For more than sixty years, the possibility of adaptation Eternity It seemed distant. Especially because the classic Argentinean science fiction comic, first published in 1957, is more than the history of survival. That is, the best of the twentieth century. In addition, because the author Ecthor Herman Estherheld managed to provide the second and third readings, the fight against cruel force and hopelessness. Nevertheless, Netflix adaptation manages to capture not only the spirit of work, but also Add the necessary modern and universal air.
Everything, without losing his fidelity in the original story. In fact, a significant part of the merit of the creator Bruno Stagnaro, responsible for adaptation with Ariel Stal Tari, is to explore this in a comic book from different different corners. The story of an alien invasion, which begins with a destructive attack through toxic snow, reaches adaptation throughout its horror. Both, With a difficult perspective regarding irrational fear and mass chaos.
Everything, in the middle of the city of Buenos -Aires, turned into a scene in fragments, for the brutal struggle to preserve life. Eternity It is amazing to unite your most important and transcendental topics with pure science fiction. At the same time, in order for innovation in how a comic investigated terror to the inevitable. Between both, production is a tribute to the classics, as An independent story for a new generation of fans.
The apocalypse arrives in the summer
Eternity He devotes most of his first two chapters to raise the situation in which his characters live. So, in principle, in principle, very quickly. Any in Buenos Aires Summer, a mysterious atmospheric phenomenon makes its inhabitants by surprise. The abundant snowfall, which ultimately covers the whole city. But immediately it is clear that this is much more than climatic curiosity. This is when the main characters find that the flakes – that the series is more similar to ashes than to snow – They are toxic and cause death only with touch.
The plot guarantees that these first images of nightmares have a brilliance of a city disaster, which quickly spreads. In fact, desert landscapes of deserted streets and motorways are a perverted and ominous version of the empty landscapes of the pandemic. Thus, production uses this link with wisdom. Soon, for all the main characters, what is happening is a disaster of unknown origin. More seriously, it can hardly come from a natural event or human hands.
Hijacker
Then the argument turns Buenos Aires, which retains its personality, despite the gray layer of snow that covers it, into a terrifying landscape. EternityWhose origin was a pioneer to deepen the dystopia in the middle in the urban environment, it becomes to adapt it, a picture of the disaster. Thus, in the first minutes of inexplicable snowfall, the city is silent. What, In the middle of all and a hundred fading – then thousands – corpses everywhere.
To this tragedy without an obvious explanation, Juan Salvo (Ricardo Darin) will have to meet with any person who suddenly meets the call of the gambling along the streets covered with poisonous snow. Unlike a comic book, in which the character was about thirty years old, there is much more adaptation. The turn that the argument uses to deepen your experience and, above all, its reactionary ability against the disaster. The character becomes richer and more complicated when the observer becomes everything that happens, and testifies to a huge event, than he discovers only details. What allows the plot to save a good part of its secret – and what is really happening – For enough time to establish its atmosphere.
Pure and solid science fiction
Inconvenience EternityThis should tell about the type of gender path, which was already re -executed, such as the invasion of aliens. To avoid this, the script is focused on his interests in his characters, as well as in the long -term movement of the events that occur, while Juan tries to find out the origin of what is happening around him. Especially, over time, there is no information about the cause of the phenomenon or how to encounter it. Much more when their most aggressive and mortal effects are obvious.
Thus, the argument controls the transmission of science fiction in the closest memories of pandemia and even recent climatic tragedies or tragedies. In particular, with the ability to gradually make claustrophobic, more tense. Whatever happens outside the floor, in which Juan Salvo and his friends, this is a deadly mystery. But this is also the one that should be immediately resolved if you want to save life.
The best of Eternalauta comes to adaptation
Just like a comic book on which it is based Eternity He manages to transfer traditional turns and elements of the science fiction genre to places outside North America. Thus, when Juan is thrown into the street wrapped from head to toe to avoid contact with snow, he stumbles with a world, radically different from what he remembers. The famous Kabildo -de -Buenos -Aires Avenue rises like a giant tomb, full of broken vehicles and corpses. But in addition to the threat of snow, Juan soon discovers that there are more risks for persecution.
Especially because in the midst of chaos and terror the collective hysteria will turn survivors into enemies in order to be afraid. The script does a good job of investigating the world in chaos, without resorting only to a trigger for extreme situations. So the world that Juan, except travel It is full of pain, anger, as well as the dirty need for destruction.
However, Netflix adaptation is much less political than the original. Thus, although it exists is interested in demonstrating the inequality and violence of the class, in fact its goal is different. This, showing how in the midst of a situation that surpasses those who manage to stay alive, they should go to their peers. Reflection of solidarity, Loyalty and collective work, which gives the plot several of its best scenes.
Some failures of rhythm in good adaptation
Although in a large part of its six episodes Eternity He knew how to explore in his history without losing the density of the original, it is known that a change in the format affects the plot. Some of the most important events seem hasty, while others are a little embarrassed. Especially,When the argument moves away from the bewilderment of the first hours of the event to find out what is really happening.
Nevertheless, the series will win in the transmission of an extreme sensation of ordinary people for a clash with an extraordinary situation. First of all, emphasizing your message of resistance, as it leads to the power of collective cooperation. The turn of events that become more and more unique and cruel when they reach their shocking ending.And, of course, declares the second and necessary season. Good news for fans.
Source: Hiper Textual
