jbouieSo uh, what did people think of WAKANDA FOREVER?
Transient. Dim. Moist.@jbouie Mixed feelings. Some neat ideas, a very clearly heartfelt sense of grief, but I don't think it really gelled. Felt like Shuri was being sent through a set of emotional beats they needed her to hit. Riri was severely under-characterized.
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(I think Riri, like America Chavez in MULTIVERSE, needed to be way more fleshed out as a character and a voice if they wanted her to be a consistent presence in the film. Both characters felt like they were just being dragged along in someone else's plot because they needed to be placed on the board for future projects, and it made them feel flat and lacking in agency.)
(I think Riri, like America Chavez in MULTIVERSE, needed to be way more fleshed out as a character and a voice if they wanted her to be a consistent presence in the film. Both characters felt like they were just being dragged along in someone else's plot because they needed to be placed on the board for future projects, and it made them feel flat and lacking in agency.)
@jbouie Also, killing off the queen felt weird juxtaposed against the death of T'challa--both because of the real world situation, and because it made the situation feel much more bleak and grim in a way that didn't really work for me.
Pxtl@MrReciprocity @jbouie imho the biggest problem with the movie's body-count is that this meant that Shuri had to pivot hard from being the comic relief character into the brooding protagonist, and it just didn't work for her.