I won't say it was necessarily
better, because we've got no idea what the dialogue and other stuff was like, but going by these ideas, it sounds like the production team decided they should ignore the golden if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it rule. Change for change's sake.
Only thing I'm really confused about was what primordial humanity was meant to be undergoing when it received the infected bites. Mutating how?
Quote from: Bat Chain Puller on Sep 23, 2012, 10:56:06 PM
Chestbursters and facehuggers would have been too familiar and not as weird/scary.
But nothing we ended up
seeing was scary.
The traditional stuff, however,
could have been scary if it was portrayed effectively - which it hasn't been since the mid-1980s. Ridley Scott shot himself in the foot by declaring that such a thing would be impossible without even trying.