Re: For once, your main criticism is the same one that I see in many reviews in the media.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 12/11/2021 11:10:57 PM
Also, the character's names are spelled Ikaris and Sersi, respectively - in fact, until reading your review, I hadn't even thought of the Sersi-Circe link (in my native language, we pronounce Circe in a way much closer to the original Greek, so not like 'Sersi' at all).
I get so much shit for that! Also Game of Thrones going mainstream has pretty much put paid any attempts to set people straight. (I actually had 'queered' as the verb in that sentence at first before I noted the juxtaposition with the final word)
And when I first read aGoT, I was many fewer years removed from reading The Odyssey in high school and I wondered for a while whether or not the queen's name was pronounced with a hard or soft C.
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I interpreted it as a combination of guilt for his betrayal of his orders, and simply not seeing any path forward as he can neither go back to Arishem, nor openly fight against him. But it's certainly left unusually vague, considering how radical a move it is. As you said, he's had probably the most character development out of the ten Eternals, and then he just goes and kills himself? Though I do wonder if that's actually the end of him - I wouldn't be surprised to see Ikaris again in an Eternals sequel, whether he actually survived that or is reborn somehow.
I interpreted it as a combination of guilt for his betrayal of his orders, and simply not seeing any path forward as he can neither go back to Arishem, nor openly fight against him. But it's certainly left unusually vague, considering how radical a move it is. As you said, he's had probably the most character development out of the ten Eternals, and then he just goes and kills himself? Though I do wonder if that's actually the end of him - I wouldn't be surprised to see Ikaris again in an Eternals sequel, whether he actually survived that or is reborn somehow.
I thought of that too, because someone mistook him for Superman and there was the thing in the Henry Cavil movie where the sun revitalized him...
View original postAll in all, it honestly feels like a bunch of random stuff thrown together that no one thought twice about, because they were so absorbed with shooting impressive landscapes.
I liked it well enough, in some ways more than e.g. most of the Iron Man movies, but definitely it has issues and probably should have been handled better. Perhaps by having a few Eternals show up in a different Marvel movie to help reduce the amount of exposition needed in this one, or maybe an Eternals TV series first before the movie. Or just a different approach to writing this movie.
This thing was begging for a Disney+ series to properly build to the reveal, and have more interactions to get a sense of them as a family so the conflicts landed better.
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“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Inde muagdhe Aes Sedai misain ye!
Deus Vult!
*MySmiley*
How many ways is the story of Icarus in "The Eternals" stupid?
- 12/11/2021 05:04:26 AM
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For once, your main criticism is the same one that I see in many reviews in the media.
- 12/11/2021 11:45:16 AM
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Re: For once, your main criticism is the same one that I see in many reviews in the media.
- 12/11/2021 11:10:57 PM
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comics lore, only a single issue
- 12/11/2021 02:15:12 PM
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That would be like going by Bhyll because my dad is Bill. What even?
- 12/11/2021 11:12:28 PM
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