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girlofprey) wrote2013-11-01 06:51 pm
girlofprey) wrote2013-11-01 06:51 pm
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Thor: The Dark World
Here's the thing: during The Avengers, the only couple I really slashed - besides Tony and Bruce being gay science bros - was Loki and Steve. For reasons mysterious to even myself, except that I got kind of a vibe off their fight in Germany and I like the idea of it. So a lot of my reaction to Thor: The Dark World was "111!!1 HE TURNED INTO STEVE!!!"
But apart from that - I really liked it. I liked that female-female relationships and non-sexual female-male relationships were just as important as the rest in this film, I always like Jane, and a lot of the Jane/Thor romance was really well done. I do really like that they made a point of Loki's relationship with Frigga, and that he learned magic from her and that that magic was seen as useful. I do still find it weird that she lied to him his whole life, at Odin's request, and they never broached that subject. Like, I assume she noticed she didn't give birth to him. But apart from that I really liked it. And she'll get reincarnated, don't worry, Ragnarok. Odin though - what a dick. I hope Loki has killed him.
Loki makes so much more sense in Thor films than in Avengers films, just because you can see that lying and mind-games are the name of the game with Odin, and that Asgardians are kind of dicks on the whole, and so everything he does just seems more apt. Just like soap villains are best when they have other villains to clash with. Otherwise they're just jerks. Odin's attitude didn't even make sense - at one point he's telling Loki Asgardians aren't gods, the next he's saying Jane's 'just a mortal' and calling her a goat. Pick a team, Odin. He probably isn't dead, because superhero films don't like giving up on the father/God figure, except as a noble sacrifice - but then maybe he is, so the next film can be about Thor having to take the throne because Loki's nuts. Who knows. But fingers crossed.
I did find the film a little bit goofy sometimes, in that way I think they do the Avengers films on purpose nowadays, because they're 12s so they're 'kids films' (a note: I saw kids way younger than 12 in the cinema today). And just because you expect Loki to lie, I often called it when he was 'tricking' us. Like, I never believed he was dead, and the 'betrayal' of Thor would have been a lot more convincing if we hadn't seen him breaking stuff in his cell after hearing about Frigga's death, when no-one else was around to see. But on the whole I really enjoyed. And Christopher Eccleston was pretty superb as Malekith. Malekith/Algrim 4ever.
So yeah, I did enjoy it. And a lot of it was really funny in a non-grating way. So thumbs up.
I am now going to Tumblr to see if the other crazy fans got as excited about the Steve thing as I did.
But apart from that - I really liked it. I liked that female-female relationships and non-sexual female-male relationships were just as important as the rest in this film, I always like Jane, and a lot of the Jane/Thor romance was really well done. I do really like that they made a point of Loki's relationship with Frigga, and that he learned magic from her and that that magic was seen as useful. I do still find it weird that she lied to him his whole life, at Odin's request, and they never broached that subject. Like, I assume she noticed she didn't give birth to him. But apart from that I really liked it. And she'll get reincarnated, don't worry, Ragnarok. Odin though - what a dick. I hope Loki has killed him.
Loki makes so much more sense in Thor films than in Avengers films, just because you can see that lying and mind-games are the name of the game with Odin, and that Asgardians are kind of dicks on the whole, and so everything he does just seems more apt. Just like soap villains are best when they have other villains to clash with. Otherwise they're just jerks. Odin's attitude didn't even make sense - at one point he's telling Loki Asgardians aren't gods, the next he's saying Jane's 'just a mortal' and calling her a goat. Pick a team, Odin. He probably isn't dead, because superhero films don't like giving up on the father/God figure, except as a noble sacrifice - but then maybe he is, so the next film can be about Thor having to take the throne because Loki's nuts. Who knows. But fingers crossed.
I did find the film a little bit goofy sometimes, in that way I think they do the Avengers films on purpose nowadays, because they're 12s so they're 'kids films' (a note: I saw kids way younger than 12 in the cinema today). And just because you expect Loki to lie, I often called it when he was 'tricking' us. Like, I never believed he was dead, and the 'betrayal' of Thor would have been a lot more convincing if we hadn't seen him breaking stuff in his cell after hearing about Frigga's death, when no-one else was around to see. But on the whole I really enjoyed. And Christopher Eccleston was pretty superb as Malekith. Malekith/Algrim 4ever.
So yeah, I did enjoy it. And a lot of it was really funny in a non-grating way. So thumbs up.
I am now going to Tumblr to see if the other crazy fans got as excited about the Steve thing as I did.