>/tv/ is so stupid it seriously couldn't figure out who the Thing was
>>222771622its the jews?
>>222771622explain why it matters
Childs lied about the lights so he's obviously the Thing. MacReady killed the Thing so he's obviously not the Thing. There, mystery solved.
the thing is about puppies and unrestrained alien mutations . it has nothing to do with jewish control of the world which is slander and a lie.
>>222771622Keith David gave an interview a few years ago basically saying people were looking way too deep into this final scene and making it out to be more than it actually is
>>222771825It's really weird how this is objectively correct, with blatant evidence, yet rejected by so many and seemingly controversal. They desperately want it to be some stupid, nonsensical twist instead of what's directly shown on screen. It's really weird.
>>222771622the viewer
>a literal sequel exists involving Carpenter where both Childs and MacReady were both human still>somehow this is too hard to understand and people rather argue headcanon when facts already exist
>>222771825>Macready killed the ThingEvery Thing entity looks out for its own interests. In the end Macready also completely changes his plan and decides it's fine if the camp just goes cold again and lets the Thing freeze into the ice. The real answer is that both of them were the Thing in the end and human paranoia has infiltrated the Thing organism since it began assimilating them from the start of the movie.
Is there a single scene where any of the Thing'd guys talk? The Thing could NEVER hold a conversation like they do here.
>>222772449uhh didnt diabeetus build a space ship ou of scrap and then talk or was that someone else.i think i remember diabeeus getting shot does that mean hes hman
>>222771622Childs, the only reason he would forget the no sharing fluids rule is if he wasn't scared of being turned, i.e. he was the Thing>>222772449Palmer Thing talks during the blood testing scene
>John Carpenter's The ThingThey literally tell you in the movie poster retards
>>222772017I agree with that. They killed the monster but now they're still absolutely fucked alone in Antarctica, the end
>>222772397> The real thing was the mental illness we made along the way
>>222772516This is just showcasing Mac's paranoia. He assumes everyone else is a thing. He doesnt know. Its the core of the movie.
Technically everyone is a thing
>>222772594:O
>>222772197A comic book written after the original release had bombed. Its not Canon. The director's creative process is contaminated by failure and the cult resurgence of the films popularity.
>>222772197There's a fanfic from The Thing's perspective that's a little interesting. The tl;dr is that it's trying to bring salvation to Earth and doesn't understand why everyone is afraid of it.
the real monster is us, the viewer, and the friends we lost along the way
MacReady was. He left the bottle with Blair when they locked him up who later turned into the thing after having drank from it.
>>222772449Yes, Norris and Palmer are explicitly things for most of the movie and talk just fine. They know what they are doing and stay in the background, refusing leadership roles but sowing chaos and suspicion among the group.
>>222772591i think he's implying the characters who are on the right vs left
>>222772594There's only one way to find out... singles and you're clean. Dubs? You're cooked.
>>222772791Nothing to see here
>>222772791>>222772799Torch him
>>222772799WINDOWS, BLAST HIM!
>>222772799GET GIM
>>222772791john carpenter more like john seemstress
>>222772799TORCH HIM
>>222771776I wouldn't explain anything. I would listen to what Thing had to say, because that's what no one did.
>>222772591>>222772753Not sure if you're trolling but he was making a joke.
>>222771622Wrong Im so smart I would just shoot the negro to be sure
>>222772791It can't be me. It won't be. I'm not a Thing!
thing me once, shame on youthing me twice, shame on mething me thrice? can't get thing'd again
>>222771622It was obviously Plastic Man.
>>222772791I would think I was turning into a thing but later figure out im just going through withdrawal cause the Norwegian dude was my hook up.
>>222772791The anon below me is a thing
>>222772753>>222772879Im too autistic to be trolled or infected by the thing. Also right and left both have confirmed things
>>222773192John Carpenter's The ThingJohn Carpenter Is The ThingIt was a pun, anon
>>222772791I know you anons have been through a lot, but when you find the time I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS FUCKING THREAD
>>222772848Walk into traffic please
>>222772732If you were a Thing, would you even know that you were a Thing?
>>222771845This guy is clearly the thing.
>>222772197I would like to integrate with her flesh.
>thing already built a fucking UFO to fuck off to planet xenu or wherever he was really supposed to go to>strand him on earth for no reasonat this point I wouldn't blame the thing for assimilating all life on the planet
>>222773617It might have just used it to get closer to civilization.
>>222772791you know me pal
>>222771622Canonically literally neither are. Childs just freezes to death.
>>222772791ARE YOU CALLING ME A THINGGER?
childs' story about following blair is obviously bullshit, he could be a thing or he could just be lying to hide his cowardicemac's willingness to freeze to death is suspicious after wanting to kill the thing even if it meant his life, he could be a thing or he's bullshitting childs in order to get his guard down (to kill him or absorb him)there will never be an answer
>>222771622The black guy was the Thing, he drank from the bottle where everyone before cooked molotovs in them. The beard guy laughs because he understands the black guy is the Thing. Whether the beard guy is ALSO the Thing, doesn't matter that much at this point, the Thing won either way in this case.
>>222773617He wanted to just reach a place to spread, the ship landing in the artic was basically a miracle
The book was amazing! Loved reading from the poi unofficial view of the thing. He is an ambassador fighting against the entropy of the universe.
>>222774257it doesn't really make sense, the thing is malicious, it could've argued its case before getting torched as bennings thing, but all it did was scream
>>222772644>There's a fanfic from The Thing's perspective that's a little interesting. The tl;dr is that it's trying to bring salvation to Earth and doesn't understand why everyone is afraid of it.That's interesting. It's like a horror version Pluribus.
>>222771845
>>222772791ERRR MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST UM DO A RECREATION HUMAN ACTIVITYand put the FLAMETHROWER AWAY
>>222774899get him! burn him!
>>222774183>hewhy are you assuming the thing's pronouns?
>>222775104NO WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT
>>222772799>>222774899you gotta be fucking kidding
Checkmate
>>222775260maybe he pierced his ear after assimilating
>>222772791let's do it
>>222775200LADS,YOU MISSED THIS ONE
>>222772791I am perfectly human.
>>222775500BURN HIM!
>>222772791I'm sorry fellas, but I-I-I'm not up to it
>>222772791You're out of line, Macready!
>>222772791COME ON LET'S RUSH HIM, HE'S NOT GONNA BLOW US ALL UP
It ain't me
>>222772791If I gotta go out I'm goin out rollin
>>222771622never been confirmed nigger. either mistakes were made or neither is the thing, yet....
>>222775500HOLY SHIT WE FOUND A NEST
>>222772566>>222772799>>222773488>>222773644>>222774899>>222775200>>222775500
I am not a John Carpenter’s The Thing
>>222771622The real question is if the people who are the thing know they are the thing. I think they obviously do because it makes things make way more sense. The idea that they don't is extremely retarded, why would the thing keep trying to find people in isolated areas if the person it was imitating didn't know they were the thing. Gotta be one of the dumbest theories that came out from this movie since it always seemed very obviously not true to me
childs not showing up when explosions and TNT were going off is moronic, "i got lost!" lol the camp is a literal crater
>>222771622I am not stupid! The movie is stupid!In one scene the doctor or whoever that guy was, I haven't seen the movie in a long time, just poked around in a corpse with a pen and then let that pen rest against his lips.If the actors and directors don't take the movie seriously, why should the people, who watch it, take it seriously? You really think it was that deep? When such stupid mistakes happen in the show? I mean McReady almost killed every single other Human by chaining them up together with the Thing. None of this is that intelligent or deep. It's all retarded.
>>222775757>5757GET AWAY FROM HIM
>>222776022he's obviously lying, the question is whether it's because he's the thing (the generator goes out right after he leaves the base) or because he wants to hide the fact that he's a coward who tried to ditch everyone the minute he was left alone
>>222776066WHY SHOULD I DO WHAT YOU SAY, THING!?
>>222776061>just poked around in a corpse with a pen and then let that pen rest against his lipshe didn't touch the corpse just pointed at it, and even if he did who's to say a single cell would be enough to take over an entire human bodythe simulation just showed a single thing cell taking over a single dog cellIf a single cell was needed to infect someone all the thing had to do was sneeze in a crowded room and it would have won
>>222776022>>222776066>>222776099
>>222774257I don't really like the idea of the thing have any kind of intelligent altruistic motivation beyond an autistic urge to spread itself. I think the fact it is smart enough to build spaceships is more to do with what it's eaten and less to do with its own intrinsic intelligence. It's even likely that the ship it crashed on isn't even it's own ship, but a ship of another alien species it infected and caused to crash. We'll never really know but what I do know is that making apologetics for the thing is gay, it was obviously bad
I thought the point was that neither of them were. The whole theme of the original story (which Carpenter wanted to accurately portray) is paranoia, so it makes sense to end on it.The idea that the titular "Thing" is the monster of the film is secondary, because by all evidence it's just a nigga trying to get away. That's why the story is so good:both "monsters" (The Thing itself and the paranoia of the men) are, in reality, acting relatively reasonable and logical. I stand to reason that the 1982 film and the novella are Tragedies, moreso than anything else. It's horrific imagery, but it's sad circumstancially.
>>222776061I think that's the point actual autist anon. Also I used to think the same thing to but upon further viewings I realized he never actually touches the thing with the pencil at all. Also on top of that he is under the impression that it's dead so, while still gross, he had little viable reason to be so careful with it. What's more concerning is that he was dissecting the thing with a couple of piddly gloves on. His arm could have very easily of brushed up against the slime of the thing and that's yucky. We don't know if it needs just one cell to take you over or not for sure but it was still gross, which is literally the point of the scene, to make you guess later in the movie. Also all the guys getting chained together was a matter of necessity in the situation, MacGreedy was literally holding everyone at dynamite-point and it was really the only way to do it. Not as retarded as you want to make it out to be
>>222776125>>222776233Looks like you need help.
>>222776185I always equated it to the Crystalline Entity from Star Trek: The Next Generation, because I think it's pretty apparent that The Thing could have just easily fucked everybody and everything up and 100% spread itself in less than an hour if it absolutely wanted to. The same way the Crystalline Entity, compared to the crew of the Enterprise and any other cosmic entity at that point (apart from Q, maybe) was so much more powerful, but only ever used it when it presumably needed to eat. Then it just kinda went on its way, posing no threat, showcasing no malice. To that extent, I think at first The Thing is genuinely just trying to hide/escape and is just afraid.I always liked how MacReady's first assumption is likely the best explanation for The Thing's nature; it's just a foreigner that got woken up after a long (understatement) nap and immediately was set upon by the locals, not necessarily to the fault of either party. Both parties are biologically incompatible to the point where it's virtually impossible for either to act altruistic. The Thing is a movie about victims of circumstance.
>>222775260probably just a continuity error
i'm not the thingi'm the thang
>>222772791I'm fine you idiot
thing vs blob: who wins this fight?
>>222772791That's a fun idea... why don't you and I talk about it alone, away from the others?
>>222777759Thingamablob
>>222777759thing assimilates blob, nothing changes
>>222776225Thing 2011 confirms it can't assimilate metal so Childs' earring is a giveaway he's human.
>>222778832>Thing 2011Doesn't exist.
