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aweandmystery

MemberOvomorphJuly 04, 20121056 Views14 Replies

I am an Alien fanatic! This is why I am both tremendously pleased with Prometheus and terribly disappointed with its "Engineers". This is a beautiful science fiction/fantasy that is the best thing since 2001: A Space Odyssey. It promotes thought, ideas, opinions and the sense of wonder that all SF stories should. The promise, though, of a possible Alien prequel fell way short for me. It did not have to! If the makers of Prometheus have anything like the following in mind then please forgive a hopeful Alien fan. I am sure there must be many more such as myself. Just imagine this: The end credits fade out and then, in Marvel Superhero movie fashion, the picture comes back and we see the Deacon, and I personally do not like this name, leave the lifeboat and cross the land to find and enter another alien ship. It grows into the first Alien Queen and lays the many, many eggs that we see in the original film. At some point the resident Engineer awakens and decides to take control of this accident and decides who the next planet of victims is and heads in that direction. Of course, something goes wrong, he must land on LV426 and gets infected and the rest is history. This is a rather simple, quick version of what could be and should be offered to we die hard Alien fans as part of the Blue Ray package. They are spending plenty of money and time of various viral videos and should be able to pull off a surprise like this. Or even a short Anime of this prequel story would be a great idea, I could go on and on but I think you all get my point. Mr. Scott and all the powers that be: the answer rests with you!

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July 04, 2012

Yes, so many questions! I really want to see what the Deacon is and may evolve into. I too feel that we should have gotten a better answer in Prometheus and not have had to wait for a sequel or Blu-Ray.

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July 04, 2012

I hope the silly named (Deacon) gets hit by a meteor at the opening of the next film; that would make me feel a little better about the $10 I'm going to pay to see it. Next - kill Shaw "she was so wrong" for the part. I need a believable protagonist - or was she or was it David or was it someone else, so hard to tell with the script! If we do get correct answers, it will probably be in an incorrect fashion, which will instantly cast him into complete Lucas status! Hoping for the best expecting the worst!

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July 05, 2012

Three prequels apparently before the first movie of the series which was filmed in the 1970s...kinda reminds me of the whole Star Wars thing. Which I was never really into. I hope the prequels come as fast!

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July 05, 2012

It is movie and you can't expect it to give real life answers of panspermia. It is really hard to get answers on "intervention theory" and "panspermia", unless another set of species with equal or higher IQ shows up in the universe. So I guess expectations has to be set correctly.. from what my friends said about prometheus, movie from here onwards is going to derail in story plot.

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July 05, 2012

..."Of course, something goes wrong, he must land on LV426 and gets infected and the rest is history" I am sorry but I think when the crew of Nostromo found the SJ, Dallas said that it looked dead for a long time and was fossilized. It also looked like it was grown out of its chair (a biomechanical function that keeps on going, much like our nails growing, when we are dead). For all this to happen I would assume hundreds of years and not a few decades that passed from the LV-223 landing to the one on LV-426. Great tie-in story, no doubt, but something's not matching too well imho... Or maybe you could give us a new version of it!

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July 05, 2012

Ridley always stated once the film title Prometheus was chosen that the movie was NOT a prequel to Alien, just that it was set in the same universe, took place before Alien and delved into the story of the Engineers (formerly called Space Jockeys). That is what he promised and that is what we got, it just wasn't epic enough that's all.

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July 05, 2012

The problem @Aweandmystery is that the first Xenomorph we see om film came from an egg which was laid hundreds of thousands of years ago. Remember when Dallas, Kane and Lambert stumble upon the Space Jockey. After looking at the Space Jockey says that it looks fossilizied. In reality it was mumafied. What I am trying to say is that Prometheous happened thirty years before Alien. So thirty years would evolve the Space Jockey into the condition Dallas and co. found him in. That would take thousands of years. But lets say you are right about the Deacon evolving into the Alien queen and then begin to give birth to thousands of eggs. Which later turns into the facehugger we see in Alien. How then would the queen be able to lay her eggs and place them in straight lines like we see in Alien. When Kane loweres himself deep inside the Juggernaut what he found was thousands of well placed eggs in straight lines all over the ship. Do you really think that the queen would make sure that the eggs were placed in symmetrical lines. No, she would start laying them in one corner of the ship.

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July 05, 2012

I agree with Rubirosa. The eggs in the LV-426 ship look like the belong to a harvest / hatchery plant. A stasis field is also preserving them for eons (presumably). Oh well... :)

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July 05, 2012

I think part of the reason many people feel somewhat let down by "Prometheus" was that early marketing billed it as an Alien prequel. Obviously this is a sly move by Fox which would automatically generate extreme interest from the legions of Alien fans out there. When Scott described it as a movie that shared the same DNA as Alien - something taking place in the same Universe but not connected to the Alien franchise in a linear way - it gives the viewer a better expectation as to what the film would be like. Personally, I have really grown to appreciate the complexities of the film, the unanswered questions and the general feeling of uncertainty as to where this story will go. I was satisfied with the nods to "Alien" - production design inspired by Giger and Cobb but not completely aping their work, the notion of a new type of chestburster, the idea that there was more to the Space Jockey than just a fossilized creature, etc. I can see how many people would have developed a different set of expectations going in to the film, and might feel disappointed. For me, the fact that Ridley took something that has been part of the cultural landscape for over 30 years now (originally his creation, no less) and chose to turn it on its head was the most exciting thing about "Prometheus".

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July 05, 2012

I agree with you @Space Screamer.

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July 05, 2012

LOL, i dont know what to expect!!

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July 05, 2012

Thanks for the replies! I was merely trying to envision a simple scenario to make the point that I, and I am sure others, would like to see this issue creatively addressed. A good, creative writer should be able to come up with all kinds of better and more intricate story lines for the lead in to Alien. For instance: The Engineer is awakened by an alarm of some kind because the Deacon has been detected on board. The Engineer is intelligent enough to understand what this opportunity means to their cause and either arranges the "egg crate" himself or lands at another terrorist base for help before the accident, if it is an accident, happens and he lands on LV426. The time between events is not all that important since we are in a science fiction/fantasy world here. There could be various chemical and biological reasons for the state of the Space jockey. He could have gone through a time warp which pitched him back in time hundreds of years or more. After all, anything is possible! It can all be reasoned out in some way. There are writers who get paid to do this, though. It is not our job, as fans, to write the story. My whole point is simply that fans like myself deserve to see this and Prometheus has generated enough to conjecture over all by itself without carrying the original Alien questions on for another decade. Ridley himself said in an interview that he did not understand why someone did not address these questions in any of the three sequels to Alien! So yes, why didn't we Ridley? Come on already! I'm just saying! Thanks for listening.

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July 05, 2012

Hopefully in the next movie we see a whole biomechanical world and more space scenes. As for the outposts on LV 223 were awesome but I think they need to make a video game so we can explore them some more. I'd like to see giant alien ships hovering over the Head of the temple and pouring Mountain Dew down it's stone gullet. As for the Deacon Alien... I understand the Idea to be like a Proto-Xeno that is less biomechanical than the Xeno in Alien, perhaps because it is foreshadowing the creation of Xenos? which is weird because Xeno's were probably created before the Deacon. What I wanted to see as a fan is less of the humanoid aspect but more ALIEN. Where's the rest of Giger's biomechanical monsters ??? Or something that is the demonic cybernetic mind behind the monster. It would be cool if the thing that pops out of the engineer to be like a Multi-legged Morphining Larvae that has lots of egg sacks crawling through the Terra formed biomechanical habitats built for a new world. [img]http://i.imgur.com/ajhLM.jpg[/img] Engineers biomorphic body armor is the suit and check out those ports for the cryotubes.... frinckin awesome!

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July 05, 2012

The Engineers was what I wanted to see the most. ahahah loved when Bob hits the lights out of Welyand with David 8's head.

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