The Scene That Changed Pixar's Lightyear...

Lightyear was a movie! The unofficial Toy Story 5.. except they're still making a Toy Story 5. Set as a remake sci-fi world of what Buzz Lightyear was ACTUALLY like in a movie that inspired Andy as a kid it takes some.. strange directions. And today we're talking about the scene that lingers the most after watching - it's the reveal of the identity of Zurg! And the philosophical dilemma at the centre of this movie. This is the scene that changed Pixar's Lightyear...

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...Due to time constraints, I had to abandon the sketches planned for this video. But perhaps they'll resurface in a behind-the-scenes stream or something.

[AverageInternetButterfly]

I feel like Zurg should've just been a straightforward bad guy or Buzz's father instead of just Buzz from the future. Sure it's subversive as a twist, but it creates more questions than answers about the time travel logistics of this film.

[DanGamingFan]

I understand what they were going for. They wanted Buzz to see clearly for himself what his obsession with getting the colony home would turn him into. The problem is, there was no indication that Buzz would ever go thlhat far, or become this deranged and selfish. I can appreciate the attempt, but it just doesn't work like it should.

[lexramstudios]

The real Zurg is actually somewhere out there because old Buzz said that everything in the ship is borrowed

Edit: wow I can't believe have this many likes all because of this theory

[alexisdominey]

I had two theories before the revel.

1.After Buzz and the crew went missing, his father returned to the space program to find him. Ends up alone an dfinds the alien ship. As time past his body started to fail he had to replace human parts with robotic to keep himself alive, going mad in the process.

2.Buzz's father went missing whike on a mission inspiring Buzz to join the program. Meanwhile his father was desperate to return home, he finds the alien ship, but it doesn't run yet. He spends years reparing it, and like before is getting old and replaces patts with metal
going mad.

Both theories had a man driven mad by desperation to be with his family. He'd even ask Buzz to join him in his empire.

[superzilla]

My biggest problem with this is that Zurg is supposed to be an evil emperor wanting to take over the galaxy. basically if Darth Vader was the emperor this whole time. making him an older version of Buzz obsessed with going back in time to fix a mistake he made just has no link to the Zurg we've always known. 'It's a retcon of the original' but wait, this was supposed to be the same movie Andy saw as a kid that made him want the Buzz toy, right? because they mention Zurg being an evil emperor in the first Toy Story movie.

There's just so many plot holes in this movie. this is why I'm sticking to the 2D Buzz movie from the early 2000s.

[poweroffriendship.]

*Zurg:* Surrender, Buzz! I have won.
*Buzz Lightyear:* No. I never give in. You killed my father.
*Zurg:* No... I am BUZZ LIGHTYEAR
*Buzz Lightyear:* No. I'm the real Buzz Lightyear.
*Zurg:* I'm Buzz Lightyear
*Buzz Lightyear:* I'm Buzz Lightyear
*Sox:* So, who's the real Buzz?
*Buzz Lightyear and Zurg:* I AM!

[tannerprice]

Lightyear can make all the twists and time travel gabagoo it wants, but it still makes the Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command series the better adaptation.

[trinaq]

I have mixed feelings about "Toy Story 5." It feels as though they're merely cashing in on a beloved childhood franchise, and with Woody being separated from the rest of his friends, there doesn't seem to be any way to further the story.

[Fusilier]

It's funny in the 2000s cartoon, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command there was an alternate universe Buzz Lightyear, and was working for emperor Zug. The episode "The Lightyear Factor", Zug finds a portal to an parallel universe, there he encounters the evil Buzz, hoping to use this as an advantage to destroy Star Command and complete Zug's conquest, the good Buzz gets tricked, then is banished to the alternate universe, there the good Buzz witness the horrors left behind by the evil Buzz's atrocities. For a Disney cartoon TV show, this episode is quite bleak, one of the darkest episodes for BLoSC, it showed that Buzz is capable of doing great wickedness, even greater than Zug. Although the recent Pixar film kind of shows this, it didn't go far enough, it seem Pixar did want to try, but was block by Disney to keep it as family friendly as possible, which is too bad, the old TV show was for children and families too, yet had the courage and confidence that their audience could handle dark stories, coming out of lighthearted content.

[johnthecrazedsskull]

There is evidence that they wanted to make a completely different film, like there is test footage shown in the Beyond Lightyear documentary that showed Robo-dogs eating plasma-bolts and one the lead directors talking about how much he loved films.

[penginlord]

Now seeing this, I had a fascinating idea. Old Buzz said he found this ship, and that he started using it and the technology inside to try and fix his mistake. And, many other people have suggested that perhaps that means that there is a Real Emperor Zurg, that Old Buzz simply took his name and ship. But I'd like to take that one step further.
The reason why the robots call Buzz 'Zurg' is because it's the only name they can say. The name of their master. And Zurg could actually be a threat in this film for the third act.

What if Zurg was indeed Buzz Lightyear's father, a previous member of Star Command, perhaps considered a Genius in mechanics, robotics, and technology in general, who vanished while testing newly developed time-travel-technology. This could be set up with some high brass in SC comparing him to his father. Buzz may be desperate to prove that he his own man, maybe better, or maybe to just live up to the legacy left to him, driving him to commit to his missions and be additional motivation for why he pushes himself so much to get the Turnip off the planet. Maybe he could even have an emotional moment with Sox or the other crew members that he never really knew his father; He was always too busy with his own work and goals to spend time with his own son. And that being constantly compared to a man he never truly knew. Making him feel like he needs to do something colossal to live up to his Father's legacy, while never learning what his father was actually like.

Cut to when he mets Old Buzz on Zurg's ship. The scene can initially start the same, except we have clues in the background. When they come to the central console for the time-crystal-mcguffin, Buzz notices the old and worn Star Command design of it, different to the 'newer' parts of the ship. He asks Old Buzz, who offhandedly mentions that it was like this when he found it. That the rest of the ship seems built around it. But this time they actually have a conversation in that reactor room, and current Buzz convinces Old Buzz not to go back in time to reset things, by convincing him that the people have made a life and are happy now. Old Buzz is still Buzz, he just needs to see.

This is where we'd Introduce Zurg, as the true Villain of the Piece. Zurg is Buzz's father, who's accident with the time-travel technology sent him millions of years away from his current time. He spent years surviving in space, building robots to help him live, expanding his ship as he continues experimenting with the time travel technology to try and get back home. He manages to jump back in the timeline, but reaches a roadblock. He's too narrow-minded and persistent in his goal he can't figure out how to continue travelling back in the past. He spends years surviving in space, before Old Buzz stumbles across his ship. And Zurg gets an idea, and hides himself away. Undetectable to life scanners now, because of how augmented he is with technology, representing how little he cared for his humanity. Zurg was always an ambitious man, warped by a need to survive, and the belief that now that he's built all of this, he doesn't need to go back to Star Command anymore. The end-goal of going back in time and conquering the world with the technology he's managed to build. But first he needs to fix the time-warp-drive. And so he subtly manipulates Old Buzz into doing the work for him. Letting his robots make suggestions that lead Old Buzz into doing what he wants.

Now the introduction. When both of the Buzz's decide against going back in time, they unintentionally foil Zurg's plan. But he now knows what to do, thanks to all the work the two had done up until this point. So now he steps into the picture as the true villain, attempting to capture both Buzz's and take the time-crystal-mcguffin for himself. Old Buzz sacrifices himself so current Buzz can escape, and live a life without regret as he had, leading to the 3rd act climax of Buzz reuniting with the old crew and maybe the colonists to come up with a plan to thwart Zurg, as Zurg makes plans to attack and steal the time-crystal-mcguffin.

Of course, this is all just a base idea I threw together, with some stuff that could fit in but I'm not certain where. Like Current BUzz confronting Zurg and learning that Zurg is Buzz's father, and the conversation they'll have after that, as well as perhaps establishing that Star Command Heavily Limited experimentation with Time Travel after the failed experiment with Zurg due to how dangerous, costly and unsuccessful it had been. (As well as the head Genius on the project disappeared with it. That person being Zurg.)

[Polychi]

I find it hilarious that Disney advertise Lightyear as this "ANIMATION THAT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE ANIMATION AS A WHOLE" and how expensive the animation graphics are only to *bombed* at the box office. Meanwhile, it's getting beaten by a cheaper, yet stylisticly cartoony and less realistic, spaniard cat in boots making a impact online and audience and at the box office.

[mitchellbambam]

Imagine if the line about the robots calling Buzz “Zurg” was changed to this:

“These robots were programmed to call their master Zurg. I’ve gotten used to it.”

[pyraffin]

I remember seeing something spread around saying they had to add the cat for comedic relief because the movie was too dark otherwise. Which is what initially convinced me to watch it.
It was a lie.
They added the cat because it would've been too boring.

[thatrandomdogperson]

I’m just surprised that Andy in Toy Story had amazing animation in his time

[silashurd]

The twist of Zurg being older Buzz shouldn’t have really happened. It leaves you with some plot holes like
1. How is there an alternative Buzz?
2. How did he get to this universe?
3. Why is he evil? Was he not as good as our Buzz before becoming Zurg?

Let’s be honest here: Buzz is a really good guy, so it doesn’t make sense that he’d become evil or something.

I definitely didn’t see this twist coming but again, it should’ve just been Zurg. Not an older evil version of Buzz

[TankEngine]

I like what Old Buzz (Zurg) represents in this movie. He is basically a metaphor of insanity and unhealthy perfectionism. Unlike Buzz, Zurg had become so mind set on wanting to achieve hyper speed so he could finish the mission, it became an obsession. Even to the point where he doesn't care who gets effected. The way he says: "Who's Izzy?" also adds to that. By having this element, it adds to the moral of the film that some times in life we have to live with the mistakes we make.

[supersmashproductions]

If I'm being honest if this movie wasn't a buzz light-year movie then I honestly would've loved it

[broakroze]

For how disappointed I and everyone else was with this film, you are somehow able to find and appreciate the intricacies of filmmaking. That’s really cool, except when you almost convince me to rewatch a movie where they talk about meat sandwiches for 8 minutes straight.

[m.p.]

There was definitely some plot holes about that time travel part. Science-fiction is tricky, but I think that plot twist of Zurg being Buzz could have being feasible. But for that to work and make sense, there should have been important changes to the story. And I am not only talking about timetravel elements. If some elements of Buzz's character and his flaws had be approached differently, then the twist of him becoming Zurg would have been more credible, because right from the beginning of the movie, Buzz's flaws would already have hinted that possibility of him turning badly (whitout even guessing he was to become Zurg). Basically, I am saying that, from my point of view, there wasn't enough personnality foreshadowing so then I would say "Yes, of course, because Buzz already showed hints early that his flaws were beginning to drag him a path downer, it makes sense he would become Zurg because I now realise Zurg is what is Buzz would be if his flaws were exploited to the maximum !!!". Sorry but I didn't fully get that feeling when I saw that big twist revelation...