He replied to a comment of mine commending him on the effort, after reading about the changes I wrote this:
"Well let me say this then, I think you are making a mistake by cutting aspects of characters out that makes them unpleasant people. Dillon must have a specific heinous thing to his name, otherwise the character not only loses his texture, but also the redemption becomes nullified if he gets redeemed for vagueries.
I do not believe you should make any controversial changes, especially if it is fundamentally antithetical to what the creators had created.
I can understand cutting the Egg and Facehugger from the opening as an example, because they were studio mandated in the opening, not a creative decision...
Or even swapping Ox for Dog, or including the Chestburster, as many have expressed interest in a version of the Assembly Cut with each.
But I am not being hyperbolic when I say editing the characters down to be more comfortable makes this whole effort moot."