Notice the Hammerpede and Deacon facing each other in the construction of the En

Karstenphd
MemberOvomorphJune 17, 20121711 Views27 RepliesI'm just saying. Look at the talk prometheus still photo of the ship rolling and tell me you don't see it. Maybe someone with skills can paste the photo.
June 17, 2012
Giger is all about Bio mechanical. When I first saw the Derelect craft in Alien the design blew me away, because it made no sense aerodynamic wise. I was wondering "wow, why have a spaceship designed with a hammer?"
Enter two main alien creatures featured in Prometheus, the Hammerpede and the Deacon.
Maybe even the ship represents life cycles.
Now I am wondering if the ship with it's female genatalia openings like the original egg design in Giger concept art and these familiar looking appendages have anything to do with the original way the ship was grown, or organic. Maybe the Engineeers craft even symbolize what it produces, as in all the murals, giant heads, and skull on top of the Temple-laboratory.
The photo is in talk prometheus to the left of everything alien above our post.
June 17, 2012
i thought there were elements of both creatures in each arm of the ship. its a design thing :)
June 17, 2012
Oh, come on, people.
Just below the P R O M E T H E U S banner on every page of this site, there's a background image in the TALK PROMETHEUS box - this is quite a good find ~phd.
:)
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June 17, 2012
Great find!
SO obvious once you see it. Of course one of the ends of the original 'derelict' was designed with the dome head of the alien...but in this version of the ship it does look more like the deacon...much sharper. I hadnt noticed the 'hammerpede' at the other end but there it is. Wonderful.
June 17, 2012
[url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/gallery/view/img/212][img]http://www.prometheus-movie.com/media/prometheusO_screencap29.jpg[/img][/url]
You are so RIGHT! Well spotted, now I'm off to check out some pics of the derelict from A L I E N.............
"Let The Cosmic Incubation Begin" ~ H.R. Giger
June 17, 2012
That is just so cool!!!!!!!!!
One end of the 'derelict' has the domed head as galacticnorth said, can't see the inner surface of the other side though...damn
"Let The Cosmic Incubation Begin" ~ H.R. Giger
June 17, 2012
**FACEPALM**
this thread was merely a ruse to send me off on a hopeless quest to find a facehugger/derelict pic.......you evil Karstenphd you!!!! lol
"Let The Cosmic Incubation Begin" ~ H.R. Giger
June 17, 2012
OK, maybe I'm Roarsching, but anythings possible. Maybe it's abstract Engineer architechture, pareidolia, semiotic, Christ in a Pretzel...Elephants in clouds, or a ruse to send The Lone Gunwoman(TM) on a hopeless quest, but as Manfred Mann said "Mamma allways told me not to look into the eye's of the sun, but momma, that's where the fun is, as sang in Blinded by the light.
The photo made me think.
June 24, 2012
wow that is very cool!
what if the derelict ship formed in a circle is supposed to represent the cycle of life? since it looks like the hammerpede and the deacon maybe it is referencing the alien goo life cycle...also it is rolling in a circular motion at the end. Is that reading too far into it? I hope that made sense
June 25, 2012
wow -- people see jesus in pieces of toast also. just because you can imagine it doesnt make it so.
July 14, 2012
thought you guys might find this interesting
it includes a lot of snippets of Giger talking about how he designed the original derelict and why it went through some changes
[url=http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.nz/2010/03/design-of-derelict-gigers-work.html]Gigers original derelict design[/url]
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