LogFAQs > #959841833

The mission of The Eternals was really to grow the population. Why? What did the population do that helped grow the celestial in the planet? I get that Earth is an egg, but how does having people or even just living beings on it help grow the being inside of it?

Also, they say they didn't help stop Thanos because he wasn't a threat, but the guy wiped out half the population, which seems to be a detriment to their main goal. Even if only the two Eternals knew the truth about their mission at the time, you would think they would get the OK to help out because he is removing half the population of the galaxy, not just earth. It affected EVERY PLANET, EVERY 'EGG' with a celestial in it.

Last thing, so like how does the celestial know when to hatch? Is that one last baby born so the population hits 8 billion or something and then he is full and ready to be born? Also, that massive hand and head coming out of the earth would have caused catastrophic activities on the planet. So many earthquakes alone, shifting the plates would have caused tsunamis and tectonic shifts that would have devastated the planet. That too made no sense.