We watched Wall*E last night (though we haven't watched the short features yet). I thought it was cute, and sweet, and wow was Jess right when she said it was John Crichton and Aeryn Sun. (At one point, after Eve shot the hell out of something, I said, "Shooting makes me feel better!")
I *loved* the massage-bot with its wildly flailing arms. Although I think my favorite was the cleaning robot (Mo?), obsessed with cleaning all the foreign contaminants.
I want to complain about the idea that 700 years in the future, all humans, if given the opportunity, will float around on hoverchairs and be all corpulent and talking to their friends on the magic screens (as I type this on my laptop, ahem). But you know? My faith in humanity is fairly low, and I don't actually find that idea so implausible.
Was is Corwood who said that, at the end, when the Axiom lands on clutter!Earth, that it should have been like the Jamestown colony, with death death death? That's *exactly* what I thought! (Along with "So WHERE are they going to sleep? And these people are not exactly prepared to repair/build an infrastructure! And that's a lot of cases of primary pulmonary hypertension about to walk around a very dodgy planet." But then maybe 700 years in the future, those kinds of medical issues were no longer, you know, medical issues.)
Anyway, all that said, I *did* like it.
Just thinking about all the broken robots being set free to be themselves is enough to make me a little weepy. It's possible I have robot identification issues.
And the umbrella-bot! Who deflected shots aimed their way, so -- NOT a broken robot; just one who didn't find its true calling right away.
I thought it was cute, and sweet, and wow was Jess right when she said it was John Crichton and Aeryn Sun. (At one point, after Eve shot the hell out of something, I said, "Shooting makes me feel better!")
I must have missed Jess saying this before, but Hells Yes, that's so true. LOVE IT! And need to share with my Farscape loving friends.
I have seen Wall*E about umpteenzillion times in the last couple of weeks (we have yet to send it back to Netflix, as Lillian is Very Fond of the parts with the robots). I was expecting to be bothered by the whole large people floating on chairs aspect, but it really wasn't treated like a moral issue, so I wound up okay with it.
I think The Axiom continues to take care of humanity while they rebuild the planet.
Laga speaks for me. The ship is still in working order and could support the population while they were in the process of rebuilding.
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if the Axiom had a seed bank stashed away somewhere - after all, wasn't EVE's purpose to see if the planet was able to sustain plant life? Ideally, her return would have been a signal to get back to earth and start planting.
Pizza plant seeds!
The end credits show the people living in the escape pods, but wearing the same Axiom red suits for centuries, so I guess BNL continues to amaze with it's foresight and building to last.
WALL*E/EVE = John/Aeryn, if John were a DRD and Aeryn were an iPhone. So yeah, pretty much my OT OTP.
The end credits show the people living in the escape pods
I totally didn't notice that! (Obviously.) I was only looking for Wall*E and Eve in the end credits.
