Hello and welcome to the first of my reviews for Wyrd and Wonder! We are starting with a little magic, a lot of monsters, and a healthy dollop of refreshing change…
There’s a new kid in town over at Serial Box, and the wonderful folks behind the curtain were good enough to offer me a complete ARC of Season 1. To my joy, I clicked right away with the first episode. So today begins my weekly review spot!
Let’s discuss Born To The Blade.
In this episode, Diane absorbs her hardest losses yet in her war with Davenant. Where can she go from here…?
Let’s discuss Tremontaine.
I don’t understand how you can see Killmonger disrespect culture, attack women, basically was trained by military to tear down civilizations, his own father says he is disappointed in what he’s done, move to arm black people outside of Wakanda with high tech weapons (yes cuz giving Leroy and em cannon blasters is gonna help the cause) and y’all still fix ya lips to say he was right lol when Nakia exists. Wild.
I was waiting for someone to say this.
There’s a reason he was the villain. He killed his girlfriend in cold blood. His anger was understandable, true, but his methods abhorrent and destructive. The end result would have been huge amounts of death and chaos. No positive outcome.
[Killmonger was an amazingly written villain and a great, if not perfect, example of how to execute a “tragic backstory villain arc”. Due to his characters anger and Michael’s incredible acting it made Killmonger a character a large amount of people could empathize with. An amazing villain. Truly.]
Nakia LITERALLY was team “let’s stop having Wakanda be an isolationist nation and help the worlds oppressed” from the jump and she doesn’t get enough credit.
exactly! she was meant as a foil to killmonger with the same founding principles to demonstrate his extremism while also being ABSOLUTELY RIGHT
Killmonger : we have to help people who look like us and here is my plan.
Nakia :
Happy Black History YEAR!
Greatness.
loving how my old history teacher talked about them like a terrorist group
boost me up
Wow okay so for those skimming, there’s a memo up there from THE DIRECTOR OF THE FBI that sets a mission to LIE about the good things the Black Panthers were doing, spread rumors of them being terrorists, and terrorize the communities supporting them.
If you think the Black Panthers were terrorists and you’ve never heard of the community-building, it’s because there was a literal government conspiracy to make you and people 45 years ago think that way.
i’m reblogging again (bolding mine), because people need to fucking know this. especially white americans.
A special place in hell is reserved for people who saw other people feeding children and thought, “How can we sabotage this?”
They literally tried to paint The Black Panther party as being just as awful as the KKK… They STILL do…
In this episode, it’s time for reflection, careful plotting, and some introspection for good measure. It’s a very thoughtful episode from Tessa Gratton, and so I’ve been thinking about it a lot.
Let’s discuss Tremontaine.
In this episode, everyone is behaving surprisingly uncharacteristically – and Reza makes a very surprising move on Diane.
Let’s discuss Tremontaine. Spoiler alert!
Utroba Cave in the Rhodope mountains, Bulgaria. Carved by hand more than 3000 years ago (?), it was rediscovered in 2001.
Archeologists hypothesize that an altar built at the end of the cave, which is about 22 m deep, represents either the cervix or the uterus.
At midday, light seeps into the temple through an opening in the ceiling, projecting an image of a phallus on to the floor.
When the sun is at the right angle, in late February or early March, the phallus grows longer and reaches the alter, symbolically fertilizing the womb before the sowing of the spring crops.
These people were drawing dicks on the ground with the sun in 1000 BCE. All you fools messing with Sharpies need to step up your game.
“Hee! That looks kind of like-”
“Come on, self, don’t make it weird. It’s just a cave.”
*reads article*
“Oh.”
Literally my first thought...
It’s strange, to feel guilty and vindicated at the same time.
I’m doing an experiment
Reblog with your sign and the first song you think of when I say “hey now”
In this episode, everyone’s facing new troubles – but no one is dealing with them quite the way I would have expected…
Let’s discuss Tremontaine.