Quote from: SiL on Apr 22, 2017, 01:37:29 AM
Then who's in the Derelict pilot's chair?
One of millions of Engineers who died millennia ago, just like the ones on LV-223. That was my takeaway from
Prometheus - that they'd been wiped out by their own plague aeons ago and that what had happened on 223 was representative of what had happened with the jockey on LV-426. The story in the film followed the same details as what Scott had been saying about the jockey for decades, that it was carrying a ship full of bioweapons that got out of control and died long ago. This has always been the story and Scott's never seemed keen on f**king with it, including in
Prometheus - until maybe right now.
Making up some entirely new story for what became of the jockey on LV-426 seems pointless and silly to me given that well-established framework. As does potentially sealing someone in there (or seeding the ship) only 20 years before
Alien. I find that incredibly dumb.