THORRRRRRRR THOR THOR THOR THOR THOR
For a movie hinging on the uberl33tness of elves, I'm surprised we didn't get any ljossalfar. They were conspicuous in their absence. Perhaps they were too preoccupied with Sauron.
So aether (unconvincingly evil cherry kool-aid) is the same class of ... thing as the Tesseract. It reinforces the notion of this artifact class as at least semi-sentient. Are there any that aren't malevolent?
While I still very firmly believe Thanos and his buddy were puppeting Loki via the glowstick the same way Loki was controlling Hawkeye, Erik, et al, Odin doesn't seem to have entertained such a possibility. I sort of feel it's to Loki's credit he didn't try to use that as a defense.
Holy shit Odin is a dick. We're so far beyond his A+ parenting we can't even see it. I guess that's how we should have seen it was actually Loki in the last scene - he was actually balanced and wise and compassionate. I bet with nobody saying "you're not worthy" to him all the time, he might be a great king. So, Odin, dead or asleep?
Every scene with Thor and Loki together was gold (including the bit with Chris Evans pretending to be Loki). They really are the hearts of each other's stories. I wonder if Loki's words as Odin at the end of the movie were rooted in having experienced Thor's genuine grief at his presumed death.
I knew Loki was faking his death. Tom's said openly he'd love to be in more Marvel movies, which he wouldn't if Loki had died for real. He would have done that weird eheheheh laugh of his.
I AM NOT OKAY WITH LOSING FRIGGA. Odin dying and Frigga taking the throne would have been awesome. That was just, fuck. I do like Asgardian funerals. I like they made at least passing reference to Loki having learned his seithir from her rather than Odin.
If Frigga survived as queen without Odin, Jane would get to go back to Asgard and talk more science with Eir (AND HOW COOL WAS THAT SCENE JANE IS SO GOING TO TRY TO BUILD HER OWN SOULFORGE). I liked Jane in Asgard. I loved her reaction to the Bifrost. I'm sure it endeared her to Heimdall. (can we see her geeking out with him next time?)
Hell, I even liked Jane going to Svartalfheim with Thor and Loki. That was a damn brilliant gambit. Thor is an excellent strategist, or getting there. He underestimated the kool-aid's power, but with anything short of that, it totally would have worked. I loved the scene in the cave. I wish we'd gotten an awkward scene of awkwardness between Thor and Richard.
I was skeptical of Eccleston's casting, but I thought he and Mr. Eko were excellent. For what they were given to do. The movie was so obviously not about them.
Erik in the asylum was pretty much the most accurate movie representation of a theoretical physicist ever. I'm glad he was still suffering some repercussions from Avengers. Darcy's comments suggest he didn't tell anyone Loki hijacked his brain (wouldn't that have earned an extra slap from Jane?). I wonder how much of his ongoing crazy-pantsless is from not being able to talk about it.
Speaking of Jane slapping people OMG HOW WONDERFUL. I can NOT understand fic writers who make her this wilting little flower. She saved the damn planet with duct tape and her giant brain. Thor was just the delivery vehicle, like when they left the sensor suite bolted to the shiny new pickup in Twister. I kept waiting for her to pick up Myuh-myuh and kick some elf ass herself. She totally could.
Once again, Darcy is the only non-villain with all her ducks in a row all the damn time. Pay attention to the science while Jane is emo? Check. Get Jane to pay attention to the science? Check. Call cops when Jane mysteriously disappears for several hours in an extremely sketchy area of town and otherwise act like a responsible adult? Check. Know SHIELD should probably know Jane just got hauled off-planet by Mr. Still-All-Muscly? Check. Plan breaking Erik out of the psych ward? Check. Fake ID for Iantern to break Erik out of the psych ward? Check. Get all the magic gravity sticks in the right places in time? Check. The only thing that would have been better is if she'd been the one to pick up the floating Mini for elf smashing. I guess she can't have all the presence of mind all the time.
IDK how I feel about Iantern. My opinion of him is probably strongly colored by envy. Except not really, since I'm sure Darcy wouldn't have played tonsil hockey with him under normal circumstances. (We can meet-cute in a used bookstore and have picnics in Hyde Park and spend the entire time joking about how cheesy it is) The whole Darcy-is-still-an-intern thing irritates me to no end. I'm not pleased Jane wasn't able to find room in her budget to reward Darcy for her loyalty and constant ass-saving beyond room and board. Darce's sweet-ass, clearly new clothes wardrobe in spite of not being paid sort of reinforces all those fics speculating she's a rich kid. Clothes in Britain are not cheap. Anyway, yes, Darcy is a joy and Iantern didn't have enough of a discernable personality to judge. Pretty much anyone who isn't Chris Hemsworth or Clark Gregg will kind of get invisibled in a scene with Kat, Natalie, and Stellan.
Sif. Need moar. More Warriors in general. It kind of gave me the wiggins they stuck Hogun somewhere and he didn't participate in the plot at all. (Although we got confirmation he's Vanir, which was cool)
Is The Collector Thanos is disguise? Or competition? Sif and Volstagg were clearly discomfited by the sadness of all his collected creatures. I wouldn't be surprised if Thor later decides liberating them all would be righteous. I don't know anything about the Marvel Collector, only the one from the Paul Dini Superman cartoon, who was a complete creepazoid and a good argument for Neutral actually meaning Evil.
The bilgesnipe chasing starling. <3
Much better than the first one. I adore all these assholes and the actors who play them.