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Re: Prometheus

Postby Grimshaw » Jun 11th, '12, 12:02



Lawrence wrote:I can answer that one. Wasn't the same fella.
Prometheus was on planet LV223; Alien is on LV426. Stands to reason the bridge set up of the ships is probably standard.


Is that your anorak in the corner Lawrence? :wink:

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Re: Prometheus

Postby themagicwand » Jun 11th, '12, 12:15

Lawrence wrote:Prometheus was on planet LV223; Alien is on LV426. Stands to reason the bridge set up of the ships is probably standard.

Aaah. A bit like Jurassic Park where they had a nursery island! :wink:

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Re: Prometheus

Postby Lawrence » Jun 11th, '12, 12:42

Grimshaw wrote:
Lawrence wrote:I can answer that one. Wasn't the same fella.
Prometheus was on planet LV223; Alien is on LV426. Stands to reason the bridge set up of the ships is probably standard.


Is that your anorak in the corner Lawrence? :wink:


It was also clearly a different strain of Xeno on LV426 to LV223 anyway :wink:

Now we have to ask why did they know to go to LV426 in ALIEN? More films methinks!

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Re: Prometheus

Postby Heckler » Jun 11th, '12, 12:44

Lawrence wrote:Now we have to ask why did they know to go to LV426 in ALIEN? More films methinks!


And indeed if the signal from the ship on LV426 was indeed a distress beacon, why was there no-one left to answer?

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Re: Prometheus

Postby Mr_Grue » Jun 14th, '12, 16:23

Lawrence wrote:Now we have to ask why did they know to go to LV426 in ALIEN? More films methinks!


Genuinely the most interesting development, was that - suggests that Alien wasn't just a chance encounter after all.

What I enjoyed about Prometheus is that its explanation/insinuation of what had happened on LV426 prior to the Nostromo getting there felt totally sound. It didn't feel like some *cough* *cough* George Lucas plot wrangling. I could well believe that the back-story to Alien had remained unchanged since 1979.

I did feel the dialogue sucked big style, though, and oddly during the more clichéd scenes, where you would expect the scriptwriter to be keen to avoid the clanks.

Also, the space jockeys had created us, then decided to destroy us. Not sure where the idea above that they decided not to destroy us after all came from, unless you're questioning why, if that mission had failed, no-one else took up the slack.

A theory I kind of like, is that the engineers create life, set it running, leave "invites" to military planets so that eventually the life they've created develops to the point that they can travel to other worlds, and ensure that once they have travelled to those worlds, the attack is triggered. They fly off to earth, decimate the planet, and plunder its culture and materials. Crazy, but feasible if they're all alone in the universe and/or time is not a factor.


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Re: Prometheus

Postby MatCult » Jul 12th, '12, 11:48

In case anyone fancies completely geeking out about Prometheus for half an hour or so, give THIS a read.

I thought it was a really good fillum. Going to see it with my heavily pregnant wife was probably not my best laid plan though TBH. To her credit though, she dealt with that scene pretty well.

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