I get it. They want the audience to feel the same fear the character is feeling in the moment. But to me, a jump scare is pretty much the laziest way to do that. And for people like me with already existing anxiety issues, it makes the rest of the movie an unpleasant experience. Instead of engaging with the story, I’m just trying to protect myself against the next time this mystery movie, or whatever, wants to scare the shit out of me. I’ve been an avid movie goer for years, but the problem has me thinking I might start watching most movies at home now where I can control the volume.
Is it known that Things can identify each other?
I once read a theory that the flask they were sharing was shared with gasoline or something else noxious so that whomever filled it could judge the other’s reaction to determine whether they had been beThinged. (I think that was it. I read the comment a long time ago and saw the movie even longer ago so I might misremember the details.)
If that’s in the movie (the gas flask) it must be a deleted scene or something because I’ve never seen anything like that. So Things can identify themselves and if in the correct conditions will combine to form a larger creature. Especially the conditions on the end of the movie where survival and not freezing to death are the main concerns. Another established fact in the movie is if there is one Thing and one human it will attack / consume / clone that person. Anyway, def seen it a few times, haha. You should give it a rewatch.
As far as I can recall, the theory was just conjecture, fanon, not confirmed (but neither definitively denied) by anything shown. I apologize if I misrepresented it.