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Romulus would be better without the callbacks to the first two films. One character in particular I wish was someone else entirely. Also, I didn't like the ending as it tied into Prometheus/Covenant, my least favourite of the Alien franchise.
I feel Alien has gone the way of Star Wars which keeps linking to the Skywalker's. Let Alien break free of the Ripley verse (She's even in Romulus as a well hidden Easter Egg!) and do something different. The comics have had excellent stories over the years, adapt one of those.
One of my favourites is Aliens: Labyrinth which is about a crazy scientist on a deep space station who has successfully got the alien species under control. His backstory is quite something and you know it will go wrong in the end.
Agreed. The star wars stuff that is great is the stuff that isn't tied down to the original trilogy characters and plot. it's stuff that expands upon it with new characters and stories in the existing universe's rules.
This is why the star wars prequels/sequels were so poorly received, they were totally inconsistent with the universe for the sake of ham-fisting in the original characters and re hashing the original plotline of the first trilogy. There was no respect for the rules that were established in the OG trilogy that people came to know and love.
Agreed. Apart from Andor, I haven't really liked anything else. Take Obi Wan for example. It felt to me like shoehorning in a new story that didn't need to exist at all.
Where's Ripley? I don't remember seeing her.
Its Very well hidden.
Eh, that's fine. It's honestly even better, Weyland-Yutani is so hard for xenomorphs it was honestly kind of weird they didn't track her (and the alien) down sooner in the first place. Now we have an answer, they did.