the thor movies just really do not belong in the mcu and mcu brand synergy draining their lifeblood was the problem From The Beginning. sometimes i can't tell if this is really true or if it's just my bias as a thor stan who doesn't give a shit about anything else in the mcu and i would think the same of any other subfranchise if i'd happened to imprint on it, but then i hear how the average mcu fan perceives thor versus how i and other thor fans perceive him and i'm like yeah this is straight up irreconcilable. the history of mcu thor is the story of a bunch of producers futilely whacking a square peg against a round hole for four movies straight until the fifth where they finally jam it in by shattering the peg into splinters. and then everyone's like yaaaay we finally fixed that stupid peg no-one liked! everyone loves it now! and then they all act confused when they can't just scoop up those splinters to fit them into any successive holes














