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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 5940650" data-attributes="member: 70">OK, here's what I gathered & hypothesized from one viewing.- the Engineers created life on earth.- They made periodic visits back; reason unknown.- they were going to come visit about 2000 years ago, but everything went tooth-shaped and lots of dying happened.  Absolutely no idea what happened to the killers.- the jars (I keep thinking canopic jars, but that is probably just my associations) are filled with "goo".  The goo is similar to X-Files' "black oil".- David (creepy android is creepy) gets Charlie (aka male archeologist, aka guy that gets nookie time with Noomi Rapace) to ingest a tiny drop of goo by putting it in his drink (note: alcohol does not kill goo).- people who ingest goo either blow up or turn into homocidal zombies (the fast kind, not the shamblers.  See: Engineer head, Fifield.- Charlie, post-exposure but pre-blatant symptoms, has nookie with Noomi Rapace (whose character might have a name but I didn't care). Goo+sperm+egg = 4 tentacled-squid-like-facehugger with inexplicable and reality-busting growth powers.- Meanwhile, back in the Ancient Alien Military Base, little worms in the dirt get some goo too.  Why don't worms go apeshit and kill each other?  No idea.  Maybe they do.  But worms+goo= really icky, not cute, leechtype facehugger with acid blood.  Attacks Milburn, is "decapitated" by Fifield; acidic blood destroys Fifield's helmet, exposing him to goo (and eventually homocidal zombie tendencies); decapitation proves creature's brain and sensory organs are not in it's "head", as it unerringly locates and goes into Milburn's throat, presumably killing him from the inside with acid, and not successfully gestating itself.- Stuff happens, Engineer and Giant Alien Squid Facehugger square off in what is actually a pretty neat scene, but facehugger wins and implants in Engineer.  Some time later, Alien/xenomorph emerges, not identical to "later" versions, but clearly related.Major conclusions:- goo has a really f'ed-up lifecycle.- no idea why aliens' lay eggs that look like canopic jars but hold facehuggers.- No idea what happened to alien/xenomorphs that burst out of Engineers 2k years ago.- no idea why there are crabtype facehuggers in the jars at the beginning of Alien, unless a) jars were being reused, or b) some other creature transformed into a facehugger (crabtype, not leechtype or squidtype), and was "nesting" or "cocooning" in the jars. - Noomi Rapace really didn't stick around long enough to have much idea what the frack was going on, although David might be able to make some conclusions.- Noomi Rapace's character is not Ripley.- Vickers is an idiot, and so are engineers on Earth. Who the frack designs a multi-million, or billion, dollar automatic surgery machine, and then makes it only work on one gender?  And why the frack would Vickers have one in her room?  Sure, it could be for Weyland, but isn't he in a different part of the ship? And if the stupid thing can't operate on women, how come it can't tell the difference, particularly IN THE MIDDLE OF ABDOMINAL SURGERY?- Also, apparently there are no more old actors working, making it necessary to put Guy Pierce in 10 lbs of crappy wrinkle makeup and do a bad caricature of an elderly man for no discernable reason.  - Also, the future will allow you to know exactly how long you have to live, so you can use your last 24 hours by hobbling up to your creator and getting whacked on the head.</blockquote>

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