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The Thing's current profile. My blog revising it.
Currently the profile has two major misconceptions about the Thing and a few missing details. I been wanting to fix up it's profile for a while now, and considering John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the few verses on this site I actually consider myself an expert on, I figured I'd try my hand at it. Not to seem antagonistic, but it seems to me that the current profile was made by a general movie monster fan as opposed to just a straight up Thing fan, which leads into my first issue,
ISSUE 1: Currently The Thing is portrayed as a singular shapeshifting entity as opposed to how it actually behaves, which is like that of a colony of single celled organisms. You can see this any time the Thing is attacked. Here a piece of the Thing abandons the whole as it burns and here blood taken from an assimilated person tries to escape a hot wire.
ISSUE 2: Multiple references are made to the "infecting" people. This is also a misconception. What actually occures, as you can see here, is Thing cells devour another organsim's cells and absorb the DNA to create an almost peferct copy. Almost because they are still Thing cells, they just look like other organisms.
The fix for the first issue is to repersent the Thing on both the micro and macro scale, as both singular cells acting with full autonomy and multiple cells working as a singular organism. The second issue is fixed with just some change in wording on the profile as a whole. Both of these changes are repersented in my blog.
The above two issues are the more serious problem, but a few minor issues also exist in the form of missing information and clarification. Powers like Durability Negation, the Thing has assimilated people with just a touch, and multiple types of Immortality are just straight up missing, while Biological Manipulation would just be a clarification on exsiting abilities.
Alright, I think that's it. This is my first time revising and existing page on the site, so I'd love to hear any feedback on this, and I hope this is sufficient to get the profile updated.
Currently the profile has two major misconceptions about the Thing and a few missing details. I been wanting to fix up it's profile for a while now, and considering John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the few verses on this site I actually consider myself an expert on, I figured I'd try my hand at it. Not to seem antagonistic, but it seems to me that the current profile was made by a general movie monster fan as opposed to just a straight up Thing fan, which leads into my first issue,
ISSUE 1: Currently The Thing is portrayed as a singular shapeshifting entity as opposed to how it actually behaves, which is like that of a colony of single celled organisms. You can see this any time the Thing is attacked. Here a piece of the Thing abandons the whole as it burns and here blood taken from an assimilated person tries to escape a hot wire.
ISSUE 2: Multiple references are made to the "infecting" people. This is also a misconception. What actually occures, as you can see here, is Thing cells devour another organsim's cells and absorb the DNA to create an almost peferct copy. Almost because they are still Thing cells, they just look like other organisms.
The fix for the first issue is to repersent the Thing on both the micro and macro scale, as both singular cells acting with full autonomy and multiple cells working as a singular organism. The second issue is fixed with just some change in wording on the profile as a whole. Both of these changes are repersented in my blog.
The above two issues are the more serious problem, but a few minor issues also exist in the form of missing information and clarification. Powers like Durability Negation, the Thing has assimilated people with just a touch, and multiple types of Immortality are just straight up missing, while Biological Manipulation would just be a clarification on exsiting abilities.
Alright, I think that's it. This is my first time revising and existing page on the site, so I'd love to hear any feedback on this, and I hope this is sufficient to get the profile updated.
