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Sorry if you’ve already talked about this (I saw some discussion going around, but I didn’t pay attention cause I hadn’t seen the movie). The EW article that talked about Steve and Tony’s sexual tension also believes that Thor will be mad at Loki when he discovers that Loki has the tesseract, but I kind of assumed he knew? I mean, he didn’t seem at all worried about Loki getting out, and he knew it was in the vault, and throughout the whole movie he anticipated Loki very well.

I think Thor wasn’t worried about Loki getting out because he had the Commodore (a.k.a. the orgy ship). At the end of the movie we see the little ship perched on top of the big ship in some kind of docking station. I do think that Loki took the Tesseract, but I don’t think that’s how he got out of Asgard before it was destroyed.

Frankly, though, Thor really should have seen that coming when he sent Loki into the Vault. Did he really think that Loki was going to just let the Tesseract go flying off into space somewhere when Asgard blew up?

(P.S. Is anyone else kind of envisioning Thor and Valkyrie doing a Han and Leia at the end of Return of the Jedi?  V: Loki wasn’t on that thing when it blew. T: He wasn’t. I can feel it.)

As for The Neck Thing™ I see what you mean about it having an old culture feel. It’s very intimate, and nowadays men don’t show affection like that (usually). With that being said, they did The Neck Thing in The Avengers, and I really feel like it worked there. I didn’t ship Thorki when I first saw that movie, and I was really touched by how the gesture affected Loki – you could see it in his eyes how much it meant to him, probably because it reminded him of their bond and made him feel safe.

I would say it made him feel the opposite of safe, because the re-emergence of affectionate feelings toward Thor was a threat to his ability to carry out his mission! But yes, you could really see how the gesture called up strong associations and memories of their relationship over the centuries.

Everyone is upset that we didn’t get a Thorki hug, but what about The Neck Thing™? That’s way more intimate to me than a hug because it’s a personal thing between them that Thor does to express his love for Loki without speaking. Why didn’t we get that? I would have taken that over a hug any day. :( Or if not that, why not have Thor mention that Loki finally came home, or Loki saying it? That was all Thor asked him to do in The Avengers.

To be honest, I kind of suspect that The Neck Thing™ was one of the things Chris Hemsworth was tired of. It does seem oddly antiquated, characteristic of an ancient warrior culture (though lord knows why it strikes me that way, since I’ve never been in an ancient warrior culture), and they were going for a more modern Thor this time (which sometimes annoyed me). It also reflects a particular kind of dynamic between Thor and Loki: a protective, almost possessive or controlling big-brotherly affection, whereas in Ragnarok Thor was taking a more hands-off approach, both literally and metaphorically. Many of us here in Thorki-land like the possessive dynamic and the ancient-warrior-culture vibe, so we’re into The Neck Thing, but other viewers might find it weird.

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