• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    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.