(More 'Prometheus' Spoilers): Space Jockeys Aren't Galactic Police They Are Evolutionary Prompters

As always, you are hereby informed:

POSSIBLE SPOILERS BE PRESENT. THEY MIGHT BE PURELY IMAGINED, OR NAIL-ON-HEAD AND STORY-RUINING.

IF WHAT FOLLOWS IS CORRECT IT WILL WRECK THE 'PROMETHEUS' EXPERIENCE. AND, LET'S FACE IT, THERE WON'T BE ANOTHER MOVIE LIKE THIS, ANOTHER STORY THIS GOOD FOR, OH, 47 OR 48 YEARS, AT LEAST

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Remember this guy? From one of the first full-length trailers (I think it was the first one). The Big Blue Man. Although, in this shot by the waterfall there's nothing close by for scale. This guy could be 5'9", but really he doesn't look it. Even though he's not standing next to anything for comparison he looks tall. Taller than almost any human.

There's another, very similar looking guy, in the latest trailer.

I guess this image has been seen before. Most bloggers have thought this is David. I don't think so. Too big. And (like the blue guy at top) he's bald -- David has hair. Plus, this person seems to be working the glowing green control as if he knows what he's doing. David wouldn't know this stuff. (Yeah, he could learn it, but, I'm not going there right now). No. I don't think this is David. In fact, I don't even think this guy is human -- not exactly.

At this point I need to back up. There's a lot of set up so I'll have to ask that you be patient.

This morning, I got a comment from a reader named Dan and it got me thinking. (As you know, I do my thinking in the morning so as to get it out of the way). Dan's comment was in regard to a piece I did called "New 'Prometheus' Spoilers Lead to Exquisite Possibilities: Space Jockeys are Galactic Police".

Dan said:

• One of the things that I feel this theory is missing that is very important is that there appear to be live Space Jockeys on the ship, which would (maybe) go against the idea of it being an automated "trap". In the trailer we see a large two-legged creature hovering over noomi rapace, and also in the short sequence where we see the female space jockey you described in the previous post, the "seat" is moving and appears to be closing in on the SJ, as if it's "buckling in". Also, the SJ in the trailer image looks very new and alive when compared to the obviously dead one in the original Alien. 

• If it's a trap that waits for thousands of years, and especially if there was an accident involving aliens being released, why are there live SJ on it? Stasis chambers maybe?

I had considered these things but didn't mention them because they would clutter up the argument. You can read my take on Dan's question (at the link above), but this, really, is about Dan's observation about the Big Blue Man (BB) hovering over Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace).

You know, with all the plot speculation and examination of the squigglies in eyes and helmets, there's been very little said about BB. Who is this guy? Where did a 7-foot tall man come from? I was surprised that I hadn't looked at this. Sure, certain small specifics don't need to be mentioned in every argument or you'll make things hard to follow, but this big blue guy -- he's different. He's worth looking at.

So. Where did a 7-foot tall man come from. Was he hiding on the horseshoe ship (HS)? Does he live on that planet. Silly questions. The movie isn't about going to a planet and finding tall humans hiding in shadows. It's about being infected by an organism and then...what?

Changing.

Once the organism gets in you, you don't die. No. That's way too simple. You change. You become different. We've known something is in someone's eye, in someone's suit, in someone's body squirming around. And, we know that organism isn't trying to kill. It has another mission. The host may die in the process but that's not the goal. The goal is to create another. Not to reproduce, per se, but to make a copy -- to replicate. But, it can't be an exact copy -- that wouldn't make sense.

And, that's where BB comes in.

BB is very human-esque. In fact, this guy is little more than a big man (yes, I like that turn of phrase). Even his face looks human. So, at this point, what do we know:

1) Squiggles get in the suits, eyes, and tummies of Prometheus crew members

2) Later, a big blue man appears

3) The process of infection and growth inside the host is not, by design, a method of killing the host

Then, what is the design? Why do the parasites infect us? Here's a bit from my response to Dan's comment:

• it may be the large thing that looks very much like a human (that you mentioned from the trailers) started as a parasite, one of the squigglies (in the eye, inside the helmet, etc.) that ends up looking like its host once it grows to 'adulthood'. 

• a parasite that kills its human host and looks like a human, a big tall human, when it matures. 

• that's possible. why does it look like its host? who knows -- some simple genetic thing. something that makes perfect sense -- a copying of form. 

• considering how much the guy in the trailer looks (exactly) like a big man, this last might be considered.

I was reading this and thinking it made a lot of sense. So, that's what I'm going with. The organism that infects the crew came from the 'Human' room in the mountain tunnel complex -- the one with the giant human face on the wall (again, you may want to read my previous assertions at the link above). This parasite is not, as I previously thought, designed to kill the human race. It's designed to change the human race.

And, that's who BB is. The next step in human evolution. The parasite infects the host, copies and modifies its DNA, then kills the host and emerges as a new life form -- one imprinted with the host's improved/modified DNA. That's why BB looks human -- he is. BB is Holloway after being infected by the squiggly thing in his eye.

As such:

1) Holloway gets the thing in his eye

2) He becomes infected with the parasite

3) The parasite grows and copies, modifies, and improves Holloway's DNA

4) Holloway becomes sick

5) The parasite bursts from Holloway's body, killing him

6) The parasite eats Holloway's body for sustenance

7) The parasite grows into the new being that looks human but is a different species with Holloway's improved DNA

8) The new Holloway resembles the original but is taller and has knowledge of the HS and mountain facility and the SJ mission to Earth

9) The new Holloway sets out to launch the HS (or another ship, say, the one under the ground covered by the 'giant opening iris' platform) to send billions of pods, each containing Human-specific squigglies, to Earth so that every person on Earth may be infected and transformed into the higher life form -- the next step in human evolution.

10) The remaining crew of the Prometheus try to stop the (new) Holloway from completing this mission

The Big Blue Man is the new Holloway with improved DNA. The SJ intend to change all of us into a higher form of being -- a member of the galactic family of advanced space-travelling beings. We would become a version of Space Jockey and would monitor the advancement of intelligent populations on planets in our zone of responsibility and, when the time came, we would infect the candidate population with the properly designed parasitic organism and change that population into the next evolutionary form. We would 'wipe out' entire planets and replace the population with the new, improved version.

This fits with my earlier conclusion: The SJ were 'exterminating' us because we had become a threat to our neighbors. But, this determination was a bit too simple. We were not being killed off, we were being changed into a more viable form. This evolutionary advancement would come at a time when we would need to be saved from ourselves, when overpopulation, pollution and warfare would threaten the planet's ecology to the point that it may not be capable of continuing to support life.

The metamorphosis, however, would appear gruesome and would have to be done against our will. Nonetheless, it would be the SJ wisdom that this would need to be done, gruesome or not.

The SJ are not a police force who exterminate a population once it becomes a threat to its neighbors. They are overseers, advanced philosophical and spiritual beings, who 'nudge' the candidate race to the next stage when the time comes so that they may advance as a species. To affect this the lesser version of the species must be replaced. This conversion would have to be done on an individual level in order to preserve that person's DNA imprint. Copying and improving the DNA is accomplished via the genetically modified parasitic organism -- the squiggle in the eye. When the process is complete the less advanced individual ceases to exist and is replaced by the newer more evolved person -- The Big Blue Man.

The SJ would do this with each race of intelligent being once that race reached a certain point in its evolution. A point after which, without intervention from a highly advanced race, the lesser race would destroy its home planet. This would, in many cases, lead to the necessity of traveling to another suitable planet to find a new home even if that meant exterminating the indigenous population in the process. In order to prevent such carnage the SJ developed squiggles and implant them in your eye, whether you like it or not, or want to join the club or not, so that you can become a Space Jockey.

And, it's getting on to noon. Morning, thinking time, is ending so I'll call it a day.















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Crouching Space Jockeys in the New Stills From 'Prometheus' (SPOILERS. SO MANY SPOILERS)

If you haven't, please read this and this as a set up.

SPOILER

Stop reading if you don't want the story ruined. There's a fair chance it could be.

ADDED 5/12: Latest here "Space Jockeys are Galactic Police"

Here's the new (loaded) image we got this morning.

I just posted my theory on the human in the painting (link above). Now, let's look at the other figure (to the man's right).

This is a Space Jockey. Its placement in relation to the man and its body language reveal quite a bit about Space Jockeys in general and the 'Prometheus' backstory.

Here's the latest shot of SJ we have.

In my opinion it's a woman. I had thought she, along with male SJ, were on their way to colonize Earth. Looks like I was wrong.

Notice the circled part. See the spike coming out of the elbow? There are two such spikes in the arms of the figure next to the man in the painting. Here's a marked up version of that crop (with contrast boosted):

1: The head, with similar shape and features as the SJ
2: Right shoulder, with ribs similar to features of the SJ anatomy and ship design
3: Right elbow, with spike barely visible
4: Right knee
5: Left knee
6: Spike coming out of the left elbow

The figure next to the man has to be a SJ. There is nothing else that we know of that it could be.

Why would a SJ be cowed next to a human especially considering the man is being attacked by one of the weaponized organisms in the horseshoe ship which the SJ are piloting?

Looking at the SJ's posture it's clear he/she isn't happy. It's certainly not the proud conqueror as I thought this morning. In fact, the SJ isn't even standing. It crouches, and its head isn't just lowered, it's between the knees with the arms wrapped around the knees in an effort to hide or disappear. What would that indicate? Shame. Fear. Guilt.

The SJ in the painting is filled with self-loathing. It is at the man's feet as if to beg forgiveness. Why? Because of what is happening to the man. Because there is a parasite on the man's chest about to kill him and, presumably, the SJ is responsible for putting it there.

What could that indicate? Why would the SJ kill a human but feel guilty about it? The only reason possible is that they are doing so against their will. They have been directed to kill humans and have no choice in the matter. They are slaves and executioners serving some master and they hate themselves and what they are forced to do.

Considering this, the SJ were not on their way to Earth to colonize it for themselves, but were coming here to clear the planet of humans so a Master Race (MR) could take over the planet. Then, presumably, the SJ would perform all menial labor while the MR lived in luxury.

I don't think there could be another way to explain the way the SJ appears in the painting.

The weaponized organism is the device of choice of the MR to eliminate intelligent life from a planet so they may take it over, and the SJ are the slaves who carry out this work. They, the SJ, travel to a planet to make a survey of it and determine whether the MR would find it desirable. The SJ make many such trips over the course of years or even centuries. During that time their visits are depicted in works of art by indigenous people (like those in the trailer found by the archeologists in the caves). Once the planet has been found to be acceptable the SJ return with the face-huggers or other such weaponized organism and wipe out the indigenous population. Once this is accomplished the MR arrive and claim their prize and the SJ go back to being everyday slaves.

That would explain the SJ's dejected demeanor in the painting. The photo is still part of a trophy gallery but it belongs to the Master Race not the Space Jockeys. It is an account of all the civilizations the MR have destroyed. The gallery is there not so much to inspire the SJ but, rather, to remind them of their wretched place in the order of things. These paintings serve to demean the SJ and glorify the MR.

So, who is the Master Race? Will we see them in upcoming stills? Wouldn't think so. That's got to be a reveal best saved for the movie. But, thinking about it, I wouldn't be surprised if we only see them in the ceiling painting in the trophy gallery (hit links at top for explanation), right in the center, gazing at all their victims.

I kind of hope we don't get any more stills from 'Prometheus'. I'm worn out. On the other hand, considering the story possibilities, I'm looking forward to a sequel to 'Prometheus'.
















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