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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swanosaurus" data-source="post: 9732456" data-attributes="member: 7044220">I never understood why that is a criticism ...  I mean, yeah, that was the point. Stripping everything away from Ripley, letting her feel the pointlessness of all her effort, and then find out what she's left with (which is the will to kill the Xeno for good and don't hand it to the company that caused all that suffering).I understand not agreeing with that choice, because you'd have rather seen a sequel with Hicks and Newt in it, but it's not a bad story beat just because it made something that happened before pointless.EDIT: By the way, has anyone else read Pat Cadigan's novelization of William Gibson's Alien3 script? It's a Hicks/Bishop story, with Ripley (and I think Newt, but I actually don't quite remember it from the novel) in cold storage to be brought out again in part 4. It opens up the universe in cool ways, though I must say I didn't like what it did to the Xeno's, making them airborne and turning them into a kind of zombie plague. I also thought it made Bishop into too much of a superhero. It would have been interesting to see it as a movie, but it might also have turned into a Ressurection-level fascinating disaster.</blockquote>