Sadatori t1_iugqez8 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:58 AM

Reply to comment by darthvirgin in The Thing (1982) -- the scene with MaReady checking on Blair in the cabin by darthvirgin

Since the Thing knew how to build a spaceship, that meant it retains the knowledge of the beings it assimilates so it would know what a noose is as well, but I still absolutely love how it completely ignores the noose while talking and absolutely love the movie and how we can still try and get more out of it to this day

striker907 t1_iugudwk wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:50 AM

I don’t think the spaceship thing confirms that personally. I saw that as knowledge possessed by the “original being” or form of the Thing, considering it crash landed onto Earth with a similar-looking ship.

Am I wrong? It’s all a guess

BOEJlDEN t1_iugxvvs wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:41 AM

I assumed that the ship was piloted by a completely separate alien species that was infected by the Thing. I don’t think that was the Thing’s ship

MattyKatty t1_iuh3buz wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:05 AM

It's ambiguous in the 1982 version. It was meant to be shown in the 2011 prequel but then they CGI'd over it.

CMelody t1_iujl3me wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:35 PM

That was my thought, too. Blair figured out pretty quickly that the Thing had to be isolated before it assimilated all life on Earth.

After they realized the same, I think the aliens in the ship crashed on purpose on what they thought was a backwater planet with no sentient life to quarantine the Thing where it could do no harm.

dudinax t1_iugxnfl wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:38 AM

I always thought the implication was the thing caused the crash. Didn't they find a body in the wreck? I suspect that's not the thing's true form.

badger81987 t1_iuirxs6 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:20 PM

It probably doesn't really have one, kind of like The Builders in The Expanse. Pure parasites.