4. Thats Illogical, Captain
In John Carpenters film, the Thing just wants to hide. As MacReady says: This thing doesn't want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It'll fight if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open yet in the prequel it attacks at will. It even escapes only to return and kill some more even though MacReady correctly remarks it wants to freeze. It wants to go to sleep in the cold until the rescue team finds it. Likewise, logic is absent in an earlier scene where a Thing is being flown to safety yet spurns this gilt edged opportunity that its waited 100,000 years for and decides to attack for no reason, and causes the helicopter to crash, killing it in the process. The prequel also invents a rule thats non-existent in the soon-to-be sequel - the Thing cannot replicate inorganic material - and in a stunning display of contradiction, has Sam Carter (Joel Edgerton) become a Thing despite being fully clothed and without a drop of blood. Which is kinda hard for as MacReady says: it rips through your clothes when it takes you over. Windows found Bennings' torn and bloody clothes in the storage room after he was taken over. Earlier, Nauls found a pair of shredded and dirty long johns in the kitchen. The prequel also tells us that the alien crash landed, tried to crawl to safety, and ended up freezing in the ice. Yet in the final minutes it runs back to its spaceship that is - gasp - fully operational. In which case it didnt need to disembark. It could have simply flown off and spare us this godawful atrocity of cinema. And perhaps most crazy of all, when the US team found journals and VHS footage from the Norwegian camp they were unable to decipher them because everything was in Norwegian yet in this prequel, theres Americans and English characters and all but one of the Norwegians spoke fluent English! That means the 1982 film should have finished after 35 minutes when they realised theyve hauled back a frozen shape-shifting killer creature from outer space.