I understand people's issues with the flute scene, but the Alien raising it's arms scene was hands down the best chestburster scene in the franchise. I challenge you to name a better one, the whole thing was chilling, the chestburster finally didn't look like a cheap puppet and didn't do a wee dance as it ran away like in the original.
1) So....what was the point of killing the Captain at the start? It seemed to serve utterly no purpose. They could easily have had nobody killed in a freak accident and still decided to go check out the planet. All they needed was someone outside making repairs to get the signal.
They seemed to be trying to set up tension between the new captain and the crew, then beyond the crew holding a funeral against his orders there was absolutely no follow-up to it.
2) Speaking of the new Captain, he seemed fine at first then turned into a complete idiot by following David down to the Egg chamber. Given what he had just seen upstairs in David's lab, combined with what happened to the other crew members earlier, then he should have just noped right the fuck out of there immediately. Even without knowing what's coming why the hell would you go anywhere near one of those things when the creepy synthetic dude has just told you that he made them from the stuff that caused a monster to burst out of one of your crew members mouths?
3) Also, on the subject of the arm raising chestbuster....why did it even have legs? Chestbursters don't have legs. Or is this still supposed to be an 'earlier' version before David completed work on them?
1) I thought it was strange too. I think either Fox/Scott just wanted a squeeze in a James Franco cameo, or there was originally more scenes with his character but they didn't make the final cut. Why the prologue on Youtube wasn't in the movie beats me.
2) Eh, dumb character's are par for the course in an Alien movie - people act like Prometheus and Covenant are the only offenders, but truth is the franchise has been having characters die in completely stupid and easily preventable ways since its inception.
3) Either Scott doesn't give a shit, and just used a new design... or (my theory) the engineers had their own version of the Alien (the one in the original film), David simply found their "egg/alien" formula and improved on it hence why the Alien grows from chestburster to full size so quickly and behaves slightly differently. Or something along the lines of what you said. We might be giving Scott too much credit though lol