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I didn't hate Eternals, but I had some complaints. Mainly, I think it needed to be a series. Not enough time was given to each of the characters to grow and breathe. They're trying to set these characters up as critical to the future of the Cosmic Universe, AND explain why they haven't interfered before now, AND explain why they are going to suddenly abandon all of their foundational beliefs to save the Earth, AND introduce an ancient evil that nobody's noticed until now, AND one has a severely traumatic past, another is deeply in love with the traumatized one, another is a benign mind control cult leader, another wants to be human, another lives a life of fame, another is an empath dating the Black Knight, and I haven't even mentioned the first deaf and first gay superheroes in the MCU.
It was overly ambitious, and should have been a series. Honestly, I think they scrapped the series because they didn't want to draw comparisons to Inhumans.
A short six part series would have given me time to care about the characters or any of it really.
Exactly, but it would need to be good. And I suppose that's the point of the article.
I completely agree with everything you said.
Interesting! I suspect it's one of those things that's a reasonably good divider or litmus test.
Like there are two kinds of MCU fans ... those that hated Eternals and those who liked or appreciated it.
And, not to be snobby or anything ... but maybe finding a way to make both types of fans happy was the key, and instead the MCU has probably tried to listen a bit too much to the haters.
This is the best analysis I’ve seen on this and couldn’t agree more. I also felt the same after The Last Jedi. I left the theater extremely happy that they were trying something different only to go online and see that so many people hated it. And the Star Wars fandom has only degraded from there. “Mutually dependent downward spiral” is a great way to put it.
I was pleased with it as well but despite trying to avoid spoilers I had heard the casino scene was a good time for piss break. I took it and that may have influenced my view.
It was never going to be a good trilogy with the lack of cohesion Disney allowed but it was interesting at the time. I haven't watched it since release though.
Nice addition. I have the same feelings about last Jedi. And look what happened to that trilogy once they tried to appease the fans!
It's a metaphor for abortion and how important it is sometimes. That's my read.
I don't know is, that a lame take on the movie? It wasn't an amazing movie, but it had a very interesting message I thought.
Yea maybe. I hadn't picked up that it was intended as a massively direct metaphor, though it's definitely there. But it was definitely touching on the whole cosmic scale cycle of life thing and how there can be hard realities you gotta sometimes face.
I mean, that's what I took away as well.
But.... Isn't that also abortion in general?
Oh for sure.