Nice try but it’s clearly just shitty writing from Smith. Randall opened up 100% in Clerks II, he cares about Dante more than anyone and he’s not afraid to say it, now he doesn’t care - total regression, just like Becky now not believing in romantic love again - until he learns that Dante sold his QuickStop shares to fund the film.

So he can ‘deal with reality’ it just took money to bring him round. Now Randall only cares about Dante because… he gave him free money.

Total backtrack and betrayal. Smith has fucked his legacy, tortured and killed his greatest characters, and denied them a future. The man‘s mind is broken. The only question is whether it was the weed, the narcissism, or the woke cult that broke his brain.