"For Wakanda."
Hello everyone!
I used to do a whole lot more of these posts, but I've kind of fallen off the bandwagon since then, so to speak.
Then again, I'm firmly convinced that the MCU already had its golden age during the Infinity Saga, but that's just me.
I'll definitely be seeing SOME movies still, but I'm just not as into it as I used to be, you know?
However, I love me a good anthology.
Disney Plus tends to release them every once in a while, and this one was definitely no exception to the rule.
So hold on tight as we travel through time with the Hatut Zaraze in Eyes of Wakanda!
Since it's been such a long while, I won't be linking anything down at the bottom of the page, however, a quick browse through my blog will reveal just about anything you want to look at, Marvel-theme included.
Onwards!
We start our journey with a disgraced member of the Dora Milaje who, if you recall, are the all-female forces Wakanda boasts.
This is around the 13th century, time of the Minoans, by the way, and Wakanda is obviously already LEAGUES ahead of every other fledgling nation out there because of their technology, when Noni, that disgraced member I was talking about, is given a mission of redemption:
bring in the traitor calling himself the Lion, who used to be a general of their nation, and her position will be restored.
Oh and also, bring back the artifacts he stole while she's at it, please, and thank you.
As Noni isn't someone this dude trained, she can actually get close enough to him to fight him, a self-titled warlord and pirate who "frees" people by having them swear loyalty to him, or dying.
Great guy all around, as you can tell.
Noni fights him, getting cut across an eye in the process, but it comes down to a stalemate and then the idiot sets off an explosion in which he dies, and Noni only manages to grab one artifact to bring home with her.
She refuses the Dora Milaje position, reiterating she doesn't work well in a team, and the leader grins, telling her this was all a test - and welcome to the Watchdogs instead, the Hatut Zaraze.
Later on, during the Trojan war, when Noni has taken over as leader of the Watchdogs, Memnon, one of their order, is on the hunt for an artifact that's supposedly in Troy. To achieve this, he's become close friends with none other than Achilles, even though other people suspect him of being, well, suss.
And I mean, when he leaves them all out to dry after the horse is snuck into the city so that he can go find Helen and demand the artifact from her, you can see why Achilles might be pissed.
Especially as Memnon lets Helen and Paris go instead of killing them, or something else idiotic as such.
Achilles fights his friend, and Memnon activates Wakanda technology to beat him, eventually slashing his heel and stabbing him through, killing him. He returns to Wakanda, but feels like a stranger in the calmness of his surroundings, asking to be sent out again on a mission, though Noni warns him that the dangers outside multiply.
This proves truer still as years pass and another agent, Basha, steals part of a Chinese dragon statue because he can't remove the artifact embedded within, but also brings someone else to the Watchdogs HQ with him - the Iron Fist, aka the woman he seduced to get to the statue, aka someone who'll kick his butt.
The entire HQ is on alert, but Basha handles it personally (enough, to a degree), and she manages to free the artifact from the statue, pointing out that if he had only trusted her, this all could have been avoided (her presence is concealed and she's sent home without a scratch, btw).
But this story is a great lesson for the final episode, because it reveals that Wakanda NEEDS to trust the outside world more, or else everything will be going down the drain.
When a Watchdog, Kuda, mentors Prince Tafari of the royal family on a mission and they retrieve this axe-looking thing, only to be accosted by a futuristic-looking individual who turns out to be the Queen of Wakanda from the future ... well, here's how it goes.
In an alternate timeline, where the axe was taken to Wakanda, eventually the world succumbs to an alien invasion, simply called the Horde. Wakanda, the only nation that might have had a chance to stand against said invasion, never teamed up with the rest of the world, and even though it fell last, it was going to fall eventually.
The queen travelled back in time to the nexus point most likely to reestablish their survival: if the axe remained where Kuda and Tafari found it, then years later, it would be stolen by a rebel Wakandan, starting a war against the throne which would open the rightful king's eyes to the need to connect with the rest of the world (in other words, the plot of Black Panther).
Tafari convinces Kuda they should return the axe, which they manage, with a few scratches along the way. The last Panther having been pulled back to the future, Tafari then doesn't know what it was he was fighting for, but hopes they set everything right.
But we did get the MCU out of it, after all ...
Short, sweet and to the point, Eyes of Wakanda cover different topics in very little time, but make it memorable and enjoyable in the process. They also connect to the larger universe that Disney's been building with Marvel, which is a feat, considering what all they have to pinpoint at!
I definitely recommend watching it, especially if you've seen the prior Phases. It's worth it.
Wakanda forever!
xx
*images and video not mine
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