So that’s how he got those scars?

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  1. Wait, no no no I call bullshit, that The Thing theory is so weak and totally wrong. I always thought that at the end of The Thing, Childs was the last human remaining, that is until he takes the drink.

    We know from earlier testing that the Thing infects a host by consuming a hosts original cells and then mimicking them. When MacReady is injured by the Thing in a fight while setting off the explosives in their base, the Thing transfers some of these cells to him, beginning his transformation. An indefinite amount of time passes before Childs meeting MacReady due to a cinematic cut in filming to a pan shot of the smoldering base. In their meeting, Childs initially bears over a defenseless and exhausted MacReady with a flamethrower. If Childs was the Thing, this is his best chance to overpower MacReady. Instead, Childs does nothing and we see MacReady (recently infected and presumably transformed) passing a bottle as a feint sign of friendship and camaraderie. The bottle is actually a transfer of the Things cells to Childs, who unknowingly consumes them through drinking from the bottle.

    Other points for why I thought this is:
    1) Why the Thing would want to carry around flammable liquid and a flamethrower on its own back, let alone not conveniently lose it before finding MacReady after getting 'lost in the storm'.
    2) That Childs did not transform knowing that he is obviously the one carrying all the weapons and can call all the shots at this point in time.
    3) That MacReady lets go an oddly relaxed smile following Childs drinking from the bottle, knowing that he, AKA The Thing, has won by transforming everybody.
    4) The sinister music only plays once Childs takes the bottle and proceeds to drink from it.
    5) Childs still has his earring in his right ear. From the 2011 movie The Thing we know the Thing can't have earrings, piercings and the like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-XJMspLOA.

    Watch it all again and tell me that isn't true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA4Ozqt7338

  2. the theory about John Mason being Bond – just, never thought of it before, mind blown. Only reason I don't say that about The Joker is I've already heard that theory and it makes sense to me on the surface, though I'm still really turning it over.

  3. Actually the jokers scars seem most likely to be some form of Glasgow grin where the sides of a persons mouth are cut and then they're punched repeatedly until a scar in the shape of a grin is formed.

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