The Thing

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Did the Thing survived or not?

Did Fuchs had one more killing to do?

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Read the comics pleb

link pls

Could never find them online. But Linkara did a series about Thing comics. They're not good, but they answer the Child's question.

>Read comics
>Anything but pleb

no way pal

Why? We're talking about the movie, they don't answer shit
>muh canon tho
No

Were they canon?

There is also the theory about the whisky bottle, and the breathing of them?

What do you think of those?

According to the comics, Childs was the Thing at the end. But the comics are also pretty retarded.

Stick with the movie.

Don't quote me, but if memory serves, MacCready and Childs were BOTH the Thing, but you're unaware you're infected until the creature tries to infect someone else or defend itself.

>35 years after
>let's settle this

There is not a better time

We'll we are all alive after all this time, so they were both human

>using the comics when there is a Thing videogame sequel which fucking Carpenter endorsed, said is canon, and even provided voice acting for.

Neither Childs nor MacReady was infected. They eventually try to survive but Childs dies of hypothermia. MacReady survives and finds a plane to get off Antarctica.

THERE'S A GAME?

its absolute shit
and noncanon

OK fuck
There are comics, a game, and a prequel
Which one's are canon

>Surviving in the -100ยบ Celsius six month night of antarctica without shelter, food, water nor energy enough to find a shelter despite they had to travel with a fucking helicopter to the nearest neighbour
>Canon

Yeah stop being this retarded

only the movie and nothing else

None

Yes. And it's canon.

You're right that it's shit, but it's still canon.

Endorsed by the director as canon. Moreover, if you know about the making of the movie, the Norwegian camp shots were made using the American camp post-burning (and some reverse camera shots so that you wouldn't recognize the layout). So there was still shelter... just not good shelter.

If 19th century explorers could do it, they can too. Or Mac can. Childs died.

i thik childs was lovecraftian and macready was kirkbridean

>a shelter
A lot of the building was blown up but there was still technically quite a bit of shelter and likely supplies. Either way, it is still canon and that's the answer to the ending of the movie

>using the American camp post-burning
What? How the movie was made has nothing to do with the actual story of the movie.

>Yeah the Thing died because it wasn't real, it was just rubber and steam

stop being this retarded pls

both Kurt AND Johnny have contradicted each other and even themselves every single time anyone asked them regarding everything about the Thing, and have been trolling fucking everyone effectively for 35 years
you should do some research before you start spouting shit
saying something's canon doesn't make it so

They say in the commentary that someone is they set up hints that the Thing survived, but it doesn't matter as much as the events and their affect on the audience and Mac

You do realize that antarctica has a 6 month night with the coldest climate there is and winds strong enough to not let anybody fly, let alone set up a search and rescue party large enough for an entire camp(because rescuers have to think that everybody survived)?

If not even winter dogs can travel from one camp to another how is a tired wounded man that has seen horrors beyond imagination survive in that climate without a sealed shelter?

I'm saying that the state of the Norwegian camp shows that the burning didn't have to actually destroy everything.

I did my research. And Carpenter says it's canon. I'm just relaying his endorsement.

He doesn't have to. He just has to lie down in the cold and wait. Sleep. Someone will find him eventually. And thaw him out for an autopsy. And the Thing cells in his beard or on his boots or in his bone marrow will wake up.

Life finds a way.

>Life...uh finds a way

There was some supremely autismal Pom that did a breakdown of the different theories and I recall being convinced but I can't remember what I was convinced of

uh, someone find this please? It was here or in another page?

>There are comics, a game, and a prequel
>Which one's are canon

i'd say the prequel is canon, given that they bent over backwards to make sure the end of their film spliced in perfectly with the start of The Thing.

>If 19th century explorers could do it, they can too.

most of them died.

can't wait for a film of Dan Simmons' "The Terror". polarkino is on its way.

I know most of them died. I'm not saying it's likely Mac would survive. But he's Mac, and apparently he lived while Childs died.

it wasn't great but there are some fun survival and who is the thing aspects.

It was this guy
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His one on Saving Private Ryan was really good too

great, thanks!!

The monster gets better and better at mimicry over the course of the movie. It can copy only the shape at first, then movements, and then it can speak and understand speech and so on. It's an alien that over time becomes human. So by the end, when it's fully copied Childs and Macready, it's also copied their memories and feelings and so on. It's become such a good mimic that it's gained empathy. It's a kind of double inversion of a typical monster story. Like the typical way a thing like this goes is people in a scary situation become scary themselves, and get through it. 'People are the real monsters', and etc. But in this case, that's not the story. It's 'The monster is a real person', or something like that.

no

Childs is drinking gasoline and doesn't know it. Only MacReady knows.

>Did the Thing survived or not?
doesn't matter, unless you want to end up like Rob Ager and will want to kidnap John Carpenter.

>Childs is drinking gasoline and doesn't know it. Only MacReady knows.

there are multiple monsters, not just one, and they're not aware of each other or working together towards the same goals.

English, doc!

Whiskey theory is incorrect.

>CLOSE ON MACREADY
>lighting a cigar. His hands are heavily wrapped. He pours himself a drink.
>A puffy white hand, missing two fingers, enters the frame and whirls a startled MacReady around. It is Childs.


Why would he pour himself a glass of gasoline?

Is it worth it?

Yeah. Always thought the Gasoline Theory was just a bunch of people watching youtube videos and forgetting to rewatch the movie.

They're both alive, they're just paranoid as fuck.

(and later Childs dies and MacReady gets off Antarctica)

>(and later both die)
ftfy

The gasoline theory is unironically Rebbit

spoony did a review for it. I think it was his first video review actually.

>27000 hours

I just did the math and total world population assimilation by the Thing take a little over 3 years. That's both faster and yet slower than I thought. That's disturbing to me.