"Alien: Romulus" filled me with dread, for all the wrong reasons

It might be a controversial statement to make, but I am going to say it anyways: There hasn't been a good "Alien" movie since 1986. While some have had their fans like "Prometheus" or "Covenant", in my opinion I feel none of them have been solid from beginning to end since James Cameron's "Aliens". However, based on early reviews and the promotional material, Fede Alverez's "Alien: Romulus" looked to be a promising return to form. Unfortunately, "Romulus" is a dreadful reminder of why some franchises should just be put to rest.

Set between the events of "Alien" and "Aliens", Rain (Cailee Spaeny) is a orphan living on one of the colony planets of the Waylend Yutani Corporation. She is joined by a defective android named Andy (David Johnson). The duo are given the chance to escape their poor conditions when they are asked to join a team of fellow colonizers to retrieve materials from a derelict Yutani ship. Searching through the vessel's dark corridors and abandoned labritories eventually leads to the discovery that the ship has become home to the deadly Xenomorphs, and an even greater (unintentionally) terror.

Okay, so I must address the biggest elephant in the room, and in order to do so I must delve into spoilers. THIS IS YOUR LAST WARNING!

So, based on the advertising I was expecting "Romulus" to have some callbacks to the original films. Maybe a line or two, some similar scenes here and there, but it looked to be a much more self contained entry. And for the most part, Romulus was exactly that. For the first 30 minutes the film very much played like it's own thing. No major references, a new cast of characters, and the world felt different from the ones we had seen up until this point in the franchise. However, the turning point for the film is when our characters want to learn more about the Xenomorphs. They find a torn apart android, and in the films "big" reveal, the android is the same model as Ash (Ian Holm) from the original "Alien". 

I could not believe what I witnessed. i