Talk:Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear/@comment-27818776-20131102050234

Pretty much, what the film directors were trying to drive the point home was how evil and cruel Lotso was. Some people did feel sorry for him, and wanted him to redeem himself, but he refused the chance and has to spend eternity in the dump. They were trying to show further that there was no way that he could've redeemed himself. In fact, I kind of liked that he didn't redeem himself. Sometimes when a villain redeems themselves, they're often less interesting than they were as villains and might not be as effective as when they were when they were evil. Sometimes a villain redeeming themselves in films or other forms of media work. For example, in Return of the Jedi, Darth Vader redeems himself by saving his son from Palpatine, only to die in the process. The main difference between Vader and Lotso is that it was shown that Vader wasn't too far gone for redemption and still had an ounce of good within him. Lotso, however, sees the badness in life and never looks on the bright side. This can be shown when he was calling the toys, and most likely himself, that toys were nothing more than garbage and that they should expect to be thrown away. He also saw love as nothing more than a lie after he was separated from Daisy and tries to not think about how life was like when he was still with Daisy since he firmly believed it was nothing but thin air. So, to drive the point home, Lotso was incapable of redemption in the film and may never redeem himself after the film.