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*** Even in the extremely unlikely event that the crew came to the conclusion after the fact that there was something wrong with the dog instead of the Norwegians being completely deranged, what would happen is that Clark would test the dog and find absolutely nothing wrong with it. Because the Thing is clearly capable of imitating lifeforms to near-perfection, so unless said dog already had rabies when it was assimilated, it would simply display itself to be a normal dog without any issues that the resident animal handler would be able to find from a typical examination.
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*** They clearly didn't put the dog in there right away, maybe they did some tests and figured that there wasn't anything wrong with the dog.
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** The Thing isn't a dumb animal acting on instinct it's an advanced virus acting on instinct. Whereas humans need intelligence to survive and reproduce, The Thing needs intelligence as a tool for reproduction and the assimilation of biomass/adaptations. Just as a secret agent might use their intelligence to form a disguise to seduce/extract information from someone, The Thing likely sees humans as some sex-food equivalent. The assumption that The Thing's intelligence implies the capacity for compassion or coexistence is like thinking a tree knows about aerodynamics because it makes helicopter-seeds to spread its genes further. For The Thing, building a spaceship is like a virus becoming airborne via an evolved protein casing - the spaceship is simply a container of the pathogen for reaching distant hosts. The idea of Good and Evil come from the social instincts of a social animal so that we can survive better, e.g. Good is beneficial to communities and Evil is detrimental to it... In this case, as a pathogen with pathogenic instincts rather than social ones, it would be likely to see assimilation as fundamentally Good for spreading genetic superiority and regard resistance to assimilation as the Evil waste of adaptability-potential.
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** The Thing isn't a dumb animal acting on instinct instinct, it's an advanced virus acting on instinct. Whereas humans need intelligence to survive and reproduce, The Thing needs intelligence as a tool for reproduction and the assimilation of biomass/adaptations. Just as a secret agent might use their intelligence to form a disguise to seduce/extract information from someone, The Thing likely sees humans as some sex-food equivalent. The assumption that The Thing's intelligence implies the capacity for compassion or coexistence is like thinking a tree knows about aerodynamics because it makes helicopter-seeds to spread its genes further. For The Thing, building a spaceship is like a virus becoming airborne via an evolved protein casing - the spaceship is simply a container of the pathogen for reaching distant hosts. The idea of Good and Evil come from the social instincts of a social animal so that we can survive better, e.g. Good is beneficial to communities and Evil is detrimental to it... In this case, as a pathogen with pathogenic instincts rather than social ones, it would be likely to see assimilation as fundamentally Good for spreading genetic superiority and regard resistance to assimilation as the Evil waste of adaptability-potential.
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* Why doesn't the Thing try to communicate with the humans? It's obviously not a dumb animal operating simply on instinct, since it is shown to be able to operate the alien spaceship and attempt to build some spaceship. I always thought what happened in the Norwegian camp was a huge misunderstanding that escalated into shit hitting the proverbial fan, and by the time it reached Outpost 31 it the Thing was as afraid and paranoid as the humans surrounding it. But the prequel shows that it attacked first, without provocation, so it's just doing it for the evulz?
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* Why doesn't the Thing try to communicate with the humans? It's obviously not a dumb animal operating simply on instinct, since it is shown to be able to operate the alien spaceship and attempt to build some spaceship. I always thought what happened in the Norwegian camp was a huge misunderstanding that escalated into shit hitting the proverbial fan, and by the time it reached Outpost 31 it the Thing was as afraid and paranoid as the humans surrounding it. But the prequel shows that it attacked first, without provocation, so it's just doing it for the evulz?ForTheEvulz?
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** Regarding the 2011 movie and the earring, the issue isn't that the earring is in the wrong ear, it's that there's no earring at all and on top of that Carter-Thing didn't know (somehow) which ear it was supposed to be in. Carter wasn't there for the fillings scene and Kate is never shown telling him about it afterward (and it's reasonable to assume she didn't get a chance to because things are escalating so quickly at that point). So maybe the Thing version of him didn't realize this would blow his cover. The only explanation I can offer for the helicopter reveal is that maybe the Thing thought Kate was flagging them down because its cover had already been blown (which is somewhat true) and the Thing reacted like a cornered animal, much like the blood did.
