Bingowings said:

As I've posted before it seems as if it started out as a pretty solid Alien prequel script (face huggers, eggs, chestbursters etc) and then the suits wobbled.

Does anyone have that script? That sounds like the movie I would have rather seen. Apparently that was before they brought in that Lost hack.

Just look at Ridley's own Robin Hood, the script was thought of a masterpiece (the good King John holding back the vile terrorist Robin) then the suits twitched and it became a vehicle for Russell Crowe's global accent.

SERIOUSLY!? That would have rocked!! I recently discovered I am a descendant of King John and it's been something of an embarrassment to me. This would have changed all that.

I also think it was constructed with PG13 in mind but they didn't count on the classification board getting the jitters over the medpod scene.

I totally agree. They even "bleeped" the geologist's F-bomb.