I’m a fan of Prometheus because it tried something different and added to the world building of Alien, I think it is a good movie but flawed, Covenant was just trash. This was a great return to the original style of Alien while incorporating stuff from the other films. I definitely agree there wasn’t an actor on Sigourney’s level but I do like breh and the main girl as the movie went on
I’m still a little frustrated with Ridley for trying to kill the only remotely scary thing about the xenomorphs, the mystique. They represent the mystery of how much we don’t know about the vastness of outer space. You explore the big empty and who knows what might come back.
Then he killed a chance at retconning things in a way that would have made things open ended again. Ridley’s path is endless prequels or greater involvement of the engineers.
Ridley was sipping the same bottom shelf gas station wine that made George Lucas ruin the mystique of the force by explaining it away as “mitochlorans”. shyt like that just chokes off where a franchise or story can go. If anything he tore out a huge chunk of potential world building and bottlenecked whatever is left. He basically made it so any appearance of a xenomorph, anywhere HAS to be the work of Weyland-Yutani and its experiments.
Don’t get me wrong I support the hell out of Romulus and future Alien universe project, because I want to see it survive and I’m a fan since the first time I saw the original as a child (As a re-run, I’m not ancient)