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Ep. 147. My 'Eyes of Wakanda' review! · Vigilante Vibes Podcast

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  Hello my fellow nurse. It is Megan from Vigilante Vibes
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  and today I want to talk about Eyes of Wakanda, which released
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  this morning, which was weird because I could have sworn
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  Marvel said 9:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, but they released
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  it very early this morning and I already got to watch all four
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  and they are so great I love it. They remind me of the What If
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  show the episodes do, because each episode of what If is not
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  linear in the story, but they all kind of tie together at the
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  end, which is what they did here and I really liked it.
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  A lot of it 4 episodes and I say a lot of it's 4 episodes, but
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  majority of the episodes put you right in the middle of the
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  action. You get to know all of these
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  interesting characters. We get to see an iron fist.
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  Who is Drani? I thought it was going to be the
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  pirate queen of Ping High Bay and I even made a whole episode
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  about her which released today. So egg on my face.
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  But hey, you get to learn about another Iron Fist, whatever.
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  There's a lot that happens in these episodes, but I think the
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  biggest thing I took from it is that they really nailed the fact
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  that Wakanda isn't just the Black Panther.
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  It's so much more. There's such a rich history.
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  There's the War Dogs, which is what the whole show is about is
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  the War Dogs. And if you'll remember,
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  Killmonger's father and Black Panther movie was a war dog.
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  So that gives you a little bit of context.
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  And Speaking of Killmonger, the entire show links back to
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  Killmonger like the end show, the end, the ending of the
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  fourth episode is Killmonger, which it was masterfully done.
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  I love what they did. I loved it.
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  Like I said, each episode is different.
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  You get to know these different characters.
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  My favorite one is, I think it's the third episode with Basha,
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  who turns out to be an F boy who sleeps with Jorani and then dips
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  the next morning without so much as a goodbye.
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  And their their dynamic is very funny 'cause she's like, I
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  seduced you. He's and he's like, I seduced
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  you. It was cute.
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  I liked it. I liked what was going on there.
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  But also we got to see a really great interpretation of Iron
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  Fist, which I think is pretty needed after Danny Rand and
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  Marvel shows. I, I liked what Finn did with
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  Danny Rand, but I I don't like what he OK, I liked him as Danny
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  Rand, but I think he could have done better.
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  I mean he even has some of the same mannerisms that you see in
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  the comics of Iron Fist. But I just wish the writing was
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  better. I wish he would have done
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  better. I wish he was at Colleen Wings
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  standards, if you understand what that means.
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  So there, that's that. But yeah, I really, really liked
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  it. All four episodes were
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  action-packed. They were.
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  I'm not usually an animated fan, not not a big animation fan, but
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  I will say this really kept my attention really well.
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  The art of it was beautifully done.
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  We got really gorgeous looks at Wakanda.
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  That's outside of what we usually see in the Wakanda
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  movies. We found some really great
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  compelling characters who I think was the most compelling
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  was the first war dog, who her story is shown in the first
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  episode is Nani. And she kind of stays around for
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  the 4 episodes. Like she's not in all four, but
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  she's her presence is felt. But yeah, it was beautifully
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  done. And they did bring in Black
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  Panther, not to Chala, not to chalk up it was I don't know if
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  it ever said her name. I do not know, but she was in
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  this episode, she was the last Black Panther, and that was also
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  wonderfully handled. What's interesting about the
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  show is that, well, first of all, it's 100% on Rotten
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  Tomatoes as of now, which is bananas.
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  But also, it has absolutely nothing to do with the overlying
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  story of the MCU, which I really, really hope they do more
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  of. It has nothing to do with
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  Doomsday. It leads nowhere to Secret Wars.
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  It has no impact on any movie or show.
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  It's just its own thing. And I really, really want to see
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  that happen more because Marvel's history is so rich with
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  all of these characters that we should be able to see even if
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  they're not involved in Doomsday or Secret Wars.
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  I liked it, I dug it, I thought it was great.
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  So I do wish it was more than 4 episodes because the episodes
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  are 31 minutes each and you know, give like they're really
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  long credits, like 2425 minutes each.
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  It wasn't much to work with, but what they did give us was
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  powerful. So I, I dug it, I liked it.
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  I want to see these characters again, but there's absolutely no
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  way because it was an ancient Wakanda.
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  There's just, there's no way. But it, it was good.
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  It was well worth the wait. I am interested in why Marvel
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  moved it up by three weeks and then dropped it early again by
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  dropping it this morning. But I just want to, I want to be
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  a family on the wall for a lot of these things.
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  But besides all that, I think it was great.
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  I highly recommend it if you are a Black Panther fan, a Marvel
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  fan, a Wakanda fan, definitely check it out because it gives
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  you a whole new appreciation for the Dora Milaje.
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  It gives you a new appreciation for the people of Wakanda and
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  the history of Wakanda. So that is my review.
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  more of these reviews or my character breakdowns or anything
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  that goes with it. So with that being said, have a
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  marvelous day.