[Mastersteef]

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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

Since you brought it up there's one aspect of the Assembly Cut I find stupid that the theatrical does better, the alien's host. Alien 3 introduces the idea that aliens gain attributes of their host and the dog alien shows much of this. It is sleeker, has digitigrade legs, and is faster than previous versions and this all makes sense given its host is a dog, an animal that is biologically much more suited for killing than humans. The Assembly Cut changes the host to be an ox which no longer makes as much sense for producing such a slim and quick alien. Finally the audience will care more about a dog dying than a bull, it automatically sets up the creature in Alien 3 to be evil when it kills a dog as victim number one.

Without getting too much off topic I just wanted to say that I agree completely with you here.
I really like that aspect of the creature and feel like it's been really severely underutilized in the films. (Though Kenner had the right idea and gave us toys of all the cool hybrids) Think of how awesome (though expensive) it would be to have an actual alien movie set on an integalactic zoo or wildlife preserve and all the possibilities therein.