I haven’t read the comic at all, so I’m just going by what I see in the show.
My question is, what’s so wrong with the impending Viltrum rule?
They would almost certainly bring advanced technology and medicine. I can’t really imagine that they’d really care about any of humanity’s advancements. Our most adventurous missions barely scrape the edge of our own system, let alone be getting in their way.
What impositions would they really put on us? Are they going to change laws or make things severely different?
From the sounds of it they just want to add another planet to their empire? We’d get better tech, universal knowledge and medicine - plus some powerful protectors.
That doesn’t sound like the worst deal I’ve heard…
Light comic spoilers but the general plan of a Viltrumite takeover is spelled out for us later, and it’s predictably not great for the conquered: !> They will get better technology, cures, and reduced human on human violence while being ruled over. They’ll be made to work in the various industries necessary to strip the planet’s resources, but assuming they cooperate with Viltrumite rule their quality of life will be better… for a few hundred years. After a handful of generations Earth will be picked clean and left a decimated husk. As for humanity, at that point the best outcome is they prove useful enough to be brought into space for help the Viltrumites conquer other planets. Otherwise they’ll just be left behind to die off.