Viewer Complaints Explained

I enjoyed the movie and bought it before I even watched it because I knew it would be worth owning. Last night it hit me why so many have a problem with it and maybe this has been touched on but I have not seen it discussed. Overall, it was not a prequel or sequel, but a remake of A79 to run parallel to the A79 sequels. In addition, there were themes borrowed from other films but here are the core pieces in no particular order: The Company sends a team to explore an alien life form on another planet. The team is not expecting to face a hostile enemy on any level. While in the alien ship, strange containers are discovered (eggs and urns). When the teams return to their ship they think everything is okay. The androids have secret orders involving the sacrifice of the explorers. While in the alien ship, an unexpected attack happens. (Face hugger, mutated worm) When the team returns to their ship there is chaos and an order for full medical quarantine. (1st return'79, 2 nd return, Prometheus) A lone space jockey is found in the alien ship control area (fossilized '79, stasis Prometheus) Mutations threaten and kill explorers. Squid like creature comes out of the body (chest burst '79, Shaw auto C-section) Decapitated androids. The lead female fights aliens and wins despite insurmountable odds and ends up leaving with decapitated androids The alien ships are on desolate planetoids. Then there were themes done to death from other films: Audience is lead to believe a character is dead when he really isn't. There is a parent-child relationship revealed. Crew members sacrifice their lives to save earth. An alien entity wants to kill earth, or at least humans, with no explanation for their hatred. Someone is looking for immortality. Well, I am sure there are more but that is a glimpse of what can be seen so for those of us who love the film, we cannot pretend the critics are out of ammo. Frankly, Ridely was under a boat load of pressure and amazed the final product was as good as it is. Regarding LV426, let's give the guy a break. Whatever explanation he comes up with will be BS because we all know he wasn't planning on Prometheus when A79 was done. Although, I think he should take advantage of most of us assuming Shaw and others were right about the carbon dating. He could bring it a closer together by revealing the Bio weapon has a component that causes false readings on carbon dating and the events on LV223 were fairly recent.