#gifted Thank you Disney for giving me early access to the Eyes of Wakanda episodes that I was able to watch before they were released on Disney+! All thoughts and reviews on the episodes are my own.


Hi hi hi! My friends, we have an INCREDIBLE show to chat about today! Eyes of Wakanda recently came out on Disney+, and I have SO many thoughts! We for sure need to spread the word about this one. Another amazing project developed by Ryan Coogler, and  a wonderful love letter to Wakanda and it’s past. Let’s jump in! (And, of course, SPOILERS for Eyes of Wakanda if you haven’t seen it yet!).


It took me a little bit to get used to the animation style of this show, but by the end of the four episodes, I was so excited that they chose this one specifically! I felt like it made it really stand out, and gave it a new feel. Marvel Animation has been absolutely killing it with these new projects lately! I’m going to go through each episode individually and talk about what I liked, but I also wanted to say that as an overall concept, the show was great. I love how it showed Wakanda trying to protect itself through generations, and throughout history, and I especially love how they tied everything back to the greater MCU story arch at the end! Fantastic. It was such a cool way to give us more backstory on Wakanda’s history.


Let’s start with episode one, “Into the Lion’s Den”. I would say that this episode was probably my least favorite of the four, as it didn’t have me as hooked, though the story was still fantastically spelt out! Noni’s character was great, I adored her and thought she was a great first pick to lead the charge into this new story. And it brought up a good point about what would happen if someone grew up in Wakanda and chose to steal and use the weapons from the inside to grow an empire in the outside world. We kind of saw the opposite of that with Black Panther and how Killmonger had grown up in the outside world, and was trying to break in to steal Wakandan tech. So this was an interesting twist.


It was so fun to watch the infiltration of Nkati’s base, and now Noni was handling the mission. And I absolutely LOVED how her character became the kind of leader-figure of the War Dogs after their main mission!


Which leads us to Episode 2: “Legends and Lies”. I could not believe it when the story began during the Trojan War!!! I absolutely love Greek Mythology and stories from Troy, so I was all over this episode! Memnon was such a lovable character, and I felt for him for all the sacrifices he had to make. He was trying so hard to do what was right for his country, while also staying true to his friends. Which, of course, ultimately led to him being Achilles’ cause of death in the end. He had to kill his best friend, for the good of Wakanda :(.


But you guys, I just absolutely loved seeing this Marvel retelling of the Trojan Horse story, and how Wakanda had their own secret mission alongside everything that was happening throughout the Trojan War. My heart broke for him when Achilles deemed him as a traitor, and of course again when he had to kill Achilles. That must have been such a hard and long mission to be undercover like that for NINE YEARS!


Episode 3: “Lost and Found” was also such a fun watch for me! I loved Jorani’s character in this one, but Basha was absolutely giving me second hand embarrassment from watching him make all these bad decisions hahah! Like taking the ENTIRE dragon head. Of course someone is going to notice that and follow you, dude! But what I was not expecting was THE IRON FIST PLOT TWIST!! That was actually incredible, and I loved this variation of Iron Fist as well! Jorani is such a fun new character, and I hope they bring her back in some form or another in the MCU! I know at this point it was like 1400 AD, so probably not, but it was cool to see either way!


And lastly, Episode 4: “The Last Panther”. This one was SUCH a cool way to tie it to the entirety of Wakanda, both past, present, and future! Prince Tafari was a cute character, you could tell that he just wanted to be a part of protecting and making his country great. The Queen of Wakanda showing up from the future and asking for their help was something I entirely was not expecting in this episode, and it made for such a good twist. And of course, this makes for an intense episode.


Kuda and Tafari having to try and return the ax to it’s place so that the future of Wakanda is saved is such an awesome plot. And it gave Prince Tafari so much character development as well, as he realizes that he won’t get credit for this, but that it is for the good of all of the future of the Wakandans. And even if he doesn’t get that written down as credit, he knows in his heart that what he did was right. And then, how it ends up being THE AX THAT KILLMONGER STEALS IN BLACK PANTHER?! What a twist! It makes me wonder if the War Dogs were in some way involved in Black Panther, and they are hoping to kind of touch on that in future MCU movies? I guess we’ll see!




Overall, I think my two favorite episodes were absolutely 2 and 4. I love how they connected all of these together, and the story of the War Dogs in Wakanda. I hope we get to see some live action War Dogs at some point, and this show was such a fun tie in to learn more about Wakanda’s history! If you decided to read through this without having watched the show, despite the spoilers, I highly recommend giving the show a watch. It’s a quick one with only four episodes, but definitely worth it for the stories, and the animated art alone.


Thank you so much again to Disney for allowing me to have early access to the episodes! And I hope you guys love Eyes of Wakanda as much as I did! If you watched it, give me a little comment and let me know what you thought! Did you have a favorite episode? I’d love to hear your thoughts too! :)


Until next time!


-Jess <3 

Hi! :) Hope everyone is having a terrific week so far! I’ve been deep into the Marvel fandom fun (I’ve seen Fantastic Four THREE times now!) and have been reading lots of comics recently! With the new Spider-Man: Brand New Day behind the scenes content we’ve been getting, and my newfound love of Johnny Storm, I have been absolutely LOVING getting to read all of the fun crossover comics <3 Nothing is better than watching characters joining/returning to the MCU, and then getting a whole bunch of content to fall back on after! Gotta love comics 🥰


I don’t know about you guys, but my July was absolutely CRAZY, and I feel like this past week I have just been starting to come out of that. So many things to get done, and not enough time. Today especially, as I sit down to write this blog, I feel like my brain is all over the place! I have a million things to do, and I just can’t focus on anything 😂 At this point I just want a nap and an iced coffee, hahaha!


With the rest of August ahead of us, I’m really looking forward to getting to see some of the new films coming out (did someone say Freakier Friday?!) and also just getting to enjoy the end of the summer before we jump into the final four months of the year. Am I the only one that feels like this year absolutely FLEW by? I feel like I’m going to blink and August is going to be over!


Also, can we take a second to talk about The Summer I Turned Pretty? I have to watch today’s episode still, but it’s been so much fun getting to watch each week and see what everyone is saying and whose side they are on! I have been loving the Team Conrad vs Team Jeremiah controversy, especially as someone who has read all three books 🤭 Personally, I am team neither. They both have just treated Belly so poorly. But if I absolutely HAD to choose…Team Conrad.


Anywho, not a super long blog today! Just wanted to check in, give you guys some Jess updates and see how all of you are doing. I hope everyone is staying cool amid the summer heat! It’s been pretty toasty here the past few days 🥵 And I will see you guys this week! I am hoping to do at least a Twitch Stream or a TikTok live to chat with you all at some point. It’s been too long!


Have an absolutely wonderful rest of your Wednesday, and I will see you in the next blog!


-Jess <3