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Why did the Thing alien even bother trying to assimilate the men?

posted 6 years ago by urrutiap (1094)
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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?

[–] GoMangoMan (40) 2 years ago

in Blair's rant he says that it doesn't want to be a dog since it's a relatively useless body shape and would stand no chance of getting out of there as a dog, whereas a human shape is way more useful

[–] kenburke (2377) 2 years ago

It followed its basic instinct. Think of ants in an ant farm.