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Eternals has some questioning the film’s final act, including debating whether the team’s initial plan to fight a Celestial would have worked.
Eternals hit Disney+ last week, and while fans have revisited Marvel’s epic offering once again, they have been left a few questions surrounding the film’s integral plot. Centering around a group of otherworldly, ultra-powerful beings with varying gifts, Eternals is a high-budget, visually appealing offering in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Still, many fans felt that the film’s overall plot was lacking due to too many characters and a muddy storyline.
The main conflict in Eternals centers around “the Emergence,” in which Arishem, a Celestial being responsible for creating both the Eternals and their foes, the Deviants, reveals he has planted the seeds of young Celestials all over the galaxy on various planets. Once each planet reaches the desired population density, this triggers these new Celestials to emerge — and unfortunately for the Eternals, it will be erupting right out of planet Earth itself. This conflict divides the Eternals: some wish to fulfill their mission assigned by Arishem by letting the new Celestial, Tiamut, emerge as originally intended, while the other half wish desperately to save the planet they’ve grown to love over centuries. The latter half is so keen on saving the planet, in fact, that they form a plan to try and save it from its impending doom, only for the idea to fail miserably.
Though this conflict seems black and white, it directly challenges the Eternals and everything they believe. While those that wish to save the planet don’t want to kill Tiamut in the process, there doesn’t seem to be any feasible way to protect Earth and show mercy to the Celestial, until they come up with a plan to combine their powers together to try and put Tiamut to sleep, preventing the Emergence altogether. This idea would enable the Eternals to connect to each other in something called a Uni-Mind, combining the strength of their various abilities together to strengthen Druig’s ability to compel Tiamut to sleep.
Unfortunately, in the midst of conflict with the rest of the Eternals trying to carry out Arishem’s plan, Druig is injured and is left unable to carry out the original intention of putting Tiamut to sleep. This leaves Sersi to carry out the final act of the film, using her ability to transfigure materials, combined with the strength of her fellow Eternals, to turn Tiamut into a giant block of ice as he begins to emerge from the sea. While not the original plan, this does succeed in stopping the Emergence, though many are left wondering: what if Druig hadn’t been injured and was able to finish the original job?
Prior to being injured by Ikarus, Druig does seem to be putting Tiamut to sleep at one point, with the volcanoes surrounding the area dying down as he begins to work his magic. Had Ikarus not intervened, Druig may have been able to successfully stop the Celestial, but there are some contingencies within this original plan that present their own challenges. Had the Eternals successfully managed to put Tiamut to sleep, it would have only been a temporary solution; they still would have had to find a way to get the entire population off of the planet before the Celestial reawakened. This is a whole complication in and of itself. Realistically speaking, it would take some time to find a suitable planet with proper living conditions for life, and time was not a luxury that the Eternals had in the wake of the Emergence.
For one, it would be incredibly difficult to explain to the population that the world as they knew it would be ending in a short amount of time, and it would be even harder to convince anyone to leave their home planet to escape a Celestial being set on destroying it. At first glance, the scenario is a massive long shot, and there’s no margin for error. Another group that would be directly affected by this scenario would be the Asgardians, who narrowly escaped death at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War and were forced to rebuild their home in New Asgard, located in Norway. This group of people has already been through the destruction of their home planet and the death of most of their people, which makes them unlikely to want to give it all up again.
However, despite saving the planet and freezing the Celestial, the Eternals’ plan didn’t go, well, according to plan. Even though humanity was saved, which was the ultimate goal, this act of heroism went directly against their original mission assigned by Arishem, and their insolence was not without consequence.
To see why the original plan failed, Eternals is available to stream on Disney+.
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