Seminar Reflection 5/19/09

Today, during our seminar reflection, we talked about how The Thing related to the text that was given to us by Peter. I believe the main topic that we talked about was, "Do you agree with what Dr. Carrington did at the end of the movie?" What we were talking about was how Carrington wanted to communicate with the monster instead of killing it. Unfortunately for him, he was ignored by the monster and was tossed aside by the creature. I personally would not have agreed with Carrington in this situation only because of what had transpired throughout the movie. Like the killing of the dogs, the monster had clearly the intent of causing destruction once he was attacked by the dogs. Had he not been initially attacked by the dogs or had his 'spaceship' blown up near the beginning of the movie, Carrington might have had a better chance of communicating with the monster and could have possibly made scientific progress with the creature. But after communicating with it seemed futile afterwords, the military and the remaining people realized they needed to take care of the monster in order to preserve their own lives as well as the lives of the human race. The last line of the movie says it all, "Watch the Skies!"