Linkara: The three "Thing" miniseries have all been a continuous story, questions from "Eternal Vows" notwithstanding, about what happened after the events of the movie, keeping MacReady as the main character. I've always felt that if - and that's a big "if" - you're going to do a sequel to The Thing, following Mac is the wrong direction. It was hopeless. He and Childs were either infected or doomed to die in the cold. Well, someone else must've felt that way, because our miniseries today, "The Thing from Another World: Questionable Research", does not have any returning characters from the movie. Hell, this one already wins points because it was very clearly written by people who had seen the movie. In fact, I dare say that this is the best of the "Thing" miniseries. Oh, don't get me wrong, it still has plenty of problems, but after "Eternal Vows", my standards have dropped like a spaceship crashing into the Antarctic. And even then, a lot of my disagreements are on things that are really more a matter of opinion, stuff that's debated among fans of the movie, like whether or not someone infected by the Thing is aware of infection or not. And you know what? That's okay. Because someone was at least trying to think about this, not just rehash the plot of the movie, not turn it into action schlock, not do... whatever the hell the romance was in "Eternal Vows". They were honest to God thinking about this one.