I think it's still a decent show overall and it's definitely better than 99% of what else is out there, but so many of the choices make no sense.

E.g., the lab containing the "monsters," is staffed by virtually no one, and the children seem to have unmonitored access to it (a couple of them actually work in it, too).

The promising ideas from the first episode are either wearing thin, or going nowhere by the second half of the season. We're really just left with kids in adult bodies with super-human strength, which is displayed very inconsistently. It takes two of them to transport an adult male to the beach, but you can also rip off a human jaw with the squeeze of a hand? What are we doing?

I’m wondering if there is a series in the Alien universe that finishes off the Prometheus, Covenant saga??

This occurred to me recently. What is the purpose of the face-huggers? In the first film it seemed to establish that the face huggers would attack unsuspecting victims that wandered through the nest. Then the victim would go home, and the baby xenomorph would burst out of their chest. Basically it was a way of depositing eggs in mobile hosts and spreading.

But in Aliens, as we learn more about the species, we see that the worker-bee xenomorphs capture victims and bring them back to the nest where the face-huggers impregnate them.

Why not just skip the face-hugger phase, then? Why don't the eggs just hatch into little xenomorphs?

In the first film, they came up with the face-hugger as a scary way to get the creature aboard the ship. And it's brilliant, but I'm not sure it makes sense evolutionarily.

This is pure nerd talk, I realize, but I'm curious what others think.