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The theory (my understanding of it anyway) was that he wasn’t able to completely vanquish the Blair-thing, and was rapidly assimilated just before the final scene.
If he were a thing then why did he incinerate the Blair-thing, they could’ve just ganged up on childs and easily won since he would be the only human left, and they would have the flamethrower and dynamite.
I am used to seeing familier things here, comics with ponies thrown in. Just, for the sake of it. This though, this is how it’s done. When there is something to add. This is good.
The theory (my understanding of it anyway) was that he wasn’t able to completely vanquish the Blair-thing, and was rapidly assimilated just before the final scene.
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Actually it was MacReady who gave Childs the bottle.
He drinks from the bottle child gave him. A single cell of the thing suffices to take over