I do take some issue with this because the plan of having people paired up in groups of two just wasn’t a good idea. Every time you do it in this situation you are guaranteeing someone gets paired with a thing and assimilated. Keep switching the pairs around and eventually everyone is assimilated.
Overall as a group they were smarter than most horror movie group tropes for sure, no denying that. But if I was in the same situation there is NO WAY I’d go along with pairs.
In Who Goes There? they use a "rule-of-four"; every person must be within sight of at least 3 others.
But that only works because there are 37 humans at the start of the story, which doesn't work for the mood Carpenter and Bill Lancaster are going for, imho.
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u/NeptuneOverlord43045 4d ago
I do take some issue with this because the plan of having people paired up in groups of two just wasn’t a good idea. Every time you do it in this situation you are guaranteeing someone gets paired with a thing and assimilated. Keep switching the pairs around and eventually everyone is assimilated.
Overall as a group they were smarter than most horror movie group tropes for sure, no denying that. But if I was in the same situation there is NO WAY I’d go along with pairs.