[limacharliewhiskey]

I just watched the Alien Director's Cut last night, and I liked most of the added scenes except for the Dallas/Brett cocoon scene. Besides the pacing issue which others mention, I guess I'm considering some continuity issues which happen in the following movies, which of course were not yet filmed or even written when Ridley Scott made the 1st movie.

This is not clear to me. Have Dallas and Brett been cocooned and impregnated with facehuggers already? I don't remember seeing any alien eggs lying around. Was the alien capturing them and then hoping to turn the ship around back to LV-426 to get some eggs to impregnate them?

From Dallas' reaction of saying "kill me", this means he has been impregnated and doesn't want to go through Kane's chest-bursting experience. But then this implies that the alien has the capability to lay eggs. Could it do so in such a short time span, and could it impregnate Dallas so quickly?

In Aliens, James Cameron establishes the concept of a queen alien which lays all of the eggs, but since the 2nd movie was made 7 years later, this hasn't yet been established in the 1st Alien movie. It poses a helluva continuity issue as far as storylines go, though.

Comments on the other 3 movies will follow as I get a chance to watch them.