Tag: anti infinity war

dailymarvelheroes:

“So, I’ve known about that scene for two years.[…] My whole journey through making Thor: Ragnarok — I knew this was coming. By the end of Thor: Ragnarok, Loki has been accepted as Thor’s brother again. When I came to shoot the scene in Infinity War, I think it’s very powerful he calls himself an Odinson, and that closes the whole journey of Loki and what he can do. It [Loki’s death] set the stakes up emotionally. It takes the stakes up dramatically.”  

— Tom Hiddleston

“that closes the whole journey of Loki and what he can do”

Only because Marvel artificially made that the close: made the telos of Loki’s existence consist in dissolving his being into Thor’s; made him a function of Thor, a cog or a symbol in Thor’s journey rather than a person in his own right. He was a person up through TDW. Hiddleston gave him a depth and roundness few of the heroes possess. Marvel decided that wasn’t what they wanted from Loki.

Interviews like this really make it sound like his death in IW was final.

papertownsy:

When Marvel puts Tom and Mark together so they can now spoil things they know nothing about x

That wouldn’t have been hard…

Maybe the movie would have sucked less if the writers hadn’t spent so much time writing fake scripts to keep everything Top Secret.

philosopherking1887:

Until further notice, I have decided that in the fictional world of the MCU, “Infinity War” did not happen. Neither did “Thor: Ragnarok.” I don’t know exactly what did happen because I don’t know how to write comic book movie plots, but it’s vaguely like all my most hopeful imaginings of what the movies would be like. It’s like an author died before finishing a series and left very scant notes on what was coming next.

In the real world, the movies do exist, and I will continue to express my anger at Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Markus & McFeely, the Russo brothers, and Kevin Feige when I feel it would be helpful to vent. But their work is like that unauthorized second part of Don Quixote: an absurd forgery that has marred the reputations of the characters and of the real artist(s) who created them.

While I’m at it, I might as well add “Captain America: Civil War” to the list. I don’t know exactly what Tony and Steve fought about, but it was a lot more substantive than the personal vendetta crap those hacks gave us. Though maybe we should be glad they didn’t try to touch on serious issues about right to privacy vs. right to know and voluntary vs. involuntary enhancement, since they think (their version of) Steve’s self-certainty is moral courage while Tony’s doubt is sin, and when they try to go “philosophical,” they give us Thanos’s Malthusian bullshit and try to convince us it’s compelling and sympathetic.