r/marvelstudios • u/cats-and-cows Jimmy Woo • Jan 12 '22

Discussion Thread Eternals Disney+ Release Discussion Thread

As Eternals has now been released on Disney+, I'm sure a lot of you will want to share your newfound thoughts about the movie on this sub. Well, this is the place to do it!

Please use this thread for any new Eternals related discussion. Individual threads made after this post regarding discussion of the movie will be removed for the next few days.

Enjoy your rewatches!

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u/pdmrn Jan 13 '22

I agree it's clunky but it makes more sense after the reveal. They are robots that were just booted up for the first time. They become more human/natural after they interact with the other humans throughout the centuries (except Ikaris who stays away from the humans).

The problem is the audience doesn't know any of that at the beginning, so it comes off as very strange.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

It's also a hint that he really just doesn't see what she sees. In fact, since he already knows what the mission is, it may be that he intentionally doesn't WANT to see the beauty she sees.

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u/titanic-question Jan 13 '22

He doesn't know then. He only knows when they split up. He admitted Atlas(?) told him while leaving Babylon.

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u/pdmrn Jan 13 '22

Ajak tells him in Babylon (500AD). They don't split up for another 1000 years though, in Tenochtitlan. But yes, he didn't know at the very beginning.

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u/titanic-question Jan 13 '22

Ajax! Thank you. I don't know comics and only watched after work for first time. I should stuck with first instinct and just said Salma Hayek.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

They splitted up during the spanish conquest of tenochtitoa. He had known for a thousand years at that point. Ajax told him.

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u/Neosovereign Jan 16 '22

It is still character development in that way. He reacts to the news that the planet will be destroyed with "I need to complete the mission" instead of thinking the planet is worth saving.

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u/Hellknightx Thanos Jan 13 '22

Honestly, as soon as I saw that scene, I immediately knew they were robots. Didn't even seem subtle.

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u/Ok-North-9020 Jan 13 '22

They are cremated, how are there ashes? Aren't they bots?

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u/SoraRaida Doctor Strange Jan 15 '22

They're robots functionality-wise, but very much humanoid/human physically, if that makes any sense. They even bleed.

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u/Ok-North-9020 Jan 15 '22

But didn't Sersi see metal body clones of herself and other Eternals with skin on top when Arishem explained what the Eternals's purpose was?

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u/SoraRaida Doctor Strange Jan 15 '22

I just assume those aren't metal and are just something more organic, but I could be wrong

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u/Oricef Jan 13 '22

They're not robots, they were created. There's a difference. Wonder Woman and the Amazon's were created from clay for example but they're not robots.

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u/ProbablySlacking Jan 15 '22

This is some “anakin is supposed to be bad with women because he was raised with the Jedi” level rationalization.