Glad you enjoyed the first oneshot, SallyMcQueen! (And thanks for commenting on 24: The Race Against Time too!) Look out for the second oneshot tonight.
You don’t have to feel stupid, IV. Everyone has a different opinion, and you’re entitled to yours as much as I am to mine.
Yeah, but I support Lightning/Sally too, jessie. I don’t have to pick one or the other.
Good point. The dangers of absolutism. Okay, I meant I found SallyMcQueen’s opinions 99% of the time insightful.
That’s why I hated Mater’s behaviour in the sequel. He was basically a twat towards Lightning and he never said sorry at the end. As for Lightning, he might be brash occasionally, but deep down, he’s a good car. He makes mistakes like every one of us does, and I think it makes an interesting character development if they actually made him unforgiving of Mater in the beginning, but accepting at the end of Cars 2. But the way they did it in the movie, they tried to paint him as a bad guy when he actually HAD a valid reason to get mad at Mater’s carelessness.
I agree!
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Please don’t get me wrong, guys. I still like Mater, but just the way he was portrayed, and some of the stuff he did in Cars 2, were just so silly that it frustrated me. It is like he lost all sense of decorum and inhibition he had from the first movie and became nutty in the second. Remember when he was acting all cool-as-a-cucumber when he first met Lightning and he knew how to cruise-dance in Cars? I didn’t see any of that in the second movie.
And if say, I, was being mistaken for a spy, I would keep emphasizing that I am not, because I understand the dangers of imposing as one. In the film, Mater said “I’m not a spy” once or twice, then simply gave up and went along for the ride. It would’ve been more convincing for me if he had actively taken on the job to say, impress Lightning, or if he wanted to prove to himself that he could pass off as a secret agent. His character’s passivity and “Anything Goes” attitude during his mistaken identity didn’t have enough driving force or intent, which made his personality weaker as a result.