These "strong female characters" unfortunately are all cut by the same scissors: they begin as sort of vulnerable yet caring and end up becoming tough at cost of pain. Ripley, Shaw, Daniels, Connor... it's just a formula over and over.
I wouldn't even call them "strong female characters", they're never devoid of a big sense of vulnerability.
Well, Sarah Connor is the exception; I loved how she become totally nuts in Terminator 2... then she began crying because of the trauma and all of that, but well, it was consistent, and she was much different than Ripley, who I can take as a predecessor.
But definitely I don't another one of these so-called "strong female protagonists". I don't want another Sarah Connor, and more than all, I don't want another Ripley. Create a new kind of female protagonist. Or just give me a new kind of protagonist, regardless of gender.