No thanks me laddie!
No more novelty monsters, please! - I just want my primordial and nihilistic battery-driven steel toothed hermaphrodite super-dildo beast back, because the throbbing dark void in my soul - always hungering for more, needs to be stuffed, pummeled and filled!
They should go back to the basics and brush up on what has been (almost) lost and forgotten. The prequel should re-invoke the might and horror of this all too familiar favorite Alien of ours, which shouldn't be that hard since the Alien has such potential. Directors just have to look beyond the genious but oh so limiting Alien concept that Cameron presented and somehow/sadly established.
The Alien we encountered in
Alien was bizarre, weird and truly alien to us. Its behavior didn't make any sense; it was curious but straightforward, observing yet blind, graceful as well as brutal, god-like yet fragile... It was truly the psychosexual nightmare oddity being its infamous species has been labeled as ever since.
Instead of defining the boundaries of the Alien, Scott should explore the abyss Cameron veered away from (...which Fincher briefly revisited and Jeunet unintentionally bastardized) so valiantly. What we need is another twilight plunge into the boiling cold/freezing hot undertows that Giger, and his fellow surrealist brethren, Lovecraft and the likes of Freud envisioned for us back in the days... Viva la weirdness!
