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>having a magical translation device work on alien language because THAT would feel more realistic?
Not a translation device. A Rosetta has the same text in multiple languages, like a royal edict from an emperor. From having two known languages right beside a third unknown language of the same text, you can derive the vocab and grammar of the unknown language. Two years "off screen" making a field lexicon out of a Rosetta artifact at Misk. U. is not too much in order to decypher a whole wall <6hrs firsthand.

>Also, the Thing is an almost perfect example of classical unities, and Alien is close to that.
The Unity yields more benefits for film, and even then it could be stretched: both Alien and Thing plotpoints took several days, up to a week. I say MoM, as a text, can afford to stretch at least as much in terms of plotpoints and episodic crises without harm to the story.
>but muh pacing
>ur killing iiiit
I'm not. Given that the expedition is a scientific venture, using an epistemological narrative would have been ideal for a
>srs science hat nao
tone at no loss to pacing. Stoker did this (I have other criticisms of Stoker, but the epistemological form contributed so much to the modern novel).

>pls see how the Dunwich Horror was
Size of barn, invisible, yet tangible. Let's say it's the size of four elephants stitched together; that ugly mother will definitely leave prints. Cue caltrops, bear traps, tangle traps, baby powder, colored chalk, and .303. The human capacity for murderous improvisation is immense. Just talk to farmboys and poachers.

>your .303 ain't do shit pewfag
How about 20 x .303 from 3 guns? If you empty a Glock into a grizzly it will stop; a .22 will kill a grown pig, says Charlotte's Web. If 20 won't do it, use 60 and bill the mayor.