Thor...

[fajrdrako]

When I was a kid, for a long time, Journey into Mystery starring Thor was my favourite comic. It was as passionate a fandom as any I have had since, though I didn't know anyone else who loved Thor comics - heck, I didn't even know anyone else who read comics. So I fantasized about lame doctors who can command the lightning, and the mighty hammer

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[catalenamara]

I remember that cover!!!!!! I had that issue!!!!!

Thanks for the cool review. I do plan to see it; I've just been too busy to get to the movies. Now I'm motivated!

[fajrdrako]

I can't rememeber which issues of Journey into Mystery I read; I still have some of them, I think. Maybe. Must look through my collection and see what I can find.

I hope you enjoy the movie, too. I though it was far better than I had any reason to expect.

[bright_lilim]

I agree with you on many points! I thought that Frigga was criminally underused. I don't think they even said her name in the movie.

I think that pseudo-Shakespearean dialog would have been too much to a modern movie-going audience. But now the thought occurs to me that... they could use it in Avengers to distinguish Thor from the rest. But probably not.

Now I want to see it again...

Did you see it in 3D or 2D?

[fajrdrako]

I thought that Frigga was criminally underused. I don't think they even said her name in the movie.

She was cool. She was never much in the credits, either. I kind of liked the way she was so concerned over Odin's condition that she didn't even notice what Loki was doing.

I think that pseudo-Shakespearean dialog would have been too much to a modern movie-going audience

Yeah. It's a pity, but no doubt true. That would have tipped it over into something camp, or artsy, or just too strange.

I saw it in 2D. Might be fun to see it in 3D. Just to say I did.

[darthhellokitty]

I loved Thor when I was 13-17 or so, it was the first comic I ever followed, so I too had some trepidation, but I liked it too!

Loki was very appealing. Yes, he was. And yay for it not being incest, not that that would be a gigantic problem for fandom. He and Thor were adorable as kids, and it made me really sad that they were going to be enemies...

I really loved Heimdall. He was so utterly devoted.

When the gundam-thing showed up, and someone remarking that it must be one of Tony Stark's things, I giggled.

[fajrdrako]

I loved Thor when I was 13-17 or so, it was the first comic I ever followed, so I too had some trepidation, but I liked it too!

I'm happy to know that I'm not the only closet Thor fan. And not the only one who was charmed by the movie.

Loki was very appealing. Yes, he was

I thought so. I liked his identity crisis. I wanted to comfort him. Or, more to the point, I wanted Thor to comfort him. Thor didn't even know about his problems, except for the jealousy.

hen the gundam-thing showed up, and someone remarking that it must be one of Tony Stark's things, I giggled.

That was a wonderful line.

[dichroic]

If I'm not mistaken, Loki actually *is* a Frost Giant, or half one, in the Norse sagas. Further, he mated with another Frost Giant to father Hel, Fenrir, and the World Serpent.

[fajrdrako]

If I'm not mistaken, Loki actually *is* a Frost Giant, or half one, in the Norse sagas.

So it seems - or half a Frost Giant - in some of them, anyway. But according to Wikipedia, Laufey was Loki' mum, not his father: "Laufey or Nál is a figure from Norse mythology, the mother of Loki."

Wikipedia:

According to the Prose Edda, Loki is Laufey's or Nál's son by the giant Fárbauti, and has the brothers Býleistr and Helblindi:

Loki seems really interesting to me now.

[idiotgrrl]

Yes. Someone ran a genealogy on the Norse Gods and Loki's mother was one of the Giant-kin. Also -- Odin was part giant himself, who in classic mythological fashion overthrew the giants and declared war against their kind. In Ancient Greece it was the Titans. And it's hard not to flash on the generational revolts raging in the modern world in my own young adulthood, but really, the Gods-and-Giants relationship was a lot more complicated than the Aesir wanted to believe.

[fajrdrako]

Makes for interesting story-telling! It's the kind of thing that crops up in so many cultures, and in fairy tales.

Oh, those godlings.