he wasnt a revolutionary using revenge to fuel his agenda of getting the foot off black folks neck (his father's original plan)

he was cia-trained black ops using revolution to fuel his agenda of bloodlust & revenge. against the west and wakanda. thats why he shot his girl, burned the herb field/spirit temple, etc


he didnt want to end black subjugation as much as he wanted white subjugation (<--americas greatest fear)

and black panther never even said he would imprison him. he comes back in the comics tho so maybe this aint the last time we see him.

wakanda's centuries of isolation and looking the other way was also wrong and equally unsustainable tho.


t'challa, at this point, is just the naive sheltered son of a king. so we would need more installments to see how his decisions play out. but lolsmh at him stopping nakia from picking off boko haram and doing #bringbackourgirls rescue missions to let her go run a community center in LA instead. that and the UN speech was definitely hollywood/liberalism.


i felt they kinda did a lot in the script (in a good way) by not using mad exposition to explicitly raise points/conflicts & dig too deep into the themes, motivations, relationships between africans and blacks, blacks & whites, etc, but still giving you enough to draw your own interpretations (and trigger the thousand different thinkpieces that are now flooding the internet).

anyway-
-shuri killed it. needs a spinoff. cartoon, miniseries, something.
-wanted to see more angela bassett but its ok. the 3 main women characters were dooooope. "you would kill me, my love? For wakanda... no question."
-token cia colonizer shoulda died at the end and never been mentioned again
-only CGI that came across wack imo was the rhino and a couple seconds of the BP costume in action
-score and soundtrack was the only weak part. sound like kendrick/TDE rushed it. then got caught jacking for imagery in the video.
-the black ppl mad on the internet are hilarious. wake up everyday with a brand new complaint.
-coogler did more to reignite panafricanism than anything since mandela's release 30 years ago. kenyans, brasilians, trini's and everywhere else all on the same page...for a moment at least. beautiful to see. now somebody needs to write the story of black ppl all over the world pooling $200M every 3 months to kick off mad development projects and building a real uncolonized homeland