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Please please don`t do a Promethues!

djamelameziane

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Please please don`t do a Promethues!

Hello im here to make lots of friends again :P . Just want to say hello after being away for a long time and im back to grump about my favourite director and the mess that was prometheus. But lets start with the new trailer shall we :D

Now its looking pretty good but one thing that made my heart sink was that old sticking point with prometheus : Why The Frig Are They Not Wearing Helmets! And its back already in the trailer 42 seconds in!:

https://youtu.be/svnAD0TApb8?t=42s 

That is why you always wear helmets on strange planets and its kinda what happen last time. The crew are also looking a bit like meat for the grinder...no real stick out characters except possibly the main heroine as usual. I just hope they come up with a believable reason this time...

 

Anyway just throwing that out there ...need to catch up on whats been happening. Oh and yes I hope we see that demi god ridley was talking about that could spice it all up. It will be fun seeing if some of our old predictions come to fruition to...and much more.... :P

 

 

 

 "It's almost as if they are making it up as they go along" :D

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Hahaha start as you mean to go on djamelameziane......

and welcome back to SCIFIED!

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Welcome back dear unknown person who thinks his points of view are relevant to anyone.

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@Fifield Don't forget "...and so important so as to make up an entirely new thread despite said trailer having already been discussed ad nauseum since it was released weeks ago." ;)

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I think there will be quite a lot of people who think the same thing like you djamelameziane. When I saw the trailer the first time, I thought the same. I wondered why they didn't wear helmets and that their clothes looks strange XD Probably, if they would wear helmets and a space suit, they didn't die 

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@123Engineer

On the other hand, if they had spacesuits and helmets, they would not be infected by black goo... No scary movie. (Smile!)

              "Bees have hives, man" 

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The 'No Helmets' thing could be a simple 'overconfidence' in their tech's ability to suss out environmental issues that are dangerous. Overconfidence, well, it leads to bad judgement and assorted other nastiness here in real-life, so why not in fiction?

Remember how overconfident the Col Marines were in ALIENS? Yeah, same basic idea...they thought their tech could handle anything and most got killed.

IN SPACE THERE IS NO WARNING

 

 

 

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"On the other hand, if they had spacesuits and helmets, they would not be infected by black goo... No scary movie. (Smile!)"

Spacesuit isn't going to stop some creepy robot spiking your drink. :)

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Good point about drink-spiking. :D

Also, nothing is ever Perfect...and that includes decontamination procedures.... ;)

IN SPACE THERE IS NO WARNING

 

 

 

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Obviously, there'll be a momentary scene where the sciencey person declares, "the atmosphere is an astonishing match with Earth... The air is breathable, captain!" Woohoo, no helmets necessary.

Aside: how come Holloway burned to death (very satisfyingly) in an environment that doesn't have oxygen? Nevermind. 

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well, sci-fi is home to supposedly Brilliant People doing the stupidest things. :)

LV-223 had an earthlike atmo, BUT with CO2 levels fatal to a Human, but not high enough to really inhibit combustion. I had to look up LV-223 for assorted reasons relating to my literary efforts.

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Stan Winston (deceased LOL!!!!! Shhhhh!

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Welcome back, djamelameziane! I think you'll be ok this time around, Covenant seems like it's going to be the movie we all wanted Prometheus to be. 

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Alternate Universe where Manticore gets hired to transport the Holloway-Shaw expedition to LV-223:

*Holloway removes helmet, etc, etc.*

**Comms Channel, Manticore's resident Physician, Alistair Smythe:** "Would someone kindly inform the self-appointed guineapig amongst you that he has just earned himself a one week stay in an exterior Iso-Hab, subject to and as-per Quarantine Protocols."

IN SPACE THERE IS NO WARNING

 

 

 

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Stan - Uh, (LV-223) earthlike atmosphere with Oxygen and Nitrogen with a very high concentration of Carbon Dioxide.

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Sounds like you want to see the same movie 8 times. May I suggest the Fast and Furious series? That may be more your style

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I did mention before a while back when the first Trailer dropped that i think those who found flaws with Prometheus including silly things like Fifield and Milburn would maybe find just as many flaws with AC.

It also seems again Characters may not be fleshed out to much, but you cant really give detailed development and background when the movie has to deal with a number of things.

Alien was unique in that it only had to deal with ONE Monster and the First time we saw it and only a Small Cast.

R.I.P Sox  01/01/2006 - 11/10/2017

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Thanks...And yes so ok:

Over confidence in tech fine but show why. What super duper tech so they have because in Prometheus it all looked a bit like almost nothing. They couldn't even detect engineers black goo etc.....

And in alien they had space suits and the face hugger just went through it. The point is it needs to seem real. The first thing a biologist would spot if there was earth like environments is the fact the life there may be similar enough to pass on any number of fatal things. Not to mention potentially disastrous contamination from them to the environment. 

 

They could have intelligent humans geared up with the best tech being careful in a way most normal people act etc... And still get infected and destroyed because this goo and the xenos it makes are crazy powerful and evolved. I suspect the goo is from the demi God...stuff on a completely new level of evolution. But let's see :p .

 

Anyway like I say I really hope they have a good answer and are not anywhere near as stupid as the Prometheus crew...that old haunted house in space idea was awful.

 

I love the over all idea with this series its just painful when you can see it's full potential and it hits way below that like in Prometheus....

 "It's almost as if they are making it up as they go along" :D

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djamelameziane

In PROMETHEUS, they did some tests/analysis of the air inside the Engineer building and Holloway, then the rest, removed their helmets. What if the scanner was simply unable to process and identify some Unknown pathogen in the air?

That's what I meant by overconfidence in technology leading to smart people doing stupid things :) Holloway however, was an idiot, I liked the actor, but the character of Holloway I can't stand.

As for facehuggers and other things that are just overwhelmingly powerful and capable of burning through/breaching a suit, well, the Hammerpede showed that clearly, and there's not much you can do about things like that.

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Hey, if you wanted to protect yourself i would do it all remote from earth and use androids to take the risk, come to think of it, some humans are useful too for experimentation???

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And another warm welcome and self esteem building statement of support from Inquisitor Fifield

I hope I'm forty minutes into Alien: Covenant before I know it isn't Prometheus. Welcome back djamelameziane.  

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