Sure, but that's not the point of the thread - its discussing Blomkamp's ideas, right? Clearly, he wanted to retcon it. For me the question is "how?" What was his idea? For me - especially now, given the Prometheus thing, the "Nightmare" scenario is plausible in that universe.
When you Alien3 did well in Europe, are you talking box-office or critical/fan acclaim. If the former, that's not relevant, if the latter, I'd be hugely surprised if the theatrical cut was widely hailed as a brilliant movie, but I stand to be corrected on that.
To be clear - no, they don't need to bring Hicks back, but these drawings clearly indicate that was Blomkamp's plan. For me, as I've said, hand waving the character in the way that they did is as bad the "nightmare" scenario. Worse, in fact - I think my example of Superman above works for this. If the "nightmare" is cheap, "...and then they all died" is even cheaper.
Essentially, Alien3 (Assembly) is a good movie. It was just the wrong movie - even if I've never really understood how the facehugger got on the Sullaco in the first place. It's been discussed to death on here, of course, but we're postulating reasons. Indeed, the facehugger was a deus ex, come to think of it - in terms of the script, I mean. In the film, Ripley destroys the egg chamber, the queen rips her egg sac off... how come there's a facehugger crawling around?
but that's wildly off topic.
As I say - good movie but the wrong one for the franchise at the time. I would guess that is the feelings of the majority of fans, if not all of them.
