TheGodling
Los Ingobernables de Sala de Cine
I agree about the second viewing. Weird thing is Wallace isn't even necessarily a villain, he's just insanely ambitious and driven by his desires to explore the universe and wants to do so off the backs of replicants, so I guess it really comes down to whether or not you'd view replicants as human or not in terms of whether he's a villain.
Wallace is a criticism of idea of God in its purest form. The entire character boils down to, what if there really was a being who creates life without a single emotional investment in their well-being, placing himself so high on a pedestal above his creations that he speaks almost exclusively in soliloquy and only addresses one directly in a most demanding rhetoric. His ambition to "own the stars" isn't any different from God's necessity to be loved unconditionally over the backs of his own creation's suffering.