BOEJlDEN t1_iugxvvs wrote on October 31, 2022 at 6:41 AM

Reply to comment by striker907 in The Thing (1982) -- the scene with MaReady checking on Blair in the cabin by darthvirgin

I assumed that the ship was piloted by a completely separate alien species that was infected by the Thing. I don’t think that was the Thing’s ship

MattyKatty t1_iuh3buz wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:05 AM

It's ambiguous in the 1982 version. It was meant to be shown in the 2011 prequel but then they CGI'd over it.

CMelody t1_iujl3me wrote on October 31, 2022 at 8:35 PM

That was my thought, too. Blair figured out pretty quickly that the Thing had to be isolated before it assimilated all life on Earth.

After they realized the same, I think the aliens in the ship crashed on purpose on what they thought was a backwater planet with no sentient life to quarantine the Thing where it could do no harm.