The Eternaut

[OliviaRodrigoStan 5,820]

A strange snow starts falling from the sky, killing those it makes contact with. A man embarks on a mission, to find his lost daughter amongst the deadly cold. 

Such is the premise of Netflix' new sci-fi hit series, The Eternaut. Based on a comic book of the same name, published in 1957, the story imagines a post-apocaliptic scenario, where humanity's darkest, and brightest aspects, are exposed. 

Survival of the fittest, or collective effort? which one is it, that is closest to the true human nature? what is the true color of the human heart? . Starring Ricardo Darín, the series premiered to great success, with critics and audience praising its moody pacing and suspensful atmosphere. 

The graphic novel's author, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, was a geologist, and made a career in journalism before writing "El Eternauta". His political activism made him a target during Argentina's dictatorship, and he wrote part of the story in hiding. 

Eventually, the military party murdered him, as well as his daughters. 

The series, which consists of 6 episodes, is set for a second season, although no release date has been confirmed. 

Have you watched this retro sci-fi thriller besties? 

Edited yesterday at 08:59 PM by OliviaRodrigoStan

[Franch Toast 26,391]

Omg, I know the person who translated the comic book! 

[Taumaturg0 359]

Mi país mi país 

[Morphine Prince 104,806]

I binged it last weekend. 

3.5/5. It was good. There were parts the dialogue just got too much but overall entertaining show.

The first half is different than the second half.

Definitely worth the watch and finally an apocalyptic show not set in the US lol.

[djfreemymind 853]

After all these years, Reechard can still get it. El Chino quien???

I mean, if he can get it from La Su...

[shootagun 21]

I've watched it with my parents and it's really good! I've also read the comic back in my high school days.  

[River 113,274]

6 hours ago, Franch Toast said:

Omg, I know the person who translated the comic book! 

It was not this book, it was another one that I translated, we talked about it last week at the ComicCon

[OliviaRodrigoStan 5,820]

8 hours ago, Franch Toast said:

Omg, I know the person who translated the comic book! 

I was surprised by how good the ~performance~ from the english voice actors was. The man dubbing Ricardo Darín was so on point, I thought for a moment they were using AI cause it sounded just like him, but in english. 

I'm still a bit suspicious TBH 

[beli8 1,420]

About to finish watching it. My childhood home is like 5 miles from the place where they go to towards the end of this season (don't wanna say more to avoid any spoilers)!

I love Darin so it was a must watch for me and I'm happy that it is getting a lot of recognition outside of Argentina.

[OliviaRodrigoStan 5,820]

56 minutes ago, beli8 said:

I love Darin so it was a must watch for me and I'm happy that it is getting a lot of recognition outside of Argentina.

I just watched a video of the "lloverga/paraguasca" joke in different languages, it was funny to see how foreign translators tried to adapt it, since it's impossible 

 

18 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

I binged it last weekend. 

3.5/5. It was good. There were parts the dialogue just got too much but overall entertaining show.

Apparently the graphic novel had a lot more action scenes, but then again, some of it might come on the second (and final) season. I regret not paying attention to my dad when he tried to get me into the story, he was a huge fan, but I didn't really care about sci-fi back then .

I think I should also update the OP, I left out everything involving the author's political activism, and his murder, and it's actually noteworthy. Specially considering right-wing voters in my country are trying to sabotage the show, arguing it's "a leftist series" (which yes, it is ). 

[beli8 1,420]

1 hour ago, OliviaRodrigoStan said:

I just watched a video of the "lloverga/paraguasca" joke in different languages, it was funny to see how foreign translators tried to adapt it, since it's impossible 

Lol! I think I just found it. Yeahhhh, definitely a challenge with that one. The english version was so lackluster lol aww.

[Taumaturg0 359]

1 hour ago, OliviaRodrigoStan said:

I just watched a video of the "lloverga/paraguasca" joke in different languages, it was funny to see how foreign translators tried to adapt it, since it's impossible 

and none of them are even close

[Taumaturg0 359]

1 hour ago, OliviaRodrigoStan said:

 

Apparently the graphic novel had a lot more action scenes, but then again, some of it might come on the second (and final) season. I regret not paying attention to my dad when he tried to get me into the story, he was a huge fan, but I didn't really care about sci-fi back then .

 

There's a great tome that collects the whole orginal series, by editorial planeta. It's quite easy to get

[onionring 443]

Didn't know it that comic was being adapted I only know about it from a comics youtuber that showed one day randomly on my feed 

I don't know how to embed yt vids but this is the one 

It contains some light spoilers but showed be ok with anyone already familiar with the source material, anyway such a fascinating story, highly recommend giving this video a watch. 

It embeded yay

 

 

Edited yesterday at 10:44 PM by onionring

[OliviaRodrigoStan 5,820]

10 hours ago, onionring said:

Didn't know it that comic was being adapted I only know about it from a comics youtuber that showed one day randomly on my feed 

I don't know how to embed yt vids but this is the one 

I watched it yesterday, it's a great video. 

11 hours ago, beli8 said:

Lol! I think I just found it. Yeahhhh, definitely a challenge with that one. The english version was so lackluster lol aww.

Somebody said "they missed the chance to write cumbrella" and it's true . I think english was probably the only language in which they could adapt the silly puns, they just had to bring Cupcakke to do the translation