Millebon

Because the whole colony collapse disorder thing had me a little bit rolling my eyes. Not because I don't care about bees and their place in the environment, but because, like Michelle said, people want to have one enemy doing one evil thing, and the real problem is actually so many problems that we can't fight by banning a few chemicals and blaming a few CEOs. It's not a big conspiracy, it's how our societies are structured. So I wasn't thinking about why it was included in the movie because I don't like engaging with conspiracy theories designed to give comfort.

But really, humans are the bees. Michelle says she likes bees because they're industrious little workers, all doing their jobs without complaint* (I wish I remembered this part better, but that was the gist of it). And Teddy explains colony collapse disorder as the bees abandoning their queen and dying out because of it. Which fits so well with the Andromedans creating humans as servants and subjects, and then humans turning on them because they're not just mindless workers. And not just historically, Teddy kidnapping Michelle is another example of it. He is in so many ways her worker bee. Literally, he works for her, but also his mother was a test subject in a test that she couldn't have consented to, because to Michelle her consent doesn't matter. When he turns on her, it's like the bees turning on their queen.

But like how the conspiracy about colony collapse makes a complex situation simple for comfort, Michelle makes humanity and her kidnapping simple. Humans are flawed because they made themselves flawed, and they can't be fixed because they broke themselves too much, so they need to be eradicated. That's simple and comforting. But Michelle ignores that the Andromedans killed off the dinosaurs, created humanity, created the situation where humanity felt the need to make themselves stronger and more aggressive. She ignores that she personally created the situation where Teddy felt like he needed to kidnap and torture her to protect the people and the planet he cares about. He wouldn't have done it had she not turned his mother into a test subject, and likely wouldn't have done it had she treated him better after putting his mother in a coma. She and the Andromedans are no better than humans, she just gets to pretend that they are because she killed off everyone who would disagree.