Quote Originally Posted by ReloadPsi View Post
Anyone calling this a bait-and-switch needs to stop following unreliable news sources. When Ridley Scott himself says "this is not a direct prequel" then that's what you damn well follow. There had been rumours of him doing a film about the "Space Jockey" for years. Well here it is, a film about the Space Jockey.
Even though I have said prequel or prequel-ish at other places, it really should be more like a prequelized spinoff ;D Same universe, takes place before the other movies, has nothing to do with the other movies. Yeah...I think prequelized spinoff works but I think the only reason people continue to call it a prequel of sorts is because that is more or less how the movie got started and reported on for a very long time and when things started to change over the prequel association never got dropped.

Even though they keep saying it isn't a prequel the marketing and everything else says it is heavily related to the point where people remember all the talk about a prequel and then make the connection. As usual, blame marketing.