Okoye lost T’Challa twice. Yes, I’m saying twice because she doesn’t know that he survived yet in the first gif. Look at the first time and compare it to the second. She has composure during the Warrior Falls fight but completely loses it when T’Challa turns into ash. She lost her king twice. And no one is talking about it.
MAYBE WE WERE TRYING TO FORGET
Concerning the different reactions: There’s a reason!
She’s a political warrior. She didn’t just lose T’challa in the first clip. In a single instant, the entire politics of Wakanda shifted so that she now served under a man she clearly disliked. But she’s not allowed to publicly show her grief because she still serves the current king. She has to keep her composure. You can see how much she’s struggling (the tears in her eyes, the way her face is trembling) but she has to keep it together. She can’t show any opposition. Her duty is to the king and in public, she has to support him. Hence why she’s stoic in public but teases T’challa when they’re alone or with his family.
In the second scene, she’s technically in public, but A.) There’s no political opposition B.) Everyone turned to ash so she doesn’t have to hide her reaction because she’s alone and C.) S h e j u s t w a t c h e d h e r k i n g / f r i e n d t u r n t o a s h. Hence why she’s free to react with horror.
ME, A NORMAL CONTRIBUTOR TO FANDOM: So let’s talk about the pedagogical implications Thanos’s snap would have on the Sesame Street curriculum within the greater MCU.
I don’t know how pedagogical it is, but I guess now I’m thinking about Bert sitting alone in a room, missing Ernie.
That is absolutely the emotional core of what a post-Snap episode of Sesame Street would be about (I feel like Bernice would be missing too, and Bert would try to play chess with Rubber Duckie?), but for the episode to function there needs to be something they’re teaching the audience besides ennui, and that is where I’m really stuck.
Because the emotional core wouldn’t stick if it’s not supported by the structure of the show! But it seems like the Snap destroys basically all structures in place. But that makes the structure of Sesame Street that much more necessary. And then I spiral like this for a while.
Disclaimer: I have not watched a full episode of Sesame Street in a long time
Big Bird has been waiting for the store to open for a very long time now. He’s a patient bird, and he knows about waiting his turn, but his watch has the big hand on the three and the little hand on the nine and he’s pretty sure that Alan usually open the store when the little hand is on the seven.
Finally, when the little hand goes all the way to the four, the door opens.
“Hi, Big Bird,” Chris says, his eyes red and puffy. “We aren’t going to open the store today.”
Big Bird doesn’t understand; Hooper’s store opens every day. “Why aren’t you opening the store, Chris?” Big Bird asks. “I need beakpaste, I’m all out.”
Chris just looks sad. “Big Bird, did you hear about The Snap?”
“No,” Big Bird says, and the way Chris is talking is very scary. He feels like he might need to sit down. “I don’t even know how to snap!”
Chris steps out form behind the door and gestures for them to sit on the stoop. When they’re settled, Chris takes a deep breath before he speaks. “Well, a bad man named Thanos came to Earth. Do you know about Thanos?”
“Yes,” Big Bird nods He heard some of the grownups saying that name. “He fought with the Avengers.”
“That’s right,” Chris says. “And the Avengers lost their fight. Sometimes, even when grownups try really hard, they can’t do all the things they want to do, and sometimes that means that bad things happen.”
“Did a bad thing happen?”
“Yes,” Chris says, taking Big Bird’s wing in his hand. “Because of Thanos, a lot of people are missing. And Alan is one of them.”
Big Bird has to think about that for a moment. He went missing one time, when he was a blue bird in a circus, but his friends found him and brought him home. But something about Alan’s face tells Big Bird that this isn’t the kind of missing where your friends can find you.
“Is Alan dead, Chris?” Big Bird asks. “I remember when Mr. Hooper died.”
“The honest answer is that we don’t know. He might be. Or he might just be missing.”
Big Bird tries to understand that. “Missing?”
“Yeah,” Chris says. “He might come back some day, and he might not. We just don’t know.”
Big Bird wants to cry. He loves Alan, and he doesn’t want any of his friends to be missing. “Is anyone else missing?”
“Yes,” Chris says. “Some of your friends may be, or their parents, or yours cousins and uncles and aunts. A lot of people are. And it’s very scary.”
“What can we do?”
Chris is crying a little, a few small tears pooling at the side of his eyes, and Big Bird wants to do something, wants to say something, but he kinda feels like crying too, and doesn’t know what will help. “I don’t know,” Chris says. “I think the only thing we can do is be here for each other, and love each other, and take care of each other. When things are scary, and when bad things happen, the most important thing to do is look around at the people who are still here, and try to do your best for them.”
Big Bird nods. “Hey Chris?”
“Yeah, Big Bird?”
“Do you want a hug?”
Chris nods. “I would very much like a hug, thank you.”
Big Bird does the only thing he knows how to do; he opens his wings and wraps them around Chris, doing his best to be there for the people who are still with him.
hey. what the actual fuck and how fucking dare you.
I feel like I shouldn’t tell people that the only reason Big Bird doesn’t ask “am I going to go missing, too?” was that I didn’t know how to answer it without scaring kids. “IDK, dude. Maybe?” didn’t seem like the right answer.
The weird thing is that they could’ve made one small tweak to make that whole sequence less egregiously shitty. They could’ve had so Wanda was the only one who could destroy the stone, but she refused to do it. And because Steve didn’t want to be That Guy and force someone to kill the man she loved, he could’ve called on T’Challa’s help because Wakandan technology was the only other thing on Earth with a chance to shatter the stone.
You still could’ve had the big Wakanda showdown with Thanos’ forces, which, let’s face it, we all wanted to see, but instead it would’ve been to win Shuri time to figure out how to destroy the stone. And this gets interrupted when the bad guys break into the lab, and destroy Shuri’s equipment, and now it all falls to Wanda to end this.
And you still could’ve had the sequence at the end with Wanda destroying Vision’s stone herself, identically. Except instead of the whole thing being preceded by the plot element of “black people risking life and limb to preserve the personality of one robot dude because if he died his white girlfriend would be sad :(”, it would’ve played out more clearly like “Wanda realizes that nobody else can do this for her, time to put her romantic feelings aside and make a sacrifice in order to save a lot of people”, without the element of selfishness that exists in the current movie. Because like, even in the movie, Vision was willing to make the sacrifice, and it was Wanda refusing. And to an audience that’s only understandable up to a point.
So like. Too bad nobody realized how tone deaf the entire thing with Vision was, because there were definitely ways to fix this.
Tony in Avengers 4: Please help me I’m stranded on a planet in space
Steve, petty and gay: Sorry Tony but the entire government turned to ash so I can’t get them to sign my permission slip
Avengers: Huh, it’s been a while since Thor’s been back, hope he isn’t too confused about all of our new members and what’s been going on.
Thor: *flying into battle with an axe* Hey everyone nice to meet ya by the way I’ve brought back Banner also meet my friends Rabbit and Tree I’ll introduce you to my space team and my friend throckmorton and my personal drunk hero later at the family dinner xoxoxo oh yeah also made up with loki watched him die but he could also be that random green snake right there, lost an eye gained an eye lost my hammer gained an axe also the rest of Asgard and I need to crash with one of you because *jean ralphio voice* tECHNICALLY I’M HOMELESSSSSSS
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