>>59789
My personal bias is that not a lot of movies make me feel dread/terror, and the original Alien did. So my ideal Alien would be a movie that maximizes that. I don't see many esoteric elements on the first movie, and while the esoteric lore dumping is interesting, its really not doing much for me. I wouldn't mind having different branches of the Alien franchise being explored, but I don't think Ridley Scott was even pretending to want to make more Alien movies.

I can see what you mean with Covenant and Lost in Space, but I meant it in a very different way. Covenant has Lost in Space aesthetics. Romulus does not, 100% Alien aesthetics. What it has of Lost in Space is the characters and the 'clever' solutions, but in the Aylien world.