watching black panther 2. secret blue underwater mayans is a choice

what is HAPPENING

i am not sold on life in talokan. am i supposed to be taking it seriously that this is some grand splendorous marvel? it looks depressing as shit. it's tiny and there's almost no one and nothing to do. am i supposed to believe this is equal to wakanda but wet? god i can't believe they're trying to do secret underwater mayan wakanda worried about being imperialism'd by the western world, and addressing that fear by GOING TO WAR WITH EVERYONE why are all these movies like this

ALSO WE'VE GOT OUR TOKEN WHITE MAN SPEAKING TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE CIA TRYING TO CONVINCE THEM NOT TO DO A SOFT COUP. i just cannot believe that these movies have a good guy cia man i cannot believe these movies that position themselves as radical black power monuments expect us to believe in the good will of a man who WORKS FOR THE CIA

they killed angela bassett with water grenades

idk this suit's kinda busy

WHAT. oh no thank you i'm going to bed

why do wakandans and wet mayans and americans all agree that it's called "vibranium"

this looks worse than a rubber sentai suit

the general setup of black panther 2 is interesting because it takes the idea of wakanda being powerful because of its access to vibranium and says, what if there was a smaller wakanda in the ocean that also had vibranium but didn't have the continental position to shield itself from colonization in the same way once its existence was revealed.

unfortunately namor's solution to this problem is 1. kill an underage american scientist or 2. go to war with literally the entire world

i know that's the Bit with underwater civilizations, like oh we're gonna destroy the surface world or whatever. but i don't think you can get away with that in a movie that's otherwise concerned with the geopolitical standing of highly-advanced isolationist nations increasingly viewed as a global threat by the UN. like you have a scene where a CIA guy straight up says "we need to infiltrate and destabilize wakanda" so i know you know something about some history! the ideology of these movies man

namor says that talokan's position has been compromised now that its discovery is on the horizon specifically because wakanda revealed itself to not be an impoverished nation but rather a space age nation built on vibranium, and now all the western powers are hungry for vibranium. he's worried about colonization and destabilization. he also says we have more soldiers than you have guns, and we're going to destroy the nations of man

soooo what's the threat of being discovered then

i'd buy it if namor was bluffing in the face of some wakandan diplomats, but this whole thing is played completely straight. it's like what if cuba was north korea but they're a secret race of wet blue mayans who escaped colonization by eating a vibranium weed and also they have a guy with wings on his feet who can punch super strong

which, you know, when i lay it all out like that i can't but acknowledge that if i'm looking for political coherency i am definitely barking up the wrong tree lmao

if i seem overly dismissive about the cultural aspect of this movie it's because i'm insulted that it is trying to graft a serious reckoning with colonialism on top of a truly nonsensical revenge plot involving two separate sets of characters independently saying "i know our countries only exist uncolonized because of our historic isolation and internal ideological unity, but what if just this once we waged all out war on our enemies with vibranium superweapons in full public view"

oh my god they did it again they deliberately hit the absolute bare minimum of their allotted gay content

@sarahzedig how are you still watching this film

@irisjaycomics i had like fifteen minutes left and wanted to get high