Growing up on Asgard did have its amusing moments…
thor
i’m 101% sure that this entire line was improv and tom couldn’t help it
“Yeah, that was basically, we did about six different versions of that story, and that was just us standing around while the cameras were rolling and I would just feed them lines and feed Chris ideas for stories. I’d say, “Do another one, in this one say: ‘I was walking through a field, and I saw a lovey Turkish rug in the middle of the grass, and I love Turkish rugs, so I went to stand on it, and it was Loki, and he turned back into Loki and there was a hole and I fell through the hole was was impaled on a whole lot of spikes.’” So we did versions of that, and the one with the snake just ended up being the one we used.”
—Taika Waititi, Empire Magazine Podcast, 6/11/17, 00:23:25 (x)
Thor: Ragnarok is a good and smart film, but if I could change one thing about it it would be this:
It would end with Thor giving up his kingship entirely, since the whole Asgardian system of monarchy has pretty much proved itself to be built on bones, and suggesting the Midgard system instead.
Heimdall becomes the new, elected, Asgardian ruler. (Valkyrie plans to run in the next four years.)
One more thought on Thor Ragnarok, under the cut cos it’s a pretty huge spoiler:
I hope they don’t erase Thor’s disability and give him back his eye. The fact that he’s not wearing an eyepatch on the Infinity War poster (though, to be fair, you can’t *quite* see his other eye…) has me a little ponderous