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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
> Based off the teaser, I think this movie's going to be a hard sell.
That's been my concern since before the trailer dropped really, partly because the eternals are completely unknown outside the comic books,contrast that with DC's new Gods who have a presence in cartoons and some of the movies for a while now
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverI honestly wonder if the people at Marvel Studios actually understand why nobody liked Inhumans.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.That dramatic arrival scene where the ship shows up instantly codes the titular Eternals as colonizers; a technologically-advanced people showing up on the shores of a bunch of natives dressed in furs and carrying sticks, coming to stay and do... whatever they wind up doing. That is perilous imagery to code your protagonists with.
Looked to me like they were just sight-seeing.
So they could do that. But. Like. We already have that movie. It's called Black Panther.
"Black Panther already did it" doesn't seem like a good reason not to do it and it isn't like the MCU doesn't repeat story beats.
As mentioned they might simply have been busy elsewhere. The fact they've been here doesn't necessairily mean they've always been here.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."People hate the Inhumans because Marvel was pushing them as a replacement for mutants which pissed off everyone. Before that they were one of those properties that fans generally knew existed but were just obscure enough for no one to give a shit. Like let's be real, no one's actually dragging them for the mess that is the Alpha Primitives (not that they don't deserve it) or for the other mess that is their entire monarchical structure.
Just don't do the slave thing and give people their X-Men and it should be fine.
Edited by Watchtower on May 24th 2021 at 11:19:06 AM
Maybe they haven’t interfered much in the past few thousand years because they’re low on prayer stamina?
I'm sure they'll have a good explanation for this.
Unlike the Inhumans, this will have quality control.
There's going to be an actual effort, and I believe that, even if the product isn't great, something that has real effort put into it can't be entirely bad.
One Strip! One Strip!I kind of like the vibe from that last scene, maybe the reason they didn't interfere in stuff like the Holocaust was simply because they genuinely didn't feel the need to interfere. Like "Oh, some humans are killing other humans again, that's a shame." Like, they see horrific mass genocides the same way we see whales getting banished from their pod or baby walruses getting killed by aggressive adult male walruses: nature is cruel, but let it take its course.
That would be different enough from Black Panther, where the reason Wakanda didn't interfere wasn't because they thought they were superior, but because they were afraid of the outside world and afraid of the responsibility.
Of course, the film would end with them realizing that human life is precious, blah, blah, blah, all that jazz.
The scene at the end of the trailer definitely has a "they perceive human problems the way we, the audience, perceive story drama - IE, as entertainment - and nothing more" vibe.
If Thanos couldn't jog them out of this mentality, I wonder what could. I don't know enough about these characters to really speculate.

Based off the teaser, I think this movie's going to be a hard sell. What little we're shown doesn't just imply the Superman Stays Out of Gotham problem for Thanos, but for all of human history. "We've been here forever in secret and we have superpowers," is the kind of premise that leads people to ask questions like, "Where were you during the Holocaust?"
Wakanda got around this problem by making the Wakandans' isolation into a major point of contention within the plot. It stated in no uncertain terms that yes, Wakanda did stay out of world events and geopolitics that it probably should have been involved in and yes, it does mean something pretty shitty about them that they did that. The Villain with a Point was mad that Wakanda didn't do more to help people when they could have, and T'Challa ends the film resolving to bring Wakanda out of its isolationism and into the geopolitical sphere proper.
So they could do that. But. Like. We already have that movie. It's called Black Panther.
That dramatic arrival scene where the ship shows up instantly codes the titular Eternals as colonizers; a technologically-advanced people showing up on the shores of a bunch of natives dressed in furs and carrying sticks, coming to stay and do... whatever they wind up doing. That is perilous imagery to code your protagonists with.
Edited by TobiasDrake on May 24th 2021 at 7:20:56 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.