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Hoary Hump Day 2022

It’s cold as a witch’s you-know-what this week by local standards. I’ve got colleagues further west whose January “normal” is in the negative twenties. Egads! Oh well, Spring is coming…

Doing The Impossible

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ~Francis of Assisi

I’ve been staying ahead of things for the most part.

My system, such as it is, intersects with a fair dose of good luck to keep my head above water.

Given the prevailing temperatures, that’s about the best I can hope for.

As long as things remain evenly paced, I should get through the current rush with my sanity intact.

Meh {Spoiler Warning}

Watch This Before You See Marvel’s Eternals

Everything You Need To Know Before Watching Eternals

I said in my last post that I’d wind up watching The Eternals and let you know what I got from it.

Not much.

As I said previously, I’m not a big fan of world-threatening storylines. That’s just not my thing.

I didn’t mind it for The Avengers because they built up to it over the course of several movies and it still felt up close and personal throughout the arc.

Not these guys. Their original stated purpose was to save all of humanity from the Deviants. Oh well, plot twist, their actual purpose was to help their weird-looking boss, Arishem, to help hatch a new Celestial.

That’s their moral dilemma throughout the movie.

Oh, gee, planet Earth is a big ol’ egg and it’s gonna hatch a Celestial.
Yay
But that means billions of human beings and helpless animals, birds, fish, etc are gonna be toast.
Boo
But if the Celestial doesn’t hatch, it will have a butterfly effect that prevents the eventual creation of billions of other entities sometime in the future.
Boo
What do we do?

It’s an interesting twist and a fine moral conundrum, but the downfall of “whole world at risk” stories is that you generally realize that they’re not going to actually destroy the world.

Alderaan? Sure. Krypton? Given. Random imaginary planet somewhere in space? Total coin toss. Earth? Nope, guaranteed save.

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Some other problems I had with it was that very few of the characters are particularly likeable. The one guy has a comic relief sidekick who saves the movie from being entirely unbearable.

We don’t really get to know them because they stick to their “Hey, we’re immortal world-saving secret supers you’re not supposed to know about.” angle most of the time.

The one guy is just a creep who never really improves significantly.

Another guy who has been keeping the big secret turns out to be a semi-baddie because he wants to stay on-mission, but his would-be girlfriend semi-convinces him that the Earth is special and should be saved from the ensuing process of hatching a new Celestial.

Basically, I don’t care about any of them because I’m not given much reason to.

The ones who are somewhat sympathetic aren’t given enough development to make them particularly enjoyable. The ones who are not particularly sympathetic, well, I’m just glad they’re dead and hope they stay that way.

Apart from Dane breaking out the Ebony Sword, I’m not seeing much in the way of integrating this into the overall tapestry of the MCU. I’m sure they will anyway, but it’s not readily apparent how the surviving Eternals will fit into the forthcoming Kang arc.

So, basically, it’s largely forgettable and constitutes about two hours of my life I’ll never get back.

Questions We Have After Watching Eternals