I’m BAAACCKKK!
Probably some of you wished I wasn’t, but guess those folks will have to deal with it! I had trouble with my password, starting early last summer, with the site refusing to accept it or allow me to change to it, and then there was apparently a glitch in the automatic “Contact Us” form that insisted I was using profanity when I tried to explain the situation, and kept kicking me off for using language that was unacceptable, but with the help of Pixar Vixen, I’m back from lurker-dom.
Anyway, been following this post with keen interest, to say the least, since I’ve been one of the main proponents of a Monsters, Inc. sequel for, well, pretty much since I first saw the original. Unlike some of you, I do NOT believe that the story was resolved, at least not for MY favorite character, and most of you already know who that is(check my avatar for clues if you don’t). I do not feel that HIS story was wrapped up, at all, actually, and we’ve been left hanging since 2001. If Randall does NOT return in the sequel, and we just get more Mike and Sulley shenanigans as they go about their perfect little lives, to paraphrase Lizardgirl, I will NOT be wasting my money on that movie, which will make it the first-ever Pixar film that is garbage, in my book. I’d really, really hate to have to say that about a Pixar movie, but Randall was, and is, the primary reason for me even liking that movie in the first place, and I’m definitely NOT alone in feeling that way! I hardly want to waste my hard-earned dollars(and I don’t want to imagine how many of those dollars it will take to get me into a theater in 2013, either)paying to see a movie about two vigilantes yucking it up, all carefree and guilt-free. I get to see THAT for free where I live, only the main characters are wearing white sheets and hoods. If Randall does not return, then I guess we’re really supposed to believe that Mike and Sulley killed him after all. A lynching is still a lynching, and two wrongs STILL don’t make a right.
As for Randall “not having enough pull or enough personlity” to warrant including him as a main character in the sequel, “au contraire”, as they’d say in Remy’s neck of the woods! Apparently, someone has not visited the Monsters, Inc. section of Fanfiction.net, or it would have been apparent that of the many fanfics therein, probably 95% of the them are “Randall-centric”, very sympathetic to him. There’s a lot of fanart of him on Deviant Art, as well, and Randall is the ONLY character from that movie who still has a very active discussion board devoted to him, so he certainly has plenty of fans, who are very loyal. I think it would be a terrible mistake on the part of Disney/Pixar to ignore that fan base! Still, I’m with Nexas, and Lizard Girl, in that I would rather not have him return at all, and simply boycott the movie, rather than see him once again return in a “villain” role, to have learned nothing of his past mistakes, and to once again get some comeuppance from the two intrepid “heroes”(yeah, right).
As for the post by the Pixar employee, I Googled that phrase, and can find nothing. I don’t know-maybe this person was trying to “test the waters”, so to speak, to see what interest there was out there, and to see what direction fans of the original would want to see the sequel, if any, take. Peter Docter’s comment that he “could neither confirm nor deny” that there was a sequel in the works, does indeed sound just like the comment made by the CDA agent, but until I see something official stating that a sequel is in production, I’m not going to hold my breath.
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