YMMV / Love, Death & Robots: "Pop Squad"

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Eve appears to be presented by the short as having a sort of a moral high ground over Briggs and the immortal society, whom she implies to be so in love with themselves, they want to preserve themselves forever, whereas she does neither. (She also protects a baby, while Briggs kills them.) But her actions can easily be reframed as just as selfish and narcissistic as Alice spending 20 years on perfecting a single solo for a fleeting moment of adulation: namely, after 218 years of enjoying her immortal life, she had ran out of ways to entertain herself and decided to have a baby to reignite her enjoyment of life, knowing full well that Melanie will probably never live to adulthood because of men like Briggs. When she explains to Briggs why she had her, her words are almost entirely centered on Eve's own vicarious experiences through Melanie, and while her readiness to offer her life for her daughter's is most likely genuine, it could still be motivated by her own fear of having to return to the drab, unstimulating life of an immortal after the high-intensity vicarious experience of life she had through her daughter. In short, it is not entirely clear in the short whether Eve considers Melanie as a fellow human being or just as means for her own enjoyment of life. To muddle things even more, in the original short story she's very much aware of the conflicting situation between her selfish wish to be a mother and the selflessness of motherhood itself, which she discuss extensively with Briggs - and that was Adapted Out.
• Anvilicious: "A society where immortality existed would need to somehow solve the problem of overpopulation, and this could easily push it towards draconean measures" is a fine enough moral. However, when the those measures are to send grim-faced, fedora-wearing agents to gun children down in their homes, it's easy to feel that some subtlety has been lost.
• Broken Base: Fans of Pump Six and Other Stories are split in the middle: either it's finally some adaptation from the collection or it's the worst/weakest/both possible pick from the whole set. The fact it changes the ending and characters' motivation isn't helping matters, further dividing on faithfulness of the adaptation.

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