Ha! It's like the Doctor Who episode where the Moon ended up being an egg and they decide to let it hatch, dooming everyone on Earth. Great concept! But then it just birthed another new moon right in its place the same size. What? Copout.
It's just kinda too comic-booky an idea for a grounded, realistic movie universe. It could have worked if the Celestials had suddenly chosen Earth as the next incubator and the Eternals fought for these people - and not even these people, but the humans who will be victims in 1000 years when it hatches. That also explains where they (haven't) been.
On the other hand, I still like the idea we talked about in the other thread about how the return from the Snap jumpstarted Earth into labor and the Eternals think it's unfair to kill the heroes who just returned half the universe's population to life and so turn on the Celestials. It could almost be basically the same plot minus Deviants and having Ikaris and one or two others be the "villains", doing what they were programmed to do.
I think it also would have been better to at least seed (pun intended) one of these characters before this movie and push this movie further into Phase 4. Sersi could have been worked into an existing property as an anthropologist or whatever worked, or let us start seeing glimpses of Kingo (like his posters in the GOTG Xmas special). Or, during the Five Years Later gap, there were reports of super-powered beings doing some hero-ing in random parts of the world. Hell, Sersi could be a street artist on a mission to bring beauty back into a sad world, using her powers to turn ugly things into something beautiful and engendering hope. Sprite could spin the tales. Or Phastos did some engineering to keep the world's power grids from failing. Something.
It's just kinda too comic-booky an idea for a grounded, realistic movie universe. It could have worked if the Celestials had suddenly chosen Earth as the next incubator and the Eternals fought for these people - and not even these people, but the humans who will be victims in 1000 years when it hatches. That also explains where they (haven't) been.
On the other hand, I still like the idea we talked about in the other thread about how the return from the Snap jumpstarted Earth into labor and the Eternals think it's unfair to kill the heroes who just returned half the universe's population to life and so turn on the Celestials. It could almost be basically the same plot minus Deviants and having Ikaris and one or two others be the "villains", doing what they were programmed to do.
I think it also would have been better to at least seed (pun intended) one of these characters before this movie and push this movie further into Phase 4. Sersi could have been worked into an existing property as an anthropologist or whatever worked, or let us start seeing glimpses of Kingo (like his posters in the GOTG Xmas special). Or, during the Five Years Later gap, there were reports of super-powered beings doing some hero-ing in random parts of the world. Hell, Sersi could be a street artist on a mission to bring beauty back into a sad world, using her powers to turn ugly things into something beautiful and engendering hope. Sprite could spin the tales. Or Phastos did some engineering to keep the world's power grids from failing. Something.
