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Rex, I see your point. I just think that I'd personally be less interested in the mechanics of some made up alien's internal workings and "thought process" than I am in the human side of the story. Scott takes AN HOUR to get us involved with the humans in the story before the Alien even becomes...

What you don't mention is clearly how influenced each of the subsequent directors was (and is) by Ridley's original film. You find echoes of it in all the other director's films, and you shouldn't be surprised that they would have jumped at a chance to use their "Ridley-isms" in an actual Ridley...