Eyes of Wakanda

This is only 4 episodes of roughly 1/2 hour each.

It's a perspective on how Wakanda kept itself hidden for so long.

The stories are perfectly watchable and interesting enough although, as per another review, Predator Badlands is a better offshoot of its source material.

There are some interesting themes explored, such as stolen goods (who do they belong to if centuries have passed), inclusivity versus exclusivity and family versus country.

It's perfectly watchable, as I said, but nothing you could say, yeah oh I see that's a different angle to the original stories.

So something like clone wars, bad batch or (as mentioned) Predator badlands show the original stories from a different perspective, Eyes of Wakanda sort of feels like a contextual filler. Nothing new you could say oh wow to but still serves to add to the original story.

For 1/2 hour episodes, it's a reasonable way to kill time.

Here again for a new Marvel product that no one asked for but that came out.

It's hard to think about who approves all these projects these days, and no one realizes that what the MCU needed was to get back to its roots so it could be reborn.

Is "Eyes of Wakanda" a bad series? No, it isn't.

Is it an unnecessary series? Absolutely.

It's with this premise that I sat down to watch the series, and it's really not bad. It has interesting points, expands the lore and history of Wakanda over hundreds of years, and even has a time-travel episode that ties in with the first film.

However, let's be honest, no one is going to watch this series, and just as there was no promotion for it, it will pass unnoticed on streaming. Only MCU fans and content creators will dedicate a few lines to it and then move on to more interesting projects.

All this makes me wonder if there's a future for this universe. After all, "Avengers: Doomsday" is just around the corner, and everything that preceded it and the current news suggests a huge disaster.

That must be why "Eyes of Wakanda" will be underrated despite having a couple of interesting concepts and many good things.

I was far from being impressed with this one. The stories felt unimportant and sometimes not particularly enjoyable, mostly due to unpleasant main characters. The heroes are so focused on coming back with the stolen artifact from Wakanda, but it's hard to care about this kind of mission, and sometimes the "enemies" feel more right and easy to relate.

I don't think they were successful in their way to include Wakanda heroes into real historical events, or at least popular myth, like the Trojan horse. It feels out of place and they don't take advantage of them to make impactful arguments about our history.

The art was not that great either, not a big fan of how they made the faces, they all look like they have too much makeup on. There are some beautiful moments there, but the overreliance on "yellow rays of light" makes everything too dull when it could have had a brighter contrast.

The action scenes were as good as you can expect from Marvel, with very well-choreographed fights.

Eyes of Wakanda (2025) is the fourth entry in the Black Panther franchise and it is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Now this is a show I went into with low expectations and I liked it a lot.

Positives for Eyes of Wakanda (2025): The animation for this show looks amazing. I like the idea of traveling throughout different timelines in Wakanda and seeing different characters doing things. There are some fun action sequences in these 4 episodes. The characters are interesting and you want to see more of them. And finally, this show is easy to binge through on Disney+.

Negatives for Eyes of Wakanda (2025): There are only 4 episodes in the mini series which is fine enough, but I wanted more from the story. I wanted to see more of Wakanda and what it was like before the character we have come to know. And finally, this mini series only exists because Disney needed something for people to watch on Disney+.

Overall, Eyes of Wakanda (2025) is a good animated mini series that did a good job at exploring the world of Wakanda in the past, but I also wanted more from this series.

It's okay! If you've seen Predator: Killer of Killers, Spiderverse, or Arcane, this one might not impress you as much. It was decent for the most part, but the stories weren't particularly amazing-they were just average.

That said, I did enjoy the fight scenes and the tech; those were definite highlights.

One thing I honestly couldn't stand was the accent-it was horrendous. Why couldn't they just speak in a native tongue like the Japanese or Italians do in this same series? Instead, they went with this awkward, forced English accent that just didn't work.