Spoiler Warning: The next article accommodates main spoilers for The Eternaut. Should you’ve but to look at the sci-fi sequence, please test it out with a Netflix subscription.
When the 12 months began and I took a take a look at all of the upcoming book-to-screen diversifications, I had no concept that an Argentine sci-fi, The Eternaut (El Eternauta in Spanish), would come out of nowhere on the 2025 TV schedule and catch me off guard like this. However that’s precisely what occurred once I checked out the 2025 Netflix sequence concerning the residents of Buenos Aires struggling to outlive an apocalyptic metropolis after a mysterious snowstorm killed a lot of the inhabitants earlier than being invaded by aliens.
The sequence, which was tailored from Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López’s landmark comedian of the identical identify, was terribly partaking from begin to end, with its story of survival, group, and rising up in opposition to evil. However after blowing by way of the binge-worthy Netflix present over the course of a few nights, I’ve some main questions I would like answered if we get a second season.
Once more, spoilers comply with…
The place Are The Aliens From And What Do They Need With Earth?
Although you don’t discover out till the fourth episode, The Eternaut is about an alien invasion by a mysterious extraterrestrial species hellbent on taking on the planet (or not less than the South American continent). For probably the most half, these aliens appear to be big beetles that you just’d see in Starship Troopers (satirically sufficient, each happen in Buenos Aires, however I digress), outdoors of a mysterious chief with all these fingers and fingers controlling the whole lot seen in the previous few moments of the sixth and last episode.
By no means in The Eternaut is it revealed the place these big bugs got here from, what’s up with the all-controlling chief, or what they wish to do with the planet. At first, I believed they wished to kill everybody with that poisonous snow proven within the present’s trailer, however then it’s revealed that they’ll take management of people and have them do their bidding. If we get a second season, I hope that the aliens’ origins and motivations are explored in nice element.
Had been Juan Salvo’s Visions Hallucinations Or Forgotten Reminiscences?
All through The Eternaut, Juan Salvo (Ricardo Darín), primarily the primary character of the sequence, goes to nice lengths to search out his spouse, reunite together with his daughter, and make sure that humanity survives the following alien invasion. Each every so often, Juan has what seem like both hallucinations or recollections he’s lengthy forgotten about, or a mixture of the 2. Nearly each episode has Juan witnessing crashing asteroids (later revealed to be the aliens), nightmarish environments, and a lot dying.
And whereas one part is revealed to be Juan uncovering a deep-buried reminiscence of his days within the army (this explains how he stays so calm and takes so many nice photographs with an previous rifle or handgun), the others are left ambiguous. There’s a second on the finish of the season finale the place the protagonist tells one other survivor that he had been by way of this earlier than, nevertheless it’s by no means said explicitly if this was from an expertise or a imaginative and prescient. If a second season joins the ranks of upcoming horror TV reveals in some unspecified time in the future, I hope the character’s mysterious origins are additional explored, or not less than made extra clear.
Is Clara Simply One other Individual Beneath The Aliens’ Management, Or Is She Half Of One thing Larger?
Close to the tip of The Eternaut’s fifth episode, it’s revealed that the aliens have taken management over a number of the people and are utilizing them to do their bidding (just like the assault on the shopping-mall-turned-refugee-camp). And within the last episode, it’s implied that Juan Salvo’s daughter, Clara (Mora Fisz), is a kind of chosen by the invaders. Although she by no means outright confirms something or tries to kill anybody just like the others underneath their thoughts management, Clara does have an ominous look on her face simply earlier than the credit roll within the finale.
So, this acquired me pondering – is Clara simply one other survivor being managed by the aliens, or is she a part of one thing larger? The best way the present focuses on her character, in addition to all of the unusual occurrences and lapses in her reminiscence, leads me to consider that there are larger issues in retailer for Clara transferring ahead.
Although nothing has been confirmed relating to a second season of The Eternaut, it’s exhausting to think about Netflix would finish a narrative at what appears to be the midway level. However when extra data is introduced, I’ll be there to dig by way of it.