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Personal theories you hold?

I’d like to ask what your personal theories/headcannons you believe are.

I’ll start.

I think that that part of the dog thing escaped the kennel through the hole it busted out in the roof.
We can safely assume this (although some debate it?) because there is a solid +20 seconds between it fully going out of frame when climbing up and Childs torching it.

This explains multiple things.

1-This piece possibly infected Palmer.
If Norris was slowly taken over, and only fully assimilated later in the movie, he wouldn’t have likely infected Palmer. Palmer also was not infected early, as he shared the joint with Childs (who was later found uninfected via blood test). I also think this is the case, as Norris is wearing the same coat in the early movie as he is during the paranoia scene after the blood is tampered with.

2-If Norris was fully assimilated when the dog met him in the hall, he likely wouldn’t have had much of a chance to assimilate Palmer fully (remember, his longjohns were torn indicating a fast assimilation) as he goes to the space ship crash site with MacReady, and when they get back Nauls find Palmer’s shredded longjohns (so somehow he was infected while Norris was away, likely the escaped dog part)

3-It likely infected/assimilated with Blair, as Palmer is somewhat accounted for during a large portion of the film before he goes missing (all the scenes between the blood being found tampered with until the blood test scene (where he is found out and then killed). When Blair turns into the thing at the very end, he also shows a part of his body is a dog-thing right before MacReady blows him up.

I also like to think that Palmer was the most influential “Thing”

-he likely sabotaged the blood, as he had been unaccounted for prior to it being sabotaged (like, a LONG portion — where was he when Blair was destroying the radio room?). He was not even one of the crew outside when they were locking Blair away, prior to the blood being found tampered with which is when I think he did it.

-he caused a large amount of paranoia with his remarks among the crew before and during Norris’ death scene, and tried to stir the most division between people like MacReady and the rest of the crew or with himself and Windows

-there is also a possibility that he infected Blair, but I prefer the dog thing as it makes the most sense.

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u/Ok_Rough8375 — 1 day ago
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So the description for the game online came up like this and I can't help but laugh. The thing, a brother sister boat adventure through hell. What a classic.

u/Michaelpitcher116 — 1 day ago
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The Thing Sequel??

So according to John Carpenter who clearly talks out of his own cigarettes, there's a sequel to his 80s cult classic "The Thing" in the works which to me makes me question where exactly the narrative could even go?

Do they make a direct followup to the ending of the original with Macready and Child's, ruining the whole mystery of what made it so talked and theorized to this day?

An adaption of the video game which Carpenter has said is a faithful and canon sequel to the 80s film

A modern day film set decades after the 80s with a new group discovering the remnants of the Thing?

Or do you make a followup to The 80s film and the 2011 Prequel with Kate at the Russian base trying to survive the Thing again with an even bigger base and camp ground of employees there? It could tie into the cold war and paranoia of the time with the team from Russia speaking their own language making it even more suspicious?

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u/Retronika_Prime — 2 days ago
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Why do people still act like we don't know 'who' the Thing is at the end of the movie? We do, it's neither of them, we've had this stated / shown in A. The Comics, B. The Scrapped Sequel wrote by Carpenter and C. The Games, we're intimately aware of the authorial intent and we have been for years?

u/ShalkaScarf — 2 days ago
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u/BritniGlitter — 5 days ago
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Child’s was the thing at the end and Macready knew when he walked up.

Mac, Gary and Nauls go out to give Blair the blood test. Blair isn’t there and the door is open. Mac, Gary and Nauls go under the shed and find the flying saucer being built. But Blair isn’t down there, he is coming up to get Childs who is guarding the main entrance. We see a shot that seems to show the generator room downstairs, and the space where Childs was. Jackets and boots have been rearranged in that scene. Right after, Mac and Gary are preparing to drop dynamite down the shed hole. Nauls watches Childs exit the main entrance, but we don’t see Blair run out first. Blair is taking the generator down the stairs,and seconds later the power goes out. When Childs tells Macready he ran out because he thought he saw Blair, he’s lying. Macready knows he’s infected, because he believes what Nauls said, and knows Blair could have got to him.

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u/BlainethePayne — 4 days ago
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My photo op with John Carpenter at Fan Expo Chicago

with my Halloween x The Thing cosplay

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