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*** It's worth noting it had ''already encountered'' hostile humans at the European base so if it ever wasn't hostile towards humans it probably would've ended somepoint before the movie. Additionally, it seems to consume memories and the like when it assimilates people and that never really seems to make it any less hostile (one even doing it before the movie with the split face thing) which seems to suggest it's more than a misunderstanding given it would presumably know they were just panicking and the like.
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* Alternatively it's running illegal moves because he keeps abusing it like he did in the scene.
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* You could ''really'' go overboard with WMGing with the outside world of this movie I've noticed. Like the cast could just be fragments of the creature convinced they're human after being stuck on an ice-covered planet far away from Earth, the ''whole world'' being chunks of it that forgot their identity and the ship is just "waking them up", things of that nature.
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It just grows its appendages in the most convenient direction, like a tree's limbs and roots grow toward light and water. Hence, it has no inherent understanding of "left" and "right", not being bilaterally symmetrical. That's why the Carter-thing messes up when challenged about its earring: it may have assimilated the ''words'' "left" and "right", but it just doesn't "get" the words' actual ''meanings'', any more than a lifelong-blind person can fully "get" the concept of color.
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It just grows its appendages in the most convenient direction, like a tree's limbs and roots grow toward light and water. Hence, it has no inherent understanding of "left" and "right", not being bilaterally symmetrical. That's why the Carter-thing messes up when challenged about its earring: it may have assimilated the ''words'' "left" and "right", but it just doesn't "get" the words' actual ''meanings'', any more than a lifelong-blind person can fully "get" the concept of color.color.
[[WMG:The Thing's self-modifying nature causes it to more or less be a form of OrganicTechnology]]
A very common takeaway from the movie for along time has been that the Thing was genetically engineered or modified some of the oddities in its nature (including the fact that it's able to assimilate Earth organisms, as mentioned above). However with the way it does things I don't think it really ''needs'' any outside force to engineer it to be as weird as it is. Like a lot of BodyHorror antagonists (a chunk of which it inspired), it's able to modify its internal structure intelligently. Personally I think it's just intelligently adapting to situations around it, when it does something like absorb and organism it's never encountered before it can actively determine a way to assimilate it. The fact that its physiology seems so needlessly lethal is because it's making an actual effort to kill everybody and taking a form capable of it.
[[WMG:The Thing's self-modifying nature causes it to more or less be a form of OrganicTechnology]]
A very common takeaway from the movie for along time has been that the Thing was genetically engineered or modified some of the oddities in its nature (including the fact that it's able to assimilate Earth organisms, as mentioned above). However with the way it does things I don't think it really ''needs'' any outside force to engineer it to be as weird as it is. Like a lot of BodyHorror antagonists (a chunk of which it inspired), it's able to modify its internal structure intelligently. Personally I think it's just intelligently adapting to situations around it, when it does something like absorb and organism it's never encountered before it can actively determine a way to assimilate it. The fact that its physiology seems so needlessly lethal is because it's making an actual effort to kill everybody and taking a form capable of it.
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*** Actually Weed does have psychedelic properties just a rather minor ones by comparison.
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* Strangely wholesome. The Thing indeed never made a move against Clark, the other prevailing theory is that it wanted the others to suspect him but that seems much more complex than necessary.
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* Strangely wholesome. The Thing indeed never made a move against Clark, Clarke, the other prevailing theory is that it wanted the others to suspect him but that seems much more complex than necessary.
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* [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mmm, Thing meat]].
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* Strangely wholesome. The Thing indeed never made a move against Clark, the other prevailing theory is that it wanted the others to suspect him but that seems much more complex than necessary.
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A related theory is that during the ending both of them are Things, but they still think they are humans. The infection mechanism has no reason to alter their natural behavior, so they just sit there sipping rum (or whatever) until they simply fail to die. And then they know.
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A related theory is that during the ending both of them are Things, but they still think they are humans. The infection mechanism has no reason to alter their natural behavior, so they just sit there sipping rum (or whatever) scotch until they simply fail to die. And then they know.
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* It is possible that Childs isn't human and that Mac is, if only because Childs WASN'T BREATHING. Other things to support this is that Childs is wearing a different colored parka than before; runs out into a blizzard alone (which is out of character for him); and when offered a swig of rum, scotch, he takes it even though Mac could very well be infected.
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It just grows its appendages in the most convenient direction, like a tree's limbs and roots grow toward light and water. Hence, it has no inherent understanding of "left" and "right", not being bilaterally symmetrical. That's why the Carter-thing messes up when challenged about its earring: it may have assimilated the ''words'' "left" and "right", but it just doesn't "get" the words' actual ''meanings''.
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It just grows its appendages in the most convenient direction, like a tree's limbs and roots grow toward light and water. Hence, it has no inherent understanding of "left" and "right", not being bilaterally symmetrical. That's why the Carter-thing messes up when challenged about its earring: it may have assimilated the ''words'' "left" and "right", but it just doesn't "get" the words' actual ''meanings''.''meanings'', any more than a lifelong-blind person can fully "get" the concept of color.
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Which is why it has NoBiochemicalBarriers.
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Which is why it has NoBiochemicalBarriers.NoBiochemicalBarriers.
[[WMG: The Thing's natural form (if any) has no structural symmetry.]]
It just grows its appendages in the most convenient direction, like a tree's limbs and roots grow toward light and water. Hence, it has no inherent understanding of "left" and "right", not being bilaterally symmetrical. That's why the Carter-thing messes up when challenged about its earring: it may have assimilated the ''words'' "left" and "right", but it just doesn't "get" the words' actual ''meanings''.
[[WMG: The Thing's natural form (if any) has no structural symmetry.]]
It just grows its appendages in the most convenient direction, like a tree's limbs and roots grow toward light and water. Hence, it has no inherent understanding of "left" and "right", not being bilaterally symmetrical. That's why the Carter-thing messes up when challenged about its earring: it may have assimilated the ''words'' "left" and "right", but it just doesn't "get" the words' actual ''meanings''.
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In comes Clarke with a gentle voice, and calms the "dog" down, displaying the complete opposite of hostility or suspicion. Even though its instincts tell it to imitate and spread its infection, it refuses to do so to Clarke, since he was the only genuinely non-hostile human it had come across so far (it was still suspicious of the rest of the crew, even if none of them were outwardly hostile). Clarke didn't even lock the dog up with the others at first, opting to let it wander the camp, or simply staying with it like any loving dog-owner would (giving it ''plenty'' of opportunities to infect him). And it was this kindness that had the Thing deciding that it wouldn't assimilate Clarke under any circumstances apart from self-defense. Even the Palmer/Norris/Blair Things never sought to infect Clarke (who clearly is kind of a loner preferring to spend time alone with the dogs than anyone else, and would make an easy target), since they were made from the Dog-Thing's cells and had part of its psyche. Even as Clarke became just as suspicious of the Things as the rest of the humans, it never tried to infect him out of respect for the kindness he had shown it.
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In comes Clarke with a gentle voice, and calms the "dog" down, displaying the complete opposite of hostility or suspicion. Even though its instincts tell it to imitate and spread its infection, it refuses to do so to Clarke, since he was the only genuinely non-hostile human it had come across so far (it was still suspicious of the rest of the crew, even if none of them were outwardly hostile). Clarke didn't even lock the dog up with the others at first, opting to let it wander the camp, or simply staying with it like any loving dog-owner would (giving it ''plenty'' of opportunities to infect him). And it was this kindness that had the Thing deciding that it wouldn't assimilate Clarke under any circumstances apart from self-defense. Even the Palmer/Norris/Blair Things never sought to infect Clarke (who clearly is kind of a loner preferring to spend time alone with the dogs than anyone else, and would make an easy target), since they were made from the Dog-Thing's cells and had part of its psyche. Even as Clarke became just as suspicious of the Things as the rest of the humans, it never tried to infect him out of respect for the kindness he had shown it.it.
[[WMG:The Thing was a bio-weapon engineered specifically to infect Earth life]]
Which is why it has NoBiochemicalBarriers.
[[WMG:The Thing was a bio-weapon engineered specifically to infect Earth life]]
Which is why it has NoBiochemicalBarriers.
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[[WMG: MacReady destroys the computer because it is broken.]]
Why would MacReady destroy an expensive computer by pouring whiskey in it? (Probably to establish him as impetuous and bad loser, a man who would rather destroy everything than admit defeat) The Chess game in this scene makes absolutely no sense. Both MacReady and the computer make illegal moves, then the computer falsely calls checkmate. MacReady is therefore knowingly playing with a buggy computer - maybe he started the game hoping the program would work correctly this time, and realised in the middle of the game that he was wrong. Nevertheless, he tries to win by making illegal moves. But then the computer calls checkmate - a "cheating bitch!" indeed. The computer - a dedicated system called "Chess Wizard" - is therefore broken and unusable. MacReady's reaction thus makes perfect sense: he vents his anger by destroying this useless machine once and for all and then probably threw it in the trash bin afterward.
Why would MacReady destroy an expensive computer by pouring whiskey in it? (Probably to establish him as impetuous and bad loser, a man who would rather destroy everything than admit defeat) The Chess game in this scene makes absolutely no sense. Both MacReady and the computer make illegal moves, then the computer falsely calls checkmate. MacReady is therefore knowingly playing with a buggy computer - maybe he started the game hoping the program would work correctly this time, and realised in the middle of the game that he was wrong. Nevertheless, he tries to win by making illegal moves. But then the computer calls checkmate - a "cheating bitch!" indeed. The computer - a dedicated system called "Chess Wizard" - is therefore broken and unusable. MacReady's reaction thus makes perfect sense: he vents his anger by destroying this useless machine once and for all and then probably threw it in the trash bin afterward.
