The thing with Alien/Aliens is that it is a genuinely perfect character arc, much like Godfather 1/2, and in both cases, taking the character past that arc was terrible storytelling, indeed could not be anything other than terrible storytelling.

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As my hobbyist father didn’t like me saying, family history research is a polite fiction, as we know from scientific studies that a huge number of people are sired by someone other than their supposed father. I’m interested in my matrilineal heritage though, now researching my great-grandmother.

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They should feature someone who is descended from an incredibly long line of ancestors, all of whom all survived long enough and found a partner to be able to pass on their genes. Oh wait, that's all of us.

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Realistically, it then becomes a very long program to consider all 32,768 ancestors that far back. I think they should just do a pie chart of "you're 72% the child of total non-entities with an average life expectancy of 26, most of whom died of poor hygiene."

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Also he had 100s of ancestors who were not in the least bit interesting - also the same as the rest of us.

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