#thor ragnarok critical

[silenceinternalmonologue]

has anyone done this yet

#loki #og loki #tdw loki #anti loki series #thor ragnarok critical

[uniiiquehecrt]

This is going to be in my Gagnarok Workshop and Critique series (which, I am still working on. My first draft glitched and didn't save on my compute. What was saved is unrecoverable, so I have to rewrite it 👌🥲), but it's worth noting that in every well paced film, the central conflict (also known as the Protagonist's want vs. need) is generally introduced within the first ten minutes, and then around the 17-18 minute mark of a 90m film, expanded upon with the central theme. This will always correspond with the push in to Act 2. This something I loving call "the Page 17 rule", since every minute of film roughly translates to a single page of a screenplay.

"the first act of pretty much any movie ends around page 17 of the screenplay, or about 17 minutes into the movie (give or take a minute" - toddpack.com

This is important to always nail down, because in doing this, the characters and the audience will get a scope of what this film is about, what the character is trying to learn, and USUALLY might get the central theme of a story told to them. By the time page 17 rolls around, they'll be ready to face the central conflict with the protagonist, who is thrust into a new world that embodies this want vs. need dilemma.

In Gagnarok the central theme is SUPPOSED to be "Asgard is not a place, it's a people" — or at least that's what the screenwriters and Taika thought they were going for. ... but not only do they not capitalize on this idea, (not to mention that it never made sense as a lesson to learn in the first place), but it doesn't even show up until AFTER the 17 minute mark.

It shows up (vaguely) at the 21:47 minute mark. ("Remember that. Home.") With the 17m mark being in the middle of the interlude with Dr. Strange. This is a prime example of time wasting and goes to show how disjointed and poorly paced Thor: Gagnarok is from the ground up.

For reference:

THOR (2011):

07:00m - "A wise king never seeks out war but must always be ready for it." 17m - "I have no plans to die today" / "None do." 20:14m - (Laufey) "You're just a boy trying to prove himself a man."

THOR: THE DARK WORLD (2013):

09:13 Thor: the Dark World - "Be with your people, where your heart is." 17m - Jane discovers the Aether 23:24 - "Merriment can sometimes be a heavier burden than battle." / "Then you're doing one of them incorrectly."

THOR: RAGNAROK (2017)

7-9m in: Thor on Muspelheim fleeing the fire dragon, and returning to Asgard 17m - Dr. Strange talking about if the spell needs any Asgardian modifications to find Odin. 20-23m - "Your sister. The Goddess of Death ... Remember that. Home."

In both cases the leading action that pushes into Act 2, Sequence 1 (New World/Old Juxtaposition) is prevalent. In 2011 it's the mission into Jotunheim -> Thor's eventual banishment. In 2013 it's Thor being heartbroken, Jane vanishing -> Thor taking Jane (and the Aether) to Asgard.

This isn't to say that the page 17 rule is hard and fast, but it exists and it works for a reason.

#in which vi talks about screenwriting stuff and why thor ragnarok is BAD #it's such a bad film it's so poorly done i'm so mad. >> #&&. whispers #&&. thor. #&&. | marvel. | #salt to taste #thor ragnarok #thor dark world #thor 2011 #anti thor ragnarok #anti taika waititi #screenwriting #thor ragnarok critical #thor ragnorak a workshop and critique

[thot-son-of-odin]

All the Thor ragnarok critical ppl, it is YOUR responsibility to make sure your critiques of Taika Waititi are not falling into racist rhetoric or outright racism and to call out ppl who are doing that because I can see it happening and it is fucking upsetting

#thor #loki #thor ragnarok #thor ragnarok critical

[supervillainarchaeologist]

It’s really funny reading my old posts and seeing that when I’d only watched Ragnarok twice, I was a lot more positive about it compared to now.

It seems Ragnarok demonstrates the diminishing returns phenomenon for me personally, the more I watched it, the less I enjoyed it.

But overall from a Loki perspective I think I still prefer it if you gave me a “choose or else” scenario. At least Loki in TR feels like a facsimile of Loki rather than a completely new character wearing his face (most of the time. I was actually completely fine with him in the finale but it shouldn’t have taken 11 episodes to get to that point and I still have a lot of mixed feelings about that fate for him…)

And while there’s parts of later Loki I’d mix in with my preferred era I don’t really feel the same about Thor, who kinda mostly exists for me as a mixture of up to Age of Ultron only and his comics persona. Except for maybe toward the end of TR when he has some sweet Brodinson moments. Even though he’s perhaps reckless deciding to take Loki to Midgard where undoubtedly loads of our governments would want to imprison or worse execute him. Idk.

#loki #marvel cinematic universe #loki series critical #thor ragnarok critical #opinions can change #and not necessarily in the positive direction! #I sometimes can’t decide how I feel completely #like…I loved the idea behind alt!lokis “god” outfit #I just miss the gold and leather #I prefer the gold helm too…naturally

[thorarms]

The most frustrating thing about thor ragnarok, to me at least, is just how much character development and emotional character arcs take place offscreen

Like the scene where thor calmy chooses to betray loki and leave him stranded on sakaar feels so off to me. It's not an inherently bad writing decision to have thor reach the end of his rope with loki and snap (i personally find that a really interesting concept to explore). But having thor reach this conclusion off screen, without the audience seeing exactly what loki did to drive thor to do this, feels so unsatisfying; it feels like it's missing a huge chunk of the story.

Like i wanna see it! I want to see loki do something so unforgivable (or the same forgivable thing for the 1000th time) and watch thor actually snap and leave loki behind. I want to watch loki realise in real tike just how big of a mistake hes made, how monumental his error of judgement was. I do not want to watch thor calmy recite a painfully rehearsed speech about change and walk off

#i love thor and loki because theyre messy!! let them be the absolute worst to each other please!! #thor ragnarok critical

[galaxythreads]

It’s literally the same plot

#same plot #and yet not the same character #thor 1 #thor ragnarok critical #thor love and thunder crtical #thor 3 #thor 4 #thor #thor love and thunder

[spearxwind]

Dad on dad violence

#gow #god of war #god of war ragnarok #thor #kratos #atreus #im not immune to any of them.... yeah. hello it is time for more thorposting. i will take no criticism #shitpost #windyart #scribble comic #not really but yeah kinda #ouhhh yeah baby its all coming together #best of

[dkmbookworm]

Something that really pisses me off is this assumption that because you dislike the current direction with Loki and Thor’s characters, it must mean that you “hate comedy” and “want everything to be serious and gloomy”. As if the only form of comedy that exists is weird, random antics. What is this attitude that thor and loki were never funny in the previous films? The only difference is that the comedy was formed based on their personalities and conflicts with other people or situations, rather than just them being stupid or quirky.

#loki series negativity #loki series critical #anti thor ragnarok #anti thor love and thunder #anti mcu

[gloriousburden]

people getting mad and offended at the fact that some of us don’t like loki’s characterization post tdw (aka we dislike ragnarok/iw) like ok you literally approve of loki constantly being made fun of, not being taken seriously, and not having anything he’s been through the past however many years being elaborated on… as well as him making jokes (during a play he supposedly wrote) about his jotun heritage when he was literally deeply ashamed of it, and when asgard is very discriminatory to frost giants… none of us really care to hear of your thoughts on loki in the first place if you approve of that bullshit and think any of it makes any fucking sense

#loki #rant #anti taika waititi #anti thor ragnarok #thor ragnarok criticism

[loveloki555]

Why Thor: Ragnarok is remake and doesn't fit to other movies of Thor

I will talking only about chronology in this post. Hela shows ''true history'' of Asgard. Well, but we have one problem. We watched Thor and Thor: Dark World. This both movies are the denial of Hela's words.

The frescoes show the winning couple. Odin and his daughter conquering the world. Look at Odin. A white, senile beard… interesting… because we saw what Odin looked like over a thousand years earlier at the time of Loki's birth.

Here later with both sons.

And here as King of Asgard when Thor and Loki are grown men.

The war with Jotunheim was in 965 AD.

And Odin looked completely different at that time than he did in 2011-2013.

Next thing… is the case of Borr and the war with Malekith.

5,000 thousand years ago, Borr was still the king of Asgard and fought against the Dark Elves. Interesting thing, his heir is not with him. Odin is not present during this key battle. He seems to truly believe that his father defeated Malekith.

Why isn't Odin present during this battle? We have two options… and they are related to age. Either Odin was too young to fight battles (Asgardians do not have children during battle, Mr. Taika Waititi! If Loki saw that scene with his mother, he would tear your head off!) or he was a very young man who was just old enough to be regent during his father's absence… which would make him roughly the age of Thor and Loki in Thor (2011).

However, both situations quite exclude the possibility of Odin being an old man with an unstoppable desire for power and an adult daughter.

Even assuming that Borr died quickly after this battle and Odin already had a teenage/adolescent daughter… that still doesn't fill the gaps. Because Odin was not the old man shown in the frescoes. And if he had access to the fountain of youth, he would use it again rather than allow Hela to be released?

Failure to solve the problem of Hela also puts the events in Thor 1 in a strange twist. Odin actually believes that it's time for Thor to be king. Why? He put off Odinsleep, Frigga really thought he might not wake up from this. He probably also realized that his strength was weakening. And… he didn't tell any of his sons… when I die, your bloodthirsty half-sister will suddenly appear and want to kill you? What kind of ruler does this?

My conclusion : Thor Ragnarok is remake.

We see the actual history of Asgard… up to 2015… where Age of Ultron still honors this timeline.

Overall timeline of Thor 1, Avengers, Thor Dark World, (in the meantime movies related to Avengers like Winter Soldier or Iron Man 3) and Avengers: Age of Ultron. After that, we never see any further events. I would also like to point out that Thanos in Guardians of Galaxy and Thanos from Infinity War are two different characters. The last time we see Thanos from Guardians of Galaxy is in the scene with the gauntlet at the end of Age of Ultron. Thanos in Infinity War is nothing like the previous Thanos.

Well, Thor is probably still looking for those stones, and Loki is preparing a surprise for Thanos in their universe.

The further timeline, starting with Ragnarok, has completely different events and one could even say a different universe.

#mcu #anti ragnarok #loki odinson #loki #loki of asgard #thor the dark world #thor 2011 #thor ragnarok #meta analysis #mcu meta #mcu critical #marvel meta #anti taika waititi

[silenceinternalmonologue]

I hate how normalized it has become for the people writing Loki to belittle his arc. everyone after the dark world seems to see him as this stubborn annoying pest who keeps acting out and betraying thor for no reason. in ragnarok this is shown through thor's elevator speech and subsequent obedience disk scene where he flat out says that he is tired of dealing with loki. and in the series everyone shuts down any nuanced discussion of his feelings or actions with the idea that he is a narcissist.

no one has acknowledged since TDW that all of loki's actions and feelings, wrong and immoral though some of them may have been, all came from real circumstances and events that happened to him. I hate how everyone seems to have just forgotten that he had an actual arc and really interesting and tragic motivations in favor of just going heehoo he is an evil trickster

#loki #loki meta #anti loki series #og loki #loki deserved better #my analysis #thor ragnarok critical

[best-green-character]

Best Green Character Round 1-F

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[therese-lokidottir]

Wow, what a tool.

Seriously, Thor? that was your take away? Is it truly Loki who won't change? Loki made pretty clear his feeling and motives and what Thor thinks what Loki wants is not to see him anymore. You know what, maybe Thor and Loki really shouldn't be with each other.

#loki #thor #be a better brother thor #thor ragnarok criticism #loki deserves better

[musclesandhammering]

The fact that the mcu makes Loki being super powerful technically canon, but then turns around and almost never shows it and goes out of their way to emphasise what a wimp he is compared to several other characters is… a paradox.

This is a guy who:

• successfully enchants 50% of the giant eldritch horror entity that devours universes and tamed the entire multiverse, on his first try

• can telekinetically lift an entire building on the fly without breaking a sweat

• has the power to create an illusion the size of a large city

• whether for nefarious reasons or not, is literally the one that intentionally brought the avengers together and then almost succeeded in beating all 6 of them by himself

• overpowered, dethroned, and enchanted the literal Allfather and trapped him that way for 4 years

• is the only character we’ve seen onscreen that has the power to travel between worlds without the use of any magical object

• isn’t even a nexus being, yet almost every version of him in every universe is a timeline breaker and he’s created more nexus events than any other being in TVA history

But then the writers turn around and make him get beat up by humans to show how badass Sylvie is by comparison or make him get his ass kicked by Valkyrie to show how badass she is by comparison or make him get punked by Dr Strange in less than 30 seconds to show how badass he is by comparison or make him get outsmarted by Thor to show how badass he is by comparison or-

You get the point.

#loki is a plot device even when it’s his scene even when it’s his show #like he is actually canonically SO powerful #it’s just that they never actually let us see it #so half of us don’t even realise it #people keep saying they want marvel to make him as powerful as Wanda or strange #but like #even just with the stuff we’ve seen of him so far he ALREADY IS #it’s just whether they want to acknowledge it or not :/ #Loki meta #loki series negativity #thor ragnarok criticism #loki

[thorarms]

Thor ragnarok sucked bc they put thor in actual gladiatorial combat and didnt put him in a little gladiator skirt and leather harness. What a waste

#back on my thor in skirts agenda #is this worth tagging as ragnarok critical? its not like a Serious Post #thor

[unityrain24]

anyways was thinking of a thor ragnarok rewrite last night as sleep refused to take me. obviously it can't be exactly like actual ragnarok bc marvel/mcu's norse stuff is..nothing like actual norse lore but i figured it could still have some more similarities than what the actual movie did.

(also if i were to rewrite the movie this isn't actually what id do, this was just. idk. what i was thinkin about as i was desperate to actually falll asleep).

anyways i figured this rewrite would actually work best if it rewrote the end of tdw first- loki gets stabbed by kruse and passes out for a while (rather than being able to pick himself back up in secret like what actually happened) and in that time odin senses that loki isn't dead and sends some guards to collect him. since loki technically broke the law *again* (committed treason, escaped jail, etc), he can enforce even more punishment, especially now that frigga is dead and she can't do anything about it. That, combined with some prophecy from midgard (or maybe asgard, idk) as an excuse added justifying reason, he sentences loki to the worst thing he can think up: to be bound against a rock with a snake dripping venom on him, his lips sewn shut so he can never lie again, forced to be in his jotun form, for all of eternity. In the deepest dungeon.

Thor obviously doesn't know about any of this, because he thinks loki dead.

so loki is taken, bound to a rock (idk if it's really work to have him bound with organs tho, since he doesn't have children in the mcu. maybe it's his..pet's? or maybe just chain. idk.), a snake coiled above him, seiðr bound, lips sewn shut, and his æsir form taken. He is completely alone, save the guards outside the chamber.

i don't really ship logyn in the mcu, (bc she doesn't exist in the mcu and their relationship feels to me like it would span for several centuries prior, so just randomly introducing her in one movie would seem strange to me), but i follow some people who do, so i wondered how i could incorporate that anyways, and make it not seem too strange.

Sigyn is one of the guards who has a shift guarding loki's chambers. She feels awful about it though, and eventually decides she has to do something to help. She ventures into the chamber and decides to catch the dripping venom with her helmet.

She also tries to cut the stitches from lokis lips, but when one string is cut, it doubles and repierces the skin, now twice the strength. She tries again, cutting them all at once this time (rather than individually), and grabs them all at once and pulls them out before they can multiply and repair themselves (luckily this time it works). She almost regrets it, though, as now she has to hear loki scream himself hoarse, and she can't do anything else to ease the pain.

she stays for several weeks/months/idk, holding the helmet above loki, having to empty it every so often. Perhaps she gets to know loki in this time, perhaps she doesn't. Perhaps she notices a certain brand on his shoulder, perhaps she does not. Perhaps she knew loki vaguely before, and now muses to herself what could have possibly changed him. Perhaps she didn't know him before, and doesn't muse. I don't know. But eventually she decides she needs to find and tell thor.

as hard as it is, she leaves loki to suffer alone (she tries to see if she can leave the helmet or fashion some contraption to make sure the poison cannot get in his eyes, but she cannot). After some searching and asking, she finds the mourning sullen prince thor and tells him what has occurred. Thor, now filled with joy, rage, guilt, horror, and sadness, breaks loki out with sigyn.

Loki is a mess. He has gone blind- whether temporarily or permanently is unknown- and has visible burns from the acid venom. His hairs a mess and his skin sweaty and thin. You can see his rib cage with how thin he's become. He wasn't allowed much clothes at the start of his punishment, but what few he had have been burned by the venom as well. He can't walk. He's barely conscious, and what little bit he is is just filled with delirium. They basically have to carry him.

They hide away from asgard (or at least the palace). And then ragnarok gets unleashed and they have to fix it etc and in the end they realize that it wasn't literally loki's being freed that incited ragnarok, but it was necessary for him to be freed so they could help stop/fix it/lessen the damage etc idk i was pretty tired at this point i wasn't thinking of details. anyways

idk if that made any sense lol but i'll tag the logyn people i follow/was thinking of

@therese-lokidottir @jonquilclegane @cosmic0artist

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