Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
Last edited by Redjack; 02-03-2021 at 09:00 PM.
You are right, it's not anymore.
Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
For me, I don't even care about bast being a part of the orisha, what bothers me Is the how and why. How they were humans that were prayed to hard enough to ascend and the why, specifically so that Coates could give Storm a big feat. It was literally soley for her benefit, T'Challa and Wakanda were thrown under the bus to make Storm look good. He used it to take feats away from Wakandas advancements and undefeated streak, and took a big feat from T'Challa. So for that reason I think it's stupid AF
The sentiment expressed in the IGN article is something I’ve seen a lot of online unfortunately and I don’t understand why.
Wading through the comments really hurt my eyes (since gamergate, IGN’s comment section has been taken over the alt-right, qanon like fandom that believe EVERYTHING is a conspiracy) but majority of guys there that actually apparently like BP want the character to be recast.
I really don’t have too much interest in a Wakanda not anchored by BP. It’s why I didn’t bother watching Gotham or Krypton because I don’t have so much interest in the established world without the main character of the franchise bouncing off it.
I’ve said this several times, all Disney needed to do here was take a deep breath and delay the movie. After said delay, re-cast T’Challa for BP 2. They can have the spin-offs in between the movies.
Last edited by Username taken; 02-03-2021 at 11:13 PM.
Interesting. I'm someone who is actually Yoruba and quite frankly I and many other Nigerians who are BP fans don't care. Since Priest's run, the mythos has taken and cloacked Wakanda in and with Nigerian culture from names, language and overall style. Hell, Yoruba and Hausa are official languages spoken in Wakanda so technically from that perspective it's not far fetched the Orishas would be part of tge lore. In any case, the Orishas' involvement is the least of BP's problems. The titular character himself needs deliverance from the damage Coats has caused.
Technically speaking...
Wakanda should speak a rare language only used 10,000 years ago!
A linguistic expert should invent a new dialect the same as speaking Klingon or one of the random languages in Star Wars!
Also... Borrowed gods from other cultures is getting real old and sort of lazy!
Is Wakanda just some coffee table history book great for small conversations!
If you precede other nations they should be borrowing from you not the other way around!
Get Hectic!
There's also the minor fact that the Orisha already existed in Marvel (as do the Egyptian gods) so Coates was not only mangling real mythology, but also Marvel canon:
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Vod%C5%AB
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ennead