I don't even know how this episode was legally aloud to be aired. It is a complete ripoff of the The Thing's original script in every way. The plot is exactly the same, the scenes are all the exact same, even the location is exactly the same. The only difference is that The Thing had good acting (Kurt Russel), good directing (John Carpenter), and a Hollywood budget. This episode takes The Thing and butchers the script like a B-horror. If this was an episode that was inspired by The Thing then it would stand to reason that most things would be different, the location, the monster, the characters, but no. There was no originality of any kind. You can read the original script for The Thing and you have this exact episode scene for scene.
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