This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: TheIndustrial Revolution WillNot Be Televised: From YKTTW
Earnest: Would this be a form of Fantastic Aesop?
Frodo Goofball Co TV: It can be, depending on how its written. If its just one planet out of millions in the galaxy that is having the problem, its hardly An Aesop of any kind. If it's done well it is An Aesop. Otherwise it may be a Fantastic Aesop.
Bernadette: Removed the WALL-E entry because it does not fit this trope. At the end the humans are not returning to farm without machinery, roughly half the farmers are machines themselves. And the movie itself is not anti-technology; the heroes are robots!
- Should it perhaps be added as a subversion or aversion? It seems to be related to this trope in one way or another. There's definitely an Aesop about how bad it is to have machines do everything for us. In the end, it was shown that a balance is needed; technology was not evil, but over-reliance on it was. So perhaps Wall-e was a subversion in that it is a milder, more nuanced, and more balanced version of this trope, and the final lesson was not to return to nature, but to live in harmony with both nature and our machines. It seems to me to be too connected to this trope to ignore it completely.
- I've added it back in, pointing out the ways in which it plays with the trope, including the ending where it is subverted.
