Really, it’s like the difference between eating a steak and downing a bag of potato chips: sure, that calorie intake may be the same, but the dining experience that leads to the consumption of either is very different.

Since no one else seems keen on giving you a straight answer (or, at least, not a thorough one), I’ll chime in.

Pretty sure Childs has an earing still in his ear.

Peter Watts story is so freaking good. Love the implication he brings that not even people assimilated by the Thing are fully aware what’s happened to them.

Eh, John Carpenter says a lot of things if there’s money in it for him. It’s one of the reasons why I love the guy so much: he doesn’t even pretend to have a front.

And honestly, it’s better that way. Some mysteries should remain mysterious forever.

Yep. Even if neither of them is a Thing, it’s not like they have a shelter to mull it over and survive the day, so most likely, their suspicion will just keep them in place and they’ll freeze to death.

EXACTLY. And that’s why the ambiguity of the ending as is rules so much. Leaves room for several possibilities that are completely consistent with what has been shown. (good job finding a more concise way to put that, by the way. I was trying to say something similar in my original comment, but sometimes I struggle…

I thought he was great in Bodies Bodies Bodies, too.

For the record, I’m a fan of the theory that might honestly be the darkest, which is that both of them are completely human... but because of the reasonable paranoia of what they just went through, they’ll never, ever know that, and so they’ll just freeze to death.

The beauty of this open-ended finale is that it feels like the perfect setup for literally every possible scenario regarding whether one, both, or neither are “things” right then.

Oh, yeah?

Hell, her dad also had an assault charge once upon a time (unlike Emma, though, it wasn’t domestic violence, but reportedly for punching a cop who was trying to break up Eric’s domestic *disturbance.* Salient distinction, that).

Luckily, that makes what happens to her in Scream 4 very satisfying...

You’ve maybe heard of her father, Eric, and almost definitely have heard of her aunt, Julia, though.

Thank you for responding. Unfortunately, I think most people will probably miss my attempts to correct the error. Ah, well. Having strangers think less of me online for mistaken reasons is still better treatment than most teachers put up with.

“the people they need to attract and retain not run off (sic) are the ones that seem to leave.” I was trying to call attention to how this part of their comment applies to teachers, too. Far too many talented, excellent teachers leave the profession due to burnout.

None, and only now do I realize how my comment communicated the opposite of what I was trying to say. I was trying to call attention to the “the people they need to attract and retain not run off (sic) are the ones that seem to leave” part of their comment. Being married to a teacher, I’ve seen far too many of my…

I’m only now realizing how poorly construed my response was.

You are right about teachers being shat on. My wife is a teacher, and some of the ways parents have communicated with her have... sigh.