I like to think it's both. After it's assimilated someone and with some time, it has intelligence. But if it's freshly assimilated, part of it gets cut off or attacked, then it's pure animal instinct. So Palmer, Blair, and Norris had intelligence and could sabotage parts of the camp or come up with ways to get what they want like putting MacReady's clothes in the furnace to implicate him.
The only arguments against come from modern sensibilities. The alien flew a ship, crashed, and was attempting to survive. This need to complicate things because writers are shit now a days is a recent phenomenon.
>The only arguments against come from modern sensibilities
It attacked the dogs in the kennel, thus ensuring its existence would be discovered and at no point did it attempt to communicate, even when every other course of action was sure to result in its destruction. >The alien flew a ship, crashed
The ship may have crashed when whatever alien was flying it was attacked by the Thing
Like I said, modern sensibilities. You’re used to garbage marvel tier writing that spells everything out, so you can’t grasp simple storytelling concepts. It was caught in mid-assimilation of another dog, it wasn’t just attacking them for no reason.
It knows what dogs are. It knows how they are going to react when one suddenly splits in half and starts whipping tendrils around. It had no need to assimilate the other dogs, at least not until it had assimilated the men, since they posed no threat anyway.
There is no coherent argument why an Intelligent Thing would have exposed itself in that way.
The argument is that its "perfect imitation" is only good enough to fool humans and not enough with all the cues animals use. It obviously couldn't fool the dogs and they started growling before it ever split open.
Basic game theory. Always have a backup. If you want to go deeper, it’s reasonable that it noticed how the other dogs detected it, and worried the men would notice this and isolate it. Also, being detected might be enough for it to instinctively attempt to assimilate. But all this is over complicating things, the hallmark of bad storytelling.
It had been going around camp learning about everything, watching people, assimilated Palmer, was watching MacReady leave in the helicopter through the window. The other dogs knew something was off about it, immediately became hostile then tried to sound the alarm. It was a last resort to attack them. I think it knew the communication wouldn't work after what had happened, and that even if it's intelligent, it still wants to eat them and isn't friendly.
I want to know if Blair was going to kill himself because he knew it would eventually come for him, or if he was being slowly taken over already and could feel it inside him.
Idris Elba
the thing did, stupid
2-1 or 2-2
they actually admitted that the screenplay doesn't name who did it, and they never picked someone, so as to increase suspicion and mystery in the film
Probably Palmer. He was the first person that the dog got to.
definitely Norris
What’s the name of the fricking film, moron?
>0707
He's one of them!
Cheating b***h (1982)
We will test you last.
What happened to the young black guy
Some say he's still out there listening to his loud music and rollerskating around
Was there 2 things lads? I love this movie btw
Palmer and Norris were both Things by this point.
I mean 2 different things, competing against eachother
Watch him
What do you guys think, was the Thing Intelligent or just an animal operating on instinct? There are arguments for both
I like to think it's both. After it's assimilated someone and with some time, it has intelligence. But if it's freshly assimilated, part of it gets cut off or attacked, then it's pure animal instinct. So Palmer, Blair, and Norris had intelligence and could sabotage parts of the camp or come up with ways to get what they want like putting MacReady's clothes in the furnace to implicate him.
The only arguments against come from modern sensibilities. The alien flew a ship, crashed, and was attempting to survive. This need to complicate things because writers are shit now a days is a recent phenomenon.
>The only arguments against come from modern sensibilities
It attacked the dogs in the kennel, thus ensuring its existence would be discovered and at no point did it attempt to communicate, even when every other course of action was sure to result in its destruction.
>The alien flew a ship, crashed
The ship may have crashed when whatever alien was flying it was attacked by the Thing
Like I said, modern sensibilities. You’re used to garbage marvel tier writing that spells everything out, so you can’t grasp simple storytelling concepts. It was caught in mid-assimilation of another dog, it wasn’t just attacking them for no reason.
It knows what dogs are. It knows how they are going to react when one suddenly splits in half and starts whipping tendrils around. It had no need to assimilate the other dogs, at least not until it had assimilated the men, since they posed no threat anyway.
There is no coherent argument why an Intelligent Thing would have exposed itself in that way.
The argument is that its "perfect imitation" is only good enough to fool humans and not enough with all the cues animals use. It obviously couldn't fool the dogs and they started growling before it ever split open.
Basic game theory. Always have a backup. If you want to go deeper, it’s reasonable that it noticed how the other dogs detected it, and worried the men would notice this and isolate it. Also, being detected might be enough for it to instinctively attempt to assimilate. But all this is over complicating things, the hallmark of bad storytelling.
It had been going around camp learning about everything, watching people, assimilated Palmer, was watching MacReady leave in the helicopter through the window. The other dogs knew something was off about it, immediately became hostile then tried to sound the alarm. It was a last resort to attack them. I think it knew the communication wouldn't work after what had happened, and that even if it's intelligent, it still wants to eat them and isn't friendly.
there used to be a brilliant explanation of how the thing sabotaged the blood bank in IMDB triva section but it was suspiciously been deleted .
I want to know if Blair was going to kill himself because he knew it would eventually come for him, or if he was being slowly taken over already and could feel it inside him.