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x_losThor was pretty good, but Nadja's I LOVE IT hyped me up for like, another Dark Knight or Iron Man, and what I got was: nice!, but like, wtf that romance plot.
I love how cheerfully dim everyone is in Asgard. These should have been Loki's first clues he wasn't wholly a local boy:
a) the fact that his default expression is not :D, and/or
b) that his default thought is not GLORY! MEAT! OH, A FRIEND! HI FRIEND!! HIIIII!!!!!!
Alex pointed out that the CGI was well gorgeous, as was the costume design. I agree, this is attractive stuff.
Loki was pretty good as an ambiguous villain. Like Alex, I'm liking his long term planning mixed with fluidity. Though Katy was like "I do not believe this guy has "always been a mysterious trickster," he seems to have "always been a sulky emo bitch." The complexity of his relationship with Thor and Odin was interestingly alluded to, so that was all right. The ending got odd. He had to have known Odin would think elements of these shenanigans sucked donkey balls, and a relatively gentle 'nope' is really... better than he might have expected. Not THIS *LITERALLY* PUSHES ME OVER THE EDGE!! material. Also the MAYBE I WILL SLEEP WITH YOUR LADYFRIEND, THOR, EH, EH?! was a bit weeeak. Loki's Ice Giant heritage: pretty inventively dealt with, I like it.
I rather like this slightly twisty Odin. Given that myth!Odin is WELL crazy, though, if anything he was NOT MAD ENOUGH here. Because myth!Odin is fucking, fucking nuts, and this Odin was like, a light sprinkling of nuts atop a salad of sanity.
Generally I love that Gate Keeper. And the rainbow bridge was 100% less stupid than I'd thought it would look on-screen from having read the myths.
Natalie Portman could not have been more Just There, and all the stuff on Earth felt oddly contained and small. Kept expecting the script to dovetail, and for these characters to GO somewhere or DO something or even leave the Craterville Metro Area, but noooo. SHEILD was more MIB than UNIT!American Division this week, and thus less fun.
Any time Thor encounters Human Norms is guaranteed stupid fun. Throw that coffee cup down! Sneer at the medical orderlies! Tell them of your literally godlike prowess! Bless.
I love how cheerfully dim everyone is in Asgard. These should have been Loki's first clues he wasn't wholly a local boy:
a) the fact that his default expression is not :D, and/or
b) that his default thought is not GLORY! MEAT! OH, A FRIEND! HI FRIEND!! HIIIII!!!!!!
Alex pointed out that the CGI was well gorgeous, as was the costume design. I agree, this is attractive stuff.
Loki was pretty good as an ambiguous villain. Like Alex, I'm liking his long term planning mixed with fluidity. Though Katy was like "I do not believe this guy has "always been a mysterious trickster," he seems to have "always been a sulky emo bitch." The complexity of his relationship with Thor and Odin was interestingly alluded to, so that was all right. The ending got odd. He had to have known Odin would think elements of these shenanigans sucked donkey balls, and a relatively gentle 'nope' is really... better than he might have expected. Not THIS *LITERALLY* PUSHES ME OVER THE EDGE!! material. Also the MAYBE I WILL SLEEP WITH YOUR LADYFRIEND, THOR, EH, EH?! was a bit weeeak. Loki's Ice Giant heritage: pretty inventively dealt with, I like it.
I rather like this slightly twisty Odin. Given that myth!Odin is WELL crazy, though, if anything he was NOT MAD ENOUGH here. Because myth!Odin is fucking, fucking nuts, and this Odin was like, a light sprinkling of nuts atop a salad of sanity.
Generally I love that Gate Keeper. And the rainbow bridge was 100% less stupid than I'd thought it would look on-screen from having read the myths.
Natalie Portman could not have been more Just There, and all the stuff on Earth felt oddly contained and small. Kept expecting the script to dovetail, and for these characters to GO somewhere or DO something or even leave the Craterville Metro Area, but noooo. SHEILD was more MIB than UNIT!American Division this week, and thus less fun.
Any time Thor encounters Human Norms is guaranteed stupid fun. Throw that coffee cup down! Sneer at the medical orderlies! Tell them of your literally godlike prowess! Bless.
