Being cheap at the time, I was reading the paperback of “Alien” instead of seeing the movie. It was thoroughly creeping me out. But when I got to the part where Ripley killed the android, I put the book down, went to the piggy bank for funding and left for the theater to see the movie right away.
A GREAT plot, which few people understood after seeing the movie. It is one of the best monster movies ever.
Yes Aliens 2 fleshed out the plot from Alien a little better for me though I got what the plot was when I saw “Mother’s” orders..”crew expendable” which brought it home to me and I felt the betrayal of the characters by a cynical money driven “company” as well as the purpose of the discussion regarding the last minute change of science officers having occurred earlier in the movie.