Originally Posted by
Blind Wedjat
Look, all I want for the sequel is for it to carry on with the themes and ideas of the first film. The first film asked questions that I fans have asked before, or casual readers haven't asked. That is: where was Wakanda when Africa was being enslaved, and when segregation and racial injustice was running rampant all around the world? It's a tough question that doesn't have an easy answer, but Coogler asked that question anyway because it should.
Wakanda is an anti-colonialist statement, an African utopia, but I don't think there should be any denying that they were isolationist, nationalist and xenophobic. The dream of Wakanda wasn't shared throughout all of Africa. I think Coogler celebrated Wakanda for what it is (you can tell by how he shot it, the costumes, sets, music, characters, etc.), but he criticised it also. Wakanda helping the rest of the world/Africa isn't something that has been fully explored or realised in the comics. It's barely touched upon, and I want the sequel to go there because that's the only direction that makes sense with what has been set up, and it's just the right kind of story to tell right now.
Coogler's film ends with Wakanda reaching out to the world, yet the idea of Wakanda took our own world by storm. The way Black Panther arrested pop culture last year is not something I saw coming and that should play into the sequel. Imagine seeing that not only is Wakanda trying to help the rest of the world by sharing their resources, but parts of their culture have been adopted by several parts of the world. Their food, their clothing, architecture, technology, music, sports, politics, economics. Let's see T'Challa graffiti, Wakandan Expos, inspired jewelry and fashion, documentaries, interviews all around the world.
I want to see T'Challa brokering peace between two nations at war. I want to see Shuri speaking an expo, demonstrating new tech. I want to see Nakia in an outreach centre with little kids, then her and T'Challa go on some spy **** in the night to end a human trafficking ring. I want to see T'Challa being interviewed on CNN. I want to see Okoye helping refugees. For Bast sake, I want Wakanda to actually feel like it's the big thing, like it has really changed the world, like it really matters. Not like how it is in the comics, where it's so secretive and matters once in a while.
There's so much story potential you can get out of that. I don't understand why someone would see that and then ask for Namor or Doom instead. Namor is boring. A war with Atlantis (which I should add, would have lost half of their population and suddenly gotten it back which would be a huge problem for them) would be boring. What's the appeal of that story? Doom and T'Challa's most notable story is Doomwar, a story about how a white(?) man wants to steal resources from an African nation and 'earns' the right to do just that. No. F*cking. Thanks.