r/thething

Spoilers Ahead 😂

First, was Blair infected from early on and hiding it? At the end of the movie, Mac had a major epiphany: The Thing is just fine getting frozen again and waiting for spring. Blair was a smart guy and would have been able to realize this, so why would he smash the chopper up, kill the dogs, and destroy the radio if he knew people would come looking for them eventually? Then on top of that, he uses the chopper parts to try to build a space ship.

Blair was clearly the main "Thing" based on how powerful he became at the end. That makes me think he was infected for awhile. Plus, a lot of the unsolved things happened when everyone else was generally around. Blair would have been in a perfect position to set up Mac or kill Bennings Fuchs because nobody was really paying attention to him. Since the Thing absorbed the knowledge of its victims, it would have also likely viewed both Mac and Bennings Fuchs as its biggest threats.

Last point about Blair: If he was building a space ship, was he trying to leave earth and go somewhere else or go to somewhere on earth? Do we even know that the Thing's end game is to infect all of earth or maybe it just wants to find a host for long enough to leave?

Next thought: We all know the scene where they do the blood test makes no sense because they use the same knife to test everyone. It's even sillier when you consider the fact that he heats up the copper wire they are using to do the test, but doesn't think to blowtorch the end of the knife. This is after he was going off about every part of the thing is its own living organism.

With that in mind, how did Mac make such a blatant oversight?

This leads me to my next point. Was the Thing able to infect humans without them knowing it? Norris began having stomach pains and doubling over when nobody was around. It's not clear to me that he even realized he was infected. That makes me think it could have infected them all without them even knowing. One potential opportunity for this would have been during the blood serum test.

That leaves my last observation. Mac and Childs end the movie together, resigned to the possibility that the other is the Thing. I believe neither of them was knowingly infected, but it's quite possible that both are hosts and don't even know it. Either way, there is zero chance that all of it was destroyed in the exposlosion and there is no way it will not be discovered and brought back to civilization in the spring.

If so what is your opinion?

Which upcoming airing of The Thing, on IFC (10/06) or AMC (10/10), will have the best chance to be uncut?