In retrospect, rewatching "WALL-E" shortly after viewing "Blade Runner 2049" was a very bad idea.

Among the many unsettling questions I now have about the Pixar classic:Is it more disturbing that WALL-E is the last of his kind, with every other WALL-E robot dead/destroyed? Or is it more disturbing that there are at least a dozen other EVEs out there, presumably with the same base programming? How would WALL-E react if he met another EVE? How would EVE react?Pixar portrayed several other Axiom robots besides WALL-E and EVE as being quite anthropomorphized, with distinct and endearing personalities. What's the logical conclusion of this? In the new recolonizing society, are robots still taken for granted as mere resources, or are they viewed as community members whose needs and desires must be accounted for as well? Alternatively, are WALL-E and EVE the only robots who pass the Turing Test? Wouldn't that get lonely for them?After the return to Earth, WALL-E presumably goes back to cleaning the city to make it suitable for human habitation. But is EVE technically obsolete now? Does she merely get roped into random odd tasks far beneath her abilities? As a former practitioner of what was maybe the most important job in society, how does she feel about this change?"The answer is, don't think about it!" - Rick Sanchez (and maybe Andrew Stanton) via /r/movies http://ift.tt/2CrSndf