Loki's playing tricks again
So I saw Thor 2. Techincally I saw it on Thursday when it first came out in my area, but this has been a lot of working 12 hour shifts for me so I have not had the energy to post anything up. Slowly I will catch up with other people's posts.
So I absolutely loved the movie. I was actually surprised when it ended because it felt like it all went very fast. I was very glad that a lot of the characters other than Thor and Jane got a chance to shine and this movie made the romance feel a little less tacked out. I mean it still feels a bit rushed, but then again their romance always did to me.
-Loki. Everything out of Loki's mouth was wonderful. He had some of the best quips around. His scene where he flipped through illusions was one of the best, I loved seeing the Steve Rogers cameo. "Man this suit is tight. God bless America! Truth, honor!"
I loved that he referred to himself as a son of Odin before the "sacrifice" that he made. It says a lot about where his mind was before he did that. I mean I believe he actually did get stabbed, just the greying and dying thing was an illusion. I was so sad when I saw that he died, but his dying line was the best "I didn't do it for him." That pretty much is their friendship. They will fight and Thor will remind himself that he can't trust Loki. Loki will still irrationally get hurt by this and then did something great. I think he actually did sacrifice himself with the best of intentions in mind. But once he realized he could sneak away and grab power too he just couldn't give up the opportunity to go for it.
Frigga and Loki. All the sad feels. She was the only one who really cared and visited him, taking him in as only a mother could. They really were a family. She and he both knew that he didn't mean it when he said that she was not his mother. Loki will beat himself up for this later, but at least they both knew it since they could see through the other. Seeing him wrecked and having him take it out on the entire cell after she died fit really well. He would try and pretend nothing was wrong, but in the end her and Thor, maybe Sif at times, are the only ones he really cares about up there. Now he's one person down.
-What happened to Odin? I mean I'm willing to bet that Loki was the soldier who announced his death, but still I'm puzzled as to where Odin went. Clearly something happened to him since Gungnier was in his hands as he was on the throne. My best guess is that Loki has him cloaked and in the dungeons as another person. I understand why Thor didn't see through his illusions this time; he wasn't looking for them. He had no reason to doubt Odin was Odin. (save for the fact that the swagger he had on the throne was SO Loki and not Odin.) When he saw Loki in the prison cell he knew he could not be that well kept, especially after hearing that their mother died.
-Sif was such a badass. She fought and still got a chance to show off some of her emotion.
Her scene with Thor in the Vanaheim was badass and really cemented their friendship in my head. I like the fact that the film did not focus on her pining away for Thor. She loves him, but she knows when to step away. She didn't focus on it, just on saving the world.
Also the fact that Loki flirts with her even while she is threatening his life makes me just want to write some Sif/Loki fic, or rather finish the ones I still have in the works.
-I am glad that they didn't kill Jane off. I was worried that they were going to kill her off just to make room for A Sif/Thor thing walking in. Jane's love of science gave the character some much needed depth to her other than "love interest". "Is that a quantum field generator?"
"It is a soulforge."
"Does it reproduce things on a molecular level?"
"Well...yes."
"Quantum field generator"
-The bit where the Tesseract actually is the mind gem explains a lot of Loki's actions in New York. I mean he clearly was a bit crazed and not his usual subtle, planned self. So that would be why he was behaving differently, especially if he was around it for a prolonged period of time. It also explains why Selvig was so fucked up, it wasn't just normal Loki magic it was Loki's magic supercharged by the mind gem. Turning the Aether into the red gem was nice, did not see that coming.
-Staying until after the credits was lovely. You get to see Thor come back and then see the little creature from the Jotunheim chasing after starlings. That reminds me, there are still two fighter jets now permanently in the Vanaheim.
-Malekith was a nice villain. He was not sympathetic, but the nihilism made him terrifying. He did not care if his entire people, including himself, were destroyed so long as the world went with them.
Anybody else see it and have thoughts/comments?
So I absolutely loved the movie. I was actually surprised when it ended because it felt like it all went very fast. I was very glad that a lot of the characters other than Thor and Jane got a chance to shine and this movie made the romance feel a little less tacked out. I mean it still feels a bit rushed, but then again their romance always did to me.
-Loki. Everything out of Loki's mouth was wonderful. He had some of the best quips around. His scene where he flipped through illusions was one of the best, I loved seeing the Steve Rogers cameo. "Man this suit is tight. God bless America! Truth, honor!"
I loved that he referred to himself as a son of Odin before the "sacrifice" that he made. It says a lot about where his mind was before he did that. I mean I believe he actually did get stabbed, just the greying and dying thing was an illusion. I was so sad when I saw that he died, but his dying line was the best "I didn't do it for him." That pretty much is their friendship. They will fight and Thor will remind himself that he can't trust Loki. Loki will still irrationally get hurt by this and then did something great. I think he actually did sacrifice himself with the best of intentions in mind. But once he realized he could sneak away and grab power too he just couldn't give up the opportunity to go for it.
Frigga and Loki. All the sad feels. She was the only one who really cared and visited him, taking him in as only a mother could. They really were a family. She and he both knew that he didn't mean it when he said that she was not his mother. Loki will beat himself up for this later, but at least they both knew it since they could see through the other. Seeing him wrecked and having him take it out on the entire cell after she died fit really well. He would try and pretend nothing was wrong, but in the end her and Thor, maybe Sif at times, are the only ones he really cares about up there. Now he's one person down.
-What happened to Odin? I mean I'm willing to bet that Loki was the soldier who announced his death, but still I'm puzzled as to where Odin went. Clearly something happened to him since Gungnier was in his hands as he was on the throne. My best guess is that Loki has him cloaked and in the dungeons as another person. I understand why Thor didn't see through his illusions this time; he wasn't looking for them. He had no reason to doubt Odin was Odin. (save for the fact that the swagger he had on the throne was SO Loki and not Odin.) When he saw Loki in the prison cell he knew he could not be that well kept, especially after hearing that their mother died.
-Sif was such a badass. She fought and still got a chance to show off some of her emotion.
Her scene with Thor in the Vanaheim was badass and really cemented their friendship in my head. I like the fact that the film did not focus on her pining away for Thor. She loves him, but she knows when to step away. She didn't focus on it, just on saving the world.
Also the fact that Loki flirts with her even while she is threatening his life makes me just want to write some Sif/Loki fic, or rather finish the ones I still have in the works.
-I am glad that they didn't kill Jane off. I was worried that they were going to kill her off just to make room for A Sif/Thor thing walking in. Jane's love of science gave the character some much needed depth to her other than "love interest". "Is that a quantum field generator?"
"It is a soulforge."
"Does it reproduce things on a molecular level?"
"Well...yes."
"Quantum field generator"
-The bit where the Tesseract actually is the mind gem explains a lot of Loki's actions in New York. I mean he clearly was a bit crazed and not his usual subtle, planned self. So that would be why he was behaving differently, especially if he was around it for a prolonged period of time. It also explains why Selvig was so fucked up, it wasn't just normal Loki magic it was Loki's magic supercharged by the mind gem. Turning the Aether into the red gem was nice, did not see that coming.
-Staying until after the credits was lovely. You get to see Thor come back and then see the little creature from the Jotunheim chasing after starlings. That reminds me, there are still two fighter jets now permanently in the Vanaheim.
-Malekith was a nice villain. He was not sympathetic, but the nihilism made him terrifying. He did not care if his entire people, including himself, were destroyed so long as the world went with them.
Anybody else see it and have thoughts/comments?