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I think one idea to th Movie - is the plot vs crew,
Is that the crew ran smoothly together - while MacReady was the ignored 'Loner' - remember at the beginning he resides in the shack with all his 'toys' ? - While the rest of the crew are socializing togetrher playing pool / board-hockry, etc ...
While as the movie progresses , the Plot and crew dynamics flips - as MacReady is pushed and takes over socially as the crew Leader.
'Blair assumed it was the driver of the ship'
-- Why do you say this ? Maybe someone might guess this.
I never assumed that this was true.
It was mentioned in the movie - that maybe it climbed or was thrown out of the spaceship.
To take this thought a step further.
Maybe the Thing does not always pass ALL of its knowledge to Its progeny.
Especially the small ones.
Or even more , maybe it can never pass All of its knowledge to its siblings.
- Think of thousands / millions of prey and worlds.
How could it keep All of this knowledge ?
Maybe small things act like animals and re-learn.
Did you notice that when It changes - that the copied personality is discarded ?
Maybe differet Things think differently or even compete with each other.
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An interesting thought : what if there could randomly be good / benevolent things sometimes ...
It adds a twist to Its future possibilities.
In the movie , MacReady said "This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open."
1. Its mentioned (here) that it likes to hide.
2. Its vulnerable in the open.
In the movie, it seems to take time hour / hours to consume and copy.
Second, maybe it just likes to hide among other organisms.
Maybe it wants to just have some spare meat around.
(If it takes over all of the organisms at the base - what is left to eat ... ? )
Maybe it is used to living among smarter / tougher organisms, so it needs to hide among them.
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