Kerr Avon
Master Member
See my previous post.
Prometheus (Post-release)
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See my previous post.
ringa
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If that's what happened, then it's a shame. So much potential, so much anticipation. I mean, the ending of Prometheus seems to be the ONLY continuity detail to bridge it to Alien. Everything else in Prometheus was a blank canvas. How could that one detail have been missed?
Too Much Garlic
Master Member
It wasn't missed. It was just butchered, presumably by Lindelof.
neosporing
Sr Member
CASH...
had it been the same planet and the ending led up to the beginning of alien, they wouldn't be able to make a sequel.
had it been the same planet and the ending led up to the beginning of alien, they wouldn't be able to make a sequel.
That's the thing. Any race that crashes two of those bad boys in the same system deserves what they get. Come on!
ringa
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But they don't need that for a sequel. They could make a sequel out of Shaw's dumb idea to go to the Engineer's home planet to get squashed the moment she steps out of the ship, assuming she survives the trip.
That's another issue: She narrowly escaped her encounter with ONE Engineer, what makes her think she will last long on a planet populated by them?
Noeland
Master Member
No detail was missed. No "bridge" between the films is intended with Prometheus. No bridge is needed.
Also, I don't think the material he consumed at the beginning is the same as the weaponized material.
neosporing
Sr Member
this is great! should have been the one sheet for the film.. at least something handed out with the 3-d glasses
-- if someone does a poster run of this, Count me in!
See, you keep saying that over in the sequel thread, and I don't disagree, I think this story is strong enough to stand on it's in. BUT, a lot of people, including I think the studio, do want that and I can agree with that as well.
feek61
Sr Member
That is very cool except you need to add container with black goo plus earth worms equal bad-ass cobra thing. Also bad-ass cobra plus man equals crazy super human bad-ass
That is an odd way to look at it. Regardless of what was in earlier drafts, in the final movie, they chose NOT to have it be LV-426, so it isn't.
That would be like arguing Darth Vader isn't REALLY Luke's father because in Star Wars, it was written that Darth Vader KILLED Luke's father and after "butchered rewrites" the story changed to Darth Vader BEING Luke's father...
Neither. Another craft rammed itself into the Engineer's ship. He was taken down through no fault of his own, but through the deliberate actions of the flight crew of the Prometheus. It wasn't an accident or bad luck. We was attacked as he was trying to flee and taken down. Simple as that.
Noeland
Master Member
No, he's not supposed to be the same creature found in the seat in Alien. That ship is already crashed during the event of Prometheus on a different planet in a different system.
It's not an xenomorph that pops out of his chest. It's a different creature. It's similar. It's just a suggestion that the engineers weapon tech (and probably all their tech) is all DNA based and leads to a certain kind of parasite/host/xeno living weapon.
The creatures in Alien are different.
I would argue they did need something and that LV-223 could not possibly be LV-426. LV-223 has at least a string of (and perhaps the entire planet is peppered with) alien temples, all presumably with ships and black goo in them. We have never seen or heard about this in Alien or Aliens... and surely, once the planet was Terra-formed in Aliens, these giant temples would be found, but no... there is just one crashed ship out in the middle of nothing.
ringa
Well-Known Member
It was bad luck for the Engineer.
Noeland
Master Member
Well, I think some people are getting hung up on this being a direct lead in to Alien in some way, and it's not.
I agree. I've always been kind of fascinated by the early drafts and ideas Lucas created. I'm also glad he dropped most of them and moved toward the films we all love.
Kerr Avon
Master Member
It's pretty clear there were rewrites when we've got photgraphic proof of characters being in two places at once (Shaw and Peter Weyland) and the director even mentioned that the first draft had too much of the original material in it when they brought LOST guy in to get lost in the script rewrites. I'd like to see the original script, I suspect it was a lot more coherent and a better movie than what finally made it to screen.
Oh, and a better analogy would be Luke and Leia frenching leaving a nice sloppy string of spittle connecting their lips in "ESB" and then the line from Yoda suggesting there was another Skywalker out there.
neosporing
Sr Member
Oh, and a better analogy would be Luke and Leia frenching leaving a nice sloppy string of spittle connecting their lips in "ESB" and then the line from Yoda suggesting there was another Skywalker out there.
roflol:thumbsup
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