i’m 101% sure that this entire line was improv and tom couldn’t help it
“Yeah, that was basically, we did about six different versions of that story, and that was just us standing around while the cameras were rolling and I would just feed them lines and feed Chris ideas for stories. I’d say, “Do another one, in this one say: ‘I was walking through a field, and I saw a lovey Turkish rug in the middle of the grass, and I love Turkish rugs, so I went to stand on it, and it was Loki, and he turned back into Loki and there was a hole and I fell through the hole was was impaled on a whole lot of spikes.’” So we did versions of that, and the one with the snake just ended up being the one we used.”
Mine is only one of a zillion hug fics, and it’s pretty short (because I still need to finish my fucking dissertation by Wednesday and I didn’t really have time to write it as it was). But it’s platonic (which is an advantage for some people) and addresses some of the angsty family issues to which the movie gave short shrift. So here it is – Zeno’s Paradox (weird title, I know, but I swear – as usual – that it makes sense in context…).
Writing about how in order to rebuild trust in a relationship where trust has been broken, you have to extend your belief in the other person’s trustworthiness a little past what the evidence warrants – in this case, the experience of past betrayal – in order to invite the other person to provide you with evidence that they’re trustworthy.
Officially it’s about William James’s “The Will to Believe,” but now I’m (internally) crying about Thor and Loki.
Yuuup. There is so much one can say about trust and trustworthiness with regard to Thor and Loki’s relationship arc. So much.
The funniest thing about this is that my reading of “The Will to Believe” was inspired by what my therapist said about the process of rebuilding trust in a relationship. Which had nothing to do with me or Thor or Loki; I was just talking about an example in the essay and she gave me a funny look and then gave the perfect description of how it works.
Writing about how in order to rebuild trust in a relationship where trust has been broken, you have to extend your belief in the other person’s trustworthiness a little past what the evidence warrants – in this case, the experience of past betrayal – in order to invite the other person to provide you with evidence that they’re trustworthy.
Officially it’s about William James’s “The Will to Believe,” but now I’m (internally) crying about Thor and Loki.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS THAT RAGNAROK KEPT UP: Thor knows how to make a plan. Whether winging it or planning it out, he’s good enough with working on the fly that Loki STILL doesn’t see him coming either time.
Whether Thor’s using the Dark Elf ship as a distraction because everyone thinks that of COURSE he’s just going to fly around in the loudest, most attention-grabbing way or that Loki’s planning to betray him and Thor knows it’s coming so he outmaneuvers Loki, THOR KNOWS HOW TO GET ONE OVER ON THIS LITTLE SHIT.
Loki is the Philosopher King 