The Beacon - and Mother

It’s very sad, but I have to say that Scott has screwed everything up. First by making the space jockey not ancient (not fossilized) and thereby not connected to the outbreak on LV-223, and then making David the creator of the xenomorph. It was a mistake letting him into the franchise again. At one time he said that he didn’t like sequels (prequels). He should have stuck with that.

In “Sea of Sorrows”, Ripley encounters another ancient juggernaut with a deadly cargo (just like the derelict and the space jockey). The xenomorph is in this scenario ancient . . .

I think we have to be a bit Cautious when reflecting towards any Books, even Official Novels of the Movies, the Problem is that each Movie offers something New, but also in doing so opens up some holes in the overall scheme of things, or do-not address certain things but makes them more complicated.

While some Books may give some explanations to some things, other parts of the books do make contradictions to other, a lot of these are that a Book maybe give a clue or explanation for certain things, but then events of the Book conflict what latter movies would show.

A example would be the Earlier Xenomorph type Organisms encountered that predated the Xenomorph....  and the whole process of how the Book covers these... in relation to then raising more Questions about THAT surely the Company must known much more and WHY pursue LV-426 and Ripley for the Xenomorph.

Hopefully we get some clarity to why the company only pursues the Xenomorph on LV-426, that after Hadleys Hope Destruction leads to only the Escape Pod from the Sulaco in Alien 3 being the only means of the Xenomorph.

@chli

I am going to say on one hand yes, in HINDSIGHT the Prequels maybe did not handle the Space Jockey and Xenomorphs to the best, but the intentions where there to EVOLVE the Story and Expand the Universe Beyond the Beast that is Cooked.

Alien was a Mystery, one which RS had latter informed us about and latter movies seemed to indicate too, which was the Xenomorph was a Weapon... that the Space Jockey was using and then the Company wished to use...  The Mystery is was the Xenomorph Specifically Engineered as a Weapon by the Space Jockey Race?  Or was it a Natural Organism they saw a great use of as a Weapon?

So they attempted to show us that with Alien Engineers, where its implied the Xenomorph was a Experimental Organisms likely Engineered from something they had discovered.. They being the Space Jockey who are revealed as a 15ft Humanoid Race who are actually our Creators, the GODS as per say.

Problems arose with Prometheus when they felt the Xenomorph had been done over and over, but the whole Engineers Plot was FRESH and no one has ever addressed this Species..   In Hindsight Prometheus did not give many fans enough Xenomorph Clues or any real Alien movie kind of a Flick,  with no Xenomorphs or Action like Scenes...  But RS had wanted to explore the Space Jockey Race and steer away from the Xenomorph.

The Next Hindsight Error was that the intended 15ft Engineers had to be downsized to 7-8ft beings, for some the Engineers looked Enigmatic still but they just lacked the Scale....  

I agree that AC had made things worse, because now our Engineers are even more Fragile and Humanoid, and the reveal of David as the Creator does contradict what the Original Intentions was, which was that the Space Jockey Event was connected to the LV-223 Outbreak Thousands of years prior....

I understand the David Creator Philosophy, but i think giving us a Re-Creator Reveal would be much more fitting...