#t:tdw

"he's everyone's favorite villain who hasn't been a villain for ten years" exactly!!! They tell us he's this very despicable villain, and tend to attempt to frame him as "the worst", but he ends up coming short to other characters that get more narrative sympathy in terms of what we're shown he actually does. Like, as hard as it is to believe due to how much Loki defense and woobification I post, I don't usually woobify characters. Loki is an exception in many ways for me because there's something about how the people behind the narrative go about it that irks me.

I usually cheer them on. Like "Yes, king/queen, betray everyone!" In fact, that was how I initially interacted with MCU!Loki until I rewatched things, where I was like "wait a minute...". At first, I was like "Yes!! Kill them all! Thanks for killing Coulson!" But there's a very annoying and contradicting attempted narrative framing going on with MCU!Loki where they pretend he's the worst TM, even worse than Thanos! And it gets old very fast when there's not enough to show for it. I feel like they're lying to me, and it makes me spiteful.

I can see the Walmart TS thing, and it does bother me A LOT... Like they're just rehashing that without care for his characterization, and after T:TDW, he's also put into more humiliating situations for the lulz that add to the disrespect and lack of care for him. And he really doesn't act the way the Loki from A1 would have. This is the guy that was gouging eyeballs a few days ago. Like, if they wanted an easier transition, why did they not stick with Loki at the start of IW? Apprehended for failing to die? I think a lot of the decisions were questionable. There's so many fixes that could have made the show flow more easily. I am currently dreading whatever the fuck they'll do to Loki. I've checked out of the MCU at this point. Lol.

Also, I see people say Loki's lower quality writing now is because he was meant to die in T:TDW, but he could have been written decently afterwards without hogging the spotlight. Like, there was a lot of unnecessary shit in the SNL-like TR, and the LS writing seemed to be STALLING without getting the plot moving often, especially in S2. In fact, he has never hogged the screentime the way he's accused. The fact that Loki gets framed as this cancer draining all the resources and screentime by Loki antis and the Marvel creatives irks me so much. Also, the whole hogging aspect would be expected, if you're making a series titled after him. They did so little for his characterization despite him being the focus. It's the "Introduce the new plot device: the TVA & set up the next Big Bad in vain" show instead.

As for Sylvie, yea, I agree she would have worked better for me if she wasn't a Loki, and they put SdM and a bunch of people through unnecessary wank by making her a Loki. Like, I have nothing against self-cest. But she really doesn't feel like a Loki, and the few times she does in fic it's because the author went out of their way to do so. Like they did archaeology-level digging on whatever little they showed to get there. And I think if you have to put that much effort, the cannon writing was not successful in showing that. Like, I'd have at least made them have a Loki x Leah aesthetic if I'd gone the self-cest route... they could have actually felt like self-cest rather than Spidermen from different universes. If I'm thinking a Loki, I want more spice than "killed people that were trying to kill me." That's self-defense...

I think Sylki would have been better if they had leaned into making Sylvie the MCU's Enchantress and the adaptation of Enchantricks (the safer bet, and I think it'd have been more wildly accepted though the dudebros would get mad her costume is not comics accurate), or if Sylki was a bit like Loki x Leah aesthetic if you want to go the more unusual "-cest with a lot of extra steps" route. That would have been the braver choice, so make it worth all the fandom wank! Make it weird!! Not this half-assed thing we got. This is a very dumb and superficial hang-up I have over Sylvie, but I don't like that she's blonde/brown-haired when they're going for the self-cest route. Give her a black wig to match Loki. Lol. And I REALLY feel in my heart she'd have been 30% more popular with black hair... It's a surprisingly common complaint.

And lol, in S2, they should've gone the 3-way route so I can make my two cents polycule joke about OW. They cheated me out of a joke by not doing so...

Tom Hiddleston - Behind the Scenes of SDCC 2013

blonde zachary levi:

(12/30) mcu challenge: least favourite ship

“Once I retrieve Mjølnir, I will return to you the items they stole from you. Deal?” “No. You think you’re gonna just walk in, get our stuff, and walk out?” “No. I’m gonna fly out.”

to wearing

??

Did Thor smuggle Loki’s entire outfit into the prison under his mourning poncho?

And what about Loki’s hair? Did Thor bring him hair products too? 

Or did they sneak back to Loki’s room for a closet-and-vanity-mirror prep montage? Would Thor really risk poncing about the castle with his princess freshly rescued from the tower dungeon just so Loki could glow up? Would Loki insist on taking the time or he wouldn’t help? (Ha, he’d try)