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People who like understanding the bigger picture like knowing where and why major plot points come into being.
Example: Arachnophobia showed us where the giant, deadly spiders came from. There was a clear line of causality from jungle to mating with a house spider (easy enough to suspend disbelief) to infesting the town.
If you're introducing a biological monster, then having a backstory, an origin, if you will, adds the necessary layers of credulity for any reasonably critical viewer. Otherwise it may as well be the hand of god coming down from the clouds and making a tree, a deer, a bush, a xenomorph, etc.
I personally do not care. The alien isn't a biological monster. It's just a monster and knowing more about it only makes it less scary.
Ah, okay. The common clay of the New West.