Why did Alien3 steal from The Thing?

[The Chibi Kiriyama]

What this fella and SM said. Didn't he say it in the commentary on the original Legacy boxset?

9th disc in the Quadrilogy. I'm not sure which in the Legacy boxset.

[gameoverman]

I wouldn't want to be fully taken over by an alien organism. 

me neither. Just the way they kill you, I rather go the least painful way..lol.

How do you know it's not painful?  Those dogs seemed to be in pain.

So, how exactly did the Thing kill people after they were taken over?

Interesting question.  Either they did or didn't know they had been taken over by the thing.  Maybe the thing could take control whenever it wanted once it took over somebody.  Or maybe it was in control the entire time (and just acted like the person's personality).

We're talking Carpenters Thing, right?

Yep.

[Wolfs Girl]

Any way similar to the Pods in Invaders From Mars..does it kill you after it has taken on your identity, or does it infect your blood and take you over that way until suddenly you're not you any more?

Yes I remember the dogs, true that, OK, I rather not die by either of them, but then at least the Thing had the ability to communicate with us once it had taken over one of us.
Good thing its only a movie....

[Vemados]

The Thing eats you and then takes you over, that's why the dogs were inside of it when they cut open the burnt remains.

[Kimarhi]

See fossilized jockey burster alien (not space jockey).

Dogalien, Predalien are just playing on an idea from the original film.

[Eidotemit]

It used to bother me, but I got used to it. I actually kinda like the idea now, except when people take it too far and thing of the alien as like hybrid or 50/50 with its host rather than just borrowing a few characteristics.

[Corporal Hicks]

*cough*Chet*cough*

[shakermakerman]

Haven't seen The Thing, but that had the first alien monster to take some attributes from it's host when it was full grown. Why did Alien3 have to steal that idea? If Aliens didn't take attributes it would have saved a heck of a lot of fan arguements (eg PredAlien design etc). I guess it's kinda creepy the whole 'take-from-your-host' vibe, but it still stole from another sci-fi horror. 

I think you ought to watch that movie mate.

Mabye I should... 

Yes because its a brilliant brilliant masterpeice.

[Kimarhi]

Indeed.  The Thing is one of the best scifi horror pieces ever made.

[War Wager]

Better than the one and only Alien?

[Clemsonkid21]

if aliens didn't take on the traits of their host then it wouldn't b the same

[Kimarhi]

Better than the one and only Alien?

It is one of the true alien "horror" stories.

The thing actually scared me more as a kid, but I found the Alien, and the universe around it much more interesting.

It has to rank near the top, but you must NOT spoil yourself before watching it by reading forums online. 

[SM]

The Thing is more about paranoia.

[Kimarhi]

Indeed.  But that still adds to the horror imo, not knowing who to trust.

Plus the transformation scenes were as horrible imo as anything seen in Alien.

[SM]

Quite.