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pjs1975 t1_iugs1ar wrote

Reply to comment by BestFluffyPancakes in The Thing (1982) -- the scene with MaReady checking on Blair in the cabin by darthvirgin

Maybe while it's copying someone, it's exactly copying everything, knows what they know, but once it changes, it can no longer remember that version of itself because it's no longer structured that way. Also when it's just blood getting into someone's food or whatever, there's no way it's that smart right?

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SplinterPizza t1_iuilal8 wrote

>Maybe while it's copying someone, it's exactly copying everything, knows what they know, but once it changes, it can no longer remember that version of itself because it's no longer structured that way

We can only go off what the film shows us.

And nothing suggests this in the film. It's relatively straight forward. It's perfect doppelgangers. Once they find out who is the Thing it doesn't make sense for it to switch back to that disguise.

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