Missed Opportunity at the End

THE MONSTER WANTED TO KILL HER!

Seeing as this would be an especially dumb idea, I'll reply with my thoughts on both your posts asking this question, in case you miss it the first time.

For Kate to have engaged it in conversation when it was obvious she knew it was a thing, would be pretty dumb on her part. She's smart enough to know that most animals act violently when cornered or threatened, and she's smart enough to know that a single cell of thing would be able to take her over completely. All the thing had to do at that point was spit on her, and she knows it.

Unless they wanted to set up ANOTHER film, the script needed her to despatch Carter-Thing quickly. Frankly, if I was her, I'd have done it sooner than she did.

I agree, she was already talking to the Thing as she explained how she uncovered it. So there was a conversation going on. The Thing could have said something interesting and memorable, for example:

"You don't understand."
"We mean you no harm."
<Stands up>
"WE SEEK... PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE"

Basically stolen from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Vr9LnogLM


http://www.cracked.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/mattymc_baqi.jpg

What a missed opportunity. I think they should have drawn out the the dialog in the scene longer where, her being in the scientific community maybe she'd have a few more questions for this being since its the first sentient off world species humans have encountered? Its not like it was going anywhere with a flamethrower pointed at it.