Prometheus Afterthoughts

Leading fromPrometheusThe Question of the Space Jockey as a suit (i) The Space Jockey as a suit (ii) Just like "Fire in the Sky"(iii)The "Independence Day" 's biomechanical suit Deacon Blues and the blue Deacon The Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman influence?1) Gerald Scarfe inspired WETA's alternate Fifield monster?  2) Ralph Steadman inspire the Final Fifield monster? 3) Gerald Scarfe inspired Trilobyte tongue?  4) Gerald...

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Prometheus' loose ends

leading from PrometheusStar Map invitations and Mysteries of Planetoid Numbers...

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Star map invitations & mysteries of Planetoid Numbers?

leading from Prometheus' loose endsa)  Invitation or not?On one instance, Damon Lindelof didn't want to state whether the Engineers wanted the humans to visit them, and on another instance he did want to say yes, but still there was was something fascinating about humanity deciding to perceive it as an invitation. He notes that looking at the cave wall image leads to different interpretations, such as "This is where we come from" or "We want...

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Alien Apocalypse: The Destroying Angels

Leading from:  Prometheus Afterthoughts In 1999, about dozen years before Prometheus came out, a comic book series called Alien Apocalypse :The Destroying Angels was published, taking place around 20 years after the events of Alien exploring the mystery of the derelict and its pilot the space jockey and its cargo of alien spores.  The comic book series was a very thoughtful in the way that it roughly exploring some of Ridley Scott's...

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"Alien Apocalypse" influence on Prometheus?

Leading from:   Prometheus Afterthoughts &  Similarities between Prometheus and the Alien Apocalypse: The Destroying Angels. a) a star map appears to lead homeworld of the space jockeysAboard a derelict spacecraft found in space, an elaborate chartshowing a fantastically detailed description of the Space Jockey'sjourney is foundIn Prometheus, a  reoccurring star system pattern is found on various ancienttablets and...

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Moebius' influence on Prometheus

Leading from:Prometheus AfterthoughtsMaster Burg from Aedena, image from the illustration for the Moebius collector cardsa)When the Engineer was revealed to be a tall ethereal bald man with a bridgless nose that flowed from the forehead, straight into the ridge of the nose. I asked myself if there was a tall bald man in Moebius' artwork that might have been a starting point for Ridley Scott. Perhaps I remembered something from the Gardens...

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Gary Larson and the Deacon's pointed head

a) Dalekman61 at the AVPGalaxy forum came up with an image that's rather worrying in terms of Prometheus' Deacon. The shape of the head with the back point looks very similar to a Gary Larson's Alien Family Dinner cartoon featuring the Aliens from 10-5-1986.b) Gary Larson was an American cartoonist, the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to over 900 newspapers for 15 years. The series...

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Max Headroom as a running theme ?

leading from Prometheus Afterthoughtsa) Arthur Max's team designed the mysterious chamber known at some point as "The Ampule Room" and also as "Steve Messing" was able to mention, "The Head Room". One might take the "Head Room" and Arthur Max's surname, connect them together and get "Max Head Room" and wonder what sort of a connection Arthur Max might have felt towards this semi-computer generated character. Numerous people were making the connection...

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Holographic Universe a theme in Prometheus?

leading from Prometheus Afterthoughtsa) Once I had seen the cover for Cinefex 130 released in June 2012, an emotional light shone from it in terms of what lay at the heart centre of Prometheus to say what it was really all about , the idea of this hologram of an orrery with representations of star systems and galaxies floating around, and as a vision of wonder, it subjectively asked me if the universe that we live in is a hologram and if so the discoveries...

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