Theory:
Peter Quill actually only had trouble holding the infinity stone because he’s half Terran.
A fully human Terran would have done much better.
I mean, Jane Foster had the aether inside of her in Thor 2, and that seemed pretty potent (and potentially could have been another infinity stone, besides).
In fact, considering all of the mutants and badassery and whatnot that abounds in the Marvel universe, and the heavy-hitters Terrans can produce with just a little genetic tweaking or gamma radiation, it’s possible that Asgard took to ‘safeguarding’ Midgard in the first place because Odin figured out that the natives are scary as balls.
Maybe during the war with the frost giants, certain humans started manifesting strange/special abilities to deal with the threat, and Asgard’s scientists/wizards/etc figured out that the poor puny Midgardians were like a sleeping monster, and the aggression of the frost giants was ‘waking them up’.
So Odin stepped in to stop them and to try and keep people from interfering with Midgard as much as possible, so the monster would stay sleeping.
Which is actually part of why he is so very pissed off at Loki for the events of Avengers, and at Thor for bringing Jane to Asgard – it’s a very, very tight secret that Midgard is a powder keg full of potential super-warriors, and Odin does not want that getting out, and he does not want them getting out. If Earth can stay as a nice, quiet, backwater planet with very little contact with the larger universe, that’s safer for everyone involved.
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Thor: The Dark World
Okay I ACTUALLY LOVED THAT MORE THAN THE AVENGERS AND I REALLY LIKED THE AVENGERS AND I LOVED IT MORE THAN IRON MAN 3 AND I REALLY LIKED THAT TOO
Okay so right at the beginning Jane is on a date with someone and you can only see his eyebrows, and me and my boyfriend were like “is that…?” AND IT WAS IT WAS CHRIS O’DOWD I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW HE WAS GONNA BE IN IT and apparently I can recognise him just from his eyebrows
Also on the subject of unexpected cameos: Captain America turns up and Chris Evans is obviously having so much fun that I’m JUST DONE OKAY
The actual story
Okay the plot is reasonably thin and easily resolved but (as in most comic book movies) the CHARACTERS are the standout and everyone in this film is SUCH A GOOD CHARACTER. It’s kinda Loki’s movie really though? Lemme tell you what happened there-
-Frigga makes sure Loki’s life is spared after the events of Avengers
-She visits him in his cell although actually that might have been Loki just creating an illusion of her?? It’s very sad either way
-(I wish she’d had more screentime in Thor 1)
-She does some very badass fighting and then dies, which kinda sucks, but it is a pretty good death/funeral scene
-Loki is told of her death by a prison guard and then just stands up and makes the lights flicker with RAGGGE
-Anyway, Thor and Loki go to the titular Dark World to do plot things, and there’s a BIG DRAMATIC PLOT TWIST where Loki stabs Thor and is all, “Ha you really trusted me nope nope nope I don’t care about Frigga or you or anyone MWAHAHA’ but this all turned out to be a clever illusion, which is good, because frankly Loki is a lot more interesting if he does still have a flicker of goodness/love for other people. And luckily the script agreed
-…and then he gets stabbed SAVING THOR. Which is exactly what I thought would happen, hooray for being right! Sort of. And he manages to apologise before he dies! Awwwwww. Except-
-he’s not dead! There’s a very short scene of someone flickering illusion-style before telling Odin that Loki’s body has been found, and then at the end Thor has a conversation with Odin that ends with Odin saying something along the lines of ‘yeah nice one Thor I’m proud of you’ and Thor says thank you and walks away and then Odin WAS LOKI ALL ALONG! and he says ‘no, thank you‘ in a sort of half sincere and half mocking way and then roll credits.
I DO HONESTLY WISH THEY’D KEPT HIM DEAD THOUGH? Especially since a) poor Frigga stays dead b) it’s never actually explained how Loki’s not dead and c) it just sort of makes a better story for him to be Actually Dead? But I suppose Loki is so popular that they’re afraid to kill him off, perhaps? Well, there are much worse ways they could have done it, anyway.
The ladies
GOOD GOOD EVERYONE IS GOOD JANE IS GOOD DARCY IS GOOD THEY SAVE THE WORLD WITH SCIENCE
No seriously! They do! And they have this really sweet sisterly relationship going on too. (Fun fact: the first time I saw the original Thor I actually thought Darcy was supposed to be Jane’s sister.)
Sif doesn’t get much to do, but they did thank god not go the love triangle route between her, Jane and Thor, hooray
Everything else
Stellan Skarsgard steals literally every scene he’s in, and his little mini storyline (him dealing with Loki having been in his head) was one of my favourite threads in the whole film. And Stan Lee shows up in a scene with him! I’d forgotten to look out for him but there he was.
Christopher Eccleston was perfectly fine, I was surprised at how Christopher Ecclestony he still looked under all that make-up.
There is an erotically-shot scene of Thor shirtless FOR NO REASON that I v. much appreciated, hooray for the female gaze
Is it not out in America yet??? Have we actually had two films this year before America???? What’s going on but SEE IT AS SOON AS YOU CAN
