"Satisfaction Isn't In My Nature"

[redbrunja]

I saw Thor: The Dark World last night, and frankly, minus a few minor quibbles, I really liked it:

• Jane/science is Jane's true OTP and probably my favorite moment was when she was on the healing table and corrected what it was called. But minus a chunck in the midle of the movie, I love that Jane spent a lot of time running around doing science.


• While I dislike Frigga's death in theory, in practice I fucking love all the conversations that it caused between Thor and Loki, and how it supported fanon that I'd been working with since Thor 1 (that Loki was closest to Frigga, that Frigga taught him magic


• ...and I cannot stress how much I loved the scene after Frigga's death were we see that Loki is just sitting depressed against the wall in his wrecked cell.


• Loki, in general, just did a lot of scene stealing


• speaking of that fantastic scene with his mother in his cell, I assumed Loki was casting the illusion of his mother, the person I saw it with assumed that his mother cast it and sent it to his cell. Your thoughts?


• I feel like there was a more explicit love triangle between Thor/Jane/Sif that was cut - THANK YOU.


• I'm really pleased that this didn't ruin my desire/ability to ship Loki/Sif (especially considering Loki called her form... what was it, ravishing?)


• the Captain America cameo was totally unexpected but awesome.


• I really enjoyed all the Darcy but I really wish she had been the person who hit those dark elves with the car. Although her dipping her intern and then dropping him was cute.


• I am so glad that Jane and Thor had their big damn kiss at the end.


• I think Thor (the character) has gotten some really excellent, subtle characterization work over the last couple of movies.


• Because I am a terrible person I LOVED the stuff with Selvig, especially how happy he was that Loki was dead.


• I think there were about fifteen minutes of the movie (especially the attack on Asgard) that could have been cut


• and I really feel that Christopher Eccolsen was wasted under all that makeup/speaking gibberish.

Comments

[profshallowness.livejournal.com]

I broadly agree with you - Jane on the table was my favourite moment too.

My impression was that Frigga was casting.

Eccleston as the baddie reminded me of Eric Bana's Nero in the first Star Trek reboot in terms of (lack of) presence.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was a shame to hire that great of an actor and not give him a role in which he can, you know, act.