Did Kate survive?
and do you think she rescued MacReady and Childs?
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I wondered about this. She probably didn't leave. That's what I figured from her facial expression in the end. It was kind of a "Should I even leave?" look.
She probably died. Just as Childs and Mac probably did. At least that's my take on it. Hell, there is always room for sequels.
That's what I figured from her facial expression in the end.
But... her facial expression never changed once in the entire movie. "Wide eyed with mouth hanging open" covers her entire range. share
There should have been some warmth in the alien ship. If she's stayed next to the ship then she would have been found by Mac, Doc Cooper and Norris in two days.
In the commentary, the director and producer make a contrived excuse that she gets back to Thule camp after Lars and the pilot have left and leaves (to got where?) before Mac and the Doc arrive.
Makes little sense because the ride out to the alien craft didn't take too long. She could have easily made it back before the Norwegian chopper got there. From the chopper they could have radioed the US base and avoided getting Lars shot.
I think they never really thought it through.
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In the commentary, the director and producer make a contrived excuse that she gets back to Thule camp after Lars and the pilot have left and leaves (to got where?) before Mac and the Doc arrive.
BS, because there was NO SNOW CATS at the Norwegian Base when Mac and Doc get there and she said she doesn't have much fuel in the end of this movie. She knows of a russian base but has no idea how to get to it. She is going to freeze to death.
As it is there is 1 snow cat left by the UFO and that shouldn't be there either since it was not in the 82 film.
The director screwed up trying to add his own stuff to the prequel instead of staying true to the 82 film. But they have to have the pretty girl survive now don't they.
Writer confirmed she died in a tweet.
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I'd guess that if the other vehicle had any fuel at all left in it - and why wouldn't it? - that Winstead would have desperately tried to get to the Russian base. I really do wonder if her sullen, abstracted, deeply pensive behavior - without any action taken toward survival - might indicate that she is considering that she accidentally killed Edgerton. To my ear, the soundtrack sounds during his flaming were ambiguous and not necessarily the death cries of a Thing. Certainly, he did not undergo the final transformations/morphing that so many other dying Things tend to do. Thus - potentially at least - Horror: real horror: at the end, Edgerton was still human, and not a Thing. Yes, he seemed dazed when Winstead told him that his earring was missing; however, he could have just lost it in all the chaos.
Personally, my own first response - whether or not I was human or a Thing - would have simply been to explain to Winstead that the damn ring must have fallen off in the ship and he hadn't noticed it. If it was a real piercing, not a clip-on, there would probably be a trickle of blood - but maybe not; and then again, it could have been just a cheap decorative clip-on - and if it had only been a clip-on, it would make no difference to the Thing. ... And... Winstead doesn't give him much time to reply or to explain himself. At the end, maybe she's considering that she acted too hastily, too rashly, and in doing so, accidentally killed a fellow human being...
I don't think so since he gives away the fact that he is indeed a Thing when he touches his right ear instead of his left. If he were human he would have known the earring was on his left ear before. This movie is not as smart to do something as subtle as the thing you suggest. I just think this movie sucked and was badly written.
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Agreed. The whole touching the wrong ear was a deliberate film device to reveal he was the Thing.
shareIf he were human he would have known the earring was on his left ear before.
...but wouldn't the Thing know this already? If it retained ALL of the victim's memories, surely it would know 1) that he habitually wore the earring and 2) on which ear it was worn.
Of course, the real Carter, unless dazed and confused, would have reached for the correct ear. But - on the principle of exact memory duplication - so would the Thing.
So - I guess this is just another example of inconsistent writing...