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Greetings, and welcome to Earthling[br]Cinema. I am your host, Garyx Wormuloid. This

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week’s artifact is Toy Story 3, brought[br]to you by corporate powerhouse Disney, which,

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as you all know, survived its planet of origin[br]and now owns a 51% share of the known universe.

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Toy Story 3 is a story about toys, a race[br]of living, breathing creatures that were enslaved

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by the humans for their own amusement. In[br]Earth’s heyday, toys such as Woody, Female

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Woody, Buzz Aldrin, and all these different[br]horses were considered second class citizens

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in a materialistic society that judged beings[br]based only on their pragmatic usefulness.

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When the film begins, the toys are owned by[br]Andy, a ruthless overlord who labels them

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with his name, effectively smothering their[br]individual will. He keeps his subjects suspended

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in a perpetual state of oppression, ignoring them to heed the

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beck and call of his master: the cell phone.[br]A Samsung Galaxy Note from the looks of it.

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Andy must further cement control over his[br]dominion by going to college, and since his

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toys don’t have the test scores to go with[br]him, he sentences them to the attic. The toys

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undergo an existential crisis, uncertain about[br]the sort of “afterlife” that awaits them

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up there. And their anxiety is justified.[br]Three words: spi-der- webs. That’s why I

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always make my wife get the Galaxmas decorations.[br]Woody, ever the die-hard loyalist, preaches

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eternal devotion to Andy.

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A classic case of Sher-lockholm Syndrome. But it’s no use.

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The other toys escape to a daycare[br]facility called Sunnyside, a name that makes

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sense if you remember that Earth had only[br]one sun. Sunnyside seems nice at first, but

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turns out to be a socialist nightmare. Here[br]the toys are no longer private property.

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Lots-O-Huggin’ Bear takes it upon himself

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to rule this socialist utopia with a fuzzy[br]fist, for as he says, the toys are “without

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owners”. But he is a malevolent dictator,[br]subjecting his citizens to torture at the

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hands of ruthless toddlers in order to crush[br]their spirits. He maintains power with a secret

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police force brainwashing, and a monkey who[br]is clearly on meth. Lotso’s walking stick

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doubles as a gavel, a symbol of order, and[br]his strawberry scent strikes fear into the

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batteries of all who cross him.[br]The toys try to sneak out unnoticed, but when

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Lotso confronts them, they figure why not[br]stage a libertarian coup. It works, and the

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big baby throws Lotso in the trash-- the very[br]place he said toys were destined to go. He

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drops his gavel-walking stick, suggesting[br]his reign of tyranny is over.

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But that ending would be too easy, so Lotso[br]drags everyone else into the trash with him,

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and they are hauled off to a volcano. Here[br]salvation comes in the form of a giant claw,

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operated by a trio of racist caricatures.

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This is what’s known as “deus ex[br]machina,” an Ancient Greek term for a machine

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that descends from the sky to put Gods on[br]the stage, and I don’t just mean god of

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the stage Neil Patrick Harris. In 21st century[br]parlance, the expression was used to indicate

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a plot device that immediately and conveniently[br]solves an unsolvable problem. Toy Story 3’s

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deus ex machina is both a literal machine[br]descending from the sky and a plot device

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that conveniently saves the day. Despite being[br]critically and commercially successful, the

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boys at Pixar could always find time for obscure[br]inside jokes.

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At the end of the film, Ken and Barbie usher[br]in a “groovy” utopia, perhaps indicating

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that a time will come when the toy race will[br]no longer be oppressed, and can exist in harmony

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with all the Earth’s creatures. In the meantime,[br]Woody and his friends are content to live

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under Bonnie’s benevolent rule. That is,[br]until she goes to college too and they have

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to do the whole thing over again.[br]For Earthling Cinema, I’m Garyx Wormuloid.

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Hey folks, thank you for watching Earthling[br]Cinema, I'm Mark Schroeder, aka Garyx Wormuloid.

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