what exactly is the eternal?

[kurt]

hey!
i only saw a few episodes a long time ago
and i was wondering what exactly the eternal was (in season2) it looks like well's original martians.
also i heard there was actualy a whole diffrent reason for the invasion?

[Jace]

The Eternal is the Morthren "god." Only, their god is actually a real, living being that they see and talk to. It is a very large "floating" jellyfish-like thing with one eye (which appears to have the three pupils like the Morthren native body, but the eye color is green instead of the reddish brown of the Morthren). The Eternal speaks in "whalesounds" which is probably just a poor choice of sound effects on the foley artists' part (as were many sounds in series 2, though I liked the disintegrator ray sound).

Series 2 never explained the Eternal. The Eternal told them what to do on occasion, but was noteably absent at other times.

The Eternal refuses to accept Kimo (a Morthren scientist) after his human body is scarred, but the Eternal accepts Malzor's failures. (I have some interesting theories on this area too)

Malzor said to one of his people in the begining of "Second Wave" "Wherever the Eternal is, so too is Morthri." Morthri is the name of the Morthren's homeworld (conflicting with the name that the TV series novel gave and which "Quinn" gave Harrison (Mor-Tax).

I think that the grand scheme was to go like this (assuming the series would not have been cancelled):
(remember this is only my theory)

The Eternal is the reason the Morthren were "out to cleanse the universe of imperfection" (even stated by Malzor - "The Eternal demands that we cleanse all imperfection"). The Eternal is either the creator of the Morthren species, or they are an offshoot of it, or the Eternal is a "3rd-party" species that took over the Morthren (my ideal would be that this happened after the original invasion, which would be part of the explanation for the changes in the Morthren between the two very different seasons).

I think the end would have gone like this: humans and their very few alien friends would have worked into some knowledge of the Eternal and its manipulative goals. Eventually leading to a fight against the Eternal to free the Morthren and end the war.

The actual end of the series, "The Obelisk," just makes the whole thing a revenge story and it is clealy tacked on without thought. It is also clearly sudden and does not match with the actions, words and behaviors of the Morthren prior to this final episode.

I wonder what would have been...

[Bayne]

[glow=red,2,300]Interesting, I never saw any of the episodes with The Eternal in them. Does anyone have a screen cap of it?
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[kurt]

thanks for that,
i always thought that maybe it would turn out that the eternal was a kind of wizard of oz "man behind the screen" thingy with maybe malzor being behind it.
was there somthing about some alien from the movie being malzors wife? i never saw the last episode and i can never seem to afford the unofficial dvds!

[morthren]

Does anyone have any images of The Eternal? I don't remember what it looked like exactly. A giant bed bug or mite??

[morthren]

The Eternal!

[morthren]

THE ETERNAL