Alright lets settle this

>childs
>level headed during entire movie
>doesnt trust anyone
>willing to sacrifice macready without knowing if hes human still
>"I THOUGHT I SAW BLAIR OUT IN THE STORM SO I DECIDED TO RUN OUT INTO THE DARKNESS AFTER HIM LOL"
its pretty obvious just going off of character.
also the chess wizard scene wouldnt be needed in the movie unless it was forshadowing macready knowing he was beaten at the end of the movie and giving it a drink just like he did the computer

CHILDS OR MAC
WHO WAS THE GOD
DAMN THING

Holy shit based

also from where childs ran out from, to the shack where the kept blair was pretty close to each other... childs would have just ran out and told them he thinks he saw blair because hes been level headed the entire movie. because he knew thats where they were

So when did he get infected then

right before the they show childs running out into the snow, theres a scene of the camera panning up from the basement stairs going into the room that childs is standing next to the door from behind. im assuming that camera work is supposed to be blair flanking him and turning him

Mac did not offer Childs a normal whisky bottle but Childs drinks it regardless. Childs was the Thing.

Arent assimilations super bloody though
They show the same room without childs there and its clean

the only one i remember being bloody was bennings i think his name was?
at the end when gary gets turned all the thing does is touch his face to connect it to his hand.

i just think all the theories like the breath/eyes/molotov are over analyzing.
carpenter is a good filmmaker and i trust his characters actions/decisions & the scenes he chose to include over anything else

did you guys ever read this short story? it's neat

clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/

It doesn't matter but in every single piece of supplementary media it's Childs.

The eye thing was just for that scene
You can see the eye shine in the already assimilated crewmembers in other scenes
The molotov thing is bullshit too, the thing gets all your memories and knowledge but it cant figure out that you cant drink gasoline?

Sauce?

The comic series, the novel by Watts, the game, the script for the proposed TV series I think, etc. However the alternate ending has a surviving dog be the Thing so in that case it'd be redundant for Childs to be a Thing too. The novelisation has more Things but I can't remember if they added any of the human cast who weren't infected in the movie.

yes it does, he wasn't being genuine. if you ask me, the alien split off from itself again creating a smaller creature to survive and escape while it fell into mcready's trap. that's what childs saw and chased after. after the main body was blown up, the two survivors would be content to lower their guard while the camp slowly freezes

>Carpenter said one was infected
He never said that okay faggot

See

twitter.com/TheHorrorMaster/status/272063161832701953?s=20

The game was confirmed to be canon

Not by anyone with taste, though it is a good game

The film opens and closes with MacReady offering a drink to the thing that beats him after initially thinking that he's managed to outsmart it.

The Thing can't imitate inorganic material, yet Childs has a gold tooth and gold earring in the final scene.