The problem with Loki...

[dfotw]

Blame all the think-time I've had lately while working on a stone mill, with nothing but routine movements and sense deprivation to keep me company...

Comments

[ashirbaad]

Oooo nice review! I agree with most of the things there. For me, Hiddles' acting as Loki was superb in Avengers, but, like you said, on retrospection his motives confused me.

I mean I tried really hard to attribute his madness to desperation, a desperate desire to prove himself worthy (both to Odin and to Thor) and capable of ruling, and so he tries to take over the next possible realm available (the weakest too, if my Norse mythology is in order) - and, it could also be due to a desire to piss off Thor, who is supposedly in charge of Midgard.

Anyway, I would've liked to have seen a bit of growth in Loki. I wanted to see either a redemptive quality or at least a bit more of evil in him. I mean here is the trickster, the GOD of Mischief and he gets emotionally manipulated by The Black Widow? Or Hulk smashed like that? You'd think a guy with magic would be quicker and cleverer than that. I felt some of the stuff that happens to Loki, the things that backfires basically, happened because Joss wanted to weave the focus on the Avengers. Based on the comics, film!Loki comes across as a childling. I have not read all of the Avengers issues but the ones I have read, I recall Loki to be a lot more sinister. And it wasn't there. If you take Hiddles away from the equation, Loki would blend into the wallpaper.

With a new villain announced in Thor 2, I don't have much hopes for it because if you're going to make Loki share screen time with another guy, I don't see any room for growth. He won't have enough screen time to either redeem himself or grow a more sinister side to him.

[dfotw]

Thank you!

Yes, I enjoyed seeing Hiddles-as-Loki (the Opera scene, guh! And he was fantastic in the Helicarrier), but his motivation was paper-thin. Surely someone like him -even desperate- can come up with a plan that's a little more elaborate than 'sign over my soul to the first mercenaries I find'. Compare that with his plan in 'Thor' and, well...

And yes, growth! Or, at least, change! Past all the manipulative confrontations (with Fury, with Natasha, with Tony), he just goes Standard Cackling Madman for The Avengers to beat up. There's no depth to his villainy, it's almost caricaturesque how simple it is.

I haven't read a single comic in my life, but I've seen bits floating around and yeah... nothing like this.

We'll see. If Hiddles' star rises enough, Thor 2 might focus as much on him as it does on Thor, and we might get something good out of it. Oh well, we can always hope...

:)