Possibly, though in Alien I thought they had a pretty good look inside the suit through the hole, so they might well have noticed that the suit had a tiny human or android rattling around inside it.
It's been a while since I've seen it, so that could possibly put a hole in the idea, pun intended.
Given the Engineers on the planet seem like they were mostly killed off by the aliens long in the past and I think the Space Jockey in Alien was supposed to be long dead and crystallised the logical, to me anyway, thing would be for the Space Jockey to have been either trying to flee the disaster but accidentally took an alien along with him or was already infected and going to find more life to infect.
I don't think it was the xenomorphs that killed the Engineers on the base in the first place. If they had, there would have been eggs all over the place like in the ship from Alien, and all the Engineer corpses would have had burst chests, which they did not. I think something else killed them, some other weapon they were working on, and the cannisters of baby facehuggers hadn't been activated.
Overall, however, I wouldn't be surprised if they were unable to offer a plot-hole-free link between Prometheus and Alien, but I hope they prove me wrong.
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Prometheus discussion [SPOILERS]
- 10/06/2012 02:51:16 AM
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In the interest of fairness, I refuse to discuss this without having an Antimetheus opinion present. *NM*
- 10/06/2012 03:13:32 AM
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Meh. The movie was OK, I feel like it tried to do too much and didn't finish anything it started
- 10/06/2012 03:24:16 AM
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Even I thought she would say abortion
- 10/06/2012 04:15:57 AM
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How about a spoiler tag? *NM*
- 10/06/2012 05:31:52 AM
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I call schenanigans. It says "Prometheus Discussion."
- 10/06/2012 08:59:40 PM
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fair enough
- 11/06/2012 01:52:52 AM
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Not really.
- 11/06/2012 06:50:01 PM
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I'm fine with avoiding spoilers- I'm just saying, it's called "Prometheus Discussion"
- 12/06/2012 06:34:43 PM
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Nothing in this post can spoil the film as badly as the script writer did, so it could be worse *NM*
- 12/06/2012 08:41:36 PM
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Re: Prometheus discussion [SPOILERS]
- 10/06/2012 01:00:05 PM
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I have always detested movie scientists since I saw "Creature from the Black Lagoon" as a kid
- 13/06/2012 12:53:05 PM
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The Vickers stuff is pretty annoying. There are no good villians.
- 13/06/2012 03:01:28 PM
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Re: Eggs
- 13/06/2012 03:43:41 PM
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Scott confirmed that they are on a different planet/moon than the one in Alien
- 15/06/2012 04:58:05 PM
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You relize the book contact was based off of was writen by one of the best scientits of our time...
- 14/06/2012 01:36:49 AM
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Prometheus -> Alien
- 13/06/2012 07:22:05 PM
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Eh. most of your complaints rely on the idea that this is an immediate prequel to Alien
- 13/06/2012 07:38:49 PM
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Not really......
- 13/06/2012 09:15:33 PM
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Re: Not really......
- 13/06/2012 09:23:11 PM
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Holy crap, I forgot about the most cliche, idiotic part of the movie!
- 13/06/2012 07:43:16 PM
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Hmmm...pretty much. Its amazing they were able to get into space at all. *NM*
- 13/06/2012 09:18:24 PM
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Looks like I enjoyed this more than the average internet poster
- 08/08/2012 10:21:36 PM
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