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I want to tell you my secret now.

I see dead people.

Silent Green is people.

No, I am the father.

Oh, Rushburg.

What's in the box? What's in the box?

You maniac!

You blow it up!

Damn you all the hell!

Hello and welcome to another Slate spoiler special.

I'm Dana Stevens, Slate's movie critic.

And today I'm joined by Slate Associate writer Naderaaderah. Hey, Nadira. Hey, Dana. How are you? Very well. Nice to talk to you for the first time under your new title, Associate Writer at Slate. So congrats on that. Thank you. Thank you. Today we're going to be spoiling Black Panther, Waconda Forever, the sequel to the 2018 of Black Panther, They're also directed by Ryan Coogler, who made the first movie. And Naderah, I think you were not yet at Slate

in 2018. I'm pretty sure you weren't. So I don't know how you feel about the first Black

Panther and how excited you were for this one. I am on record as being someone who's pretty

Marvel skeptical in general, especially with this later phase of

Marvel. I feel like they're really, really pushing it with the constant spewing of content.

But I will say that I was excited for this movie and to see what Ryan Cougler did with this

franchise, especially with the challenge of having lost the Black Panther himself, Chadwick

Bozeman, in the intervening four years since the last

film. So before we get into this one, I wanted to hear, you know, just in general, what your

disposition was toward Marvel, toward Black Panther, and how you walked into this movie.

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