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The jockey at the beginning of Alien is fossilized and Alien takes place roughly 30 years after Prometheus so it definitely can’t be the same one. Why Aren’t they the same? There’s no reason for them to be. Prometheus is in the same universe and on a different planet.

Why did the Weyland robot David poison Halloway? Because he could. Because he was told to try harder by Weyland.

What happened to the man that was infected by the snake (worm)? He became alien snake food.

The Engineer that is found at the beginning of Alien is not the same one in Prometheus. Why? Did you not see the Engineer get killed by the alien bursting out of its body? ALIEN takes place in a totally different location.

So the human race are actually the origins of the xenomorph? I’d say no. Humans derive from the much older Space Jockey. The ancient paintings/carvings in the cargo chamber suggest a xenomorph that more than likely predates the existence of the human race. My guess is that DNA depicts the inherited qualities of the xenomorph.

The guy whi got attacked by the snake appeared outside the ship and tried to kill everyone. At least thats what I gathered. Also, about why the tried to destroy us, the answers will most likely be in the next film. The relationship to Alien questions are pointless as this is not a prequel in itself, it requires a sequal to wrap up. Once the next one comes out all the questions this one left open will most likely be answered.

I was thinking watching the film that the creatures in there were a pre-evolved form of the aliens but like I said about the mural and Queen Alien that would’nt make sense.
my question what exactly was the life cycle of the engineered aliens?

Worms in sludge < Snakes < ?  
I  ask because we never found out what happened to the guy besides the snake jumping out of his mouth.

I was wondering if the engineers were trying to recreate their own race?  because the guy who went back to the ship (face fell in the sludge) looked a bit taller, stronger and was certainly flexible (the way he was waiting in front of the ramp. he probably could give the engineer a decent fight.
so were they trying to destroy us at a cellular level and rebuild humans to be just like them?

worm capsule in booze< Human/worm hybrid < facehugger/ body hugger squid???< incubating seed in engineer = Alien?

I liked that the Alien at the start of the film looked like the Greeks did in early art work on Earth. Those Greco-Roman features with the big, heavy lidded eyes, were a nice touch.

I didn’t think the alien was committing suicide at the start. He could have been about to cover himself with a balm before swimming. Who knows? He might not have known what was in the jar. Also, someone in the film points out that it’s a planet they use to test weapons of mass destruction. So it could have simply been something that got out of their control.

Someone in the film says it’s a few thousands years ago since the aliens died on that planet (I think). I thought that meant that they were going back to Earth to wipe out their Human experiment, perhaps after tens of thousands of years before they had oringinally seeded/upgraded humans on Earth. On returning to the LV planet the ‘bombs’ of biological weapons leaked/escaped killing all bar the one in statis.

There’s no reason why the alien at the start of Alien needs to be the same as in Prometheus. David says there are lots of space ships on the planet. So it could be yet one of many similar ships.

I loved the film and can’t wait to see it again. I don’t normally watch a film twice at the movies but I want to see this one again soon.

We know from Alien that the alien itself is ancient in it’s creation/evolution, based on how long the derelict craft had been resting on the moon LV-426 with its fossilized ‘pilot’. How the eggs survived so long is probably due to the atmospheric field containing them (moisture, nutrients, who knows, etc.). My main issue with Prometheus is it’s attempt to link the formation of the ‘alien’ with humans, which would make them not at all ancient and somewhat less than completely alien. The angle the movie takes with regard to the pilot/engineer/jockey race is interesting, though I heavily disagree with the elephantine face being only a mask rather than the creature itself. Also, anyone who swallows whatever Scott or Hollywood feeds them as fact and says I’m out of line needs to get their head checked. Since when has Hollywood or it’s directors cared more about what’s accurate and reasonable than about what wows the [dumb] audience?

ALSO, what’s with the two guys approaching the snake-like alien? They were paranoid about contact with anything, then it appears and they suddenly wax friendly and approach it for no reason? Any reasonable person would have kept a safe distance and not crooned at it like some domestic pet. God I hate Ridley Scott for that, and for all of the other all-too-predictable moments in the film.

To sum up, this movie is to me what the Star Wars prequels were to their progenitors. Namely, it never happened, because it’s stupid and undermines everything I loved (and feared) about the original works.

David poisoned Charlie as an experiment, ultimately the machines we create will destroy us in the same way the Engineers operated

I have not read all the above comments. Too much name calling and hair pulling.

Here is my theory. The Engineers “seeded” other planets and terraformed them, but they didn’t do it like we saw in the opening scene– they cheaped out and the results were the Predators. That would explain why the Predators are biped humanoids, but with yucky faces – we come from the same stock.

Once the Predators acquired enough tech, they turned on the Engineers.

A lone Engineer figures out that the only way to make a planet develop “true human” life is to sacrifice himself. He goes to Earth and starts things.

The Engineers made the Alien weapon to use against  the Predators. And they decided all the other planets they started life on, including Earth, must be destroyed, just to be safe. But they fail to launch.

The Predators win, or at least survive after giving the Engineers a major ass-wupping. They reach Earth after the Engineers have left and bring Aliens and set up their hunting pyramid at the south pole. They pass themselves off as gods to the primitive humans.

As to why the robot infected the human? Because he could.

Why don’t they have a really freaky xenomorph that implants the egg thru a person’s butt? Then during dinner he/she keels over onto the table and their butt explodes and out pops a really nasty smelly alien! This would be a great role for Richard Geer.