MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS, HILARIOUS SPOILERS…
Last night a group of us went to see WALL-E, and adorable story about humans who messed up planet earth and then get saved the robots who serve them. It inspired me to write a detailed post comparing an contrasting this newest Pixar movie with my favorite SciFi drama, Battlestar Galactica, an intriguing story of humans who messed up 12 planets and then get killed by the robots who serve them.
I know there are not enough of you who are yet completely enamored with BSG, and not everyone’s seen WALL-E, so apologies to everyone but the three of you who’ll know what I’m talking about. Because of that, and because it already feels like we should be on vacation, I’ll just do a summary of some differences and similarities that I noticed.
DIFFERENCES:
- The basics: WALL-E is a cartoon, BSG is live action
- Your bone structure is failing: WALL-E features people who have gotten fat from inactivity, BSG features people who box, but get fat anyway. And then get thin again over the course of a week or two.
- You have no sense of “go”: In WALL-E, humanity is forced to live on a space ship, with a seemingly unending supply of fuel. In BSG, they risk life and limb to find more fuel for the space ships on which they live.
- “Sucks” to be in the airlock, don’t it?: The moment of crisis in WALL-E involves the good guys having a brush with death via airlock. BSG has Laura Roslin, who’ll airlock you in a second if you look at her cross-eyed.
SIMILARITIES:
- Sexy Robots: BSG has number six, WALL-E has EVE.
- Oh my God, I was wrong / it was Earth all along: In BSG, we’re not exactly sure what happened to Earth yet, but it’s FUCKED. In WALL-E, the return to Earth still didn’t seem all that great. Who’s going to clean up those satellites?
- Feel art again: BSG has Kara Thrace and her special destiny: that nebulous painting she puts everywhere. WALL-E’s credits are like a crash course in art history and an epilogue.
- Gravity, like evolution is just a “theory”: The crew of BSG never seem to have trouble keeping their feet on the floor, despite spending the entire series in space. (Chalk that up to some amazing anti-gravity boots, even when they’re knocking boots?) At least the people in WALL-E float around on their fat behinds, as one would while living in space.
Any of the three of you think of anything else? As for the rest of you lot, I’ll be back with a more user-friendly post next time.
