{"id":137,"date":"2011-10-11T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T16:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2011-10-12T10:51:29","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:51:29","slug":"the-ending-of-the-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"The Ending of The Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SppG-I_Dhxw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check this two-part video analysis of ending of <em>The Thing<\/em>, particularly the question of <strong>whether or not Childs is a duplicate<\/strong>. A few stretches, but it does a good job of illuminating spots where the director is trying to tell us something. I mean, why two long shots of a coat rack?<\/p>\n<p>To keep people arguing about it <strong>for thirty years<\/strong>. That&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>I must confess that by the end of the movie, I don&#8217;t really care who&#8217;s a fake and who&#8217;s not. The last scene is more about the emotion than the puzzle, the<strong> creeping nihilism<\/strong> that forms the foundation of the story&#8217;s world. These two guys are going to freeze to death. Maybe one&#8217;s an alien who will wait in the ice for another hundred millenia. What does it matter?<\/p>\n<p>All of MacReady&#8217;s readiness, his clever strategies and brave actions, didn&#8217;t save the day. Maybe he kept the alien from infecting the world, and maybe he didn&#8217;t. Either way, there&#8217;s <strong>a race of creepy dudes out there<\/strong> who can end all human life in very little time. They are very good at staying alive. All we can do is hope they continue to ignore us.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads me into my next post in this series &#8211; <em>The Thing<\/em> and Lovecraft. Tune in tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check this two-part video analysis of ending of The Thing, particularly the question of whether or not Childs is a duplicate. A few stretches, but it does a good job of illuminating spots where the director is trying to tell us something. I mean, why two long shots of a coat rack? To keep people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-thing-2","tag-the-thing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}