Remember When The Aliens Had A Home World?

[XenoZipper]

....And the Space Jockeys looked like biped elephants.

Before the dark times.
Before the empire.

I much prefer that over what we have now with them just being boring big versions of us. I have a hard time accepting Prometheus as part of the canon to the universe. I'll never accept the Engineers as they're portrayed now that's for sure.

[426Buddy]

Personally I felt the space jockeys in the old comics were pretty terrible, they never looked anything but silly and they maintained none of their mystique or aura of being an ancient and impossibly advanced species. The Destroying Angels was the best but the living jockey still looked ridiculous.

[XenoZipper]

Personally I felt the space jockeys in the old comics were pretty terrible, they never looked anything but silly and they maintained none of their mystique or aura of being an ancient and impossibly advanced species. The Destroying Angels was the best but the living jockey still looked ridiculous.

To each their own. I haven't read Destroying Angels in many years so I'll have to re-read it to refresh my memory on it.

[426Buddy]

Yeah I think they only showed up in Book1, Book3, The Alien short story and then in destroying angels. I can't think of any other appearances by the jockey in the old EU. I mean, I love those comics but the Jockey's never did anything for me.

The engineers in today's EU are almost too mysterious, nothing about what they are doing or have done is explained.

The idea of turning the jockey in ALIEN into the Engineers was hard for me to accept originally, but i've come around to it somewhat I guess.

[Corporal Hicks]

While I miss the more alien aspects of the elephantine appearance, I don't mind the man in a suit idea. The being too mysterious thing...It's so they don't step on the toes of the new films which I think is a detriment to the series because one of the biggest issues I had with Fire and Stone is that while so much actually happened, it feels like nothing really happened at all. I don't know if that makes much sense?

I do love the Jockey's though. My intrigue with the Jockeys and the Destroying Angels comic was one of the main reasons I got into the EU (the other being the AvP novel and comic).