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Post by AvistheCrow on Feb 24, 2005 20:37:15 GMT -5
An interesting point Pitbulllady brought up, and one I've been wondering when others would notice---Randall's 'game eye'.
Randall has a unique trait in that one eye is slightly slower than the other; the result is that, while his eyes move in sync, the slight drag gives those around the feeling of something being quirky and Not Quite Right---rather like Brad D. having his eyebrows shaved, and no one noticing why he looked weird. (Which was highly amusing to me.)
This may just have been put in to immitate a chameleon, but I have a different theory.
I've gone to see hundreds of different specialists, all of which haven't yet been able to figure out what the heck is wrong with me. Eye doctors, stomach specialists, MRIs, psychiatrists, etc etc. They all do different things and so far even the people at Johns Hopkins are rather stumped. (Nuts.)
One thing they all have in common, however, and mainly the only thing---apart from the sterile rooms and lab coats that I absolutely hate with a passion after seeing them so often---is that they will always, near the end of a session, hold up their pointer finger and ask me to follow it with my eyes; as I do they watch my face closely.
I finally asked one why the heck he was doing it, and he explained that a lagging eye is like a slow reflex when you're hit in the knee---and it signals a neurological problem somewhere upstairs: a break in connections, a wound, something that isn't right.
I'm getting sent to a neurologist for my constant shaking (I can't draw much any more, I get ink all over the place) and I'm hoping to ask them a bit more about it. But to put in in basics: lagging eye = physical brain problem that's not your fault and that could very easily cause a huge amount of mental problems.
Anyone have any thoughts?
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Post by RandallBoggs on Feb 24, 2005 20:48:13 GMT -5
Any thoughts about.......what?
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Post by AvistheCrow on Feb 24, 2005 20:50:13 GMT -5
Oh, y'know, life, the universe, donuts, that sort of thing.
No, I'm asking if anyone has any particular theories as to why the lagging eye was put in, if anyone has any comments/critiques to make on what I just posted, and if anyone wants to just post something pointless since that seems to happen sometimes.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Feb 24, 2005 20:51:56 GMT -5
Ohhh....
Probably because he was tired, lagging sleep.....
Maybe he got hit a few times in the eye, I mean after all he has scars. And he got stabbed in the head so I guess it might have hurt his eye too.
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Post by pitbulllady on Feb 24, 2005 22:50:52 GMT -5
We'd discussed on the old board the fact that Randall has a lot of old scars, some of which are consistent with some pretty serious injuries. He has parallel, evenly-spaced scars along his ribs, for example, which look very much like scars left over from having had chest tubes inserted to siphon escaped air or blood from his thoracic cavity, meaning he has had a collapsed lung(or two)at some point, either from serious chest injury or infection. It's rather clear that at some point, even before he got thrown into the Human World, Randall experienced some really rough times. He could have experienced a head injury prior to that inflicted by the shovel, and the stress and lack of sleep he'd been exposed to in recent events would have just made any lingering condition much worse. Lack of sufficient sleep alone would be enough; sleep deprivation is so damaging that making someone go for 48 hours or more without sleep is considered torture under the Geneva Convention.
pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Feb 24, 2005 23:30:17 GMT -5
I think I did that with nearly 46 hours when I was sick....
Well Avis, if you want a full explaination....well....I guess....I think it's coming up soon in Hockey Days....
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Post by AvistheCrow on Feb 25, 2005 0:05:46 GMT -5
Impressive amount of information, Pitbulllady. Now I want to hug him more than ever. I know exactly how serious sleep deprivation is---I've had lingering effects of insomnia for years. It's easy to see how badly Randall would have been affected by such a massive lack. Longest stint without sleep I can currently remember: four days, four nights. I was seeing things on the third day---no doubt he was feeling at least partially insane by the time Sullivan and Mike came back from their unexpected vacation.
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Post by tailmister on Feb 25, 2005 2:21:01 GMT -5
Well, Sleep isn't mearly as a time to relax or wind down, it is healthy both to our bodies and brains. I know, I've stayed up late a couple of times, and I can tell the difference.
Of course, without sleep, I've heard that even though that even though the body is awake, the brain automatically sleeps, so its probrably hard to think, or receive new information.
One more thing, I've heard that ten days straight without any sleep at all causes us to die. Must've heard it from a health site or something.
Anyway, it can be a scary thing, and with the sleep deprivation that Randall must've gone through, I can hardly imagine him thinking straight during the movie.
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Post by pitbulllady on Feb 25, 2005 6:44:23 GMT -5
This is true, Tailmister. That's why sleep deprivation is such an effective means of torture, especially for purposes of brain-washing. The logical, thinking part of the brain shuts down, and the primitive, instinctual, "animal" part of the brain takes over. The individual becomes very open to suggestions, which means they can be more easily pursuaded to do things that ordinarily they would not even consider, due to their logical brain's stored morality and ethics, i.e., the "conscience". When you through in large amounts of the stress hormones, adrenaline and endorphine, you can have a very dangerous situation, as these act on the primitive brain to produce a flight-fight behavior, pure survival instinct. Waternoose probably knew this, and knew it would be very easy to take advantage of Randall's condition to use him as a "hit monster" against Mike and Sulley. Randall was NOT thinking or acting logically, but was almost blindly open to suggestions by that point. As he himself indicated earlier, he had NOT had any original intent to kill anyone, otherwise he wouldn't have stated that "the Great James P. Sullivan would be working for ME". Dead guys are lousy employees, no?
pitbulllady
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Post by AvistheCrow on Feb 25, 2005 10:34:46 GMT -5
wouldn't have stated that "the Great James P. Sullivan would be working for ME". Dead guys are lousy employees, no? pitbulllady Rawk.And in case anyone is tempted to somehow think I'm making crow noises again, I'm not. I'm saying 'Whoo-hoo you GO girl' in simpler terms. For those that might not have played Paper Mario 2 or something.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Feb 25, 2005 11:05:00 GMT -5
Yeah.....and that primitive nature took ahold right at the end when we saw it....
Poor Randall......Rendell got to him.
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Post by pitbulllady on Feb 25, 2005 11:36:17 GMT -5
And in case anyone is tempted to somehow think I'm making crow noises again, I'm not. I'm saying 'Whoo-hoo you GO girl' in simpler terms.
I sorta figured that's what it meant-really, it's Southern for "ROCK!" That's actually how we pronounce it down here.
pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on Feb 25, 2005 11:38:17 GMT -5
Then what does rock mean? ^_^
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Post by lizardgirl on Feb 25, 2005 11:59:13 GMT -5
I know this might sound a little...mean...I don't know how to put it, but I always thought of Randall as one sandwich sort of a picnic. And I say one because, well, he isn't 'insane' or anything. I guess he just sees the world differently to most people, and I personally think that that's a quality to be a appreciated, not put down.
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Post by RandallBoggs on Feb 25, 2005 12:27:32 GMT -5
Of course.
Actually Cool. Randall has lived a very tough life. And actually, when he became slightly older (teens maybe) he began to accept it. Anything bad that happened to him he expected and took head on. "Expect the worst, hope for the best". Lets just say the last part didn't apply to him.
Past when he became Top Scarer, he started finally believing in it, hope. When Sullivan STOLE his title, he tried his harest to get back, even though he knew something was going on behind the scenes. (I REALLY HATE when Wazowski say's Randall was "cheating" (like he ever) on the scarefloor at night. How can he boast his numbers if the ScareFloor's deactivated? In any way, his numbers would go up because he decided to work overtime, sorta).
A negitive monster Randall once was, almost killed himself as a matter a fact. But then he became believing in waiting for good things to happen when he became Top Scarer, but when it was stolen, he did what he could. When he was wrongly exiled....I think he lost any hope he had....
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