#constructive complaining

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

i've definitely reblogged that last post before but i love when fanartists make avengers!nyc look sort of, idk, gothic (genre) or post-apocalyptic... i know there's some emotional power to "normal, mundane city getting destroyed" but even so i find the aesthetics of the battle in the film so bland. and even if you want it to feel like a familiar world to begin with, imagine the power of that subtly changing as the battle goes on and the mcu as a whole crosses the line irreversibly into science fiction... and you don't have to make nyc Not Look Like NYC to achieve any of this. lighting, camera angles, colour grading, use of elements like smoke and rubble, all of these could do so much more for how the city and the battle feels. imo. yes i know this is my asgardian bias showing (of course the fantasy fan wants things to be more fantasy) but am i actually wrong

sometimes i like to say that i'm the only one who understands thor but like even setting the humourous hyperbole about having an unusual take aside, there are Layers. to Understanding Thor. there are actually quite a lot of people who more or less get thor, they're called the pre-ragnarok thor fandom. but yeah outside of THAT everyone in entire world is wrong about thor

also. not only does loki become even more unrecognisable in series 2 (because now they're not only fucking up his mannerisms and characterisation, but they've abandoned the thematic / philosophical questions about his character too)... in those middle episodes he didn't even feel like he needed to be there. and quite frankly, TH was like... audibly bored. and i really can't blame him. there's just nothing to work with there.

you might think that the core premise of all thor comics is "big blond guy punches people", but that's not quite right. the core premise of all thor comics is actually "big blond guy blows people up with the sheer concentrated power of his coolness, then the narrator makes direct eye contact with the audience and says 'that was a morally unquestionable decision btw.'"