Rick
MemberXenomorphApr-22-2012 2:36 PMHey AS gonna check that out here shortly.
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorphApr-22-2012 2:39 PMlistening as i type rick lol
Rick
MemberXenomorphApr-22-2012 2:42 PMI think I've heard this one before AS
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorphApr-22-2012 2:46 PMApologies for a repeat thread in that case i haven't heard this one though.
Spartacus
MemberOvomorphApr-22-2012 2:47 PMWhat I Like best is that this article has the text of the entire thing and for me reading it is so much better because you can go over everything.
Rick
MemberXenomorphApr-22-2012 2:51 PMAS,
It wasn't posted I found it on my wanders through the net.
Rick
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorphApr-22-2012 2:56 PMok dokey rick damn why didn't you post lol.?
sukkal
MemberOvomorphApr-22-2012 3:23 PMI had never heard/seen that in Ridley’s thinking the face-hugger eggs in [i]Alien[/i] are [b]“cargo”[/b] before. That changes my thinking/speculation about [i]Prometheus[/i] a bit (on an important axis).
alteredstate.
MemberOvomorphApr-22-2012 3:26 PMWell i'm glad a few forum members at least maybe can get something from this who may not be aware of it.
abordoli
MemberOvomorphApr-22-2012 3:53 PMYeah, I was watching my Alien DVDs (minus the 4th which is total excrement making the 3rd only partial excrement) and all of the extras plus I had primed myself with "Alien Makers" 1,2,4 (and even the removed 3) when I saw that footage of Ridley (@1999) saying stuff like "the pilot", "his pilot seat", "the bomber", "bio-weapon" and in the commentary the area under the spacejockey's platform (where Kane is lowered down into) is referred to by him as the ship's "cargo hold" (holding the payload). Of course, if those eggs were dropped from high-altitude, those facehuggers would need to hatch and sprout wings almost or go SPLATTT!!!
Another thing bothering me is the implausibility that the Narcissus was underneath (a part of) the Nostromo. Yes, Dallas listens to classical music while down on LV426 inside the Narcissus making this the absolute case, but whenever you see the Narcissus it really throws the scale of the Nostromo to be much larger than it is portrayed during the landing sequence (like when you see crew moving around in the bridge). Like I said, just something bothering me regarding some scale discontinuity, so I need no convincing that the Narcissus is underneath the Nostromo.
Watching Alien with the commentary, I have now altered my perception that the crew ever left the Nostromo (i.e. entered the refinery they were towing). I had only felt this way, prior, due to the rain scene which Ridley explains as condensation, but I had no clue that this interior rain scene (where the 2nd guy dies) is actually a bay where one of the landing feet is and what looks like something dangling in the middle of the set is actually one of the landing feet with all 4 talons pointing down.
In a search to show one of my sons some space-jockey pics because I want him to see Prometheus during opening night (he's watching Alien in THX as I speak), I found this:
[img]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XdP6Lp2ceqY/TKo2rfHP_2I/AAAAAAAAdlo/V05RnnYMtm8/s1600/5052202246_0ef63c7d6f_b.jpg[/img]
Spartacus
MemberOvomorphApr-22-2012 4:09 PMwoooooo sweeeeeeeeeeeet man awsomely sweet and Jockafyingly gorgeous.
Check It Out !
HAL 9000
MemberOvomorphApr-22-2012 5:34 PM@alteredstate: Cheers for the link. I was hoping it would also include the audio of the actual 12min footage as well. Damn, wishful thinking...
@abordoli: Although off topic, I totally agree with you on the scale issue, especially after looking at the old set of blueprints of the Nostromo. Regarding that, there's something that bothered me even more since about 25 years. On a ship that size why is there just one EEV taking 3 (or4?) crew?? At least they could have made the fact that one is missing (according to the blueprints, there are 2) part of the sinister doings of the company. Bit lame.