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The black goo is the worst thing that ever happened to the Alien franchise
Eh. I can enjoy it. I maintain about 3 different canons in my head depending on how I feel.
Ultimately the Alien franchise was the worst thing that ever happened to Alien. You can't involve that many creatives and expect an internally consistent narrative.
People agree that Alien and Aliens are among the best sci-fi horror movies ever made. I think what those two movies capture (amongst other) is that they are about survival and triumph of human spirit overcoming isolation and hostility of space. Personally I think the 90s kitsch offshoot of this franchise, whether it the games, comics, toys, kinda capture the gist of it. In all, all you need is a tough-as-nail competent protagonist to cheer on, who is stuck in isolated setting and had to fight Xenomorph(s) against all odds. I personally couldn't care less about the black goo and Wayland Enterprise lore as franchise (TM). It doesn't help that Prometheus and Covenant have incompetent doofus crew. Romulus doofus crew can somewhat be justified since they are teenagers, but at that point I already hate everything that has to do with the black goo.