heh, I don’t disagree. Here’s hoping for a director’s cut that fills in at least some gaps.
I mean, I can guess what scenes if any are missing, but it would be nice to see a more complete feeling film.
Hey, dude. It wasn’t my decision to use Giger’s sketch for the Jockey as the Jockey. That’s what they did. That’s all I’m saying.
Watched.
Was kinda disappointed that a director with such attention to detail let some obvious factual errors slip through. Things like using carbon dating to determine age without the required information. Statements about distance being way off the mark. I know it’s a silly action movie…or suspense. But I expect attention to detail from Mr. Scott.
Lets not fight. Lets make out.
What’s this? I’m sure it could be explained by it being the majority of a century in the future 
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my only question is if LV-223 and LV-426 are supposed to be the same thing. I’d have believed it if the jockey didn’t get out of his chair and into the prometheus. The very first thing that concerned me was seeing 223 instead of 426 when they targeted the planet.
What I would have expected: He stays in his chair, the proto-facehugger breaks out of Prometheus and squiggles over to the crashed bomber and makes his way in and out of the dying engineer, then bursts out as a queen and shits eggs everywhere and glazes over everything to effectively set up the hive and ‘The Pilot’ piece in time for USCSS Nostromo to come by.
What Happened: The dude gets out of his fucking seat and goes after Shaw. He gets his ass sucked off by the proto-facehugger, now a big bullsquid thing. Shaw and David’s Head climb into a different bomber and fly off to star in Lollipop Chainsaw. Cut to a streamlined miniature of the xenomorph queen ripping out of the engineer’s chest.
So now the big pilot’s chair with a dead elephant guy in it doesn’t exist. So unless LV-426 is just another planet with an identically wrecked ship, the original film itself just got reverse retconned out the ass.
There’s still another film yet so maybe that’ll explain what happens on LV-426
Basically, I can’t see any way this could be the same planet. As you’ve mentioned, there are just far too many differences.
So it appears that the ‘Engineers’ are crashing ships all over the fucking place.
Which actually makes these ‘Engineers’ appear to be a group of bumbling morons.
“UH OH SPAGETTIOS! I JUST LET THE FACE HUGGERS LOSE ON THE SHIP! CAPTAIN’S GONNA BE REAL MAD AT ME AGAIN!”
Well they do have the same DNA as humans. And we can frequently be incompetent with our WMDs see Chernobyl or Japans nuclear power plant (I realize this is technically not a WMD but it uses the same tech).
Combine Prometheus with Laurel and Hardy and you have a good idea what the next film will be like if it’s about how the LV-426 ship crashed.
I’m seeing a new potential spinoff. The Engineers
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