Eternals

I spent the first of my Relics: Treasures On Earth pay on Marvel’s Eternals, which seemed apt as it’s about superhuman celestial beings living among us being thrown into a crisis after centuries of relative peace. Of course I wanted to see the film suggested by the end credits (which we get a couple of flashbacks of) with the characters being represented in art across human civilisation...

The film felt like a bit of a superhero movie throwback in some ways, notably its almost complete disconnection from the wider MCU apart from being kicked off by Thanos and addressing why the Eternals didn’t get involved before. One other Marvel Comics character makes a debut appearance as basically an Easter egg given how little they get to do.

(We get DC superhero references instead! One of the Eternals has a valet explained as like Alfred and another is called Superman as... a square-jawed flying brick who shoots lasers out of his eyes. No-one comments on the Grecian-style warrior queen with the armour tiara. Or to a lesser extent the speedster wearing red.)

I also goes rather Ancient Astronauts, which I hate, but not as deep with it as the comics.

I have little familiarity with the characters, having read the 2006 miniseries by Neil Gaiman and John Romita Jr. and seen Sersi on a Marvel SAGA card. But of course I know them from the myths they come from, presented as distorted and inaccurate down to spellings of their names.

And they’re not unfamiliar from the Lee and Kirby run of superhuman and/or godlike pantheons and royal families, as already shown in Thor, Inhumans and to an extent Black Panther...

Complete with the obvious sketchy one. So it’s surprising when it’s one of the others who betrays the party.

I don’t know how accurate their origin is, as heroic betrayers of their space god masters, but it was also kind of surprising.

Also impressed with a bit of casting at the end as the actor and character both make me go eww.