John Carpenter's The Thing: its Origin, its Nature, its Goal
Added 2025-09-13 19:44:16 +0000 UTCAn analysis on what John Carpenter's The Thing is and what it really wants. My favorite movie is The Thing, having been afflicted with it at an early age. This version doesn't worry about needing to use still images to deal with Youtube's various, hyper aggressive systems.
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I just reupped my sub to watch this here while I was at work. Your videos have made me more interested in the Thing and made it my favorite horror movie as well
Mojave_Mailman
2025-11-05 20:55:37 +0000 UTCFor your analytics purposes, wanted to drop that I also subbed to watch it here, since you'll get one less view on the youtube.
Heshiko
2025-09-30 05:50:05 +0000 UTCSo nice Iβve watched it twice
JaySquared
2025-09-29 16:28:22 +0000 UTCWatching everyone argue over what a movie is about is one of my favorite reasons to watch a movie π "Ahhh yesss, contention!" lol
Brandon
2025-09-27 08:46:19 +0000 UTCalso subbed for the uncensored version
P i k a b e a r
2025-09-24 06:26:04 +0000 UTCSubbed for the uncensored version. Ily PLague <3
Suzannah Hays
2025-09-23 23:51:49 +0000 UTCI've watched this twice now. Great job, Plague! π
Bailey B.
2025-09-23 02:54:10 +0000 UTCResubed when you mentioned the youtube troubles. Fun video much approve. Is it accurate? Who knows! But it's fun to contemplate for the sake.
whispwhim
2025-09-22 04:57:14 +0000 UTCYou did great man. 10/10 vid. Fingers crossed youtube chills out. Super fun thoughts and information on it.
Devin Willis
2025-09-20 21:13:50 +0000 UTCI'm not overly analytical, I take things mostly as they come, and notice just enough more than surface level to be interested in the idea behind why things are the way they are, without diving feet-first into them. All that to say, I really enjoyed seeing someone who IS really dig into The Thing as a creature and put together the pieces you did! As to whether or not it was engineered, I think it does a lot of things incredibly well and it would be much easier to explain as someone's idea given a horrific form of life. After all, it kind of is, since it's part of a story! But I agree that it's MORE interesting if it isn't, if it implies a world where such a thing *had* to evolve to survive or thrive. A whole world that is truly alien to consider. Fun fun!
ShadOtrett
2025-09-18 07:54:37 +0000 UTCThese have always been my favorite kinds of videos from you. Long form scripted literary analysis. Let's Gripe About Horror, Writing and especially Villains are some of my favorite videos on YouTube. It's unfortunate that they are probably one of the more annoying and time consuming things to produce.
OperatorError
2025-09-17 04:15:14 +0000 UTCI never really considered The Thing to be all that scary. Like, yeah the movie is kinda gross and horrifying, but it never struck real fear in me before. Until I fell asleep watching this video and had a nightmare that every fucking thing in my house was trying to assimilate me. I get it. I canβt even look at my cat the same way.
R. Pires
2025-09-17 02:45:22 +0000 UTCLoved this vid. It is kinda hard to find discussions of movies like this that are based on what whatβs actually in the movie, rather than stuff that was filled in later. (Gods forbid anyone ever gets to talk about Alien in its original context)
Alex
2025-09-16 00:16:40 +0000 UTCGreat job, very fun. I love this movie as well and I really never considered a lot of these ideas before.
Derrick Trylch
2025-09-14 22:27:51 +0000 UTCThanks for linking The Thing and T&A in our minds forever.
Alan Sherrill
2025-09-14 19:18:22 +0000 UTCExcellent, I love The Thing too. I've seen most of Collative Learning's videos on it as well, there's many interesting aspects to the film.
Kastor
2025-09-14 07:09:30 +0000 UTCThis was an excellent watch.
StefanWoad
2025-09-14 06:10:22 +0000 UTCI find it amusing that the speculation on the evolutionary origins at the end of the vid make the Thing sort of aligned with the new lore given for the origins of the "original" zerg found on Zerus is StarCraft II... before the overmind took them over and made the zerg bioweapons, which just so happens to parallel the other hypothesis mentioned and dismissed for the Thing at the end of the video. ...Or at least that is what I had remembered. In refreshing my memories I was rudely reminded that the Zerg "were the most insignificant life form on Zerus until the proto-genetic manipulations of the xel'naga enabled them to survive. Amon desired their ability to steal essence, but the zerg were independent, so he bound them to the hive mind" Which plants their origins strictly as biowepaons, and is another point of reinforcement how SCII's focus on xelnaga/space fantasy elements completely deflated the interest and mystery surrounding that setting.
Scott Davis
2025-09-14 01:06:52 +0000 UTCI will say at the very least it's a theory that makes a lot of sense.
Elder Dog
2025-09-13 21:54:45 +0000 UTC
