I cannot in any way argue with you here. Giger was the X-factor in all of this. He is what made the movie something truly special. However, I do feel that Stan Winston improved the original design in Aliens. The Alien queen is a thing to behold. Nevertheless, its kinda funny how O'Bannon...
Nevertheless, I feel that they added the little things that made the overall film and entire series better. Also, the names that Giler and Hill came up with were better. I rememeber Ripley's original name was something like Malconous.
Well, the creation of the company and corporate subplot was a big part of the Alien series so I feel that Giler and Hill's contribution should not be ignored.
I was watching the documentary on the film Alien from the Alien Quad set as well as listened to the audio commentary of the film and I found out something interesting:
On the movie box it shows that the story and screenplay was written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
However, according to...