@TheUnworthyThor - What was frustrating to me about it was how literally and uncritically it approached the material.

The Royal Family was presented as the rightful rulers of a nation organized by genetic caste. The only problem came when Maximus started rousing the rabble. That's an utterly reprehensible premise. Even if the main thrust of the series was to depict the Family displaced and at a disadvantage while Maximus was a callous tyrant, it still suggests that this caste system was justifiable to the main characters before. And it's also straight out of Fantastic Four #47.

Yes, if you had an exceptionally sharp script maybe you could square that circle of character growth to make these people likable, (I get the intention), but their growth was minimal and we never got a clear view of them before being exiled (and the show wasn't interested in rebuking them at that stage anyway). At least to my memory.

Class politics can be interesting, and you can have an unsympathetic monarch who is compelling or redeemed. But the show sort of landed on Black Bolt being the princeling of a fascist ethnostate and that's okay.

And this is what makes me really nervous about Eternals, because the Deviants include a fair smattering of the same kind of class/caste geno-politics, too. (The Kirby comics themselves actually reflect some interesting nuance with the Deviants that he didn't seem to have for the Alpha Primitives.) It's just so often such a slippery normative slope with his material.

@99OPTIMISTPRIME - All you need is X.