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howe_sam posted:Rolling Stone has done an oral history of WandaVision and published an excerpt. tl;dr they originally did plan for Cumberbatch to appear, but changed their mind for all the reasons you might expect. I really did expect Strange to appear since they made it very clear that this was going to tie directly into Dr Strange 2.
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tsob posted:What counts as regular, out of interest? I'd have thought W'Kabi, Nakia etc count personally, since they didn't obtain their position by birthright and were not part of the leadership or monarchy. Are they discounted because they're part of the military? People with personal relationships with the king are not regular people.
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live with fruit posted:People with personal relationships with the king are not regular people. Why? Does being friends with someone in power void everything else about their life and lived experience? Nakia even calls out T'Challa and Wakanda in general for failing to use their means to do more for the rest of world in the film.
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Ravel posted:They are completely impotent to prevent Killmonger doing what he wants to do. I'm not sure how much more evidence is needed - an all powerful sovereign is great when that individual is super ethical. Otherwise it's a poor system of governance and the film shows this directly in text. There are no checks on his ability to destroy the heart shaped herbs nor to start a war with practically the entire world. Thank gently caress that has never, ever, ever happened in a post monarchy modern government. I mean, could you even imagine? Thank gently caress it’s only pre democratic and socialist governments that can easily spiral out of control into authoritarian autocracies. Whew.
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howe_sam posted:Rolling Stone has done an oral history of WandaVision and published an excerpt. tl;dr they originally did plan for Cumberbatch to appear, but changed their mind for all the reasons you might expect. The Strange stuff mentioned here sounds like it could have been better.
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tsob posted:Why? Does being friends with someone in power void everything else about their life and lived experience?
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tsob posted:Why? Does being friends with someone in power void everything else about their life and lived experience? Nakia even calls out T'Challa and Wakanda in general for failing to use their means to do more for the rest of world in the film. They're elites. They both represented their tribes on the waterfall. Which is why they have personal relationships with the king. We have no idea what life is like for Wakandans who don't personally know the king.
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They're elite through merit rather than birthright from what we're told. Nakia is there because she's the best warrior of her tribe rather than because she's related to the nobility of her tribe, if I recall.
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May 4, 2021 00:15
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They have public transportation and cool hats. Literal utopia.
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Cage Kicker posted:So...no Wakandan Megazord then I take it Bucky does have a bit of a Tommy vibe going on.
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Marsupial Ape posted:They have public transportation and cool hats. Literal utopia. 
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Not really sure why people are so averse to criticism of Black Panther that they're defending the idea of monarchy as a viable system of government. There was a whole Coates run of Black Panther which criticised the same thing. Monarchies are poor systems of governance. Just because modern democracies have severe failings doesn't mean that monarchies were ever better. Explicitly in the Black Panther franchise the monarchy and succession process failed its people and they launched a coup to restore order.
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Ravel posted:Not really sure why people are so averse to criticism of Black Panther that they're defending the idea of monarchy as a viable system of government. No-one is adverse to it; they're just refuting that the film presents it as an explicit problem. Adverse implies people are trying to stop someone complaining at all. Which is not what's happening. As is, the use of monarchy serves the narrative function it was intended for, and that's fine. It doesn't need to be a shining model of government for the real world, because it's just a film. If Wakanda was a democracy, (roughly) the same problems would happen because they need to for the sake of drama. tsob fucked around with this message at 00:44 on May 4, 2021 |
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Ravel posted:Not really sure why people are so averse to criticism of Black Panther that they're defending the idea of monarchy as a viable system of government. Do you honestly think we’re doing anything but amusing ourselves at the expense of your misplaced earnestness? Also, in your critiques of monarchies, you seem to be unintentionally Western Chauvinist and disregarding the success of the Chinese Imperial Dynasties. 2000+ years is pretty loving stable.
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Ravel posted:There was a whole Coates run of Black Panther which criticised the same thing. Ta-Nehisi Coates is Black.
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Bleck posted:Ta-Nehisi Coates is Black. yes and?
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Bleck posted:Ta-Nehisi Coates is Black. Ms. Lippy’s car, is green.
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Retrowave Joe posted:Bucky does have a bit of a Tommy vibe going on. That's exactly where I was going with this lmfao, White Wolf, new ranger....writes itself
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Marsupial Ape posted:Do you honestly think we’re doing anything but amusing ourselves at the expense of your misplaced earnestness? I'm assuming you're familiar with the concept of water empires. Stability is a nice thing but few things that last that long are terribly capable of handling anything even remotely resembling an outside context problem. Which, hilariously, is exactly what Killmonger is -- someone who is willing to abuse the political systems put into place with the expectation of benevolence. That last bit is key. Any system built upon the expectation of benevolence is gonna run into exactly the same problems precisely because cross purposes are outside its own context. Now, before you go arguing about the pedantics of outside context as being broadly relevant to anything the system's builders didn't foresee, I'll grant that immediately with the caveat that it is entirely possible to defend against unknown exploits as long as you have some idea of what category of defense is required, so a wide set of rules specifically to ensure malevolence has a great deal of trouble breaking through to the juicy core of governance at least gives you some warning that it is happening and, ideally, some idea of how to stop it. Whether anyone can do anything about it is quite another matter entirely but hey, I voted for Kodos. My objection isn't the naive fool broadly declaring monarchy as bad in a situation where that assertion is basically irrelevant, but the implication of willful ignorance of why and how it relates to the various movie windmills they insist are clearly giants. If I may borrow from another favorite: "Ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking."
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I'm personally pretty pleased with that one sentence. Like, drat, fish.
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I kind of want M'Baku to be King and Nakia to be Queen to have an Us reunion.
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She's a queen!
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Hold it there ya'll! Stop slap fighting over monarchy....we got a NEW LOKI trailer: https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1389389217302663172
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Casnorf posted:I'm assuming you're familiar with the concept of water empires. Stability is a nice thing but few things that last that long are terribly capable of handling anything even remotely resembling an outside context problem. Which, hilariously, is exactly what Killmonger is -- someone who is willing to abuse the political systems put into place with the expectation of benevolence. That last bit is key. Any system built upon the expectation of benevolence is gonna run into exactly the same problems precisely because cross purposes are outside its own context. I’m sure you put a lot of work into that, but I read none of that. I am here for banter until Loki starts.
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Too bad, cause I was agreeing with ya ya dingus. Hahaha
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AngryBooch posted:yes and? I give a poo poo what he thinks, is my point
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I'm almost certain there's a story line involving Von Doom and how he's a mostly benevolent monarch, although it's kind of undercut by him immediately brainwashing a small child just because he really, really hates Reed Richards. Von Doom, not the kid, prior to the brain wash. So, you know, monarchies are a land of contrasts?
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Marsupial Ape posted:Do you honestly think we’re doing anything but amusing ourselves at the expense of your misplaced earnestness?
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Desperado Bones posted:Hold it there ya'll! Stop slap fighting over monarchy....we got a NEW LOKI trailer: Asgard Noon
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The_Doctor posted:I wonder if they thought they’d have longer with Boseman, at least to get BP2 out of him and then pass the mantle at the end of the film. Now they’re folding the TV plans into the movie plans and doing them together. I fully expect academy award winner Daniel Kaluuya’s W’Kabi to have a larger role now, maybe even put on the kitty ears himself. By all accounts they genuinely didn't know, Boseman kept it a secret from all but his close family. I guess Disney has ears everywhere but Feige at least said he found out the morning that he passed.
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Bleck posted:I give a poo poo what he thinks, is my point Ravel posted:Mate, I'm neither white nor American, I'm South African - what's with the incredibly patronising takes as though everyone who's sceptical about whether public figure superheroes would have money issues just doesn't understand narratives about racism.
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friendly reminder that 'Black' and 'African' are not the same thing
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Bleck posted:friendly reminder that 'Black' and 'African' are not the same thing They're talking about Black Panther? Is that not about a Central African country with inspiration from all over Africa?
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BurritoJustice posted:They're talking about Black Panther? Is that not about a Central African country with inspiration from all over Africa? yes, and it's an American film based on American-created characters, starring two Black Americans Black Panther, both the character in general and the film, is a portrayal of African characters and settings - but it originated as a, arguably, a product designed for Black audiences, and now over the years and culminating with the success of the film, is a Black cultural monolith I'm not really interested in mechanistic or political takedowns of the film from non-Black audiences because (and I understand that this is reductive) they Just Don't Get It
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Bleck posted:yes, and it's an American film based on American-created characters, starring two Black Americans That makes sense, thank you. I don't immediately associate "black" as a mononym with specifically African-American as I'm Australian and it's not always used that specifically here (and it's mostly aboriginal).
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Bleck posted:I give a poo poo what he thinks, is my point The post about Coates you initially responded to was agreeing with him, though, which is why people responded to you saying “Coates is black” with such confusion
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Bleck posted:I'm not really interested in mechanistic or political takedowns of the film from non-Black audiences because (and I understand that this is reductive) they Just Don't Get It That's good, but I think you misread what I stated Coates' position to be. Coates' conception of the character was much more introspective and political, and seems to conclude that democracy is preferable to monarchy: 'Our people are the most advanced in the world. Should not the institutions that Govern them be the same?' He suggests Black Panther as a representative, but not the ruler, of Wakanda. 
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Desperado Bones posted:Hold it there ya'll! Stop slap fighting over monarchy....we got a NEW LOKI trailer: Owen Wilson is not going to get enough credit for being the straight man on this.
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Defending the Monarchy in Black Panther is the same thing as defending the CIA in Black Panther
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Bust Rodd posted:Defending the Monarchy in Black Panther is the same thing as defending the CIA in Black Panther Objecting to it is the same thing as objecting to the existence of vibranium.
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