This is the exact expression he gave to Thor during the elevator scene: the surprise at hearing something he so desperately needed and the sadness because it’s too late. In this scene, he recognizes that Odin is dying, and in the elevator scene, Thor tells him that he thought the world of him only in the past tense, so there’s acceptance in his gaze but also a wistfulness.
I find it so sad that the people who claim to love him are so lacking in self-awareness. Odin realizes he was a bad father, when it’s too late to be of any use to Loki. Thor continues to think that all the problems between he and his brother are his brother’s fault and his brother’s responsibility to fix. What’s even sadder is that Loki rose to the occasion, meaning he’s given up trying to assert his feelings and has succumbed to the notion that for his relationship with Thor to work, it has to be done on Thor’s terms.
What’s even sadder is that Loki rose to the occasion, meaning he’s given up trying to assert his feelings and has succumbed to the notion that for his relationship with Thor to work, it has to be done on Thor’s terms. <——– This.
I try not to see it this way because it’s so not Loki. It’s not like Loki to do sth on someone else’s term. I refuse to let Ragnarok take this away from Loki. The only way I can see and bear it is the concept of ego death that Loki went through in comics. I chose to see that torture scene as the burning of ego death and his return and reconcilation with Thor as letting go of his anger.
@illwynd, I’m reminded of our recent conversation.
Loki is the Philosopher King 