Weird-Crackship

reylo started off with a staunchly negative first interaction with two individuals with completely opposing world views, one of whom was a nazi. namor, while stern and clear about his demands, comes off as a neutral adversary with different methods but an almost identical goal with wakanda: protecting his people. already, shuri and namor have a lot in common, parallels are immediately drawn, and the audience has a very clear understanding of why namor wants to get rid of this scientist, he even explains it directly to us.

shuri and namor trying to find a middle ground before the death of ramonda can absolutely be read as romantic, so much so that to me it seems somewhat intentional. perhaps letitia and tenoch just had mad chemistry like that, but i noticed it immediately. the romantic chemistry between rey and kylo doesn’t feel solidified to me prior to the last jedi, perhaps in a hateful sense (which is more sexual tension imo), but you never get the sense that they would be romantically interested in each other before 8th episode (imo)

now, it’s arguable that the chemistry between shuri and namor is squashed because namor killed ramonda, but the potential continuation of that romance seems to be what drives ppl to compare this to reylo because suddenly namor is the evil bad guy, intentionally hurt the person he wanted to rule with, etc. but the major differences are: there was chemistry before ramonda died AND ramonda’s death canonically pushed shuri closer to agreeing with namor and he knows that! there’s hardly anything in the sequel narratives that gives rey motivation to turn to the dark side (besides vague curiosity) and it never shows her doing anything dark (besides trying to figure out what the dark side is about).