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BellaisanAlien
MemberOvomorphJun-07-2012 4:57 PMI am wondering whether we have been misled in Prometheus over what the 'progenitor' to the xenomorph actually is. The creature in the end sequence is essentially stuck on the moon LV223. I know there have been speculation that the creature stows away on a spaceship or attacks a rescue party for Weyland.
However, I feel that this creature is pure 'misdirection' and more of a homage to the Xenormorph. My interpretation is that the 'progenitor' is simply the worms that are more than likley primative life of the moon. The Engineers are attacked by these evolved species which have come in contact with the black biogoo. The creation the 'hammerpede' or 'cobrahugger' is by chance a deadly creature with acid for blood, which lays its young inside of it's victim.
The engineers have already been attacked..... they're are holes in their heads and chests. The 'hammerpede' erupted from Millburns mouth. We did not see whether or not there was any creature that came from Millburn's chest; like the holes the Engineers have in their's.....
The Engineer from Alien is fossilised. If we look at the time frame of Prometheus related to Alien then it is entirely plausible that the derelict escaped from LV223 after being infected by a 'hammerpede' and crash landed on LV426. The offsring of the Hammerpede chestbursts from the Engineer kills any remaining crew on the derelict and then either lays eggs or morphs the crew into eggs. Later the derelicict pilot is fossilised in the 2000+ years that goes by before the Nostromo discovery.
I have ruled out the new creature because it didn't exhist when the derelict crashed on LV426. So it coulnd't of killed the Engineers on LV223. My questions are where are the eggs?? Where is the tunnel system of the xeno's?? Is it that they are larger due to the Engineers and the oxygen levels?? The temple could be their tunnel system and due to the lack of scientific study maybe we just didn't see where the nest and eggs were of the Xeno's??
There are so many ways that this could go........
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Socrates
MemberOvomorphJun-07-2012 5:04 PMI am with you 100%. This proto xeno as people call it cannot be the first. It is exactly what you said, rs paying homage to alien.
This new story will go off on its own. The black goo is the new mystery as well as the engineers. My guess is that we will not even see the xenos again except for possible further cameos.
Think of where this can go. You saw what little worms turned into...
BellaisanAlien
MemberOvomorphJun-07-2012 5:15 PMGreat an English teacher, wondering ..................
meshuggah
MemberOvomorphMay-12-2013 2:52 AMYep, I think you're absolutely 100% correct here. The classic xenomorph evolved from worms; worms are hermaphrodites, they shed skin and most importantly, they are [i]egg layers[/i]. This explains how we get a creature like a queen and why larval xenos are like worms, the film explains its origins perfectly. The visual cues and clues are all there and are too obvious to ignore, and the fact that it was Milburn him self that commented on the exploded chests of the dead engineers that also had holes in their helmets, just like his helmet would have, is also why the film didn't show what would have burst out of his chest. I mean the hammerpede looks and behaves too much like a facehugger so it wasn't necessary to show him chest bursting; It intimates it then misdirects you with the Trilobite and Deacon. Now some would object by saying that Milburn was a corpse but this is immaterial since the hammerpede is a less evolved precursor of the facehugger and thus it doesn't have the capability of providing the host with oxygen. Even the Trilobite didn't have that capability, the engineer was lifeless when the Deacon burst from his chest, the capability of providing the host with oxygen comes in the next generation; the classic facehugger. Remember also that the Deacon was attached to a placenta when it was born, now if it was an egg layer, why would it be born attached to a placenta? That's because its origins were that of mammal bipeds. I'm surprised that others haven't picked up on all this, in the commentary Lindelof explicitly says the hammerpede has the capability of [i]infecting[/i] humans, and given what we see it do he must be talking about more than its acid for blood. All the answers really are all there, the film provides context to what happened on the derelict, I mean it really is all there!
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