DuracellEnergizer said:
xhonzi said:
But the size difference remains. The chair is also smaller than the one in Alien.DuracellEnergizer said:
I've read some fan theories out there which run with that idea. One is that the Engineers are emissaries of the Space Jockeys or something like that, and that their Space Jockeyesque suits are some form of bioengineered outfit that allows them to interface with Jockey technology.evan1975 said:
I'm not even completely sure if Engineers = Space Jockey. The Space Jockey looked like it was 20 feet tall and the Engineer looked half that, at most.
You can come up with whatever Fansplanations you want... the fact is- it just doesn't match and it doesn't matter to the people who made it as much as the people who watch it want it to.
You're missing the point of the theory. The theory posits that the Space Jockey in Alien would be a real Space Jockey, ie. what you see is what you get - that is the creature itself, not an external suit - while the Engineers in Prometheus are the "men in suits", the emissaries, servants, slaves, etc. of the true Space Jockies. They, being two different species, wouldn't be the same size for that very reason - they are not one and the same.
I don't think I'm missing the point. It's like saying that I've trained my dog to drive my car, but before he can sit in the driver's seat, he has to wear a Richard Nixon mask. Even so, my dog isn't six feet tall and can't reach the pedals, so either he can't drive a car, or he would have to have a half sized car designed for him, but why design it for a dog sized human instead of just for a dog? Which is the same as saying- he can never drive a car meant for a human.
For this theory to work- that the engineers as seen in Prometheus are different than the Space Jockey as seen in Alien, but dress up like the SJ to interface with SJ technology. This would only make sense if the SJ suit made the engineers the same size as the SJs or that the SJ tech we see is sized for the engineers only (since it's so much smaller than the SJ tech we see the SJ in in Alien). If you're making it sized smaller for the engineers, why make it only work for an engineer in an SJ suit? Make it work for an engineer in an engieneer (birthday) suit.
Again, I stand by this theory- it's a goof. They wanted the SJ to be huge in Alien because that was cool. In Prometheus, they wanted the SJ's to be more relatable to the humans, so they shrunk them. Yes, it's a visual continuity error... but I assume they thought it was the lesser of two evils.