addendum to thor 2 post
More spoilers!
I was actually really impressed with the scene where Loki and Frigga are talking, and then he declares she's not his mother, and then he puts his hands through her and she dissolves -- I was really taken aback that he made an illusion of Frigga to talk to and thought it was the most interesting and painfully bitter scene of his, and really made his isolation palpable.
But several people commented on my last post that they read it as a real conversation, Frigga projecting herself into the cell, and as soon as people said it I realized that while it can be interpreted my original way, as I said to Ces afterwards, no, that's actually much too interesting for the rest of this script. :P
OTOH, in fannish catnip terms, I actually like it more that Frigga does go around Odin and visit Loki, and it makes her death that much more brutal for him, too: the one person who still loved and had faith in him, and clearly the peacemaker of their family. He must have been relying on her in the back of his head to argue for clemency for him at some point. And for the last conversation they had to be him telling her she wasn't his mother, man.
(Also, I uh, may have downloaded a cam version to check this out, and I have to say, the Thor & Loki road show is totally fun and worth repeat watching. Also I appreciate even the cam-quality gifs of the bit where Thor covers Loki's mouth and shoves him against a column, cough. I quite love how tumblr gifs amplify tiny moments like that, ahem.)
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I was actually really impressed with the scene where Loki and Frigga are talking, and then he declares she's not his mother, and then he puts his hands through her and she dissolves -- I was really taken aback that he made an illusion of Frigga to talk to and thought it was the most interesting and painfully bitter scene of his, and really made his isolation palpable.
But several people commented on my last post that they read it as a real conversation, Frigga projecting herself into the cell, and as soon as people said it I realized that while it can be interpreted my original way, as I said to Ces afterwards, no, that's actually much too interesting for the rest of this script. :P
OTOH, in fannish catnip terms, I actually like it more that Frigga does go around Odin and visit Loki, and it makes her death that much more brutal for him, too: the one person who still loved and had faith in him, and clearly the peacemaker of their family. He must have been relying on her in the back of his head to argue for clemency for him at some point. And for the last conversation they had to be him telling her she wasn't his mother, man.
(Also, I uh, may have downloaded a cam version to check this out, and I have to say, the Thor & Loki road show is totally fun and worth repeat watching. Also I appreciate even the cam-quality gifs of the bit where Thor covers Loki's mouth and shoves him against a column, cough. I quite love how tumblr gifs amplify tiny moments like that, ahem.)
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