EDITORIAL: Speculation On The PROMETHEUS Plot

No one seems to be getting the exact same vibes from the movie as me, so I thought I'd share my own (ranting) predictions for the film.

Editorial Opinion
By PacificOrca - May 22, 2012 11:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi

So here's what I'm guessing at.

"Alien" was a nifty little horror film that dealt with interconnected themes of rape/corporate abuse/robotics/insect life. "Aliens" was a completely different vision from a completely different director, so forget about that one. "Prometheus" will form the true third part of a trilogy, but will be much bigger in scope than the original. Alas, the same director is around, so the rape/corporate abuse/robotics/insect life will return, but this time in full throttle. If you choose to see this film, prepare to question the meaning of life and walk away with a bad taste in your mouth. A horror film is not supposed to scare you. A thriller does that. A horror film is supposed to horrify you, to disturb and bother you.

So here's an outline as to my predictions for the film. I use a mixture of facts gleaned from the last few months and my own conjecture.

1) Humans discover star map. They go to planet. Duh. No one fan is disputing this.

2) They arrive on planet (not the one from "Alien"). There they find a derelict spacecraft. They go inside, where they discover all manner of bizarre, almost mechanically biological life (setting the groundwork again for Scott's interconnecting themes of rape/corporate abuse/robotics/insect life, but expect it to be more tortuously painful and disturbing to watch).

3) Some of this life attack one of the humans.

4) The human (with mohawk?) begins to change at the biological level. Maybe it's a symbiotic/parasitic arrangement? He begins to turn into a Space Jockey (there, I said it... everyone else seems to just take it for granted that Space Jockeys are completely different and have no connection to humans. I contend that the "Engineers" ARE human, somehow at least).

5) The human/Space Jockey starts to attack others. The crew of the Prometheus realize that the threat is not only to them, but to all of human kind. The Space Jockey is like a dark, monstrous version of the Star Child from "2001: A Space Odyssey," and those egg-like cylinders that have confused us all are like monoliths, but tangibly filled with icky DNA-altering goo.

6) The Space Jockey fixes/builds the spacecraft to go to Earth. The Prometheus crew realize that if it gets there, all of human kind will be ruined, that the whole purpose of human existence is to be converted/serve as hosts for these Space Jockeys.

7) The Prometheus pursues across space.

8) While in transit, the robot David figures out a way to alter the genome sequence and create something that will destroy the Space Jockeys, e.i. turn the weapon against them. A xenomorph essentially, except that that term is Cameron's name and not Scott's.

9) They catch up to the ship and stop it, losing all their own people while they're at it. Rapace's character succeeds in stopping the Jockeys, but in the meantime becomes infected herself. She turns into THE Jockey we all know and feel sorry for, the one from the first "Alien."

10) The xenomorphs (Scott will never call them that) make there way into the picture. And the nasty kicker of the film, the twist ending: the Gods have ANTICIPATED the humans creating the xenomorphs. The Gods KNOW that this is the way it will play out. The whole point is not to populate a new planet with Space Jockeys, but to provoke the humans into MAKING SOMETHING WORSE. That's the heartless raping/corporate/robotic/insect-like horror at the heart of the matter.

Because the Gods are NOT the Jockeys. The Gods either never appear (making them more intimidating and the story more Lovecraftian) or are the shapeless-yet-squirming primordial goo. Life is nothing more than efficient organic robotics. There is no higher purpose. We're mold on a piece of crust, mere atoms and molecules, like David or Ash. The life cycle goes like this: life is seeded on a planet. Life evolves and goes searching for meaning. Life destroys itself. The Gods are shapeless monsters. Lovecraft is exalted once more.

Anyway, that's my thinking. Let me know how you feel about it.

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PacificOrca
PacificOrca - 5/22/2012, 11:35 PM
I should have written "make thEIR way into the picture." I used to be awesome with there/their/they're. Now I mess them all up :(
colonialsoldier
colonialsoldier - 5/23/2012, 6:56 AM
Good speculation but I disagree based on the Prometheus International Launch trailer (search for it on youtube). The David character is looking at a huge video holograph which shows a few of the space jockeys running. He says "they leaving" and Elizabeth Shaw says "to go where?" then he responds with "earth". then you hear "we were sooo wrong!"

How can that be any of the crew?
PacificOrca
PacificOrca - 5/23/2012, 9:53 AM
@colonialsoldier

"Good speculation but I disagree based on the Prometheus International Launch trailer (search for it on youtube). The David character is looking at a huge video holograph which shows a few of the space jockeys running. He says "they leaving" and Elizabeth Shaw says "to go where?" then he responds with "earth". then you hear "we were sooo wrong!"

How can that be any of the crew?"

Because those Space Jockeys he's looking at WERE part of the crew before the alien goo infected both their bodies and minds. They're headed to Earth to spread their Space Jockeyness onto others.
PacificOrca
PacificOrca - 5/23/2012, 9:56 AM
@dellamorte1872

"Aliens" and everything that happens in that movie are from James Cameron. This is Ridley Scott's movie, and while he probably won't do anything to outright contradict that film, it's fair to say he doesn't give a damn about it and doesn't feel obligated to reference it. This movie will be related to "Alien" but not "Aliens."
PacificOrca
PacificOrca - 5/23/2012, 11:49 AM
I did do my research. "LINDELOFF" is spelled "Lindelof" and "PARRALEL" is spelled "parallel."

[frick]ing learn how to spell! BECAUSE A SILLY MOVIE LIKE THIS MATTERS SO MUCH YOU NEED TO CURSE AND USE CAPS LOCK TO MAKE YOUR POINT COME ACROSS!!!!!!!!!!

:)
PacificOrca
PacificOrca - 5/23/2012, 12:10 PM
:)
Bumble
Bumble - 5/23/2012, 12:32 PM
love the civil discussions on this board ;-)
BlazinTexan
BlazinTexan - 5/23/2012, 8:07 PM
LOL @ bumble
PacificOrca
PacificOrca - 5/23/2012, 9:51 PM
Lol. Agreed :)
NeroJoe83
NeroJoe83 - 5/24/2012, 9:49 PM
I wonder if this will be related in any way to the Darkhorse Comic lore. In the comics, the Aliens produced some kind of sweet resin that humans became addicted to... But the substance actually was DNA altering, and turned the people into "Bug Men".

I'm pretty sure that the comics aren't necessarily cannon... But...

The trailers do show some kind of dark viscous liquid (similar to the resin in the comics), and clear imagery and dialogue to support that the humans begin transforming (similar to how the 'Bug Men' transform in the comics).
NeroJoe83
NeroJoe83 - 5/24/2012, 10:05 PM
In a recent traliler you see a serpentine creature rear up like a cobra before ripping its way into the arm or a character's space suit. Then you see it enter the helmet and actually go into the character's mouth!

I think this creature is likely a proto-face-hugger.... But adapted to infect the Space Jockey species and not humans.

Also, I don't think that face-huggers implant an "embryo"... Instead they cause a viral infection that changes the hosts genome, and forces the host to grow a xenomorph from it's own tissue.

If you've read the comics you'd know that the xenomorphs characteristics are determined in part by the host. This supports the idea that the face-hugger is not simply implanting an embryo, but causing some kind of DNA reengineering.

... Which is why the "proto-face-hugger" in the trailer is clearly ill suited for infecting a human... It literally has to cram itself into the guy's throat. Alternately the face huggers in the Alien films seem to be SPECIFICALLY addapted to fit a human face. A product of human/xenomorph reengineering.

Note, if you look closely at the creature in the trailer, it actually looks very much like a face-hugger with no 'fingers'... The shape of it's orriface is just like a face-hugger's... But it lacks the proboscis that the face hugger uses to feed oxygen to its host.
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