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Submit Your Final Thoughts On The Thing For The Deepest Dive! (Patreon)

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2020-11-02 16:16:40
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To close out The Deepest Dive on The Thing, this week we're talking about every Thing else. We're covering the comics, video game, tabletop games, 2011 prequel The Thing, other media inspired by the thing, and we need your comments to fuel our discussion! Because we're continuing to grow, please keep your one comment to around the length of a tweet. We want to get to as many comments as possible. We hope you understand.

Please submit a comment below with your specific thoughts on the film, comics, video game, etc. Please don't just leave a long review, get specific. Let's talk about your favorite moment, theory, dog, or thing, please get specific. The more specific you are, the higher the odds of us reading your comment during the discussion. We'll finish collecting comments on Tuesday morning.

You can watch us record The Deepest Dive live on Tuesday at 5pm Central if you're at the $10 Backstage Pass tier on Patreon. The link will be in the Backstage Pass tier on the Discord. Thanks for your support!

Part 1 - https://youtu.be/pAREvjmiCqg

Part 2 - https://youtu.be/09Y5nHtIKcc 

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Anonymous

While I didn't really like the movie, it wasn't terrible. One thing I appreciated more than the original was the clearer, more definitive 'we must kill this thing so it doesn't get out into the world' - they didn't execute that well on it but in this one they clearly 'pursue' it to prevent escape. However, one thing I did not like was that it made no sense that Carter-Thing went with Kate to the ship - why didn't he just take her out first?

Anonymous

Hey was anyone else bummed that Dr Halverson didn't try to stop them from killing the monster as an homage to the original Thing from Another World? He seemed like he was kind of going in that direction when he said he wanted to inspect the dead bodies against everyone's wishes but then once shit went down he kind of just became a scaredy cat. I thought he'd be fascinated by how the Thing can mimick people and would try to reason with it or something. What are your thoughts?

Joe Dean

Hello fellow earth inhabitors, I checked out 1970s Horror Express starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing which is also inspired by "Who Goes There?" The film is set in 1906 or so and follows Lee after he finds the missing-link frozen in ice, and takes a train through Russia to transport his latest discovery. It isn't an incredibly faithful adaption, but it's not bad for a 70s movie. Did any of you guys check it out? I watched a commentary free playthrough of the PS2 video game and woof, but also Whitely, the bad guy, looks like low-poly Norm Macdonald. One thing that stands out about the 2011 movie is that they seem to believe a regular day night cycle exists in the South Pole.  Did that bug any of you guys? Also cool that the alien is a big fan of tetris given its big cylindrical Tetris display. One last The Thing memory, I used to play a custom game on Starcraft online that was inspired by the thing. Everyone except one person was human, the one person who wasn't could change to a hydralisk. It was my favorite custom game on Starcraft. Did you guys ever play any custom modes inspired by The Thing in other multi-player video games? Susscerely yours, Joe Dean

Anonymous

I really appreciated the scene where Kate finds the site of an assimilation. Putting that certainty in her mind that someone is not themselves made for a fun start to the paranoia. Then even after they could assume that whoever was the thing in the helicopter had died in the crash she discovers that someone cleaned up the blood without reporting it so she knew that an imitation was still among them.

Anonymous

For the game: Me and my cousin loved this game as kids, it scratched that “squad mate” itch in a way only the Thing and Freedom Fighters ever did. The best moment in the game was when we didn’t realize the blood test kit was just a tool, REALLY, for boosting courage so squad mates wouldn’t get uncontrollable fear and blow their brains out. As kids we spent most of the game back pedaling in paranoia, so we could keep an eye on our “squad mates”. When we got the blood test kits we were relieved, and used them to make sure they weren’t Things. When we saw they weren’t infected we could FINALLY look where we were going and take our eyes off them... ONLY TO FIND OUT THEY TRANSFORMED MINUTES LATER AT A PRE-DETERMINED POINT IN THE STORY! Even though they were JUST tested! Rather than realize the game was just inconsistent in its rules, we reasoned, with our little tiny simple child minds that didn’t understand A.I. or game development, that when we took our eyes off of our squad, that was when they must have been infected. After which, most of that game was spent in UTTER BARE FEAR, distrust, and paranoia of our “squad mates” and a WHOLE lot of back pedaling and double takes lol.

Patrick Polk

I think the main problem with the 2011 movie is that it seems like it exists solely to faithfully recreating the horrific set pieces that were discovered in the 1982 movie, and it didn't really try to make the plot make much sense in the process. Perhaps because it had the short story as source material, the 1982 movie had a somewhat clear set of rules and consistent logic. The prequel threw those rules out the window and focused on fan service to the visuals of the 1982 movie, which sets up the 2011 movie for unflattering comparisons. It would've been a perfectly okay monster movie if it wasn't a prequel to one of the best horror films ever! I always thought it felt weird and wasteful that in the 82 The Thing, they almost exclusively used flares for portable lighting, so I assumed that maybe flashlights don't work well in the bitter Antarctic cold, but then in the 2011 movie the Norwegians were using flashlights all over the place, so I guess Scandinavians just have better flashlight technology? This quote felt . . . timely: "It's like a virus. What do we do with any virus?" "Quarantine. We isolate it, and then we kill it."

Anonymous

One thing the 2011 movie did well was the tension of distrust. I wish the movie's tone stayed consistent in that regard. The scene where they separate those with fillings and those without and the resulting tensions were good. When the movie devolves into "big scary monster looking for you" it fell flat. Also, the monster design felt uninspired. All the transformations just felt spider/bug like. Even the alien in the ice seemed like a mix between a xenomorph and a spider. The mid credit scene also felt very tacked on and I was hoping for a rouge one style ending where you know they are doomed but you still root for them. Instead, main character survives, happy ending (except for lars)

Anonymous

Not sure if this is asked already but do you think the alien in the ship was the alien or it was an alien that was assimilated by the thing. It's form in the ice is like a beetle looking thing but in both movies the thing has a bunch of tentacles when it's attacked and is morphing. Any thoughts?

Anonymous

Also on a rewatch of the original intro the ship looks like it's veering while flying kind of like the helicopter does in the 2011 movie.

Anonymous

I've looked into, turns out the 1982 version of the thing is not based on a true story, but I couldn't find anything that said the 2011 prequel isn't. Kinda spooky huh?