After watching Prometheus, did you guys like the design of the engineer, either

No I do not like the design. Alien presented a true alienish figure of sorts, and that was part of the charm/mistery and that was lost (maybe...the sequel must come) with the present design... Big musculous guys are a very cliche science fiction form...not very orginal in any way, and far less original than the original Space Jockey design. As for the ancient cultures, some have really weird depictions of Gods, so it was not really necessary... But the sequel comes...and who knows, we can meet true aliens soon, and find out these ëngineers"are not what it seems right now... That being said, cool link posted here. Have they gone that way it would have been far more interesting. Want the tall musculous guys? All right! As bio tools from the true Masters, the Space Jockey race!

i'll have to agree with everything Voidhawk said , i liked the engineers look but it could have been much much more, i think they should have been separate beings , the space jockey design in alien, was truly "ALIEN" after all didn't it originate from the very guy who originally designed the alien world?

Nah. Screw that. Engineers reign supreme. :P Yeah, they could maybe introduce what we believe to be the "Annunaki" out of context to ancient history. In relation to the Engineers being their servants who rebelled. The Igigi. I'm still gonna be an Engineer nut-swinger no matter what... The only thing they need to do in regards to the Engineers is explore them more. We need to see them in action more. Showing more emotion. We need to see them feel. We need to see their society.

@Pren, you seriously are happy with how the Space Jockey from Alien turned out to just be a suit? Personally, that was perhaps the biggest let-down of the movie for me, and the only reason for this unveiling was apparently to facilitate putting the engineers into a story that didn't have or need them previously, i.m.o.

I agree with you Shawluv:D For me it was also a big letdown, after the traillers and all... It took off a lot of the old mistery from that haunting scene in the first Alien, and if you think it was that (at that time) scenery support that created a whole myth around it (lets get real, it was not RS idea at that time. He was shooting a Monster Movie. He rode the wave after the success, and if we should give credits it should be to Giger and the props guys for all this) then it was an undeserved downgrade. Put some of the proposed images of the living Space Jockey beside an Engineer...not a chance for the muscle guy with an unhealthy skin colour... Humanoid centered aliens are something true science fiction fans try to avoid and is a kind of egocentric view anyways... The Giants from many ancient cultures on Earth are not necessarily humans, and the most haunting images from ancient lithograps have totally inhuman appearances, some weird and some scary. Those came from really old imaging and they could have gone that road instead of the cliche, old "big guy with a different skin", which was why that first Space Jockey impressed us back in Alien, with its innovative and original depiction of an alien and his tecnology Anyway now we get that ...and hopefully we will see a different story in the next movie, and even learn that these Engineers are but a minor part of what the true Elders are, and a bio-tool at that (which is hinted heavily along the movie)

Well you see lets look really at what the Engineer could had been prior to Prometheus. Now Ridley did hint a long long time before Prometheus it was a Space Suit and that it was a Bomber carrying a Bio Weapon Cargo. Now if it was a suit that does not mean that the concept could have been that the Space Jockey was some more Alien looking Race than the Engineer. So yes maybe its a suit maybe its a helmet like in Prometheus or maybe its not fully a helmet and maybe only the Snorkel is part of a suit and thus we get something like this without it. [img]http://carl-gagnon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SpaceJockeySketch_Wip02.jpg[/img] Or maybe something like this... [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8GJbAAr1DY8/TRI83mYfb0I/AAAAAAAACRk/R7C8AOsNcSM/s1600/space_jockey_by_daobiwan-d2z9aj9.jpeg[/img] I like this one though.... [img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/114/e/8/space_jockey_my_variation_by_daobiwan-d4xfn3m.jpg[/img] Or maybe something more like a Bio Organic look like the Xeno.. [img]http://www.dominicqwek.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SpaceJockey_Shot.jpg[/img] So if the Space Jockey looked like any of the above or more Tapir i.e its the Skeleton of a Giant Creature whos head is like this fellas.. [img]http://akrainforest10.pbworks.com/f/1271288592/tapir1.jpg[/img] Then what story do we have about them? That they are some Alien Race from Far Away who are at War with another Race or maybe even their own kind and that the Xeno is a Bio Weapon that it was carrying. Thus the story would be about some Alien Race who created/engineered or came across the Xeno to use as a Bio Weapon, maybe it would tell of who this race is in detail and who they are at War with. Maybe tell why they created the Xeno or had it. I think Lindeloff came along and pitched the idea that what if the Space Jockey was a Ancient Race who created Mankind and that the many Ancient Cultures who depicted and worshiped Giants Humanoid Beings from Space as Gods, were simply worshiping these Space Jockeys. To fit in with that story they designed the Space Jockeys and Engineer Humanoid Race in Space Suits and thus they now have a Race that created life on Earth from Basic Organisms, a Race who have been around for Millions or years and who would have no doubt played a part in the creation and modification of life on any number of worlds across the Galaxy. I think thats huge Scope for a Franchise.

I had already predicted that it would most likely have been an organic suit of some kind, anyway. And if it was a letdown to some people, it's not nearly as big of a disappointment as the entire movie itself, anyway... Also, muscularity, typical in sci-fi? Heeeell naw. Big heads, skinny arms. That's what you expect from sci-fi. I love the Engineers and their design. The dark eyes, the skin tone and complexion. It's perfect. And who knows... knowing what the Engineers are all about, they might even have enhanced themselves when we see their home planet. Or "upgraded" themselved genetically... Watch, i'll call it :D. There are true Space Jockey Engineers. With the actual suit being a part of their natural body :D. It wouldn't surprise me. If we see it in the sequel.

I don't think i could be a bigger fan of the engineer's design. I guess some people wanted anteaters lol!

in the art of book it is stated that they wanted the suit to look organic in a way that once they wear it, it melds into their skin becoming one, much like the pressure suit the last engineer was wearing, that seems like a more feasible idea.