While many moviegoers stopped caring about Aliens after the second Alien movie (Aliens! Duh!), this franchise has survived for over 4 decades with an impressive array of directors trying to terrify, thrill, and gross us out.  Seems there's more than one way to open an egg.  When the master himself, Sir Ridley Scott, returned to the Alien universe with 2 movies intended as a trilogy prequel to the original Alien, the fans spewed acid all over them and probably scared Ridley back to making another Gladiator and overblown historical epics like Napoleon.  There, happy???  I learned all I needed to about Napoleon from Bill & Ted, thank you very much.  I wanna know more about xenomorphs, synthetic people and sci-fi stuff!  So now we have a cool throwback story set safely between the first two Alien films (in a space no one can hear you complain?) and people mostly seem to like it.  Mostly.  
I like to think the same holds true for my little podcast, so won't you have a listen?  Put on your earhuggers and enjoy!