Ive seen the movie before dozens of times and one thing about the movie still bugs me.
Why did the alien even bother trying to assimilate the men out in the cold winter where they kept destroying the assimilated men/alien copies with flamethrowers and dynamite?
And if its intentions were trying to go back into outer space then why go after the men?
With the benefit of hindsight it's easy to say what the thing should or should not have done to achieve its goals.
I was always of the understanding that The Thing wasn't trying to return to space but to fly to a more populated area on earth.
my theory is that it was sort of practice for when they tried to take over the earth.
shareThat’s like saying why doesn’t mold just grow in places where people won’t kill it.
shareI was always under the impression that it was travelling through space, landing on planets with life so it can survive longer and longer. The Thing can't just travel in space in it's tiny spaceship forever as it would eventually die out.
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Maybe it has the same conscious awareness as a snake or a virus. It could have a highly complex method but still be unable to plan things out like humans do. Look at hornets, they can build gigantic vented nests but are unable to understand that building those nests around humans is a death sentence.
shareIf somebody, anybody, would have just addressed him as "Mister Thing" this whole tragedy could have been avoided!
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