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Carl_Spackler wrote: who is Ridley Scott kidding? It's a prequel no matter how they try to shake it. I mean c'mon, it's got the space jockey in it either way, this is the only film coming out this year that i'm remotely excited to see

Exactly! There are inconsistencies. You got quirky dissimilarities in the Spacejocky and how the Alien ship crashes on the surface (the one has a hole in his chest with the Prometheus Engineer is in the shuttle, punctured without a suit on. )
The spacecraft is positioned just like the spaceship found in Alien but on another plantoid.

Also, the spacejockey in Alien is petrified. Maybe 2,000 years old, not 30 years old.

Maybe we will find that somehow, Shaw travels back in time when she goes hunting for the Engineers and that creates a distortion in time that causes these inconsistencies. They did that in Star Trek once, didn't they?

Also, the spacejockey in Alien is petrified. Maybe 2,000 years old, not 30 years old.

my guess is the spacejockey in Alien is much older because it's fossilized. In Prometheus the scientists carbon dated the decapitated Engineer head back 2000 yrs and he wasn't fossilized by the looks of it. maybe it was because the interior of the ship had an atmosphere

Zenmason wrote:I liked it too. If the Scientists were stupid, the Android was David was completely irrational and did not have Three Laws of Robotics incorporated into him. I guess Ash didn't either.

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

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I LOVED how David saw himself as, or modeled himself as Lawrence of Arabia.

Xela

Xela wrote:

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I LOVED how David saw himself as, or modeled himself as Lawrence of Arabia.

Xela

That was cute. Do you think Shaw will find out who David murdered?

Time travel might be a way to explain the discrepancies between the two Spacejockies and the two Alien Ships on the surface of the planet.

If they had stuck to the all-out prequel idea, they would not be able to get more than one movie out of it. I predict at least one more movie dedicated to the origins of the Aliens, probably more. However, I don't insist on hard core history in Sci-Fi or Fantasy movies. I'll probably like it.

Gnigma wrote: I predict at least one more movie dedicated to the origins of the Aliens, probably more. However, I don't insist on hard core history in Sci-Fi or Fantasy movies. I'll probably like it.

Three are already planned. Cameron may do the next one.

I believe the inconsistencies were done on purpose. One idea occured to me, was maybe the Studio insisted on it being a prequel for marketing purposes and Riley only indulged them, throwing in inconsistencies to put kinks in the connections.

The Geiger design doesn't seem necessary and is an anachronism in Prometheus. The flying saucer in the opening scenes didn't seem Geigeresque at all.