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Post by lizardgirl on Jul 26, 2013 11:02:38 GMT -5
Thus is life. Missed opportunities, misunderstandings, and miscommunication. I didn't...get much of an attachment to the Oozma Kappa guys myself. They didn't really...click. Then again I wasn't thinking as well on my first seeing and kind of missed the bulk of their introduction. Also...I don't know what the moral of the story is EXACTLY...but...regardless...it's going to come from Wazowski and Sullivan in some way and honestly...I can't see how to take that. I mean later on, these guys essentially commit banishment and possible murder (at least with intent) of RANDALL. I mean...how is THAT "Ok" ? Randall was a GOOD GUY. Something I noticed too, reminded by your review...in his discussions with Wazowski, he's indirectly honest with his feelings to a point. He indirectly (then directly) says how nervous he is, and practically shows he wants them BOTH to "get in with the cool kids". But Wazowski just keeps ignoring him, just like Sullivan does later. It's kind of sad too...that Randall and Wazowski...well Diamond noticed this too...that they "know how to hurt each other" later on in MI with their comments in the locker room. ...actually it seems those two are ALWAYS ignoring Randall. They almost never come straight with him or confront him about what's going on WITH HIM. He's "invisible" to them unless he's a direct problem or directly in their way. Guess that's kind of like most humans too...they ignore him too and just think he's a jerk...wherein actuality...they're just forcing that label on him. Yeah, that's a good way of putting it and was how I felt about OK: they didn't click. Actually, the final moral of the story, as I saw it (the one about how you treat people) is one from Randall. In a way, every character can present a moral of some sort, and Randall's is very much along the lines of showing what happens when you ignore someone, when someone is fed up of being pushed to one side, and so on. The morals we get from Mike and Sulley, as you said, are pretty dubious considering what they do after MU. What you've said here about the fact that Mike and Sulley never really talk to Randall about what's going on with him, treating him almost like a non-person, is just so true. It's even reflected in MI and MU in terms of the fact that we never get to see Randall doing stuff by himself- we only ever see him because Mike and/or Sulley has the story centred on them at that moment in time and he happens to come across them or vice versa. It sort of sucks that even the film-makers never really pay attention to Randall himself (though in some ways it's understandable). Poor guy.
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Post by lizardgirl on Jul 26, 2013 10:53:52 GMT -5
What's interesting though is that it would have obviously been EASIER for them to just go and make him bad from the get go but they didn't do that. They took the harder route with his character, which does give me more hope that they really do plan to do more with his character in the future. I thought that initially, too. But then when I actually saw the film...I don't know. Part of me thinks they made that decision just to draw in the crowds, because getting an infamous 'villain' such as Randall and making him cute in a prequel would immediately spark people's interests. It might just have been a bit of a shrewd decision on Pixar's behalf: what seems more interesting, the same old villain we've seen before, or something totally different to make people ask that fateful question, "what happened to him?" Sort of sucks that they didn't actually ANSWER that question, but hey ho. Anyway, I hope it's a bit of both, at least- that making him good was both to intrigue audiences, but also so that they could do more with him in the future. I guess we'll have to wait and see to find out!
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Post by lizardgirl on Jul 26, 2013 10:46:59 GMT -5
Johnny actually really disappointed me when I finally saw MU. I already figured that he probably had a lot of pressure from his family to succeed at university and to maintain their reputation, and that in a sense he and Sulley had perhaps similar experiences growing up, with everyone around them 'expecting great things', so to speak.
And while I don't doubt that this is all true, and although it's great that Nathon Fillion has expanded on the character in interviews, I ended up thinking of Johnny as yet another missed opportunity in MU, yet another character that could've been developed to be just a little bit more than simply playing a role, but ended up being rather two dimensional (despite his charming manner). There aren't even any hints of that familial pressure that Nathon Fillion suggests, there aren't any hints of anything beyond Johnny being a bit of an elitist twerp. At least with Randall in MI, although he was clearly an antagonist, he hinted at the pressure he was under by certain things he said or did. In MU, its possible to give Randall the benefit of the doubt seeing as he was so nice to begin with, but it's also a perfectly acceptable interpretation that Randall WAS just being a bit of a richard (though of course that is not the interpretation I've gone with personally). As far as I could tell with Johnny, although it is likely that he was under a lot of pressure, if we base our conclusions purely on what happens in MU, there's not much to draw from and it ends up being (reasonable) conjecture more than anything else, just like it is with Randall. There's nothing wrong with character development not being obvious, but we had a lot more to work with with Randall considering he does change throughout MU and indeed into MI. With Johnny, we had a couple of scenes, a few lines, all of which were very consistently negative and did not, in general, give us much of a hint as to the pressures that he was under (even if it was likely that he was under those pressures).
However, one thing I DID like about him was that he wanted Sulley to achieve well academically and not just to rely on the family name. It shows that he himself values more than just the name, and this perhaps does reflect how he himself feels about riding on familial coattails.
I see more of a parallel between him and Sulley than between him and Randall, though. I mean, all four main characters (Mike, Sulley, Randall and Johnny) ALL have a fear of failure (even if it's failure in different realms- so for Mike, it's academic failure, for Randall, it's social failure, and so on) and all of them feel like they have something to prove one way or another. But Sulley and Johnny have that family name to live up to, have always 'succeeded' in the public eye, and feel the need to maintain the image they've got, rather than to create a new impression entirely. Mike and Randall, in contrast, aren't trying to maintain what's happened before, but instead feel the need to succeed in realms that they've failed in before. And they don't feel this need because of family expectations, but because of a desire that comes from within, and that in both Mike and Randall's cases probably originated from mistreatment by their peers.
So it's interesting that whilst Mike and Sulley manage to share and understand each other's fears, even though they are from different sources, Randall and Johnny are unable to do so. Similarly, Sulley and Johnny end up handling that familial pressure in different ways, and again, Mike and Randall go down two very different paths, as we know...
As for whether he's attractive or not, hmm, not my cup of tea- I'm with mintygreen, I like my guys thin and lean. However, I can see the appeal; that fur of Johnny's does look silky smooth!
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Post by lizardgirl on Jul 15, 2013 15:44:44 GMT -5
That's the main thing I got from MU concerning Randall: they just didn't know what to do with him.
I guess their first dilemma must've been whether to make him 'good' or 'bad', and once they'd gone with good, then that logically presents the problem of "what made Randall change?" And then THAT leads onto the problem of, "it must've been something to do with Mike and/or Sulley because he hates them so much in MI".
And then THAT leads onto the problem of, "we can't have our two main protagonists come across as being mean or hurtful to someone as nice as Randy!" Because they want people to like Mike and Sulley, ultimately (even if Sulley's a bit of an idiot to begin with) so that doesn't fit in with the plan.
So then they were torn- they really wanted that nice, cute Randy, and they wanted to show a metamorphosis of some kind, but they couldn't blame it all on Mike and Sulley. That's why it's all so subtle and Randy appears to change without much of a catalyst, really; he just suddenly sort of goes "I hate Sullivan now". And even if you argue that it's due to the little things Sulley did and so on, it's still not entirely convincing.
I don't know about you guys, but I really got the feeling that so much stuff happened behind the scenes with Randy's character, so much stuff that might have contributed to his change- Mike not being a great friend, Sulley being a richard, ROR making fun of him and using him. We get little hints of all of these things but we don't really SEE it, not properly, which is why so many people are accusing poor Randy of being bad all along.
Anyway, just another theory of mine. It's a shame because the one phrase that I think really describes Randy in MU is: missed opportunity. They could've done so much with him, but they didn't because they felt they couldn't.
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Post by lizardgirl on Jul 15, 2013 15:35:53 GMT -5
I saw MU yesterday and ended up writing a review of it (which sort of turns into a ramble about the characters halfway through...So it's more like an 'analysis' rather than a review, I guess). I posted it on Tumblr but thought I might as well put it up here too- feel free to let me know if you have any thoughts. Be warned though: it's very long, and very rambley.
"So, I finally saw MU yesterday. I went with a couple of uni friends who really have no idea how much the original (and Randall) means to me so I found myself trying to keep my emotions in check…I would’ve gone with closer friends, but everyone’s left uni for the summer and since i’m stuck here working, my debating friends were the only people I could get to come. To be fair, they both enjoyed the film immensely. Even before watching MU, one of them was saying how MI was his favourite animated film growing up and how keen he was to see the prequel. They both found it funny and charming and we all felt the reflection of our own time at university (though they’re only going into their second year, so they’ve got plenty more fun university times to come).
A quick note on the Blue Umbrella first: very sweet, very sincere, a little cheesy, yes, but beautiful on the whole. I really loved how they used sound to such effect as well, and as someone who loves rainy days and is fed up of this incessantly warm weather we’re having in England at the moment, it made me long even more for a good burst of rain.
Anyway, MU. I’ll say now that my main qualm was that there was something just not quite right with the pacing, like the way the different acts didn’t really flow into each other…Maybe it’s just because it was my first viewing, but yeah, it just seemed a bit off. I can’t really put my finger on it.
Aside from that, though, I really enjoyed the film. It was SO funny, so much funnier than I expected (and much funnier than the original, in my opinion) and I loved the college environment that was created. One of the main reasons I want to go and see it again is so I can really take some time to appreciate the beauty of the scenery and the design and so on, though there were moments when it just stood out to me so much, such as the incredible School of Scaring, which was architecturally amazing inside and outside.
The characters, too, were very endearing. I didn’t fall totally in love with any of the new guys from Oozma Kappa, though they were a lovely bunch. In a way, I felt it was a shame that we didn’t get much of a chance to know them as individuals beyond a few stereotypical traits. In fact, in general I thought that character development of the minor characters was sacrificed for an unyielding focus on Mike (and partially on Sulley), which is totally understandable; this was Mike’s story, after all. I say it’s a shame nevertheless, though, because these guys had great potential- I wanted to see more conflict between Terry and Terri, I wanted to see more craziness from Art, and so on. I can imagine there were a lot of concepts and ideas for these characters that got dropped in the final cut.
As for the ROR guys, again, I felt like there could’ve been more. (Though in reality, there probably couldn’t have been, considering that focus on Mike.) Johnny was cool, suave, everything I expected him to be, but I didn’t get much out of him as a character beyond that. There’s a hint that he’s desperate to win not just for the sake of it, but because of the pressure of his family’s legacy (the same sort of stuff Sulley has to deal with) but, again, not much is said of him. Nope, it’s all about Mike. And I’m glad Pixar had the idea to develop him as a character in and of himself, because he was just the sidekick who didn’t ‘get it’ in MI. This time, we get to see his motivations, his determination, we get to appreciate what a hard worker he is, and you do get the feeling that he deserves his ultimate success. He’s a good guy who worked his way to the top and he should be proud of that.
However…I didn’t totally LIKE him. I didn’t find myself warming up to him as much as I thought I would- as much as I hoped I would. Admittedly, I wasn’t keen on the character as he was in MI, but I hoped that seeing him grow into the person he became to be would help me understand his sometimes arrogant and boastful nature. I’m not saying he’s a bad person or anything in MI, but he’s certainly not the kind of guy I’d want to spend time with.
And yet, even with the knowledge of why he was so determined to be a Scarer, even knowing that his classmates always wrote him off, and he was determined to prove them wrong, to prove everyone wrong…I just didn’t totally feel it. His desire to feel special was understandable, definitely. His desire to be recognised, sure. He seems to have been able to take all of the bad things everyone says about him, and say “nope, that’s their problem, not mine. I KNOW I’m amazing, I KNOW I’m great, and I’m going to show them!"
It’s all an illusion, of course, but the fact that he manages to build that illusion in the first place is nothing short of a miracle. He must’ve had the most amazing, supportive, and stupid parents ever (though to be fair, we do see his mother in MI, and she seems…Yeah, well, she fits the bill). I was reminded of all of these X Factor style programmes where you get individuals who have no talent whatsoever going up on stage and getting ripped apart- but why do they go up on stage in the first place? Because their parents are in the background, supporting their unachievable fantasy.
So maybe one of the morals is, “be honest with yourself", because the reason Mike was so hurt by his realisation that he was not a good Scarer was because the illusion had dropped. And suddenly he didn’t have the chance to be special in the way he wanted.
I don’t know, I guess as someone who tends to approach things from the other end of the spectrum- I usually say, “no, I can’t do it" even when I often can- I find it difficult to empathise with someone who always says, “yes, I can do it", even when they can’t. I just find the latter approach almost big-headed, but in Mike’s defence, it was a mechanism that allowed him to protect himself, it was a mechanism that stopped everything that everyone else was saying from hurting. I just can’t relate to it as well as the other mechanism, which also helps you form a barrier, but in a different way.
And now we come to Randy. Because if Mike is a “I CAN do this!" sort of guy, Randy is a “I probably can’t…" They developed different and contrasting mechanisms from the same problem: rejection and exclusion. So it’s ironic that they don’t end up as good friends in the future.
What’s even more ironic is that as the illusion of positivity falls away from Mike, as he begins to realise that he DOES have limits, Randall starts building up an illusion. He spends most of the film internalising all of his feelings, taking everything personally- someone doesn’t want to be friends with him, it’s his fault, someone doesn’t think he’s going to be a good Scarer, then they’re right and he’s wrong, someone tells him to take off his glasses because he’ll scare better, and he doesn’t even question it, just goes ahead and does as he’s told.
Whilst Mike externalises everything ("those kids at school tell me I’m rubbish at something, but I know I’m good- they’re the ones with the problem!), Randall internalises everything ("those kids at school are right, I’m the one with the problem").
And yet there’s a switch. Mike starts to internalise things, starts to look at himself as the illusion falls away.
And Randall? He begins to externalise. That moment in the Scare Games, when it all goes wrong? He could blame himself entirely- as he usually would have done. He could be totally down on himself about it. But he decides not to do that, he decides to blame someone else: Sulley.
That’s all he does in MI, he blames Sulley for everything- that damned Sullivan, beating me on the Scare Leader board, that damned Sullivan, ruining my chances with Waternoose, that damned Sullivan, messing up my project! Because blaming someone else for everything that happens is much easier than realising that YOU’RE the problem. By attributing his downfall to Sulley, Randall finds an (unhealthy) mechanism by which he is able to start feeling a bit better about himself. It’s why we see him getting a bit more richardy in MI, talking about those big numbers he’s going to rack up- it’s all an illusion, he’s trying to convince himself as much as he’s trying to convince Mike and Sulley. Mike’s illusion is long gone, he doesn’t need it anymore because he has learned to accept and love himself and has found success through doing so. Randall, however, leans on his illusion, relies on it to keep him going. Yes, course I’m amazing, yes, this project is going to garner me recognition and respect from EVERYONE in this factory! Even Sullivan will look up to me…
Because if you hate yourself so much, you have two options: continue to hate yourself and turn into a ball of depression, or hate someone else. Blame them for your failures, blame them for everything that goes wrong, and hence feel better about yourself. I can imagine, when Sulley and Mike keep winning awards and being in the paper for every little thing they do, that Randall gets peed off. And when Randall struggles to make friends at MI (yes, conjecture, but I think it’s likely), and when he sees Sulley and Mike becoming the most popular new workers, he blames them for his lack of popularity. He blames them for everything.
And he blames them and blames them and blames them, for years. And then when they’re the ones who interfere with his biggest plan, his final, craziest attempt at getting that respect that he wanted all along (because, unlike Mike and Sulley, Randall never shows that he cares THAT much for Scaring- he only cares for it if it’s going to earn him respect, but he doesn’t do it for the sake of the beauty of the thing, or that he enjoys it particularly) then he snaps. So, what started as a review of the film ended up being me rambling about my Randall theories. (And yes, of course these are all theories- I don’t claim that any of this is true for certain, just my interpretation of things.)
And having seen MU, I can totally see why so many people are saying “he was an ass all along!" Because he doesn’t come across particularly well, not at all. He doesn’t come across badly, as such- it is emphasised that anything he does ‘against’ Mike and Sulley (which isn’t much at all, in fact it’s pretty much only that soft toy incident) is stuff initiated by Johnny, and you get the impression that Randall would rather stay out of conflict and rivalry if possible. But he doesn’t come across WELL- he doesn’t stay loyal to Mike and he very much follows the crowd.
I did question why his and Mike’s friendship disappeared so quickly, considering it’s implied they spend at least three months in that dorm room together. Admittedly we only ever see Randall helping Mike with his dream, and not the other way round- we never see Mike attempt to help Randall make friends, for example, and we never see him really recognise just how insecure and worried Randall is.
That’s probably what appealed to Randall concerning ROR; I can imagine Johnny picking up on that insecurity, as well as Randall’s potential for being a pretty useful ROR member, and bigging him up, helping him to start externalising things more. I also feel that Randall did have to ‘prove’ himself a fair bit in order to get into ROR, so although his “don’t mess this up for me, Mike" line seems a bit mean at the time, it does hint at something more.
Mike’s biggest crime (and Sulley’s, too) is just being a bit oblivious to how Randall’s feeling. They both (Sulley especially) treat him like he’s invisible, and so the second anyone bothered showing him any recognition (i.e. Johnny), Randall couldn’t help but lap it up. Because again, it’s Mike asking Randall for a favour, not the other way around, and again, it’s Mike wanting other people to do stuff for him so that HE can get back onto the Scare programme and succeed, not so that THEY can succeed. I guess that’s another reason why I wasn’t totally keen on Mike in MU- initially, he uses OK, he actively looks down on them, which is pretty funny considering how everyone’s always looked down on him.
But, again in his defence, he learns from his mistakes, he learns to value these people as people and not just as tools for success, and in a roundabout way he learns about true friendship. Randall, however, as per usual, doesn’t get the chance to go through that, and in his association with ROR just gets screwed over a bit- they pretend to care about him enough to lure him in, but he’s really no more than a novelty to them (like that scene where they laugh at him doing his “thing") and when he messes up, he gets a bollocking, even more so than one of the other RORs who also messed up…So they basically make it pretty clear to him that they were using him.
And again, instead of internalising all of that, instead of going “I’m a bit crap", he takes that experience of being used, he takes the embarrassment and humiliation, and he blames Sulley. He unfairly blames Sulley, yes, because Sulley doesn’t do much wrong to him aside from treating him as a bit of a nonentity, but that and Mike’s inevitable ranting about how annoying Sulley is in their first few months of being freshmen is enough for Randall to focus his hatred on him. He’s an easy target.
Anyway, I should stop rambling now. In short, I did enjoy the film. It was great, very heartfelt and funny. I very much enjoyed the whole segment with Mike and Sulley in the human world, which was unexpected and yet fitted in nicely. I think I like Sulley more than I used to (though I never actually disliked him, just felt pretty neutral about him, though I do like what a softy he is). I like that Sulley opened up to Mike, and I like that he really grew throughout the course of MU. He became much more endearing by the end of it, for sure.
Mike…Mike I’m not so sure about. I’m always going to be inherently biased, but even taking the most unbiased perspective I can, I still felt that there was something quite selfish about him before that illusion fell. However, he too grew through his experiences and it was great to see him develop so much as a character.
MU certainly puts the events of MI in a different light, to some extent anyway. It’s going to be odd watching MI again, watching the interactions between Mike, Sulley and Randall with the knowledge of some of what came before. I think, if anything, I now empathise with Randall more than ever- in fact, I never really empathised with him before, more just sympathised, because although I’ve always felt for his predicament, I’ve never experienced anything like that myself, and I have always found his actions in MI pretty full on. But knowing that he felt so invisible before MI, knowing that, in many ways, he did try and be friends with Mike, but that again he perhaps felt a bit ignored by him, or at least the friendship wasn’t reciprocated as wholly as he might’ve liked…
It makes MI much more sad, almost. Because now it’s not just two coworkers against another coworker, with neither party understanding each other. My impression before of their relationships in MI was very much that they didn’t know each other: Mike and Sulley just saw Randall as this git from work who was a bit of a douche and was mean to everyone for no reason (and they never really bothered to find out why that was, because their lives were so happy and great, that why wouldn’t everyone feel happy and great like them?) And that Randall saw the two of them as the personification of everything he hated about Monsters, Inc. in general, everything he hated about the corporate culture (see that shaking head of his in the advert? “What a load of bollocks" is what he’s thinking right then, as the rest of them shout out “We scare because we care!"), everything he hated about how damned cheerful everyone was all the time. I never pretended to know truly why he was so unhappy, beyond his frustration at always being second best and perhaps feeling a bit invisible at times. And he never really understood Mike and Sulley, he just saw them as being a bit douchebaggy, and an appropriate and easy focus for his hatred and miserable-ness.
What MU says is that, in fact, although Sulley never really knew Randall as more than that (he doesn’t get to know him in MU at all, really, and again is totally oblivious to anything he did wrong to Randall, as well as being totally oblivious as to why he might be unhappy in MI), Mike did know Randall. Mike KNEW that Randall wasn’t always so unhappy and angry and miserable, and yet it appears that Mike didn’t question why he’s like that. Again, oblivious.
To be fair, Randall’s metamorphosis is gradual, and we do see a hint of it in MU. It seems like the moment Randall chose to go with ROR, Mike wrote him off (or they both wrote each other off, really) but the fact that Mike didn’t seem particularly upset at Randy’s rejection (in fact, he only asked Randy because he happened to spot him- it’s not like Randy was the first name that came to mind when he wanted to ask someone for help, even though he spent three months sharing a room with the guy) and that makes me wonder how close their friendship ever was. It’s pretty ambiguous, to say the least. It’s obvious that Randy cared at first, but perhaps gave up after half a dozen attempts of trying to get Mike out and about to socialise? Who knows.
Anyway, back to the point: Mike KNEW. I just…I almost liked him more when he just saw Randall as the ‘grumpy coworker’. The fact that Randall was something more, once upon a time…I don’t know. I just find it a bit depressing. So the moral of the story is, yes, sometimes things don’t work out, so be flexible and willing to change paths, because it’s amazing how things work out in unexpected ways, even if it’s not what you originally planned. That’s what Mike’s story tells us, anyway. And Sulley’s moral, Sulley’s moral is that relying on family precedent or other people’s expectations of you isn’t enough, and that if you want to succeed, you do have to try hard. We also learn that being honest about how you feel is definitely a good thing, as demonstrated by that scene in the Human World- and in fact, being honest can form a strong friendship indeed. And we learn that it’s okay to be okay, it’s okay to not be regarded as ‘special’ by everyone, as long as you’re happy within yourself.
And the final moral of the story? That sometimes, how you treat people can come back to bite you in the ass. That sometimes, people can be hurt by your actions, even if you didn’t intend to hurt them. That sometimes, you just have to pay attention.
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Post by lizardgirl on Jul 12, 2013 3:16:06 GMT -5
There IS a difference, but I chalk it up to a combination of both him physically maturing more, and stress. Most four-legged animals, as they mature, develop a wider ribcage and pelvic girdle, which tends to push the limbs out more to the side. Randall's also under tremendous stress, physically, since he spends most of his day standing, putting pressure on his joints, forcing his knees to bend more to compensate. In that scene in the restroom where he's approaching the mirror and sink, he actually does rub his back with one of his lower hands, so he's definitely feeling those aches and pains. pitbulllady I'm sorry, I hate to be a pedant and a stickler about this, but I'm saying that it's the other way round- that his legs stick out more when he's younger, not when he's older. Everything you've said in this post makes sense if he was lower during MI, but he isn't (in my opinion, anyway). In MU, he seems almost to waddle forward, whilst in MI, due to his knees facing forward and his legs raising him off the ground more, he almost pushes himself forward, especially with his hind legs. The best example of that is when he's saying to Fungus, "why are you still here? Go, move, now!" and walks off-screen. Even ignoring how close he is to the ground (because that's quite difficult to judge) I'm more interested in the fact that his legs seem to be at a totally different angle in MU than in MI. Again, this is the whole knees facing out (in MU) versus knees facing forward (MI) thing. And THIS is why I'm curious: because the change seems to be the other way round to what most people would expect.
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Post by lizardgirl on Jul 11, 2013 18:42:19 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear things aren't great at the moment. If you ever want to PM me for a chat, feel free. Or just try and talk to friends in general, if you haven't been already. There are lots of people in the world who care about you very much.
Yes, it's pretty impressive how Randall persevered; the fact that he even made it as a Scarer, despite everything that happened to him, is amazing. Maybe it even spurred him on even more.
And yes, Randall certainly seems to be a victim of circumstance. I guess that's what makes it all so much more painful, the fact that he was trying so hard for everything to go right, and yet it all went so wrong, and there was little he could do about it...Yeah, in some ways I'm looking forward to Sunday, but in another way, I'm not. I just hope you're right and that Pixar do fix it in the end.
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Post by lizardgirl on Jul 11, 2013 18:14:23 GMT -5
Glad to hear you're okay, RB. I know what you mean about the story hitting hard, I'm already spending much too much time thinking about Randall, the fact that we're getting a glimpse of his past, and so on...And I don't think it's going to make entirely pleasant viewing. But we'll see. Like you said, it's when you know him well that makes it all the more difficult. But yeah, glad you're alright.
PBL, I'm sorry to hear that other people's perceptions of Randall, even in MU, are upsetting you. It used to upset me too, but RB's right: people ARE stupid. I understand why you try so hard to make others see what we see, but sometimes, even with logic and reasoning and stuff being plain as day, people still don't get it- and honestly, there's nothing you can do about that. There's no point making yourself miserable over other people's misconceptions. They're the ones missing out on something quite special, and we're the lucky ones.
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