Well then why not just kill her off in the first two minutes of the first movie? She didn't do anything,she didn't save a single life. The first two movies were completely pointless since we were just watching her survive and not doing anything. See for me the ending of Alien 3 renders the inter series pointless. I mean the whole point of Aliens was for Ripley to face her demons and defeat them,what is the point if she still has the same problems after that and is going to die in a few days. In many ways Alien 3 is a reboot since from a character and plot stand point it's as if Aliens never happened. I don't really mind alien 4 because for me the franchise was already dead,all Alien 4 did was burn the corps.

I am not saying every series has to have a happy ending but if the only thing that happens in a series is that the character we follow gets out alive while everyone else dies and then deals with her personal issues then what is the point of the story if the one person she saves dies and she ends up being defeats by her demon and doesn't make it out a live? Why even bother watching the first two movies? The whole story could have been told in five minutes,everything beside her death is just padding stretching a five minute story out to six hours,that's how I feel any way.