Explain! Why is a living carrot dressed in a spaceman suit? This kind of irresponsible, sloppy writing is what's wrong with these kind of movies! It completely ruined the entire film for me with this blatant irregard for logic.
shareRe: the "suit"...made sense to me..that guy even if they said he was some kind of "carrot" sure represented some kind of being that looked human. I'm not sure where he came from but if we look closely isn't there a design over his chest? Probably had to signify something from where he came from.
Here's my theory. The "Thing" came from a universe far far away from our own maybe a billion parsecs. Along the way, these "humans" lost their humanity for some reason. Got mad and decided to take it out on us and take back their property. For fashion, they got the design the "Thing" is wearing by watching old Rocky Jones Space Ranger clips as they got beamed to their end of the universe. Everything fits when you figure everything out...The clues are there.....;-)....
..pockets...
shareWell, whatever the reason may be, I for one welcome our new vegetable overlords.
Windmills do not work that way!
Damn Vegan space fantasies.
Temet Nosce
LMAO!!
share"Damn Vegan space fantasies."
Okay, but remember that the Thing wasn't veganistic or vegetarian... it went for blood.
"When there is no more room in the Oven,
the Bread will walk the Earth."
Okay, but remember that the Thing wasn't veganistic or vegetarian... it went for blood.True that-- plant life can be CARNIVOROUS, you know....
Only six years before this movie was made,
the world was embroiled in a horrible world
war. At the time the movie was made, a uniform
was a symbol of military reality. The movie
would have fallen flat if the thing had shown
up in a panama suit and fedora.
Because of the uniform, the air force guys, some
of the scientists and the audiences of the time
immediately caught on that this thing had a
military intention waaayyy before the sleepy
scientist did.
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Because plants get cold too.
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"Common sense is not so common."
- Voltaire
I don't know. Why do the aliens in Star Trek wear suits? Or the ones in Farscape? Or the ones in Stargate SG-1? Why don't you ask the same question of contemporary movies, and why do you beat up on a genuine classic with a great script instead of criticizing present-day science fiction films which are badly written and feature derivative and illogical alien lifeforms?
And for the last time: it's NOT a carrot. That line was intended by both the screenwriters and the character who uttered it as a JOKE and an analogy. It may be an intelligent, ambulatory plant, but it's not something out of LOST IN SPACE.
Maybe it's the same reason why, no matter what color pants Bruce Banner was wearing in the comic books, the Hulk's pants were always purple: it's just the way that it is.
Yippee: "For king!"
Yappee: "For country!"
Yahooie: "And, most of all, for 10ยข an hour!"
Logic really has nothing to do with it. The scriptwriters could have come up with a hundred reasons for the Thing to be wearing a uniform had they desired...or had they thought it might be a point of contention 60 years later.As a parent ,I've learned that sometimes"just because" IS a good enough reason.
shareThis is a hugely entertaining thread. Cheers to all that posted.
I really enjoyed the reference to Edith Head, and pockets.