What was its endgame after assimilating all life on earth? Create a thing society, just lording over the planet?
>>214496834It didn't want to assimilate all life on Earth. It just wanted to go home. But it knew humans would kill it.
>>214496834Given the end plot of the movie, where our protagonist notices that the Thing had, cognizantly, began constructing some sort of spacecraft from the helicopter that exploding prior......I'm willing to bet that "staying on Earth" was not its plan.
>>214496834It just wanted to go home.
do people who are the thing know they are things? if yes then it is really good at acting
>>214497133Yes. The Thing destroys and replaces the cells of the creatures it’s imitating, so it’s not an unaware person, it’s a copy of that person pretending to be that person. The person it’s a copy of is dead.
Probably spread to other planetsIt's a living virus
>>214497121>>214497010So basically it’s E.T. if E.T. had balls and a brain instead of some sort of glowing finger?
>>214496834No clear volitionIt's just like live, the blob, or a virusIt thrives where it can
It just wanted to be Clark's wife. It was in love. But they killed him!
>>214496834It's a trans allegory
>>214497157Unless you believe in souls, there's no reason to think the copy of the person wouldn't be indistinguishable from the original, including in its self-perception as "not a Thing."
>>214497500It all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down
>>214496834>What was its endgameStop playing video games. You brain is rotten already.
>>214497133>do people who are the thing know they are things?yes>if yes then it is really good at actingit absorbs all of your brain including your memories and personality. its entire "thing" is being a perfect mimic, so yes its a pretty good actor
>>214496834Its imperative is to conquer all life, everywhere. This is clearly stated by Blair. And since it inherits/acquires the knowledge of the subjects that it assimilates, it can apply that knowledge to keep going back into space and keep conquering all biological life on other worlds, whereever it (biological life) exists. The Blair-thing clearly inherited the technical know-how to whip up a one-Thing mini-saucer from the previous race who had crashed in their own saucer (because the Thing has just taken over most or all of them and the situation on board is chaotic at the time of crash for that reason).Once it has the know-how to do interstellar travel, I imagine that the process of planetary conquest goes like this: A cell is introduced into a planet with life forms. If the life forms are not relatively intelligent and technologically sophisticated (e.g. modern humans), just wild animals, then it simply steamrolls the entire biosphere. Once it has monopoly power over the conquered biosphere by having killed/replaced it, (or once it has taken, say, over half of all available resistant life/biomass) then the mask of imitation comes off and it assumes whatever previous monstrous forms it deems most efficient, and the various thing-organisms, in whatever form they assume, work together at scale to build rockets and spacecraft (if possible, given the planet and available resources) to travel to the next world, ad infinitum. The original idea of telepathy between individual things is also interesting here, suggesting another means of coordination.
