"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

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Tom Hiddleson was clearly this movie's MVP (and I think Thor 2 would have looked hugely different if everyone didn't know that they could rest a movie on Hiddleson's shoulders).

Made me think of Regina since I've been on a SQ fic kick. Now I need awesome Darcy fic and some good Sif/Loki.

All of those things are things I am in favor of.