Do We Ever Se Sid Again After He Knows Toys Are Alive

By  · Published on November 6th, 2014

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Fan-designed theories about Pixar movies are null new – hell, fan-crafted theories virtually all movies are nothing new – but that doesn't mean they are always right (or fifty-fifty close to right). Pixar films, however, are uniquely suited for fan theorizing, mainly considering a lot of the most popular theories are inventive, fuzzy and heartwarming, just like Pixar features in full general. (Here'south a fun matter to do: Google ''Pixar fan theories." Run into yous in six months.)

The most famous Pixar theory holds that all of the films exist in the aforementioned universe – if you lot're not familiar with said theory, read up on information technology here – a fun and sweet idea that actually has a ton of evidence to back it up. In the Toy Story- specific universe, some other theory has been circulating that Andy'southward mom is really Jesse's first owner, Emily. It'southward another theory that promises to "blow your mind," but information technology'due south a skillful ane – and you can read that i hither. Good theories, everyone Solid stuff. But a new theory from the Toy Story earth has recently gained some serious traction on the spider web, and as good-natured as it may be, it's the concluding matter Pixar fans need to be consumed by, simply considering the theory is incorrect. And, y'all know what? Mayhap this whole practice is wrong, besides.

The theory popped up on Reddit earlier this calendar week, delivered by the kind of guy who is uniquely fit to cook it upwardly: an actual garbageman. Three days ago, "londongarbageman" wrote (links included to show "evidence"):

In Toy Story i Sid is confronted with horrifying revelation that his toys are alive. 15 years afterward in Toy Story 3 we see that Sid has become the local Garbageman.

At present being a garbageman has one of the biggest perks that you may not have realized. We find things. Lots of things.

I fifty-fifty found a 42 gal trash bag total of Lego

Sometrash picked Nerf collection

I don't have a moving picture of the matchbox cars I've establish considering at that place's just too damn many. Hither's some monster trucks

And don't even let me start on the Barbies.

Now, let's imagine y'all're a guy who just learned that inanimate objects are alive. What chore would you go? Sid isn't fucked up and working a crappy task. He's trying to save them. He is trying to save the toys.

He picked the one kind of task where yous tin rescue those things.

And Sid is uniquely equipped to prepare those toys that he finds that are broken. He's pretty damn creative.

The problem with this new theory is that it'southward wrong. As in, clearly and easily disproven with a minimum of work. But it's too wrong because it'southward indicative of a larger trouble in the fan world in general.

Let'south take a look at the clip:

First off, yep, that probably is a grown-up Sid as a garbageman. Practiced for him! That'due south a solid chore and, yes, he looks pretty stoked. And, sure, information technology would be squeamish to imagine that he got into this line of work so that he could save and repair toys. There'due south just ane problem – in the unmarried prune from Toy Story 3 that shows Sid hard at work, he's not looking into the numberless for toys, he'southward not searching for stuff to save, he'south merely doing his job and chucking every single purse into the truck. He doesn't even glance at the ground to cheque for wayward trash (read: toys) because he's so busy jamming out (if Sid did look down, he'd see the trash that Woody spilled on the ground when he actually went looking in the numberless for, yeah, toys).

Sid is a garbageman – and a skillful ane at that – simply he'southward not spending his days pawing through trash, and we know that considering the sole piece of evidence that this theory is congenital on doesn't really include him doing the ane affair the theory posits that he does.

It's lovely that Pixar fans want to give Sid some kind of happy ending, because although kid Sid was horrifying, information technology was obvious that he had an unhappy home life and was acting out in weird ways. Just his happy ending doesn't tie dorsum into the earth of live toys, he's just a normal guy with a normal job that seems happy in a normal mode. That'southward overnice.

Still, the desire to detect pregnant in every frame of Toy Story three is problematic, but because information technology actually robs the film of meaning. Searching for things across the surface detracts and distracts from the experience of just watching and enjoying the feature at paw. Toy Story 3 is a lovely, rich flick that doesn't need to be bolstered past cockeyed theories, and going hunting for them (and coming upwardly brusk) doesn't do the picture show whatever favors.

Toy Story three is skilful on its ain. Information technology doesn't need to be filled with "deeper meanings" to satisfy its fans.

The current blockbuster climate is only wild nearly shared universes and franchises that bump up against each other, so that desire to find a bigger meaning in every moment of a film is no longer the territory of large fans and cinematic obsessives – it's become both normalized and rewarded by the mainstream. We're no longer excited about something like a Captain Curiosity motion picture or a Black Panther feature as its own news, considering now nosotros get to immediately spring into prognosticating and guessing when we'll see the characters first and how their stories volition tie into the greater universe at hand.

The single films don't matter. And they should.

Sid is just a garbageman, and that's good enough.

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