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The Eternals

What it should have been

By Alexandrea CallaghanPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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So here's the deal, the Eternals was terrible. I've said it repeatedly and I'll say it some more, but here's the thing…it didn’t have to be. The Eternals was a lot to tackle all on it's own, with 5 generations it's not only a lot of characters to choose from but it's a lot of personalities and relationships to flesh out which is why first and foremost, the Eternals should have had a miniseries before it became a movie.

Instead of giving us an hour and a half of set up and build, without much development what we should have gotten was an episode per relationship all drawing to the conclusion of the Eternals reuniting.

Episode 1: Sersi and Ikaris

Keep all of the scenes having to do with their relationship and add how they started, give us their whole timeline, their best moments over 45 minutes to an hour, slip into this episode Sersi’s friendship with Sprite and Sprite’s affection for Ikaris.

Episode 2: Druig and Makkari

Now this was the relationship I wanted more of, their affection for each other was very clear and the actors' chemistry was absolutely incredible. They were genuinely the only two characters I cared about. So keep the single flashback scene we saw of their friendship and add to it, I want to see them helping each other. I want to see her comfort him after Ajak tells him to stand down again. I want to see them escape the group together because they just need some decompression time. I want to see more of their bond.

Episode 3: Sprite

Now here's where we get into the love triangle so it doesn't feel like it came out of nowhere. Any scenes we saw that were included in the first episode are now seen from Sprite’s perspective. We see her looking longingly, we see her relationship with Ikaris and her frustration with being seen as a child. We see her friendship with Kingo develop, I see him in an older brother-like role for her. I would love to see more of her illusions and how she entranced people with her stories.

Episode 4: Gilgamesh and Thena

Now this was also a relationship that was interesting and wasn’t given enough screen time so we really need to see it develop because it seemed to come up only after her mind was fractured. I would love to see them training and sparring together, joking and bonding when they are all together, sneaking off to go destroy random things out from under Ajak’s watchful eye.

Episode 5: Ajak

Now obviously she would have appeared in the others episodes but she deserves her own episode and here's where she would reveal to Ikaris the plan of the celestials, here we would see Ajak bond with Sprite and make decisions with Phastos, we would see her guide them together and encourage them to interact with humanity. Here we see her conflict and eventual resolve to save the earth.

Episode 6: Phastos and Kingo

We saw very little of him and what he wanted but I would love to see more of him planting the seeds of development into humanity, I want to see his joy at watching them grow, I want to see him just sitting in the ship and creating anything and everything and then deciding when humans would be ready for it. I’d love to see him develop a friendship with Kingo. I like this pairing for an episode because there would be the perfect amount of contrast within personalities and this could potentially be a very funny, sweet, thoughtful episode.

At the end of each episode we jump back to present day and the characters the episode focused on reunite with the group from the previous episode and then slip in 2 minutes of why they're reuniting. A little bit of information each time and in 6 episodes of setup you’ve made it very easy to go to a well written and well structured feature film. The Eternals has the potential to have a great second film but it has a grueling uphill battle because this first movie was so all over the place and overall underwhelming.

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Alexandrea Callaghan

Certified nerd, super geek and very proud fangirl.

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