How I think Wall-E should have been
I was a bit torn by Wall-E. (I saw it with Heather and Mom end of summer.) On one hand, *CUTE ROBOTS* + PIXAR = AWESOME and that ought to be good enough…. but even though I really liked the two main characters, the movie as a whole didn’t really fit well together (imho).
Mostly I think they should have gotten rid of the plot lines centering around the really, really fat balloon-like people on the spaceship. Once they appeared, it became all about the humans and the robots as serving them, but the humans weren’t interesting or likable enough to have the plot revolving around them.
Here is how I think it should have gone:
- Starts off with Wall-E, but no one knows where all the humans went. Either it’s post-apocalyptic, result of a great war/plague/zombies/etc or maybe the earth just got too ruined and the survivors emigrated to other worlds.
- Eve is a scout, sent by aliens to determine whether the planet is capable of supporting life (their weird, pollution-loving alien life)
- Eve meets Wall-E, and discovers plant. (same as movie)
- Eve’s masters sent a scout pod to recover her. They declare the planet fit for colonization. They send a colony ship, to be the first of many.
- Eve wakes up and discovers how Wall-E took care of her when she was deactivated. She misses him. Luckily, he’s not too far away- Wall-E snuck on board to find her.
- Eve doesn’t see that the aliens colonizing earth as being a problem, until Wall-E convinces her otherwise. He shows her some of the great things people have made. He is convinced the humans will come back someday.
- The scout ship they are on (leaving earth’s orbit) rendezvouses with the alien colony ship. Wall-E and Eve dodge the security systems and get on board.
- Wall-E and Eve mess up the computer’s navigation system, preventing it from landing.
- The aliens leave- they send a message back to their home planet- the Earth is too well defended.
- Ends with Wall-E and Eve together under the night sky. Meanwhile, shots show the Earth, slowly but surely recovering…
And that’s how I think it should have been.
