I don't really think I agree. Fundamentally memories aren't really immutable; I feel like Alien 3 actively made Aliens worse because now it means that the last

I don't really think I agree. Fundamentally memories aren't really immutable; I feel like Alien 3 actively made Aliens worse because now it means that the last third of Aliens was kind of pointless. This is canon, and moreover by the time I watched these movies I was a teenager (~2006 or so), and so it was well-entrenched into the canon.