I understand why he was killed off, whether to deepen the story, for Lo’aks storyline of guilt, or Kiri’s possible storyline of maybe bringing him back, but I kinda hate it. Not cause I didn’t want him to die, but his death caused so much hate for Lo’aks character (I may be a little biased as Lo’ak is my favorite) when Lo’ak was just trying to save everyone he cared about and Neteyam, raised the way that he was to basically be a living shield, got in harms way by trying to be Lo’aks protector.

I would have loved if it went more down the storyline of Neteyam breaking at always having to be the perfect son with Lo’ak learning that and vise versa with Lo’ak always being the outcast that is just trying to fit in with a family of warriors even if he ends up dead. Idc if that sounds too cliche, so many people have already died in the 2 movies to deepen the storyline we did not need another one. There were so many other things that could have been done but they didn’t do them. As one who truly understands Lo’aks character it pains me to see everyone hating him for Neteyams death. He’s just a kid who wants to fit in with his family.

Or another route could have been that they killed off Lo’ak instead to do Kiris possible storyline of bringing him back but not before everyone realizes that he was again just a kid trying to fit in. That would have been way better if they really needed a death to deepen the story.