The new Alien design is interesting though.

After being told a while ago that all the Alien stuff had been removed, it seemed like it was all still there.  There's even an actual alien., though it looks a lil different There's a face hugger though it's the size of a large car, more a full body hugger. And the creatures have acidic blood.

At the very end, the chest-burster that comes out of the Engineer is far bigger than usual because the Engineers are far bigger than humanity (not to mention the sheer size of that facehugger). In otherwords, I saw it as the birth of an infant Queen (not saying it's the Queen from Aliens) that will only get bigger.

The movie also seriously benefits from the Aliens being more of a subplot than the main focus throughout.

I kind of saw the Weyland thing coming. A guy like that wouldn't let himself die when his company is so close to a major discovery.

Yeah, I saw it too. It was just such a blah plot point.

So it occurred to me, in wondering why the Engineers would want us so very very dead, that what if we are to them what androids are to us? *cue opening music from BSG* Man was created by the Engineers. They rebelled. They evolved. We were initially meant to be servants/guinea pigs for them. What if the pictograms aren't showing us worshipping them but kicking them off the planet (either before or after they lost control of whatever experiment they were running on LV-266)? Then we show up with our own servant, and the Engineer they wake up sees either that the cycle of what they were doing is about to repeat (us dicking around with their bioweapons and losing control, potentially spreading it even further), or that we'd created our own servants in our own likeness and had thus usurped the power of creation. In either case, we needed to be stopped.