What?! Why didn't anyone tell me!?
"Yes, I KNOW in any other role playing game you would have choices and your skills would matter in how things progress, and normally you could use speech or charisma to convince the blades to spare Paarthurnax but YOU WANTED TO NOT HAVE TO PLAY PLAY A HERO! SO YOU DON'T GET TO BE A HERO! FUCK YOU!!
I mean... The one time they did try to put some nuance, we got the stuff in Skyrim, a game which, as far as I could see, actively refused to let your actions have a positive effect on anything. Bethesda really has a all or nothing approach, of "You want to do bad stuff? Fine, no good for anyone!"
Bad things happen, and there's nothing you can do about it... Except furiously rant and rave, of course. That is, after all, my responsibility... Read, share and enjoy :D
A piece of past cinema I think we're all happier if we put behind us...
Oh, I understand. Sorry if I made it sound confrontational. I just agreed with you that while it happens, it's very rare.
But that's old, old school cinema, with roots in vaudeville and stuff like that. And even then, the STUNTS could still be choreographed and planned in. (looking at you, Buster Keaton)
I mean, there are a few, scattered cases where it might be true... but it becomes more and more rare the closer to present day you get. The Marx Brothers famously had the "Harpo Does Something Funny", and Laurel and Hardy prurporedly didn't practise dialogue during rehearsals...
Now, is The Thing the occupant of the spaceship, or are we seeing another case of what happened to the norwegian outpost? That's still left unclear. If it's the former, then my point about the intelligence still stands. If it's the latter, it still suggests intelligence but also... NOBODY IS SAFE.
Actually... I have to disagree on that. The flying saucer adds something that I think makes it all the more terrifying: It establishes (or at least suggests) advanced intelligence. That this thing can reason on an advanced level... and all that intelligence is focused squarely on wiping us out.
Sure, you had the conspiracy of "the company has found out about this horrible thing, and has set things up to get their hands on it", but it was them finding a horrible, unknown distinctly non-human-like thing and going "hey, we want this for ourselves, to make more money off of it!"