ok but can we talk about how the most significant relationship development occurred because Thor stopped saying ‘stop this madness and come home [so everything can go back to the way it was]’ to ‘I thought the world of you but our paths diverged a long time ago [so I realize now that we’ll always be different but I still love you]’
Mr Waititi totally reads fan fiction. He can’t deny it because we’ve seen the proof (not that I think for one second he would actually deny it).
Also on Sakaar – Loki was surrounded by ladies there as well when Thor arrived. Once again telling a charming story and basking in the admiration of beautiful women.
At first I thought it was a bit smallminded to portray him that way, as being surrounded only by females when he is canonically (and possibly MCU-ically as well) genderfluid – but since he’s wearing the countenance of a handsome male, it makes sense. And then I thought, so where are the men who would likewise find this gorgeous male specimen attractive? And in walks the Grandmaster to fill that role.
And boy did he lol
I think they did okay by Loki. But yeah, whoever wants to feed him grapes and worship him is fine by him, he really doesn’t care about the specifics…it’s the adoration he’s in love with 😉
Did you hear the last line of that story on Sakaar? “And then I let go…?” Or similar. I think he was telling his own story of what happened in the first Thor movie. 😀
I’m glad he’s getting it off his chest lol
Yep. His tone of voice and smug, charming grin seemed to indicate he was putting a light spin on it as well, like hey, listen to this brave and awesomely cool thing I did. I wasn’t about to be caught dead going back to those dipshits so rather than let my brother, who was sobbing like a baby, pull me back up…I just…let go.
He’s obviously still got deep seated issues linked to that event and the events that led up to it. Poor guy. But yeah, talking about it to strangers in a manner that evokes ooohs and ahhhhs from them is probably good for him. Anonymous therapy 😉
I’d really like to see that explored (or maybe explore it in fic myself) – I found it extremely strange that he was telling that story in a way that invited laughs.
I thought I didnt hear let go, I thought he said something about a worm hole and then just was playing off how damn nice it was to wind up on Sakaar. I remember hearing it that way because it reminded me of Jack in Titanic explaining how he wound up at the rich people’s table XD (IS THAT REFERENCE TOO OLD? Tell me it’s not)
I definitely heard “and then I let go.” I was shocked the first time and thought I might have misheard it, so I listened carefully the second time and heard the same thing. He might be relating that as part of how he ended up in luxury on Sakaar, but it’s a weird thing to laugh about…
Mr Waititi totally reads fan fiction. He can’t deny it because we’ve seen the proof (not that I think for one second he would actually deny it).
Also on Sakaar – Loki was surrounded by ladies there as well when Thor arrived. Once again telling a charming story and basking in the admiration of beautiful women.
At first I thought it was a bit smallminded to portray him that way, as being surrounded only by females when he is canonically (and possibly MCU-ically as well) genderfluid – but since he’s wearing the countenance of a handsome male, it makes sense. And then I thought, so where are the men who would likewise find this gorgeous male specimen attractive? And in walks the Grandmaster to fill that role.
And boy did he lol
I think they did okay by Loki. But yeah, whoever wants to feed him grapes and worship him is fine by him, he really doesn’t care about the specifics…it’s the adoration he’s in love with 😉
Did you hear the last line of that story on Sakaar? “And then I let go…?” Or similar. I think he was telling his own story of what happened in the first Thor movie. 😀
I’m glad he’s getting it off his chest lol
Yep. His tone of voice and smug, charming grin seemed to indicate he was putting a light spin on it as well, like hey, listen to this brave and awesomely cool thing I did. I wasn’t about to be caught dead going back to those dipshits so rather than let my brother, who was sobbing like a baby, pull me back up…I just…let go.
He’s obviously still got deep seated issues linked to that event and the events that led up to it. Poor guy. But yeah, talking about it to strangers in a manner that evokes ooohs and ahhhhs from them is probably good for him. Anonymous therapy 😉
I’d really like to see that explored (or maybe explore it in fic myself) – I found it extremely strange that he was telling that story in a way that invited laughs.
My favorite running gag in Ragnarok was them making fun of Age of Ultron with Thor constantly saying, “sun’s getting real low. It’s getting real low” I was in tears. Take that Joss whedon
I don’t think it was making fun of the idea of having a protocol to de-Hulk the Hulk. I thought they were just reinforcing the idea that it wasn’t controllable anymore (hence the two hands on the wheel vs. Bruce in the trunk metaphor). They also took Bruce/Nat seriously enough to have the video of her allow Bruce to re-emerge. I agree that that romance wasn’t necessary, but I don’t hate it as much as everyone else, and I certainly don’t hate Joss Whedon as much as everyone else on this site, because I’m not convinced that being a bad feminist makes someone a bad writer.
The wonderful thing about fiction is that it’s subject to many interpretations, and the wonderful thing about fanfiction is that it allows a large number of people to explore a large number of those possible interpretations. I’m certainly not a “death of the author” type who thinks a work of literature can mean literally anything a reader sees in it – the text does provide some constraints – but it always leaves a lot of things under-determined. I think this is one of those issues where the text points in different directions at different times, so readers are free to follow either path.
Loki is the Philosopher King 