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Reading this has me practically crying in relief — I’ve felt like an oddball because it seems like the movie was universally loved and I couldn’t understand why.

I thought I was alone, too, @fuckyeahrichardiii – at least among MCU fans other than the “Loki apologists” who have been annoying the rest of the fandom since 2012. But being the contrarian I am, when I think I’m alone in an opinion (including thinking there’s nothing wrong with 1st person POV, or that Joss Whedon is still a good writer in many respects), I don’t keep my mouth shut for fear of alienating people or starting controversy. I make posts bitching about it, either hoping to call allies out of the woodwork, or to force people to reconsider the opinions that they formed “for no reasons worthy of the name” (as William James puts it in “The Will to Believe”), merely “out of habit” and/or to go along with the rest of their community, as Nietzsche says of the “fettered spirit” in Human, All Too Human (I, 226). “Later… [they] may perhaps have also devised a couple of reasons favorable to [their] habits” (as one sees in posts people make presenting their Tumblr-approved opinions); but typically, alas, “if one refutes those reasons one does not refute [them] in their general position.”

(Yeah, I judge people who don’t think for themselves. Fucking deal with it.)

It seems that, on this issue, I have actually been finding allies who were too scared to say anything because they thought they were alone (among non-Loki-justifiers) – and possibly even getting people to reconsider the high opinion of the movie they assumed they must have because everyone else seemed to…