Was Childs the thing?

No. Why would Childs bother sitting down and conversing with a tired and vulnerable McCready if he were the thing? He could just transform immediately and begin to assimilate McCready.

Neither of them were The Thing. But there's a possibility that it is still alive somewhere in the facility, perhaps in the form of Nauls whose whereabouts remain a mystery.

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No. It would make no sense if he was. He'd have a cold, tired, unarmed, defeated MacReady all alone after it just killed basically a dozen other humans when they were armed, coordinated and had weapons. Why would you sit there under the pretense of being Childs and share a drink instead of just pouncing on him in your true form?

Nah. Childs was the Thing that is why he sat down to converse with MacReady. Childs being the Thing didn't know how many humans were left on the base. He was acting calmly to get info from MacReady before attacking him.

no, he was DA THAANG

MacCready was the thang and assimilated Childs

It doesn't matter, thats the point of the ending

>Why would you sit there under the pretense of being Childs and share a drink instead of just pouncing on him in your true form?
Because this Childs wasn't sharing a drink either. He was failing MacReady's test as posted here

>Childs being the Thing didn't know how many humans were left on the base.
??? yes it did, it gains the knowledge/memory of everyone it absorbs and that's besides the fact that it was responsible for killing every human in the base to begin with.

Wasn't Nauls killed by Blair?

Just a side note

If you love the Thing, you should watch Swamp Thing.

your headcanon/fanfiction about kerosene isn't substantiated anywhere in the movie. As far as the actual events, it's just a normal bottle of whisky.

made me giggle heres your (you)

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also if you love Joker, you should watch Jokuh Gurl

Child's wasn't paranoid about McReady's being the thing, and he also drank without hesitation, so yeah.

he literally says "how do I know you're not it?" but nice memory

They knew they were dead anyway. They even say it at the end. The fight was over, their fate was sealed, they were totally beyond the point of being paranoid or even thinking about self-preservation.

False

There is no roof that it is a bottle of whiskey. More then likely it wasn't. All the bottles on base were used to make moltav cocktails.

What did he do now?

The man walked forward and stopped at his feet.

He reached out and grasped his ankle.

"What are you doing here?"

I thought he was going to hit me with the knife, but he just looked down.

He held out the blade with his left hand, so it was facing up, and with the other hand he started to wrap it around the knuckle of his left hand, so that he made one arm swing forward to block the knife, and then he tried the knuckle out and pulled back.

He didn't even try swinging the knife back.

"What do you want?"

He kept the knife at arm's length, but then he tried to pull it away from the knuckle.

"You're going to give up, you don't know how long. And you're not going to be able to hold it as long."

"Oh."

So he said, "I guess I'd rather you give me a couple of weeks."

I could hear him sigh. It couldn't get any worse.

He then looked down at the ground and said, "Oh, God."

He reached for my arm. This was terrible.

I'm a writer. This is not my job.

there is no reason to think the bottle wasn't whiskey

It at least wasn't Macready. In the video game sequel that John Carpenter himself has said is canon, Macready is the hero and Childs is missing.

Maybe they were both things?

It doesn't matter either way, which is kino

Why are nigger noses so big lol like baboons.

It has to be neither of them, or both of them as the thing. We know the thing will try to freeze itself to survive, knowing that a rescue party would be sent. Why wouldn't it take the free biomass form a vulnerable human to aid it in its survival? Personally I like the idea that they're both the thing, talking to itself.

John carpenter talks shit all the time and you can't trust anything he says. About 10 years ago he seemed to imply that Mac was the thing. Then a few years later he basically admitted he was bullshitting and nobody knows the true answer.

Anyone involved in the film who has been asked about it, has indicated that they simply didn't intend for the film to be analysed that deeply. So nobody is going to find any hidden information or clues as to who is the thing, because they simply aren't there.

Macready still had the flamethrower on him. He couldn’t risk a fight.

okay sorry

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I agree with this assessment. McCready was unarmed, tired, freezing to death. It would make no sense for the thing to intentionally engage in conversation with him rather than immediately attack, and by sneaking up on him for that matter.

Forgiven

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Macready destroyed the base meaning even if he ate him he would freeze

The real blackpill is that none of them where the thing , it was all in their heads , a combination of cabin fever and Folie à deux and carbon monoxide poisoning

WE WUZ THANGS

These are honestly the worst types of fan theories.

You should kill yourself

The real blackpill is that nobody would have guessed that such an elaborate trickery would have been done, especially where there are all these people who were supposed to be protecting the public...

The real blackpill is that in the course of just about being a few days, all these people were able to learn that the most likely scenario in this case is that none of them would be alive and probably suffering from death by carbon monoxide poisoning.

You see, this really doesn't seem to be the first time that such an elaborate and very well crafted scheme to kill a family of four actually worked.

To think that there would have been no questions asked is absurd.

The truth really is, you know, a little bit more complicated than we make it, and the real blackpill is that when it does, it does so under very complex circumstances so that the public is left with a complete blank slate when confronted with such a scenario.

And that's what really happened in this case.

The real blackpill is that none of them were The Thing but all along they were the things they made along the way.

>they were totally beyond the point of being paranoid or even thinking about self-preservation
This. They realized the futility of their struggle and the folly of the very concept of the preservation of the self. We all long to be free of the burden and suffering that is human life. To feel so small, to know so little, and to be so utterly alone in all of the universe is a curse we long to have lifted from our weary bones. Both Childs and Macready were ready to become something more than what their primative existence had to offer. By letting go of the falseness of ego and the pain that is its nature, they ascended to become part of a greater purpose that they they could never have hoped to attain alone. As they gave, they were gifted in turn, trading the suffering of the One for the longevity, community, and wisdom of the Many. They are home, at last, never to feel lonliness again. "Thing" was a misnomer borne of ignorance. You should all hope for the wisdom to embrace the opportunity to become more than you are. To be finally truly free.

No because you find him frozen to death in the video game and MacReady is alive and helps you

Childs is a thing. At the end his coat is changed from the dark blue one, and earlier on there is a deliberate *take note of this* shot of the coats hanging up. The film is offering heavy clues that he was assimilated and his old coat was ruined, so he had to put on a new one.
Also, Mac's chuckle when he takes the last drink is totally out of context for that situation. All he did was watch Childs take a drink from a bottle, why start laughing? The implication is definitely that he knows something we don't.

It's a way of life, for sure, and it seems very plausible to me. It is in my nature I find it a bit too convenient and simplistic.

The Thing also had to face an unending chorus of its own. In The Thing, The Thing, you hear of a kind of madness, the unspeakable rage of people who think they are better than anyone else and that if anyone else is anything, it is they. They want all human activity gone, and they don't believe in God but they do think it's all right to torture and murder and steal and burn for the fun of making it. And so on.

There is no reason for that not to exist from the perspective of what you are experiencing. People are not all kind and nice and benevolent, in your personal experience. This is why so many in the religion community seem to think that the problem with the atheists is not our unbelief (even after you've read it all). I'm sorry, but your experience is exactly the same as I felt when I was a new convert.

Underrated

So what happened to Mac after they notice the light on in his shack? It’s the only time during the movie where you lose track of him.

Who would look after my doggo?

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There is no such thing as a canon video game. It does not matter what any creative has to say on the matter. Video games are metaphysical trash, played only by literal and metaphorical children who have not yet become sufficiently adult to become bored of them.

>grown man refers to dogs as “doggos”
Trust me he’s better off without you.

He was just having a quick wank in there to ease the tension. Mental innit.

I will

Fuck no, the Thing wasn't a race traitor.

That's cool and all bro, don't mind me, just gonna put your blood sample over here by this soldering iron

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>a crossover where the thing and the pod people see who can assimilate the most amount of people the fastest

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Dunno, but he needs to be exterminated along with every other nigger.

>zero proof
That bottle could have contained anything. More then likely it was kerosene.

That's not true. Nothing indicates the bottle was whiskey. According to the story line it was more then likely kerosene as all the bottles on base were used for moltavs.

mcready was drinking in every second scene in the movie he was a pisshead.

Mcready was just about to drink it from bottle , when childs approached , he had it held up to his mouth

anyway

Why would a "thing" which had perfectly simulated a human not respond to drinking petrol,

THE THEORY IS abusrd

if the thing perfectly copies humans, then can it make a mistake?

YOU DIDNT SEE WHISKEY BECAUSE ITS NOT THERE

Macready's about to drink from the bottle when Childs rolls up. Try again.

you're incorrect, he was about to pour the kerosene down his jacket to then ignite himself and catch fire. This is because, and this is something people don't realize about the end of the movie, McReady had found out that it was HE who was the Thing and he had to kill it.