Which leaves us with a film that would examine just what happened in the years between BnL taking power, and just how humanity prepared for its mass exodus from this blue marble.
In the corners of the post-apocalyptic universe that Wall-E created, viewers were given clues that filled in the image of a world gone horribly wrong.
With the shadowy corporate entity known as Buy-n-Large taking over the world and spoiling its natural beauty, the total story of how our species became a spacefaring race of couch potatoes was never totally told.
With the eventual outcome already known, and a good ecological fable always being a useful enterprise in our mindful world, Buy-n-Large’s tragedy would be a cautionary tale to keep the message of Wall-E firmly in the conversation.