Talk:Karren von Rosewald/@comment-5.228.250.52-20151108074536/@comment-213.66.199.45-20151108083214

^ Neither...

If the prequel is to be believed, the Thing has a problem when it comes to earrings...

Childs still got his earring.

And Macready was never infected by the thing or he wouldn´t have tried to stop it when he lost all his allies...

So they were both human in the very end...

And still, and this is what I find amazing and beautiful about this ending, the Thing is haunting them with paranoia and suspicion and dread even after it´s dead, burned and gone... just as it has done for the entirety of the movie already.

It died, but the horror of it still lives on, and in the end, it managed to take the last survivors with it as it ceased from existence completely once Macready and Childs froze over and perished, destroying the final fragments of its existence which existed in their memories and souls...

Thinking of it this way, I find the whole ending a lot more beautiful and dreadful than having one of the two infected at the end. It was a greater effect there.

...

speaking of Shoggoths, sicne "Rose" is pretty much a monster now, I suspect that killing her won´t be the easiest task now, and that her death at some point will serve as a hint and clue on how to kill Noro for good later on... that´s one way to see "Rose´s" role in TG:Re now... the reveal of Noro´s "weakness" and ultimate destruction.

Just a thought.