I don't care that the thread archived. I wanted to fucking post in it.
The thing has no original form because it's just cells that infect a host and becomes an amalgamation of the things it has absorbed. A better question would be "what is the original species that it absorbed?"
In regards to your second question. A completely "Thinged" planet probably looks war torn at first as Things existence has likely been discovered and fought against, but once everyone is assimilated, Things tend to act normal and go about their normal business, so the planet would eventually be repaired by thing controlled hosts and then be peaceful. I imagine it's like a utopia.
What if it just acts as cancer, and when it no longer has a threat, it stops the charades, and either dies off because it has nothing new to infect, or spread to other planets.
I doubt it can reach an equilibrium on its own. Its too aggressive.
Asher Green
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Isaiah Edwards
Is the thing part of an alien race, a virus, a failed alien experiment, or a biological weapon?
Carson Brooks
its a thing. explaining it would be dumb, like how they fucked up the blob remake
Alexander Hill
Well it does need to eat organic material so I'm thinking it will need to move on to a new world eventually, or raise live stock like humans do and subsist of that? As far as being aggressive, it only really loses its shit when threatened, or feels comfy enough to attack a victim via stealth. Doesn't seem hyper agressive otherwise.
But yeah, we really never see what thing is doing when it's not being directly observed so hard to say for sure how it behaves once everyone is infected.
Angel Campbell
The things would only repair or build whatever they need to to get off the planet and continue infecting other lifeforms
Hudson Parker
How was blob explained? In the remake it just crash landed on a random comet didn't it? Isn't it just a giant germ?
Anthony Smith
I remember the threads about who would win, xenomorphs or the thing alien. The Thing had the best plot armor.
Jacob Perry
I think they reveal it to be a secret government biological weapon.
Easton Lopez
Well I don't think Thing could infect xeno because of the acid blood, but nor could xeno really beat thing. Thing has been shown in two films to have a final form. It would just transform and brute force the xeno into submission.
Aaron Campbell
Oh yeah! A black science guy in the film reveals that I think. He gets owned when blob invades his hazmat suit lol.
Zachary Flores
>tfw that recent the thing movie wasn't so great but i still enjoyed it despite its flaws i just love the thing
Austin Nelson
>so the planet would eventually be repaired by thing controlled hosts and then be peaceful. I imagine it's like a utopia. So, Invasion of the Body Snatchers then? We don't know the thing couldn't assimilate a xeno. Assuming acid isn't assimilable is as absurd as acid blood.
Bentley Brown
Love you too buddy.
Well thing is susceptible to burning agents, and as far as I know, bacteria can't live in acid. If it could infect a xeno, could it also infect say, a fire elemental with lava blood too?
I enjoyed it for how well it set up the original. Like every random detail from thule station was captured. Plus most of the hubbub is complaint about cgi but it didn't bug me. Cgi has been the standard special effect since jurassic park.
Jose Foster
Xenos burned too. Invalid argument.
Jaxson Price
>Things tend to act normal and go about their normal business, so the planet would eventually be repaired by thing controlled hosts and then be peaceful.
Things only really 'act normal' when they're trying to infiltrate. When everything is a Thing, I imagine they'd probably drop the charade and work on their primary aim of spreading to new worlds.
Which is all they really care about, and what makes them so terrifying. The Thing is about as evil as cancer. It's just an organism that's biologically coded to reproduce itself by any means necessary, and doesn't really bear its hosts any ill will.
Nicholas Butler
Bodysnatchers are infinitely more frightening because how much more subtle they are.
James Davis
but the Thing was intelligent enough to build a spaceship on its own, so it must have some higher thinking capabilities
Brandon Wilson
>once everyone is assimilated, Things tend to act normal and go about their normal business, so the planet would eventually be repaired by thing controlled hosts and then be peaceful. I imagine it's like a utopia.
Isn't that pretty much what that episode of Rick and Morty is about?
Joseph Gonzalez
Not from the inside due to their own acid blood, which has been literally shown to be potent enough to melt through metal in seconds. Explain how thing cells survive in that.
Also answer my question. Could thing infect a fire elemental with lava blood?
Aaron Lee
maybe it would assimilate its resistance to its own blood?
Aiden Phillips
or part of a hivemind
Jace Green
>Could thing infect a fire elemental with lava blood? What is this obsession with fire elementals?
Brayden Howard
Not just build a spaceship, build a spaceship with a box full of scraps.
Thing confirmed to be the Tony Stark of movie monsters.
Jonathan Bell
Do we know if the thing built the spacecraft or just assimilated the pilot? I will agree though, it took on the intelligence of what it replaced.
Luke Hall
I'm thinking there was an another alien race that got attacked by the thing. They probably fought it off and the space shuttle in beginning is it escaping like the dog chased by Norwegians.
The thing didn't seem very sentient to me. If it had consumed a whole alien race and it had a solid goal, I'm sure it would've come with entire fleet and overpowered the humans with force. Also, it's blood just spergs uncontrollably when attacked, if it knew anything it would've sacrificed part of itself to remain hidden.
It felt to me like it was an intergalactic cancer spreading across the space. It didn't need mind to survive, it just adapted the intelligence of it's victim for camouflage, nothing else.
Thomas Rivera
It's the only other creatures I can think of with completely nonsense anatomy, like lava/acid blood.
Doesn't it have to first infect the host via blood? That's the barrier for entry I'm talking about. Can thing cells survive in acid? It's doubtful.
Adrian Myers
>The thing didn't seem very sentient to me It was attempting to build something. That's higher function intelligence. Dogs knew there was something wrong but they're much less dependent on one sense like us.
Robert Perry
The blood reacted because the smaller the thing the dumber it is.
the blood things really only remained inert until attacked in which survival instincts took over
Juan Brown
What said. But also I always thought it was a reflex. If I stabbed you in the gut you wouldn't stand there stoic I'm sure.
Jacob Fisher
Plus, it was able to hold conversations through people completely infected.
Christopher Murphy
The fact that the blood reacted hivemind style made it hyper intelligent. The entire life form was a patient predator, when it decided no course of progress was available it wanted to become dormant again. Waiting game suited it.
Nathan Williams
>It felt to me like it was an intergalactic cancer spreading across the space Kinda scary
Sebastian Roberts
Did it? I don't remember. What scene was this?
Maybe I would if I was a cosmic fucksatan made purely out of rape and carnage.
I assumed that it copies the organism completely, including it's brain. The memories and personality remain, so the replicate doesn't even know that it is the thing. Only until it gets attacked or it's alone with another organism it's true instincts kick in.
Chase Reed
>through people completely infected. Not infected though, replaced.
Joshua Peterson
1. The thing is intelligent. When fat guy is infected, he is working on a spaceship made from random scrap shit when they check out the cabin they locked him in.
2. The thing has some sort of chromosomal memory so every cell has complete knowledge once it reaches the stage where it has access to a brain/synapses, before then its just animalistic
3. The thing was a horrible video game, hyped with the trust meter and shit which didnt mean anything because they always turned at a certain point
Jacob Martin
> like intergalactic cancer > is intelligent when it achieves critical mass he doesn't know about the 'Flood' from Halo.
Luis King
This makes sense. It can pilot the ship as it gains the knowledge of whatever it assimilated. I never considered the space ship could be part of another race The Thing assimilated. Great theory, user
Andrew Sanders
Who would like a prequel to The Thing? Like 100,000 years in the past, a ship makes it's way through the universe charting planets capable of sustaining life. Oh shit The Thing found it's way on board. Crash into the Antarctic
Samuel Turner
>Its too aggressive. It may provided the Thing is a single superorganism.
I also feel this is why it was in a ship at the start.
A good question was what kind of species did they take over before coming here, and could that species have been responsible for the Thing?
Sebastian Ramirez
>The memories and personality remain, so the replicate doesn't even know that it is the thing.
Now that I think of it, that can't be the case. I found it strange that the thing didn't use any tactics in human form which let me to believe that the human clones didn't know it was the thing. It gets knocked out and it just let Mac tie it to a chair etc.
But now that I remember more carefully, it did use strategy and it was clearly antagonistic while in human form. It tried to fool Mac to let him out of the shack and it destroyed the blood bags. It even attacked someone as Doc. So yeah, I guess it was intelligent.
Shame though, I kinda liked the idea of being replaced by the thing and not knowing it. Also I find the chaotically spreading space disease more scary than conquering creature.
>1. The thing is intelligent. When fat guy is infected, he is working on a spaceship made from random scrap shit when they check out the cabin they locked him in. We don't know if he was replaced but we know he was working on something more than what he should have been if he was still human. >2. The thing has some sort of chromosomal memory so every cell has complete knowledge once it reaches the stage where it has access to a brain/synapses, before then its just animalistic The thing had human memory from the Norwegian camp. It assumed a form that any new humans would have felt an instinctual emotional attachment to or, a practical use for. >3. The thing was a horrible video game, hyped with the trust meter and shit which didnt mean anything because they always turned at a certain point Fuck vidya.
Xavier Brown
I'd consider it a pretty cool plot twist. Make it seem like a sequel set in the future, make the characters indistinguishably humanoid.
Final scene the main character crashes the ship as a last resort to burn the Thing. Soon as the ship crashes the title rips into the scene in the same way as the first movie, then the credits silently roll.
Julian Green
Invasion of the bodysnatchers is the ultimate alien infiltration paranoia story. The thing is just a gory twist on the same cold war fears.
Adam Myers
50's or 70's? I love the 50's but the pod people thing feels antiquated.
Gavin Hill
That sounds awful
Adam Hernandez
The whole point of the Thing is that it can adapt and evolve. I don't see that acidic blood would pose much of a problem for it.
Charles Fisher
It wouldn't have to be acidic either. Just corrosive to human flesh. Not sure how they'd go about that, though other than good ol' fashioned natural selection.
Andrew Wright
My and a friend had a discussion about which would win and it came down to surroundings. A straight up fight with the Xeno would end up with the Thing losing every way with the aliens defenses but if for instance the fight was on the Nostromo and it assimilated Ripley, with the flamethrower and knowledge of the ship it would most likely win.
Aaron Jackson
50s is the classic but also cheesy. Donald Sutherland one is quintessential.
Eli Martinez
Could the thing infect a xenomorph?
Michael Foster
Presuming it can find cells to infect that aren't blood cells, yes
Isaiah Anderson
Cellular tissue?
Jaxson Clark
>mfw you find a hive of xenomorphs who are also things
just
Ian Ward
godamn image didn't upload
Jaxson Rogers
You realize all organic tissue is cells.
Juan Lee
king to rook 1 my move rook to knight 6 check mate check mate cheeky bitch
Daniel Scott
it builds a small craft over the course of the film
Lucas Flores
My god this film still looks so good.
Christopher Butler
Tell that to Zod's snapped neck.
Carter Reyes
>dat irate Norge
Brody Kelly
>super friendly doge
Jaxson Kelly
>smoking a joint, watching game shows on VHS
Gavin Diaz
>up to you Mac, we don't fly we don't fly. >really wanna save those crazy Swedes >Norwegians
Liam Jenkins
>Mac's bottle of J&B
Nolan Taylor
>mfw I watched The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and They Live in a row John Carpenter is probably the comfiest director there is. I'm planning to watch Halloween and that Lovecraft movie tomorrow. Are there any other essential carpenterkino to watch?
Jason James
*ominous husky staring at stuff* Very superstitious writing on the wall Husky goes wandering. And so it begins...
Michael Hill
Wow a not shit thread on Sup Forums color me impressed.
well prince of darkness is one of his lesser movies, but its also part of the "apocalypse trilogy" thats just three apoc movies that have nothing to do with eachother though, so its not a real trilogy, just three movies in the same theme. like the cornello trilogy
Kevin Morris
Fuck I wanna make my life this generally comfy.
Even if I gotta go to minnesota and become an ice fisherman. Something about being cooped up in a warm building surrounded by ice and snow.
Sebastian Butler
>maybe they found a fossil >remains of some animal they found in the ice and they chopped it up >what is that? >is that a man in there >whatever it is they burned it up in a hurry
Samuel Collins
Best dog acting I've ever seen. He was just walking around but somehow Carpenter made every move he made seem deliberate and unsettlingly intelligent.
Carter Martinez
who's shadow was that, anyway?
Brandon White
>help me find a shovel Doc
Austin Bennett
>prince of darkness That's outstanding too.
Alexander Ward
Just don't take in any stray dogs that wander by
Liam Nelson
Blair, I'd like you to start an autopsy, right away.
Levi Brooks
The husky bit still fucks me up. Poor doge lads. They knew..
Robert Gutierrez
>ass tendrils intensify
Adam Clark
Yes but we dont even know if the Xeno has living tissue, it could be just composed of bones and other shit for all we know.
Alexander Nguyen
Nah dude it fucking sucks like 78.3% of the time. But goddamn that 21.7%
Jonathan Miller
Sounds like a step up for me, pham
Jose Young
>Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be.
Daniel Morales
Well it must have had its own DNA, or else there'd be no cells to infect others with in the first place.
Owen Hill
Look, you see what we're talking about here is an organism that imitates other lifeforms and imitates them perfectly. When this thing attacked our doges it tried to digest them, absorb them. And in the process shape its own selves to imitate them. This for instance, that's not doge, it's imitation.
Oliver Brown
Doc knew. He knew everyone was fucked from the start.
Carson Cooper
Bros, is the prequel any good despite the bad CGI? Are the story/characters at least good?
Grayson Bennett
nah they're forgetable
Caleb Nelson
>shape its own selves to imitate them. this is exactly what he said.
Anthony Nelson
Not terrible but not good either.
Benjamin Gonzalez
So, the canon thing is actually SHODAN's dream come true? welp, that's better than I expected.
Nathan Cox
not particularly the best character in it, doesn't speak a line of english but he is hands down the best, its not because he doesn't speak or anything
Brandon Flores
Still worth a watch if you love the original Get that nostaliga fix
Lincoln Walker
>Bennings was right there, it had a hold of him muhhhaaaaaa