Eyes of Wakanda

In Eyes of Wakanda, a team of elite Wakandan warriors, known as the Hatut Zeraze, embark on covert missions across history to safeguard their nation’s secrets and vibranium. With each episode set in a new era, they navigate global threats, from ancient civilizations to modern espionage, using advanced technology and unyielding loyalty to protect Wakanda’s legacy.

Eyes of Wakanda Review (season 1)

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PARENTAL NOTES

TV-14

• Eyes of Wakanda is not billed as a children’s or family program, but don’t fool yourself, it’s going to attract children. The animation style alone gives it a feel that it’s for younger audiences than many of the situations in it do. Quite frankly, all could have been omitted without changing the story.
  • In the first episode, a large number of women are captured, and it is strongly implied that they are going to be added to the main villain’s harem. They couch what’s going to happen to them (against their will) by substituting the word sex for love, but it is clear that the villain plans on having his way with them.
  • In one, a half-dressed man wakes up next to a woman, one with whom he is not married.

WOKE REPORT

Racist Offsets

• There’s some silly diversity in the first episode.
  • It takes place in 1260 Crete, yet there are almost as many black people there (and as Cretan soldiers no less) as there are Greeks. Crete may have been diverse relative to the rest of the area for that time, but not to this extent. The Moors weren’t exactly loved in the area at the time. It’s especially silly when you consider how organically having large numbers of black characters fits into the show. It seems to me, and this is why I slightly marked down the Woke-O-Meter for it, that the reason for the blatant historical inaccuracy was to counterbalance the fact that the vast majority of this episode’s villains were black.
  • One of the most sadistically evil characters in it is a nearly albino white female Viking. I suppose that since 50% of these episodes take place in or around Greece, and the only other Europeans to appear in another are southern Italians, they wanted to have at least one unambiguously Caucasian bad guy.
• The last episode takes place during the first Italo-Ethiopian War. There’s nothing inherently woke about that. It’s an actual historical event, but when you have all of African history from which to choose, and you select an event that depicts a fairly unambiguous instance of Western European colonization gone wrong instead of a single instance of African on African (or even Persian) violence, it’s hard not to at least question the decision.

Broad Context

• The show is a bit chick-heavy.
  • The first episode is led by an ultimate girl-boss who takes down armed and armored male warriors much larger than she.
  • One of the two major villains in the first one is a large white female Viking (who is mistakenly killed by a male on her side)
  • All of the armies have an abundance of female warriors.
    • I’m not 100% certain about this, but I believe that there have only been three female Iron Fists in the comics (all introduced in the 2000s), but for episode 3 of Eyes of Wakanda, Disney has given us a new one, because we need to have at least one episode in which one of the “good guys” needs to be and gets humbled by a superior female warriror.
  • Some might want me to take exception with the all-female battalion of archers in the Battle of Troy episode, but their presence is in line with the mythology.
    • After Hector’s death, Penthesilea arrived at Troy with a band of Amazon warriors to help defend the city.

He Ain’t No Brad Pitt

• In mythology, Achilles and Memnon (king of Ethiopia), near-godlike warriors, fought on opposite sides of the war, engaging in an epic battle that ultimately saw Achilles emerge as the victor.
  • In Eyes of Wakanda, the two are friends, and Memnon betrays and kills Achilles with relative ease.