Before Prometheus, what always scared was thinking about what the Xenomorph that emerged from the Space Jockey looked like. Xenos take on the traits of their hosts, so I imagine that thing must have been huge.
In case you didn’t know it’s call the ultramorph and it’s like 3 or 4 meters and apparently it was Supposed to be in the alien movie. Also the Decan was originally it but they changed it
You have to remember that in "Alien", the signal the Nostromo picked up, was a WARNING. That implied that the Space Jockey race could have been benevolent. Personally, I don't even accept Ridley Scott's "new" vision of the giant race. He didn't have that in mind way back when he made "Alien". Even so, these comic book stories are way better than what he turned out with "Prometheus".
Yes, absolutely right and while I casually enjoyed both Prometheus and Covenant each as a 'stand lone' side shoot of the lore, they never 'organically' extended from the original Alien story line (c.f. Dan O'Banon et al story & script). The beauty magic and wonder of the Space Jocky & biomechanoid Juggernaut ship were pure genius: original imaginative and had great potential. They were the backbone of the Alien premise - albeit very little explored or developed in the franchise. Then ScottFree et al had to bring in the human origins / evolution / AI ideas (shamelessly stolen from 2001: A Space Odyssey) and the Black Goo (also (shamelessly stolen from the X-Files) supposedly to take the franchise into a 'new direction' ? Spare me, please! Least imaginative, least meaningful story and lacks integrity imagination and creativity. I wish that they'd let N Blomkamp bring in his Alien 5 (and the remaining original cast including Sigorney Weaver) instead of suffocating it the way they did. R Scott may have been the best thing that happened to the original Alien movie; but he's the worst thing that could have ever happen to the Alien Franchise. Love the original Alien and the sequel Aliens (even Alien 3 and 4 to some lesser extent), but do not respect anything since - least in that list is that last mediocrity and joke of a 'sequel': Alien Ridiculous. It was so positioned between Alien and Aliens to subvert the lore and now they have an open doorway to steer the franchise into R Scott's wierd semi-mythical semi-religious incoherent crap , which had nothing to do with the original story & script.
@@Sci-Fi_Quizshow - I pretty much agree with what you said. Yet, I view the newer Alien films as spiffy, high-budgeted sci-fi and hardly in the Alien franchise at all. For me, it's like the Terminator films - the first two began and ended it. Everything after seemed like a completely different universe filled with bad writing and bad vision. This is how I feel about the Alien movies - first two were the most fulfilling. And part of that was the mystery of it all. The first Alien film was not Ridley's story. He just brought it life as a young, struggling director (which is when many, many directors and actors put out their best work - when they are young and struggling to be recognized. They seem to start off wanting to do it for the art. But after they make it big, they lose the artist in themselves and do it for a bigger paycheck. It's when they don't have to struggle, that they lose a certain purity.) So, Alien, not being an original idea of Ridley's, suddenly, years later, became an idea of something along the lines of Chariots of the Gods, in his mind, which took it in a wholly different direction. Why couldn't the alien simply be a creature that evolved into that "perfect organism", and some strange ancient alien race found it and collected it for study, but was something far worse than they bargained for? This universe is quite large and quite old. It's not a far stretch to think life could have evolved to such a state. It could be the closest we've come to imagining the unimaginable when it comes to what lifeforms could be out there. It just didn't seem necessary to make this whole chain of life wind up being connected to us humans. To me, that lessens the very idea of Alien and the mystery of this vast, ancient universe is taken away. The mystery was a key to it's horror. Rant over. 😊
Honestly I preffer this jokey to the engineers from the recent prequels. The engineera and the whole concept of the origin of humanity and whatnot is too pretentious
I like both. They should have definitely made a prequel to Alien explaining the Space Jockeys as how they are depicted in the comics, and the Engineers should have been a separate movie disconnected from the Alien universe.
@@Malamockq I agree with you. Ridley scott should have made these movies with elements from the comic expanded universe with his own twist. that way he wouldn´t have alienated the fans from the expanded universe
I'm not certain but on the Seth McFarlane Star Trek homage The Orville there was a character called Tharl played by Patrick Warburton that might've been a nod to the space jockey series. Technically his species has a fast metabolism so the long tube from its nose area to his stomach is so he can eat and "store" more food at once.
When I was a kid my mom bought me the Aliens outbreak comics, I need had the chance to follow the story on the other comic books. Thank you for doing this videos from comic books that I love about the franchise. Kudos to you @AcidGlow
Man, why couldn't they have used this as the basis for Prometheus? The whole "origin of humanity" thing was so pretentious and overused in sci-fi that it didn't do much for me. I much prefer the design of these thick, 4-fingered, snouted aliens that had been fighting the xenomorph and wanted the location of Earth for it's own benefit as opposed to some boring albino humanoid in a spacesuit. To add insult to injury, the engineer wasn't even as big as the one from Alien by at least 4 or 5 feet! They should've just adapted this into a movie.
I'll never understand why they don't just take the comics as a base for the movie plots. They are so much better (except for Alien 1979 and Aliens). We need a reboot with the comics as the basis!!!!!
I didn't realize they changed Hicks and Newt's names for these comics. I have even seen them covered on other Alien channels where didn't mention that, weird.
The original version did have them named Hicks and Newt in 1988 but when Alien 3 came out in 1992, they reprinted a new version so it would not complicate the characters stories from ALIENS movie. If Alien 3 never got rid of these 2 characters, then they never would have had to change their names.
It's pretty clear from the original movie and ignoring all the "lore" and comics and rubbish, the "jockey" was part of the ship. They say so in the movie... He's "fused" into the ship. And since then, everything has gone on the wrong track.
What if the Space Jockeys are a seperate species above the Engineers, and the Engineers designed their suits to look like their gods the Space Jockeys?
I used to own these comic books showing the story of the space jockeys, etc. I forget the name of the book but I remember it just had Alien on the cover.
My idea for a third alien/prometheus movie is as follows: The engineers are the main characters in the movie and comes to the planet that was in the Prometheus movie. There they find Weyland inside the crashed spaceship. They have a blue elixir which they empty all over him and bring him to life. In the next part they arrive at the planet from alien covenant and find the other robot(Walter) who is david's twin.The engineers use the blue elixir and repairs him. Once awaken the engineers and Weyland get to know all the horrible things that David has done, and weyland says "we have to stop David" . They set course for origae. When they arrive,they scans all the planet,and finds the planet is full of hostile organisms except on a high mountain where they discover that there are humans inside a cave. Inside the cave they meet a herd of children, who tell that when they had lived on the planet for over ten years, they began to be attacked by Xenomorphs and all the adults died or were turned into these creatures. There were also great giants developed by someone the children calls David. The engineers get ready to wipe out all the Xenomorphs that David has created, but the great giants manage to escape with one of the engineers' spaceships. The engineers and Weyland hunts the spaceship and manage to force the spaceship down on the planet lv426.Where it start sending a distress signal. The engineers return to Origae to find David, but discover that he has escaped. In the last part we see David arriving and meeting an unknown alien species on a tropical like planet.And that makes the cliffhanger that ends the third movie.
Remember that ridley gets his influences from religions. Example, christ, creator, and the resemblance of the elephant suit depicts Ganush or the elephant god for the hindus who is a sleeping God that protects the world from destruction or chaos. And also the xenomorphs acts like the demons who are inferior to the engineers yet this specie overpowered them that these demons would look like gods over their creators. Like humans and androids. artificial humanoids that turns out more superior over humans
@@Masenken it was, but the comics came out years before Ridley Scott ever introduced the engineers. If you watch the first Alien, you'll notice that the original space jockey was much larger than the engineers that Ridley Scott introduced later in Prometheus. Nothing was really known about the Space Jockey species before Prometheus was released, so Dark Horse comics went ahead and established lore surrounding the Space Jockey aliens. After Prometheus however, all that stuff was thrown out and no longer considered canon.
Keep in mind, H.R. Giger designed the space jockey-not Ridley Scott. All Ridley knew was that Giger was making him some kickass set pieces for his movie, but didn’t quite know how to explain it. Perhaps not even Giger had a story in his head for the space jockeys, so now everyone is trying to come back after the fact to explain what they could be.
When a movie is popular but doesn't reveal much of the back story, comics and novels which are written by other authors are made to fill in the back story and continue the timeline. Star Wars did this a lot with the Expanded Universe. But when it comes time for the movie makers to make the true sequels/prequels, the movie makers very rarely (never?) consider the work made by comic and novel authors to be canon and just write their own vision of what the stories should be. This is why the expanded universe in Star Wars was retconned by Disney when they made Episode 7. Before the movie Prometheus, the comics depicted the Space Jockeys as those elephant aliens, Prometheus retconned the comics and changed them to the Engineers.
That's such an old topic that i never covered. But I did read an article a while back saying that Disney will not water down the Audience Rating (Rated-R) material. They'll keep those movies how they are. Aslong as it stays true to the source material then I'm fine with it. Maybe they'll get more funding from Disney since they own so much of everything now. We'll see what happens.
okay I was just worried ( same with other fans ) that disney might give the same treatment they gave star wars so I was only wondering if had the same feeling and they better keep there word and tell the god honest truth about keep the source martial the way it is
In the new "canon" Prometheus created: yes, historically and in the comics: no, Space Jockeys were a separate race and Engineers didnt exist for the longest time
wow this vercion is more realistic and terrifing, its a pitty the change the design in the movie, i mean is not i dont like it, is becose they look too humanoids, but in the original design i always lovet, i love the plot of this comic and the space jockeys shows like masters minds of conquering and manypulation !!! in prometheus they just acting like religious jerks...
They missed a good writing opportunity with the Space Jockeys. Yes this is better than Prometheus but that's like saying its better than the Last Jedi. Better idea: Space jockeys are peaceful and empathic. They are masters of organic technology - they 'grow' and then psychically communicate with their ships. They discover the Predators tens of thousands of years ago when they are small, squat, primitive vicious little shell eaters on their homeworld swamp planet. The Jockeys decide to 'uplift' the Predators but the Predators want to be taller, stronger, more powerful, better fighters. The Jockeys refuse but the Predators quickly find that by hurting themselves they can cause pain to the highly empathic Jockeys. The Predators use this to enslave the Jockeys who are forced to use their knowledge of organic technology to make the Predators, taller, stronger, badder etc. Some of the Jockeys who didn't want to be enslaved decided to create a weapon to use against the Predators - something even worse, something fearless and horrifically dangerous - the Alien. The Aliens couldn't have evolved on their own as they are far too deadly a parasite - they would quickly take over and then nothing larger than a house cat is left. But could they have been designed as a weapon? Oh yes... You could make a good story/movie series with this - wish they would have.
I will make fanfiction of Alien..in my Alternative Universe the Enginners would look like humanoid elephants just like in the comic, in my version they are benevolent and very calm like elephants, they have spiritual powers like reading the mind, even they can percieve the good or bad intentions, they are like elephants in general, gentle and all-knowing, BUT they have weapons and use it when its necesary, they are benevolent, but not idiots
no one grows out of a stiupid chair or looks like an frikkin elephant, not even teh Alienz^^ i always found that totally goofy and unrealistic.. in Prometheus and Alien Covernant the "Space Jockey's" wear suits, a helmet and they are human like, which is more realisitc
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@Space Pirates Cool beans
Much more than the Engineers.
Very very amazing 💗💖💗💖💗💖
Is this canon?
Before Prometheus, what always scared was thinking about what the Xenomorph that emerged from the Space Jockey looked like. Xenos take on the traits of their hosts, so I imagine that thing must have been huge.
In case you didn’t know it’s call the ultramorph and it’s like 3 or 4 meters and apparently it was Supposed to be in the alien movie. Also the Decan was originally it but they changed it
I would absolutely love to see the Ultramorph in the movies
You have to remember that in "Alien", the signal the Nostromo picked up, was a WARNING. That implied that the Space Jockey race could have been benevolent.
Personally, I don't even accept Ridley Scott's "new" vision of the giant race. He didn't have that in mind way back when he made "Alien". Even so, these comic book stories are way better than what he turned out with "Prometheus".
Yes, absolutely right and while I casually enjoyed both Prometheus and Covenant each as a 'stand lone' side shoot of the lore, they never 'organically' extended from the original Alien story line (c.f. Dan O'Banon et al story & script). The beauty magic and wonder of the Space Jocky & biomechanoid Juggernaut ship were pure genius: original imaginative and had great potential. They were the backbone of the Alien premise - albeit very little explored or developed in the franchise. Then ScottFree et al had to bring in the human origins / evolution / AI ideas (shamelessly stolen from 2001: A Space Odyssey) and the Black Goo (also (shamelessly stolen from the X-Files) supposedly to take the franchise into a 'new direction' ? Spare me, please! Least imaginative, least meaningful story and lacks integrity imagination and creativity. I wish that they'd let N Blomkamp bring in his Alien 5 (and the remaining original cast including Sigorney Weaver) instead of suffocating it the way they did. R Scott may have been the best thing that happened to the original Alien movie; but he's the worst thing that could have ever happen to the Alien Franchise.
Love the original Alien and the sequel Aliens (even Alien 3 and 4 to some lesser extent), but do not respect anything since - least in that list is that last mediocrity and joke of a 'sequel': Alien Ridiculous. It was so positioned between Alien and Aliens to subvert the lore and now they have an open doorway to steer the franchise into R Scott's wierd semi-mythical semi-religious incoherent crap , which had nothing to do with the original story & script.
@@Sci-Fi_Quizshow - I pretty much agree with what you said. Yet, I view the newer Alien films as spiffy, high-budgeted sci-fi and hardly in the Alien franchise at all. For me, it's like the Terminator films - the first two began and ended it. Everything after seemed like a completely different universe filled with bad writing and bad vision. This is how I feel about the Alien movies - first two were the most fulfilling. And part of that was the mystery of it all. The first Alien film was not Ridley's story. He just brought it life as a young, struggling director (which is when many, many directors and actors put out their best work - when they are young and struggling to be recognized. They seem to start off wanting to do it for the art. But after they make it big, they lose the artist in themselves and do it for a bigger paycheck. It's when they don't have to struggle, that they lose a certain purity.) So, Alien, not being an original idea of Ridley's, suddenly, years later, became an idea of something along the lines of Chariots of the Gods, in his mind, which took it in a wholly different direction. Why couldn't the alien simply be a creature that evolved into that "perfect organism", and some strange ancient alien race found it and collected it for study, but was something far worse than they bargained for? This universe is quite large and quite old. It's not a far stretch to think life could have evolved to such a state. It could be the closest we've come to imagining the unimaginable when it comes to what lifeforms could be out there. It just didn't seem necessary to make this whole chain of life wind up being connected to us humans. To me, that lessens the very idea of Alien and the mystery of this vast, ancient universe is taken away. The mystery was a key to it's horror.
Rant over. 😊
Honestly I preffer this jokey to the engineers from the recent prequels. The engineera and the whole concept of the origin of humanity and whatnot is too pretentious
Definitely.
I like both. They should have definitely made a prequel to Alien explaining the Space Jockeys as how they are depicted in the comics, and the Engineers should have been a separate movie disconnected from the Alien universe.
@@Malamockq
I agree with you. Ridley scott should have made these movies with elements from the comic expanded universe with his own twist. that way he wouldn´t have alienated the fans from the expanded universe
Were you expecting a more 'special' origin for humanity or something?
@@rohanmiscrits humanity doesn't need a origin.
The space jockeys look so weird 😂 but cool at the same time 😂
I agree with you Tyler McNeill
The space jockey look like an elephant nose
I agree. I've always been interested in their backstory as well.🍻
I'm not certain but on the Seth McFarlane Star Trek homage The Orville there was a character called Tharl played by Patrick Warburton that might've been a nod to the space jockey series. Technically his species has a fast metabolism so the long tube from its nose area to his stomach is so he can eat and "store" more food at once.
And now the space jockey turned out to be.... A bald albino -_-
Javier Duran I think it’s safe to say at this point they’re not the same species.
@@gabrieltejada1697 agreed 💯 I don't even acknowledge Prometheus and Alien covenant NEVER HAPPENED 😡
Great video as always Xenomorphs are always best and mystery creatures 😃 and I learned more secrets about them in AVP 3 game
*Alien Rules*
Thanks
Better than the ultra albinos.
When I was a kid my mom bought me the Aliens outbreak comics, I need had the chance to follow the story on the other comic books. Thank you for doing this videos from comic books that I love about the franchise. Kudos to you @AcidGlow
Man, why couldn't they have used this as the basis for Prometheus? The whole "origin of humanity" thing was so pretentious and overused in sci-fi that it didn't do much for me. I much prefer the design of these thick, 4-fingered, snouted aliens that had been fighting the xenomorph and wanted the location of Earth for it's own benefit as opposed to some boring albino humanoid in a spacesuit. To add insult to injury, the engineer wasn't even as big as the one from Alien by at least 4 or 5 feet! They should've just adapted this into a movie.
I think the engineer in the space jockeys are two separate beings they look kind of different that's why
thats because of shit writing. they are supposed to be the same now.
They are the same just the biomech suit makes it confusing
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I'll never understand why they don't just take the comics as a base for the movie plots. They are so much better (except for Alien 1979 and Aliens). We need a reboot with the comics as the basis!!!!!
I didn't realize they changed Hicks and Newt's names for these comics. I have even seen them covered on other Alien channels where didn't mention that, weird.
This Story/Version about the space Jockey is so much better than prometheus
My brother gave me the graphic novel when I was in the hospital great read highly recommend
Sounds like a good brother.
This is the true Alien Mythology, not the trash that Ridley Scott did in Prometheus and Covenant.
SUCH A BETTER CONCEPT THAN THE ENGINEER.
0:30 I recently got that comic
Ya know I could forgive Prometheus is they looked like this
Why was the space jockey so much larger in alien than in covenant?
Because Ridley Scott lost the plot
Because the Jocky was a suit to a degree
🎶When Space Jockey met the Humans!!Oohhhh-woooooah!!!🎶Twas just sweetest thing..the moment oh so Magic..so Divinnnne🥂
Prometheus ruined it.
I believe I still have this comic book in my collection
Hey AcidGlow can you do a video on The Witch from L4D1 & 2?
Yeah I haven't gotten around to that one yet. I still plan to cover her some time.
Great vid
So why did they changed names of hicks and newt?
The original version did have them named Hicks and Newt in 1988 but when Alien 3 came out in 1992, they reprinted a new version so it would not complicate the characters stories from ALIENS movie. If Alien 3 never got rid of these 2 characters, then they never would have had to change their names.
@@AcidGlow
Tx for explanation 👍🏻
Great video! Thanks.
Thank you
The bald albino jockeys may be an inferior version to the jockey in first film
Loved it
Space jockey: Protoss
Aliens: Zerg
Humans: if you know, you know.🤓
What game is this in the outro?
Bomb af
I see aliens are part of tera form step by step procedure fascinating
It's pretty clear from the original movie and ignoring all the "lore" and comics and rubbish, the "jockey" was part of the ship. They say so in the movie... He's "fused" into the ship. And since then, everything has gone on the wrong track.
No
When you work on planet Rim….
What if the Space Jockeys are a seperate species above the Engineers, and the Engineers designed their suits to look like their gods the Space Jockeys?
I agree - they should be different but connected species. 👍
What if Prometheus and Covenant never happened 🤔?
I used to own these comic books showing the story of the space jockeys, etc. I forget the name of the book but I remember it just had Alien on the cover.
My idea for a third alien/prometheus movie is as follows:
The engineers are the main characters in the movie and comes to the planet that was in the Prometheus movie.
There they find Weyland inside the crashed spaceship. They have a blue elixir which they empty all over him and bring him to life.
In the next part they arrive at the planet from alien covenant and find the other robot(Walter) who is david's twin.The engineers use the blue elixir and repairs him.
Once awaken the engineers and Weyland get to know all the horrible things that David has done, and weyland says "we have to stop David" .
They set course for origae. When they arrive,they scans all the planet,and finds the planet is full of hostile organisms except
on a high mountain where they discover that there are humans inside a cave.
Inside the cave they meet a herd of children, who tell that when they had lived on the planet for over ten years,
they began to be attacked by Xenomorphs and all the adults died or were turned into these creatures.
There were also great giants developed by someone the children calls David.
The engineers get ready to wipe out all the Xenomorphs that David has created, but the great giants manage to escape with one of the engineers' spaceships.
The engineers and Weyland hunts the spaceship and manage to force the spaceship down on the planet lv426.Where it start sending a distress signal.
The engineers return to Origae to find David, but discover that he has escaped.
In the last part we see David arriving and meeting an unknown alien species
on a tropical like planet.And that makes the cliffhanger that ends the third movie.
Remember that ridley gets his influences from religions. Example, christ, creator, and the resemblance of the elephant suit depicts Ganush or the elephant god for the hindus who is a sleeping God that protects the world from destruction or chaos. And also the xenomorphs acts like the demons who are inferior to the engineers yet this specie overpowered them that these demons would look like gods over their creators. Like humans and androids. artificial humanoids that turns out more superior over humans
I do prefer what we got in Prometheus, but i do like the Elephant men
I kind of like this version of the space jockey than the one from Prometheus looks more alien like
So are these things the same as the engineers?
Hey...what game was that at the end of this video
Robert Adams
AVP 3, the 2010 game on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.
I have the graphic novels with the original names.
I'm confused. I thought the engineers were the space jockeys? Why they look like so different? Is this fan made?
The Space Jockey design like this was before the engineers ever were shown..
I thought it was explained away as a suit they wore and that's why they looked like that
@@Masenken it was, but the comics came out years before Ridley Scott ever introduced the engineers. If you watch the first Alien, you'll notice that the original space jockey was much larger than the engineers that Ridley Scott introduced later in Prometheus. Nothing was really known about the Space Jockey species before Prometheus was released, so Dark Horse comics went ahead and established lore surrounding the Space Jockey aliens. After Prometheus however, all that stuff was thrown out and no longer considered canon.
@@locdasmoke they also split the alien and predator universes, so it was already a wrap for everything the books and comics established
Keep in mind, H.R. Giger designed the space jockey-not Ridley Scott. All Ridley knew was that Giger was making him some kickass set pieces for his movie, but didn’t quite know how to explain it. Perhaps not even Giger had a story in his head for the space jockeys, so now everyone is trying to come back after the fact to explain what they could be.
Interesting
Hey wait what? Aren’t space jockey’s actually the engineers in a suit?? I don’t know much about Alien bro I’m sorry
When a movie is popular but doesn't reveal much of the back story, comics and novels which are written by other authors are made to fill in the back story and continue the timeline. Star Wars did this a lot with the Expanded Universe. But when it comes time for the movie makers to make the true sequels/prequels, the movie makers very rarely (never?) consider the work made by comic and novel authors to be canon and just write their own vision of what the stories should be. This is why the expanded universe in Star Wars was retconned by Disney when they made Episode 7.
Before the movie Prometheus, the comics depicted the Space Jockeys as those elephant aliens, Prometheus retconned the comics and changed them to the Engineers.
Malamockq ohhh i do know about SW expanded universe comics soo makes sense! Thanks bro
Space squidward
Is this "canon"?
hey acidglow what are your thoughts on Disney buying the rights of the alien and predator franchise ( and Fox in general )
That's such an old topic that i never covered. But I did read an article a while back saying that Disney will not water down the Audience Rating (Rated-R) material. They'll keep those movies how they are. Aslong as it stays true to the source material then I'm fine with it. Maybe they'll get more funding from Disney since they own so much of everything now. We'll see what happens.
okay I was just worried ( same with other fans ) that disney might give the same treatment they gave star wars so I was only wondering if had the same feeling and they better keep there word and tell the god honest truth about keep the source martial the way it is
What game was playing at the end btw thanks for the explanation on the space jockey
aliens vs predator 2010
Not gonna lie If I met one I would probably just touch it's trunk before it takes me out
I always thought that the space jokeys were just engineers with helmets on
Aren't space jockeys also engineers
In the new "canon" Prometheus created: yes, historically and in the comics: no, Space Jockeys were a separate race and Engineers didnt exist for the longest time
It's a space suit to the engineers....
How is it when I looked for info that I keep seeing I'm unsubed from you?
"Inter-rock-tion"
I never liked that name
I think the space jockey is an engineer featured in Prometheus and Alien: Coventry.
The knew Prometheus is like a retake or fix on the storyline,I don't regret both Prometheus movies.
End_Plague 😂 😂 😂
Alien: Coventry
Hahahahahahahah
Dude do you even hack what you type
Alien: Coventry 😂
I’m still laughing
wow this vercion is more realistic and terrifing, its a pitty the change the design in the movie, i mean is not i dont like it, is becose they look too humanoids, but in the original design i always lovet, i love the plot of this comic and the space jockeys shows like masters minds of conquering and manypulation !!! in prometheus they just acting like religious jerks...
They missed a good writing opportunity with the Space Jockeys. Yes this is better than Prometheus but that's like saying its better than the Last Jedi. Better idea: Space jockeys are peaceful and empathic. They are masters of organic technology - they 'grow' and then psychically communicate with their ships. They discover the Predators tens of thousands of years ago when they are small, squat, primitive vicious little shell eaters on their homeworld swamp planet. The Jockeys decide to 'uplift' the Predators but the Predators want to be taller, stronger, more powerful, better fighters. The Jockeys refuse but the Predators quickly find that by hurting themselves they can cause pain to the highly empathic Jockeys. The Predators use this to enslave the Jockeys who are forced to use their knowledge of organic technology to make the Predators, taller, stronger, badder etc. Some of the Jockeys who didn't want to be enslaved decided to create a weapon to use against the Predators - something even worse, something fearless and horrifically dangerous - the Alien. The Aliens couldn't have evolved on their own as they are far too deadly a parasite - they would quickly take over and then nothing larger than a house cat is left. But could they have been designed as a weapon? Oh yes...
You could make a good story/movie series with this - wish they would have.
I will make fanfiction of Alien..in my Alternative Universe the Enginners would look like humanoid elephants just like in the comic, in my version they are benevolent and very calm like elephants, they have spiritual powers like reading the mind, even they can percieve the good or bad intentions, they are like elephants in general, gentle and all-knowing, BUT they have weapons and use it when its necesary, they are benevolent, but not idiots
Eh.. I prefer the engineers as opposed to the goofy, Elephant Man lookin Jockeys.
no one grows out of a stiupid chair or looks like an frikkin elephant, not even teh Alienz^^ i always found that totally goofy and unrealistic.. in Prometheus and Alien Covernant the "Space Jockey's" wear suits, a helmet and they are human like, which is more realisitc
yes that third movie ruined every thing