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John Carpenter - The Thing (1982)
🕑 Added 2025-11-03 09:45:29 +0000 UTCMan is the warmest place to hide this week, as our John Carpenter mini-season comes to a spectacular, gushing climax with 1982’s The Thing. Is Jed the dog the best dog actor ever? Could speaking Norwegian have solved this whole business in 5 minutes? And who - if anyone - is human by the end? Let’s find out
Also for those interested, links to a couple of Thing-related videos we mention in the pod:
The Thing: The Musical
Pingu's The Thing AKA Thingu
Comments
solifis
I'm Swedish but Norwegian is close enough and I can confirm that he shouts that it's not a dog before they shoot him
Scott Johnstone
Malmesbury Under 10 Girls, proper football club.
Anthony Le
How come you guys never brought up the this as the inspiration for The Among Us Gam?
Altareiku
Oh and the chat GPT discussion made me think. I've never used it either, but my bro does a lot of high end building and design work for snooty rich snobs and he told me he uses it for emails he has to send out when they complain about things that are clearly laid out in the contract they signed. He'll write an email saying (forgive the language) "if you read your fucking contract you'll see that this is all explained and within the agreed fucking timeframe you stupid fucking prick"(or something to that effect) then he gets chatGPT to clean it up so it sounds official and no swearing lol. Says it's really cathartic lol.
Altareiku
I always loved The Thing. Think I mentioned before I picked up the 4k edition recently and it looks and sounds incredible. I agree if you think a little too hard about the mechanics of how it takes you over it falls apart slightly. I understand that essentially everything, even down to individual cells are effectively independent. But the computer animation suggests that it just replaces human cells with its own. So I always thought you were just replaced and not aware it was happening. But then they find bloody clothes which suggests some sort of gory transformation. And is it like flu spreading? Like I'm a thing and I sneeze on a surface that you touch, do you become a thing? Or is it like you say, there is a deliberateness to WHO it assimilates. It doesn't really matter I suppose. I guess that's the more eerie thing.
