It doesn't get "twilight dark" until 98% of the sun is obscured. If that's the maximum totality you experience, you experience it for ten seconds and then it's daylight again. Throughout the sun is too bright to look at.
By now I've probably experienced 10 90%+ partial eclipses plus three total eclipses. The first total eclipse I traveled to was obscured by clouds that rolled in five minutes before totality. It was a big nothing. During the partial eclipses, people look for strange shadows under trees. Other animals don't care. Big whoop.
ML/NJ
Just because you’ve chosen to take the stance of a jaded hipster doesn’t change the fact that a total eclipse experienced by a society who doesn’t know what’s going on WILL come as a shock and WILL make people look up. And the duration is generally longer than 5 minutes. And then of course if they look at it too long they’ll damage their eye sight. Very much a ring of fire to primitive people that don’t know what’s going on.