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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 2, 2014 23:36:02 GMT -5
The above, with regards to Randall and Boo, would depend on how soon they were reunited. The brains of human children "re-wire" themselves at roughly four years of age; every memory stored up until that point, with the exception of "muscle memory", like learning how to walk and feed themselves, is literally erased unless it has been constantly reinforced on a regular basis, like remembering family members and close friends, for instance. Boo and Sulley were reunited a year later, so Boo would have been around 3 1/2, but had Sulley had to wait just a few more months, Boo would not have remembered or recognized him. She might have reacted with great fear of him at that point. If she is reunited with Randall after the age of four, she will not know who he is or what he did. She might still be afraid of him, or she might think he's cute, or just think he's some sort of animal until he speaks. She will have no memory of him being her Scarer, or of the Scream Extractor, or the chase through the Door Vault, or of beating him over the head with a plastic bat, or of him being thrown through that door. They will be starting from scratch, as it were. If enough years have passed, Randall probably won't recognize HER, either, because children change a LOT in just a few years! Randall would have seen a lot of human kids during his career as a Scarer, always in the dark, always blurry(no glasses), so his memory of her face would have already been distorted. Someone would have to tell him who she was, to make that connection.
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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 2, 2014 23:10:44 GMT -5
That thread is WAAAAY back somewhere. One of the Pixar artists, not sure which one, who had worked on Randall's design, along with some of the other characters' designs, had been given the task of observing various animals in zoos in order to get the characters' gaits, etc., right. Since Randall was reptile-like, he initially started out observing large lizards and crocodilians at zoos in California, but found that those animals had a gait that was too slow, too sprawling and seemingly awkward on land for Randall, whom they wanted to be quick and agile. The artist began instead observing the big cats, like leopards and mountain lions, and drew on their movement for Randall's gait more than a reptile's. You can really see this well-illustrated in MI when Randall climbs over the panel of the Scream Extractor after its power goes out, when Mike is in the seat, and how Randall follows the power cord to find it disconnected from the wall. His movement as he enters the child's room in his first Scare is also much more feline, albeit exaggerated, than reptilian. The only time his gait is more lizard-like is when he's running on all-eights, especially in MU, during the "Toxicity Challenge", when he is actually running along the vertical surface of the tunnel's walls.
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Post by pitbulllady on Jun 2, 2014 12:44:04 GMT -5
I DO really like what you said about a character, who is seemingly killed or tossed out after appearing in two stories of a series, returning and playing a pivotal, positive role in a third installment. I can think of many characters in which this happened, Han Solo for example. It DOES make sense for Randall to return and redeem himself when you look at this from a story-telling perspective.
That said, though, there are many people, who call themselves Randall fans, who do NOT want this to happen at all! They are very happy and satisfied with the notion of Randall being so bitter, so angry, so insane that he cannot escape that, and either prefer to think he died a horrible, bloody death at the hands of the Cajuns, or that he will return to try to exact revenge on Mike and Sulley and again be humiliated, defeated and probably killed for certain. These people do not believe in a concept of redemption at all. I cannot even pretend to understand that mind-set.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 31, 2014 17:01:16 GMT -5
I saw that horrible travesty. Sad thing is, these people really do believe that. Most of them absolutely despise all males in the first place, so in their eyes, Randall is already damned for having that pesky y chromosome. To them, anything he does is evil by default simply due to his gender. I did not even respond to that post directly because honestly it was too stupid to deserve that much consideration.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 31, 2014 14:31:08 GMT -5
I like that. A lot. This is where Randall's intelligence, his agility and his invisibility, along with his knowledge of the factory and its machinery, would really come in handy. The human antagonists cannot fight what they cannot see, when they don't even know what they're dealing with.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 31, 2014 14:28:45 GMT -5
I've entertained the possibility that perhaps Randall himself was an undercover operative, working for some other organization, to expose the corruption at MI, because he'd always suspected that Sullivan was involved in something unethical and illegal, and finding out that Waternoose was, too. The whole thing with building the Scream Extractor and seeming to go along with Waternoose's orders was part of the organization's plans to expose what was going on at MI. This explained, partially, why he set the Scream Extractor on such a low power setting when he had Boo, and also Mike, in the seat. Randall thought that Mike was involved in rigging the Scare Board, along with Sulley, and wanted him to spill the beans.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 21, 2014 0:34:20 GMT -5
I am really surprised by those results, especially with WALL-E being in the No.1 spot! Randall at least made it up to 39 and actually beat out Tow Mater, who is a very popular character, especially with kids. Poor Johnny and Dean Hardscrabble were stuck back there with characters from short films that no one ever heard of:( I guess the Tumblr and Japanese fandom didn't show up to vote.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 12, 2014 23:00:47 GMT -5
This ought to help Randall's percentages come up, and at least put Johnny on the list, lol.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 12, 2014 19:51:57 GMT -5
To each their own, I guess...I personally am NOT into "slash" or "yaoi" at all(cue the haters from Tumblr), especially not between characters who did not even get along or become friends in canon, and cannot get into a fic in which Randall has sex with a dog and fathers a litter of "lizog"(lizard dogs)puppies. Right at the moment, there really are no MI/MU fics I'd recommend other than www.fanfiction.net/s/7163630/1/Lost-then-Found-but-not-Healed and www.fanfiction.net/s/8587613/1/A-New-Life-and-Healing , both by BlackShuriken. At least she did her "homework" pretty well with regards to Louisiana(which is where Randall ended up) and Cajun culture and Randall is pretty well in-character and the love interest here is an adult woman. pitbulllady
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Post by pitbulllady on May 11, 2014 18:07:04 GMT -5
My favorite was Randall, of course, but I wound up having to choose between him and Johnny, of whom I'm also very fond, lol. I think my final results were Randall, Johnny, Edna, Violet and Merida, in that order. Tried it a second time and got Randall, Johnny, Bruce the shark, Doc Hudson and Dash Parr in that order. Come on Randall fans, he needs to be ranked higher than his current spot of 39! And poor Johnny isn't even ranked at all yet, so I must be the only one voting for him!
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Post by pitbulllady on May 10, 2014 12:52:18 GMT -5
What have you tried using to remove the ink? Rubbing alcohol usually works really well, as will that stuff used to clean white boards.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 9, 2014 19:04:18 GMT -5
I think this is the same one that the guy on DA had for sale, but he never would get back with me on the price and apparently did not like my offer to buy just the Randall stamper. It's pretty detailed, showing more of the pattern on his back than most, but what's that on the right side of his face?
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Post by pitbulllady on May 8, 2014 12:57:27 GMT -5
We don't know when that ability manifested itself, though. Given how little control he had over it in MU, I would be slightly more inclined to believe that the ability had developed later on in his childhood, rather than at birth, because it seems like the longer he'd been doing that, the more control he would have gained over it. It's really a "which came first, the chicken or the egg" scenario here. We do not know if Randall's blending/color change ability was some latent ability developed as a result of him being bullied, teased, etc. by his peers, or if the teasing and bullying was in response to him doing that, and most likely, the two situations fed each other in a vicious cycle. To be certain he'd always been taught, by SOMEONE, that this blending ability was a bad thing, that it was something to be ashamed of.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 7, 2014 21:48:22 GMT -5
That's the problem I have: Mike and Sulley are still being put up on a pedestal as heroes for what they did to Randall, when what THEY did was just as wrong as what HE did, if not worse. They DID have a choice, but he did not.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 7, 2014 21:11:24 GMT -5
I just watched that movie...well, up until the part where Randall gets banished and abused...I couldn't stop crying. I had to stop the movie and try to catch my breath. You know what I said when Fur Rug said "Looks like you're out of a job"? "Losing his job should be punishment enough, Sullivan!" I couldn't take the parts where he got hit by the bat by Boo and the door slamming on his fronds and all the other horrible stuff that I won't mention cause there's too much and I don't want to upset any of you or myself anymore than I already have. It was just too horrible. (And I also heard the conversation Randy had that one conversation with Waternoose aka the "making up for lost time" conversation). Lots of people have never heard that conversation between Waternoose and Randall as Randall is pushing the Scream "canisters" down the tunnel. Waternoose sounds so irritated with Randall there, as if it's Randall's fault that things have been delayed. pitbulllady
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