"Outerlands" Provides Community in Unexpected Places
Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.

Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.
We can criticize depictions from old media, but they weren’t simply “good for their time”. They were fighting and struggling in a world we can’t imagine.
Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.
How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?
Having Sersi be the central force in Eternals is unprecedented in its viewpoint and focus, from demonstrating a gentle type of leadership, to being overlooked in a group setting but succeeding in the goal at hand anyways, to having romantic options, to strength and integrity, and majority screen time - for a group that's given less screentime than aliens.