[ SECRET POST #5486 ]

[case]

⌈ Secret Post #5486 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


01.



__________________________________________________



02.



__________________________________________________



03.



__________________________________________________



04.



__________________________________________________



05.



__________________________________________________



06.



__________________________________________________



07.












Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 14 secrets from Secret Submission Post #785.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[philstar22]

I wouldn't say that in the sense that in general sacrificing that many innocent people is not okay. But I think the idea that Earth is somehow different than every other planet and humans better than any other sapient race and therefore deserved to be saved when other races were sacrificed the way humans were going to be is stupid. I mean, I get why "human exceptionalism" is done in scifi, but I wish there was more scifi that didn't do that.

[(Anonymous)]

It’s only really Ajak who outright says Earth and humans were special. I don’t know why she suddenly face-turned, or why she thought that. Other than maybe she was never okay with the slaughter of any of the planets and their inhabitants, and while she went along with it out of a sense of duty, it finally wore down on her when she got to Earth. Or maybe the inhabitants of the previous planets weren’t as sentient as humans are, so she thought genuinely were different(not that that would be a good excuse for letting them be wiped out)? IDK, those are just theories.

The other Eternals that choose to save humanity, it can be implied that they think humans are special because this is the first time that they’ve rebelled, despite having their memories wiped every time they move on to another planet, and that meaning that they’ve never shown this rebellious spirit before that we know of. But they never outright say humans are special, and they would have no way of remembering the previous planets to know if that was true or false anyways, without the memories that Arishem would be unlikely to give back(other than when Cersi takes over for Ajak of course).

I think it makes senses that Cersi and the Eternals that support her would have reservations about letting the people they had protected and lived with for millennia be slaughtered. I get why it had to be Earth and humanity that made them rebel from Arishem’s grand design from a story point of view. Because Earth is the main setting of the majority of MCU movies, despite the rest of universe itself being established and explored a little elsewhere. But I think the planets and their inhabitants that The Eternals didn’t rebel for deserved to be saved too.