aria: ([thor] loki liesmith)
valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2011-05-26 01:36 pm

open letter time!

(I am not actually put out; I am Getting Things Done & mainlining Castle in between, and it is in fact impossible to be disgruntled whilst mainlining Castle.)

Dear Thor fandom,

Loki is not delicate and weepy. Seriously, please stop that. I know he spends most of the film with tears in his eyes and I know that he has a slight build compared to Thor, but this is no excuse. Loki is a calculating manipulative bastard who feels everything and doesn't function well in a culture where "JUST HIT THINGS" is the solution, and that is much, much more interesting than one-note woobiness. Make a note of this, and go rewatch the movie or read some comics or some myths or -- fuck it, DWJ's Eight Days of Luke, I don't care. Just fix this.

Carry on with the Thor/Loki, though, that's pretty awesome.

Sincerely,
Aria

PS -- it's "Warriors Three" not "Warrior's Three," DESTROY YOUR APOSTROPHIES. They are not three people who belong to a warrior, they are three awesome warriors + Sif, who is too cool for this shit anyway. Thank you.
skipthedemon: (lets go poke it with a stick by renmaeus)

[personal profile] skipthedemon 2011-05-26 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
This is the best explanation for the movie I have read yet. I sat there watching going, ok, Thor is amusing in a 'I want to smack him' kind of what but. HOW is Loki NOT the protagonist of this movie? It's not even just that he's one of my types. It almost felt like someone wrote a movie with Loki as this clever hero with Thor almost in the backdrop and then changed their minds half way through about who the hero should be. Buh?

I can't decide if it's good writing or not.