) The events of Alien 3) The comments made by Ridley and Lindeloff Your see the movie shows a Mural that shows a Xeno looking Organism to me it does not look exactly like the Xeno, but then it does not look exactly like the Deacon but it does to me resemble the Deacon more than anything. We see in the Mural what appears to be Face Huggers that are on the faces of humanoid lifeforms. Is there a purpose why these are positioned bellow the Xeno type image? Does this mean they worship the Xeno, is this showing the Face Hugger coming from the Xeno type Mural or vice versa? There are clues all around that lead to maybe the Xeno well Face Hugger being around prior to the Deacon at the end. Maybe the Mural could be a prophecy of some kind and thus depicts the Deacon and how it is connected to the Eggs and Face Hugger making it a Proto Xeno. The only clues to this are its appearance compared to the Mural, but how does this thing end up creating Eggs that end up on LV 426? At the end of Prometheus its hard to see how that could happen. Looking at the events of Prometheus it would be safe to say that the Xeno from Alien/Aliens had been around prior to the Deacon at the end. The only thing that would otherwise place it as a Proto Xeno are the comments by Ridley and Lindeloff.. they was. Its about how Mommy meets Daddy Its about the Progenitor. Both hint that the events of Prometheus have some connection to the creation of the Xeno, and Mommy and Daddy must mean the Trilobite and Engineer Scene or Shaw and Holloway. But then there are other comments by Ridley that contradict the above, and thats when he says and hints the Derelict and its Cargo have been on LV 426 for a very long time in Alien and thus there before the events of Prometheus. So is one a Red Herring? will we be told.... or is it all a game to keep us all guessing and left to be ambiguous. For the record i feel the Deacon is a new species that has become into existence, via the series of events we saw in Prometheus and it is indeed the Xeno some how that is the Progenitor to the Deacon.

My theory which is not FACT! Is that the Deacon as shown in Prometheus came about as a series of events from certain contact with the Black Substance in the Urns. I think that they already came across or created the Xeno Organism but they looked for a safer way to store and deploy the Bio Weapon and that using the same method that they used to seed life by breaking down the Engineers body matter, they did the same with the Xeno and collected the resulting matter to be stored inside the Urns. Engineer + Goo = Substance that = mutation of life to = Mankind and other complex life on Earth. Thus Xeno + Goo = Substance thats stored in Urns that = mutates life to = Organism that carries Xeno DNA and Traits.

I have. No complaints about this xeno I agree it can't be a "proto" because a infant xeno takes on the traits of its host so it's difference in look is because it came from something other than a human I loved the movie personally but only have one complaint what exactly is the black goo because sometimes it causes things to die at a melecular level and other times it mutates them like with that snake thing and the man who's name escapes me right now and also IDE like to know how this goo on top of all of this can also create a being like "cuddles" I jst dnt understand what exactly that goo is