Prometheus Trailer Debuts Alongside New Viral Video

[Hudson]

I hate to spoil the mood, but "with that said," I'm gonna go and wait till June.

[BishopIII]

That'd be rather disappointing.

Yeah, on second thoughts, you're probably right. Maybe the SJs left the pictographs as insurance in case their creations get so far advanced that they become a threat to their supremacy (they seem pretty imperialistic)? It lures FTL-capable species in to be destroyed, like a form of pest-control?

EDIT: On second thoughts, maybe it's the SJs way of determining whether a planet that they have seeded is 'ripe' for them to inhabit? The indigeous intelligence comes to investigate, alerting the Jockies to the fact that the world is ready, then they wipe out said intelligence and colonise.

Alas, as Hudson said, better to wait til june!

[dude]

I hate to spoil the mood, but "with that said," I'm gonna go and wait till June.

Here, here.

[SM]

You know where you can stick that common sense...

[Sebastian]

So Jockeys are pretty much Mass Effect Reapers. Nice..

[Darkfox]

Yeah, on second thoughts, you're probably right. Maybe the SJs left the pictographs as insurance in case their creations get so far advanced that they become a threat to their supremacy (they seem pretty imperialistic)? It lures FTL-capable species in to be destroyed, like a form of pest-control?

That was in fact the first thought that occured to me.

EDIT: On second thoughts, maybe it's the SJs way of determining whether a planet that they have seeded is 'ripe' for them to inhabit? The indigeous intelligence comes to investigate, alerting the Jockies to the fact that the world is ready, then they wipe out said intelligence and colonise.

Now that would be just sooooooooooo, um, "cool", in a way.

But yes. I don't know why I am even starting on this, since my personal opinion gets closest to Necronom IV's - I'd have preferred not to analyse the trailer at all and know as little as possible until I'm sitting safe (ahem...) in the cinema. But anyway (not sure how much you others know or claim to know), for me all this is just very much groundless speculation. I mean, seems to me we are still judging the Jockeys by what we have been thinking they are all these years and not what Scott might think them to be or even what he might have just invented in the last couple of years...

[deezelboy]

It seems a bit hokey to me.

So, you meet a species on your interstellar travels and you think, "Blimey, given 20,000 years they might be space-capable. Can't be having that." So you then seed them with a star map, build a huge trap for them, and wait and wait and wait. Then when they do turn up, your plan is to hot-tail it all the way to their planet and destroy them. Except that, oh shit, they've got ships they can prang into yours to foil the plan. Who'd have thought of that?

Why not just wipe out any species there and then, on first contact?

Connected ancient civilisations was one of the main points of AvP.

To what extent do you think that Anderson could actually end up with a writing credit given the points of similarity between AVP and Prometheus?

Interconnected ancient civilisations - check.
Misinterpretation of trap laid by ET as invitation to explain the interconnected ancient civilisations - check.
Weyland sends out crew of scientists on ship to investigate - check.
Discovery of large pyramid-type thing covered with hieroglyphs - check.
Discovery of ampoule/sacrifice chamber as trap - check.

I wonder if Anderson will contest?

[BishopIII]

 But, didn't the Jockies create life on earth in the first place? Therefore they would have been around to leave the invite/lure. Who says they were just waiting? They might have been busy doing the same thing on other worlds. If my other theory is correct, the argument would be moot, anyway.
 I think there is a lot of the story that isn't in any of the trailers, perhaps it is a (sort of) friendly invite, but that the crew of the Prometheus piss off the Jockies in some way, leading them to attempt to exterminate the human species.

[Necronom IV]

Incidentally I've just discovered according to the Topless Robot website that the UK trailer and the US trailer are apparently quite different, with, according to them, a lot more explosions and plot spoilers in the US version. Hence why I totally didn't notice some of the things discussed from the trailer that I quickly averted my eyes from reading in some of your posts.

I just want to point out that I've only seen the UK trailer and plan to keep it that way after reading their news post about it (especially since it'll be the only one showing on television where I live), so if it's not too cheeky, might I request a spoiler warning on content discussions regarding stuff that's in the US trailer that's not in the supposedly more ambiguous UK one? Don't worry about it if it's not an appropriate request, I should probably stop glancing at this thread after all.

I'm just quite literally torn between wanting to be (hopefully) blown away with no preconceptions of content the day I go to see it, and desperate to see anything new from it because... well... I'm a massive fucking Alien trilogy fan who wants a new film in its universe to love

[SM]

I wonder if Anderson will contest?

"Make me share a credit with O'Bannon and Shusett, will they?"

[deezelboy]

But, didn't the Jockies create life on earth in the first place? Therefore they would have been around to leave the invite/lure. Who says they were just waiting? They might have been busy doing the same thing on other worlds.

But why create life, or uplift species, if you're only going to destroy them when they become a threat? Why not just exterminate them there and then? It's not as if the Space Jockeys are getting any benefit from us during our period of non-threatening behaviour (or not any apparent benefit, anyway).

And once they seed a species with a starmap, they have to create the trap and then wait for it to be sprung. Yes, they are probably doing lots of other things in the meantime, but why bother with the trap and the wait at all?

My own completely unfounded hypothesis is that they're using the starmaps as a backup plan, and are a parasitical species. Every species they encounter that looks like they're capable of going interstellar, they bait with the starmaps and then leave a kind of Jockey seedbank at the location. If the Jockeys suffer some extinction-level catastrophe, they hope that one of the species they've contacted will make it to that destination, become parasitised by the seedbank, and result in a new Jockey species. But it's not something the Jockeys would want to happen unless it was the last chance at beating extinction.

[Dan]

Is the big disc (UFO) hovering over a waterfall on earth? 

[SM]

Probably, but I don't think anyone knows for sure yet.