So, I’ve been trying to figure out how the various powers in these episodes might be sorted into the 13 corridors mentioned in MAG 35. I think I might have it figured out.
1. Mr. Pitch (Dark Water, Rainer)- his darkness is always portrayed as “like ink”, and whenever he comes through , characters always mention stale water. 2. The Lightless Flame 3. The earth/Claustrophobia (The Governor) (Lost Johns, Underground…) 4. The Vast (Ex Altiora, Fairchilds) 5. The Stranger (The Unknowing) 6. The Spiral (Michael, Es Mentiras) 7. Mr. Spider (Raymond, Annabelle,) – might also represent the Hunter. 8. Alone (Lucas Family)
9. Famine/Meat (cannibal and meat episodes)
10. The Piper (
War/Savagery
)
11. The Hive (
Pestilence, Amhurst/Prentiss)
12. The End 13. The Beholder
I remember people had already come around to the four horsemen and elemental ideas, but I hadn’t seen anyone lay out all 13 yet, so there we go.
*(Edit: So we’re been tossing things around; currently it looks like the Spider and the Hunter exist as separate entities, bringing the total to 14. I’ll try to come up with a separate icon soon!
Also, adopting some of the names used by HumidNebula, fxktn, and others in the red string brigade on Reddit!)
not to be dramatic, but Okoye telling her bitch ass husband she would end him without hesitation when he tried to manipulate her changed me as a person and cured my depression.
“would you kill me my love?”
“for wakanda? No question.”
a woman in my theater: “oH I HEARD THAT!!!!”
Listen. LISTEN. *cups your face in my hands* Listen to me. I have never so perfectly and purely seen a Paladin depicted in a movie as I saw in Okoye. Lawful good to her core. Pure, unvarnished loyalty to Wakanda and her people evident in every goddamned motion. Dignified, graceful, reverent respect for the rules of her country and its greater good.
There is something so beautiful about faith, something that just burns through with a beautiful glow that lights up someone’s eyes and every expression. There is a confidence and a peace that is both palpable and enviable when faith has been tested and come through intact. You could so hear it in her voice.
Personal shit is great, and I’m glad she was seen in a loving relationship. The Lone Woman Warrior trope is worn thin, and I’m sure even thinner for black women who are often not allowed to be lovable people on screen. But the core of the Paladin is ‘there is something greater than I, and I will sacrifice everything for it’, and it was beautiful to not only see that happen on screen but see her proved right, see her win, in one case by not even raising her weapon. She stood firm in her faith and the narrative said yes, it said this is just, it said your very faith will protect you from harm. And she’s not seen as hard or cold edged weapon for that. The imagery around her in that moment is more like a saint or an angel, glowing and reaching out a peaceful hand to a symbol of one of the tribes of her country. Her country loves her back.
Okoye doesn’t just love her country. She doesn’t just serve her country. She doesn’t just believe in her country. She has unshakable faith in an absolute truth: Wakanda Forever.
She is elevated for her faith as much as her skill.
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