Kit Rae
Sr Member
Considering the mural on the wall of the ampule chamber shows a xeno, eggs, face hugger, and chest burster, that indicates it already existed, and was probably being worshipped, or at least involved somehow in the Engineers worship.But the problem is that we don't even know for certain if the "Proto Alien" (aka "The Deacon") featured in the film is the first xenomorph ever.
Ridley specifically asked for the biomechanical elements to have more of a mechanical look in Prometheus. He purposefully wanted it to be different. I look at what we saw Alien - not just the pilot, but the whole derelict ship - as something much older and more "grown". As if the longer the organism had been in the chair, the more biologically fused it became with it.But for me, this is space jockey badness. Gone from the head is all sense of the original's intriguing pathos - precisely as I predicted, by the way. Then there are the robot claw hands and the attempt to disengage the figure from the chair - with its sacrilegious break-up of the original's seamless flow from figure-belly to 'telescope'-support-thing.
How many people actually liked the term "space-jockey"? I remember the first time I read that term used in The Book of Alien back in 1980. I thought it was very dumb and hokey. I know it was just a term the crew came up with, but it sounded like something a non sci-fi fan would come up with. Glad they never used that in the actual film. I always called it the pilot, even though we had no idea if that thing he grown into was a navigational device, a weapon, or what.By the way, are we Prometheus naysayers going to find ourselves alone in calling the 'Alien' version the 'space jockey' now, as Prom-fans go over to calling it an 'engineer'?