@foundlingmother replied to your post “@foundlingmother replied to your post “Ugh, I really don’t like it…”

I can see that angle working, absolutely, and it’s a shame you’re not planning to fic it. However, I can’t imagine the higher ups at Marvel would have ever allowed one of the Avengers to be benched to give Loki more screentime. Maybe if Thanos used some other means to threaten Thor’s life? I don’t know.

One of the Avengers mainstream audience gush over for their fighting, that is. Obviously they didn’t mind benching Hawkeye, but the consensus among the fanbase they’re clearly pandering to is that he’s boring.

It’s not that I wouldn’t want to fic it if I could; I just don’t really know how to write plot-heavy stuff like that. Intense dialogue and introspection are what I know how to do. And yeah, maybe I should work on getting out of my comfort zone… but fanfiction really is just a hobby for me; I don’t see myself branching out into commercial screenwriting.

Oh, fair point about benching Thor. That’s the kind of thing that would work way better for an arc in a TV show (or comics?) than the giant film culmination of a series of other giant films. I was thinking too much about character and not enough about visuals. I mean, the point wouldn’t have been to give Loki more screentime; it would have been to give a satisfying payoff to the connection with Thanos that was set up in the first Avengers and the arc of his character and relationship with Thor. That is the kind of thing I think Whedon would have cared about… but he also thinks about cool fight scene tableaux. Um… I guess the ruse would have to end and/or Thor would have to lead a prison break before the final battle of the movie so that he could be involved. It’s probably OK if he sits out some of the intermediate fights. Whedon already did that in AOU: Thor wasn’t involved in the Tony vs. Hulk fight in Johannesburg or the trip to South Korea to rescue Helen Cho and retrieve the vibranium body.