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 Prometheus surprised me, it was fresh air despite being an alien prequel.

Alien: Romulus disappointed me, same old formula, human on ship, alien enters ship, alien breeds, alien chases human, human kills alien. 
 make a new one called SatStackius.

Enters an alien ship with cold storage.

Alien takes it.

He gets it back builds a citadel and tells the alien go fuck yourself. 
 😂 
 Prometheus surprised me too.  I started fresh from the opening credits, so I spent the first half of the film not even realizing it was part of a franchise, just digging the style. 
 Yeah I thought it was a great way to expand on the most interesting part of Alien (the engineers), giving answers via posing more interesting questions, plus Shaw was a genuinely great character.

It was of course plagued with plenty of mind-numbingly stupid bits in the script that somehow made it into the film, and the saddest part of it all was Scott deciding to backtrack on his original vision for the sequels, apparently because Prometheus didn't poll well with the viewers (nor it made enough money for the studio), that "wanted to see more of the Alien", to the point of repeating the cardinal sin of killing your main character off-screen and/or between movies (Alien³), and switching back to a more straightforward horror for Covenant, with a much more predictable plot and villain in David, far from the science fiction that made Alien great in the first place.

And yeah Romulus is ok, especially as a one off, like a Rogue One. I didn't expect it to be so lore heavy, which was nice.