There were TWO Types of Engineers in the film

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MovieFan1

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Not sure if this has been mentioned or not, but the engineer they "revive" in the ship is completely different from the one in the opening scene of the film. Engineer on Ship: Pic 1 --> [url=http://geektyrantsquared.squarespace.com/storage/2011-post-images/prometheus-bts-engineerhd5.jpg][img]http://geektyrantsquared.squarespace.com/storage/2011-post-images/prometheus-bts-engineerhd5.jpg[/img][/url] Pic 2 --> [url=http://geektyrant.com/storage/2011-post-images/prometheus-bts-engineer10.jpg][img]http://geektyrant.com/storage/2011-post-images/prometheus-bts-engineer10.jpg[/img][/url] Pic 3 --> [url=http://geektyrant.com/storage/2011-post-images/prometheus-bts-engineer12.jpg][img]http://geektyrant.com/storage/2011-post-images/prometheus-bts-engineer12.jpg[/img][/url] He is not wearing a suit/armor, which I first thought, but this is actually his flesh, he's essentially naked. Picture 2 shows his neck, and picture 3 shows his forearms. He has essentially a "militarized" body when contrasted against the engineer from the opening scene, on the waterfall. The "militarized" engineer's body even has ports in the flesh for the stasis pod (pic 1) ">Very interesting, I just noticed it when looking at close up screenshots. "

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November 17, 2012

Survivial seems to the best reason, A physical specimen that can physically move around other species as needed,,but with the mind of an experienced explorer. With the meeting of the facehugger in the escape pod,it shows that the Enginers are not the top physical speciman anymore. The winner of the xeno/Engineer/human/David throwdawn will require a critical mind adept at understanding the realities of the RS world.

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November 17, 2012

looks like armour that is partly made partly organic hence 'bio-mechanoid' like a exoskeleton that grows onto the soldier/pilot from a cuticle i think its a marvelous idea! but he'd need to go through a moulting process at some point and who knows what dietary requirements would be incurred to maintain such a thing, the same way every month or so davids need to replenish their white fluid, maybe thats why hes eating semolina and jam (how english even his taste in food is mimicking the 1950's british/o'toole) or maybe thats just for his hair?

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November 17, 2012

That's the assumption, though, Indy John, that stuff about 'top physical speciman', nobody suggested that in Ridley's team, the fans did.

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November 17, 2012

@ Caenorhabhditis: 'Looks like armour....' The 'armour' did not protect the Engineer from the trilobite attack.

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November 17, 2012

yeh true but he wasnt fully suited up ok its more of a tough pressure suit but shaw still had to take a number of whacks with her axe to find a weak point so its partial armour

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November 18, 2012

I don’t think the engineers in the hologram sequency were running from xenos they created. I think there was a revolt or rebel coup in their world that arose to destroy the other side. There are two kinds of engineers, mystics and religious, and the other militaristic engineers. There is a feasible duality opposed, faith vs. science, mystics at the beginning of the film and warriors and belligerents or maybe own evolution till then.

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November 20, 2012

Hmm revolting Engineers is causeing me look into the little we know of the group. perhaps our forefathers. Why was only one Engineer lookiing back? Why was he tripping over a what is depicted by our crew as beinbg somewhat level tunnel floor? I sort of like your idea but still where are all the Engineers? There should be at least some evidence of their existance for all of the attention posters have commented on and other than The Last Engineer evidence is slim.

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November 20, 2012

i think one tried to get into head room and the others ran on and piled up where fifield and milburn found them at another closed door the fear and tripping well they were infected look at how it affected holloway i think the ship was going to leave without them and thats what caused the panic stations type behaviour

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November 20, 2012

I watched this scene yesterday running engineers. and the way I saw the scene was that the running engineers ran past the door,,with the tripping guy deciding to enter the Big Head Room and didn't quite make it. Maybe the slow Engineer knowing that he was a goner wanted to sacrifice himself to whatever was chasing them,,hoping his buddies get away. Ir was hard to tell from the camera angles if the running group actually turned into the Big Head Room,,but in looking at this scene again I am not sure. It happens so fast and there are not a continuous depiction of the scene. I need to check out other threads on this subject.

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There were TWO Types of Engineers in the film

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