At first, it seems like a complicated decision, but in the end, it's quite easy. Lu-La has a cheerful, childlike personality, and it seems like she and her parents make a cute space family. She's funny and has the same charisma as E.T.
But... Ginger needs no introduction. This rebellious chicken was one of the main turning points for a strong yet feminine female protagonist. While she often plays the "damsel in distress" role, she also takes on the "Final Girl" role from slasher films.
Like all Aardman characters, she's morally ambiguous, since although she's a good wife and mother, she often resorts to blackmail and manipulation (as she did with Rocky; this doesn't happen in the sequel). Also in Dawn of the Nugget, she tries to control Rocky (if it hadn't been for the incident at Fun Land Farms, she might have become a dictator like Tweedy).
In a way, we could say she's somewhat "cruel." When she defeats Melisha, she just says "Bye, Bye" with a mocking tone and a psychopathic smile (although she doesn't know Melisha is indestructible in the first movie, she surely plans to let her fall to her death or send her to a killing machine, and she shows no remorse, yet she's the one who tortured her and left her with lifelong trauma).
She has a lovely relationship with Rocky (which didn't start off very well); it seems they will last and grow old together. I think they'll have another chick in another story. It makes perfect sense that she's so overprotective of her daughter. In her youth, she lived through horrors, and the last person she would wish that on is Molly (this might be considered controversial, but in my opinion, Dawn of the Nugget subverted the overprotective father trope that Disney gave us).
Why explain? As a Chicken Run fan, my vote goes to the red hen with Orwellian ideas.
Nota: I just remembered that Ginger has post-traumatic stress disorder and doesn't want to go back to that horrible place where she lived her nightmare (like Ellen Ripley from Aliens), and that gives her the need to protect to someone defenseless of their own kind from someone who wants to attack them. Lu-La is an alien, that's something to think about...
Which is better?
Voting ended onMar 11
