Love the hell out of it.
I haven’t read this entire thread yet, because I’m too amped after coming back from seeing it. Me and my friend were able to piece all the clues dropped in this one and realize, it goes a bit deeper than you think, on purpose.
Preamble, feel free to skip.
First, I love Alien and Aliens both for different reasons. Alien felt like the first horror movie from space to take itself seriously and offer real visceral thrills, verisimilitude, with a Hard SF edge. It actually feels like a hard SF short story. Not to mention Giger’s design on the alien end, and Ron Cobbs work on the human tech (which Cameron now apes).
Cameron sucseeded in building on the first movie with Aliens, but instead of going for Hard SF and ominous, pitch black atmosphere, he created the “space marine” genre, focusing on a corporate/military “rescue” operation.
[COLOR=“SeaGreen”[/COLOR]Okay, here’s where I’m at in tying the threads together. SPOILERS!
This is a pre-prequel.
So, humans were planted here, at least 35,000 years ago, by huge Albino Men from LV-???
The happy research couple Elizabeth and Charlie, conclude the panspermia hypothesis to be true, and all signs point to LV-233 to being our true ancestors home. They want answers, and so do we:
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First, the black goo is extremely advanced biotech that will metamorphose any biological matter it is exposed to into extremely deadly entities.
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We know this because of the easy to overlook scene when Elizabeth (Shaw) first steps into the dirt in the chamber with all those canisters (nice call-back to the eggs in Alien). You’ll remember those innocent little earth worms that writhe out of the disrupted soil of her footprint (“that’s one small step”).
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Next, David the Android triggers one of the canisters in a very ulterior-motive sort of way. Then the nano-tech like goo oozes into the soil and surrounding puddles.
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Later on, those two guys who became trapped in the “caves”, encountered those man-eating, acid-spewing, penis-vagina tentacle things and killed them. Yet, one of them manages to shove its slimy phallus down one dude’s mouth. Sound familiar?
Those creatures? They were the earthworms transformed by the goo.
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David, being an android, is infallibly and invariably loyal to Peter Weyland, whose motive is to cheat death by meeting our true ancestors, and asking to do him a solid. Apparently, Weyland and David have researched and decoded as much of the artifacts existing on earth about this race, before his trillion dollar, 2-year trip that his daughter has agreed to champion only to get her dad’s delusions over with and inherit her rightful place as the new CEO.
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So, of course, David follows Weyland’s orders and contaminates Charlie’s drink with the goo. He has sex that night, and unwittingly impregnates Shaw, who’s infertile with goo-enhanced semen. Then he begins to undergo metamorphosis, who will eventually become a human version of a face-hugger. But chooses immolation instead.
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But good news, as Shaw is now with child. Good news for Weyland/David. Cue incredibly intense Cesarian scene. Aww! a fetus face-hugger! KILL IT WITH GAS!
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While all that is going down, the pilot correctly concludes this planet is nothing more than a testing ground for biological warfare. You don’t want to shit where you eat. So, obviously, this particular experiment went sour, over 35,000 years ago. But…
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David discovers one is still in hibernation. They wake him up, and David asks him an unknown question in his own language. He must be irritable without his morning coffee, because he tears his head off. So what did he say? I think I can hazard a guess.
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So, hell breaks loose, and the real threat is really our great-great-great-great x 10[sup]14[/sup] grandfather. Now he can continue what he was meant to do.
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Meanwhile David’s head and Weyland (on the verge of death), say something cryptic to each other, then the camera cuts to his daughter, hitting some keys and we hear that familiar flatline tone. Welp, he’s dead, let’s go home. Oh shit, we can’t because they assume Albino Man is on his way to earth to give us the gift of the goo. She runs for the escape pod, makes it, then gets crushed by the Omega looking ship.
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Shaw barely escapes getting crushed and running out of air, but makes it to the pod, where her beautiful baby boy is waiting for her, all grown up and ready for a hug. Guess the gas didn’t work so good.
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David informs Shaw that Albino Man is coming for her, and she uses Shaw Jr. to take him out, and he gets deep-throated by Jr.
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Shaw, now with no way home, agrees to help David get them to another ship, as there’s many more underground. He tells her they can go home. She says fuck now, I didn’t come all this way for just a teeshirt. I want answers. Fuck earth for now, take me to them.
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He agrees, they take off in another Omega ship, and we see a proto-xenomorph burst from Albino’s chest.
END FILM.
Here’s what I think is really going on. Weyland didn’t die. He had himself a good talk with David’s head, and told him to convince Shaw to take the other ship to elsewhere. David is fantastic at reverse psychology.
I think Weyland’s daughter played a fake flatline tone, to abandon him so she can finally gain the company.
He must’ve used his power-suit to walk to the other ship, while Shaw and Albino where having a family reunion.
When the ship takes off, Shaw thinks they’re going to the Albino’s home planet, and maybe Weyland and David do too. My bet is it’ll be LV-246.
So, why do these face-huggers and xenomorphs look so different from what we see in the other films?
Because, it’s been 35,000 years! These creatures are just the beta version. Prototypes. A lot must’ve developed in the intervening years, resulting in the eggs, face-huggers and xenomorphs we know and love today.
Now, we still don’t know why they came to earth to begin with, or what’s up the the guy in the beginning drinking some aline acid stew, ripping him apart on the DNA/molecular level, then it recombining in the lake. He seemed awfully pensive about it, and decided it was for the best.
My guess is, they planed to use earth as another testing ground, but were somehow driven away. By what, or whom, I don’t know, but you don’t make and work so hard to create a bio-threat like that, unless you have an enemy. Who’s the enemy? Maybe another faction of these Albino People.
Perhaps when David spoke to him, he said something to the effect of, “Hi! We’re from earth. We got your message, sorry it took so long, but better late than never!” Then he got pissed and ripped his head off, because we are his enemy. Or, the decedents of his enemies. Whoopsy.
If this is close, then perhaps this warring faction became stranded on earth all those thousands of years ago, and tried to leave records of the location of LV-233, where the equivalent of the Manhattan Project is going down. We diverged and forgot where we came from as these records became buried over time. Upon rediscovering them, we mistook it for a message of, “Hey, come by for a visit when you can, we’d love to reconnect!”
I believe I heard there’ll be one more movie, if so, all signs point to bridging the gap between this and dovetail into Alien; creating a true trilogy from Ridley himself and hopefully most of these open questions will be resolved (and would create a true pre-quel, however retrofitted).
Prometheuses?
