John Carpenter's The Thing: its Origin, its Nature, its Goal
Added 2025-09-20 17:53:30 +0000 UTCThis is the Youtube "theatrical cut" with the footage reduced to blurs and still images.
You can find the original, here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/john-carpenters-138816129
Comments
I really like the idea that the Thing WAS the crew of the ship, that they had the ability to share information through DNA so they carry their Einstein's in all of them. And the one in the Ice was simply a survivor of a terrible accident. In movies where a lone human ends up on an Alien planet, they usually cause issues for that planet trying to get off of it, maybe this is just the reverse of that haha. The thing learns after it's first assimilation "how it simply talks to another of it's kind" how alien it truly is here, and that the people of this planet will NOT accept it, so it tries to get away.
Brandon
2025-09-27 08:50:57 +0000 UTCI believe that the Thing evolved. Imagine that it WAS originally just a virus or bacteria and on its world it's no real big deal because everything else had evolved along with it. But what if something not if that world came into contact with it and contracted it and brought it aboard their ship. This Thing grows exponentially among the crew and eventually takes it over and it crashes into Earth. It can be argued that this could have been the Thing's second encounter with aliens, us, and the first being the crashed crew. Because if it was powerful enough to conquer space faring worlds it would have just sent more ships after this one and Earth would be assimilated. I think the crew picked up an invasive species. It is survival turned to 100, it survives by mimicking the best survivors of it's environment. It sounds like a virus or bacteria, something small that accidentally got big because aliens encountered it and those aliens knew how to travel through space and suddenly it's 1 million times more complex. Just look at how bad it is at Thinging Out, when it does it you could say it looks inexperienced at attacking large organisms, but conversely it's AMAZING at mimicking.
Bailey B.
2025-09-23 03:18:22 +0000 UTC
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