Ever since I made my peace with prequels, I think that black goo was nice lore addition that opens up many possibilities, but it was too much of a plot device that can do everything and it needed simplification and better connection to Xenomorphs. So I loved what happened with it in some of EU things, mainly in Alex White's books and RPG. The way how it connects to XX121s and how it works was genius for me, but since it was only in EU stuff, it wasn't really treated as hard canon or anything. Still in others publications authors dealt with pathogen how they saw fit, sometimes it infected Xenos, sometines they were immune to it, sometines mutations caused by it were more random, sometimes less, etc. So I'm happy that it will be featured in new movie and more connected to classic Aliens. Maybe when we will se how it works in the movie, there finally will be more solid rules about how to use it in other media.
But if android really will have Ian Holm's apperance made by AI, that's a big nono for me. I despise modern movie studios' practices of digital necromancy. It doesn't look convincing and it decreeses possibilities of seeing new interesting takes on classic roles done by other talented actors.
