In life, it certainly seems like everything evolves from a natural state of simplicity to incomprehensible complexity, and so it is in Tinsel Town, where stripped-down, crystalline ideas become increasingly convoluted as time marches into infinity.
This is most evident in the "Alien" film franchise, where all we once had to remember was a nest of leathery eggs housing spider-like facehuggers, a baby chestburster, and a single rampaging biomechanical monster picking off space truckers aboard a deep space commercial vessel. Then came "Aliens" with its complement of drones, warriors and a bitchy Queen to further fill out the cast of lethal extraterrestrial creatures bent on ruining our day if given the chance.
