“I like TR because Loki seems happy in it. You just want Loki to be unhappy.”

miskiett:

Dude. I don’t want Loki to be unhappy. I just want him to be happy for a reason that makes sense. I want to see him figure out his own happiness because its compelling and fulfilling to watch.

If a character undergoes character growth off-screen, it is not satisfying “growth.” Rather, it seems like they just teleport the character to a new place for the convenience of lazy writing. 

IMO that is what’s going on with cheery Loki in TR. His own dismissal of his own issues in the previous movies is exactly that; dismissal. It’s the writers disregarding it. We never get to actively see him get acknowledgement for all his very apparent suffering, and we never get to see how he figures out how to heal. Everything just vaporizes. The people behind the movie are too dumb, lazy, or callous to address and fix it on screen, so they sweep it under the carpet and make the character get over it so it will just go away. 

If the pain, yelling, crying, snot and tears are all introduced on-screen, I want to see it resolved on-screen as well, with the same emotional intensity with which it was initially introduced. Telling me that all that was resolved while Loki hid behind the face of Odin-the-asshole, sucking on hand-peeled grapes and being (apparently) a dirty lazy moron… Well I don’t buy it. 

It’s cheap and stupid. It doesn’t make sense.