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Dr_Herbert_Wangus t1_iuinaca wrote

Your analysis gave me a spooky thought - what if Blair had already used the noose? What if the Thing got to him while he hung there dead, slithered him out of the noose after assimilation, and subsequently had the conversation with Mac?

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BoredOfBordellos t1_iuja004 wrote

I think it has to assimilate living organic tissue not dead. But I could be wrong about that and it could be there’s a certain amount of time within the life of the cells “decay” that it can still assimilate.

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