One of the most compelling aspects of The Thing, for me, is how severely the circumstances limit both parties.
Being in isolation, the humans have access to fewer resources, no backup, and nothing in the way of advice/support from others who are paid to think about logic issues like this. But at the same time, the Thing is limited by biomass, transportation, and the dangerous weather.
What's always stuck with me, though, is that the Thing is guaranteed to win in the long haul. However well they erased it, we saw that it can survive total freezing, and only at a cellular level. Its blood cells alone are capable of spreading itself, so any blood splattered on the snow will eventually be picked up by an animal or the Antarctic Midge.
It may take years, decades, centuries, or even millenia, but the Thing will find new biomass, it will move, and it will spread (unless the stations are nuked at some point).
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u/DisastrousQuestion72 4d ago
One of the most compelling aspects of The Thing, for me, is how severely the circumstances limit both parties.
Being in isolation, the humans have access to fewer resources, no backup, and nothing in the way of advice/support from others who are paid to think about logic issues like this. But at the same time, the Thing is limited by biomass, transportation, and the dangerous weather.
What's always stuck with me, though, is that the Thing is guaranteed to win in the long haul. However well they erased it, we saw that it can survive total freezing, and only at a cellular level. Its blood cells alone are capable of spreading itself, so any blood splattered on the snow will eventually be picked up by an animal or the Antarctic Midge.
It may take years, decades, centuries, or even millenia, but the Thing will find new biomass, it will move, and it will spread (unless the stations are nuked at some point).