#bye bye character development

[sillythoughtsthathauntme]

Sooo... spoilers

Are they gonna do a (badly written) zuko on us, or are they gonna actually flaunt this thing called character development but toss it out of the ball park for plot convenience?

Not salty, but that was... underwhelming. I felt like love eater did a better job on high stakes scenarios.

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Reasons why Ragnarok Loki was a bad portrayal of the character.

Now, I know, A LOT of people love Thor Ragnarok. A lot of people also love Ragnarok Loki, mainly for the reason that he was happy and carefree, which already, is completely unlike Loki. There were just so many things wrong with him in that movie, not only the fact that suddenly he was all rainbows and sunshine, but just everything about him seemed... Wrong. Lemme list a few things that I find either utterly illogical, or just plain weird about this movies version:

First five minutes of the movie, and already we spot an issue. When Thor arrives on Asgard, he states that Loki (or "Odin" at the time) had been neglecting his duties as King and let the nine realms fall into chaos. So you're telling me that Loki, who has been after the throne his ENTIRE LIFE, finally got what he wanted, and then he just, threw it all away???

The play. Now I'm not saying Loki isn't the type to put a play on about himself because as well all know, he is. But a play about his own death? That was important to him, sure it wasn't real, but that isn't something Loki would joke about as if it meant nothing. Especially when you know that in the original script it wasn't an illusion.

His arrival on Sakaar. There were so many things wrong with that scene, so to start:

He's talking about falling off the Bifrost. He was literally sat there, laughing and joking about the day his entire life went to shit, as if he wasn't tortured for years after. Now the play I could let slide, but this? No, that IS NOT something Loki would joke about, not under any circumstances.

The implication (well, depends on how you see it, I don't think it happened but most people do, so I'm adding it to the list) that he slept with the Grandmaster. Loki may be fond of his home comforts but even he would not lower himself to such standards to get a nice place to stay. Loki is a master of illusions, a trickster, someone renowned for his ability to talk his way in and out of things, not a damn prostitute. Loki respects himself too much to do something so desperate.

Changing his suit colours. Yeah I know, it's a very silly and seemingly stupid thing to point out, but hear me out. Loki has ALWAYS worn green and black, didn't matter where or when, those are HIS colours. Changing his appearance is like changing who he is, why would he suddenly be ashamed to be himself?

Moving on to the prison scene. Loki admits that Hela is far more powerful than them and that they stand no chance of defeating her, fair enough, he's not wrong. What bothered me is the way he didn't even want to try. His people are under threat of total annihilation, the nine realms are in peril and he's like "nah bro let's just stay here and chill screw our people they're all dead men walking anyway lol". Also considering he goes on to attack one of the most powerful beings in the universe with a knife, you'd think he'd have at least tried to challenge her.

Betraying Thor. I mean, predictable much? Not like any of us saw that one coming *sarcasm intensifies*. Again choosing the Grandmaster over his brother and his people, Loki betraying Thor I get, but to do so, willingly condemning his people to death just for a bit of cash? (I guess you could see the subtext to it as him saving his brother from walking into a suicide mission but I dunno, it didn't seem like it)

Last but not least, just the general vibe that he gave off. He was all happy and fun and carefree, which is pretty much the opposite of everything loki is supposed to be. I mean I love him but as a Loki stan you gotta accept his chances of having a happy ending are close to nill, that's just what being a Loki stan is. He's not

Now I'm not saying everything about Ragnarok Loki was bad, there were good points. Him trying to get Thor talk to him and understand his feelings when he visited him before the battle with Hulk. His redemption and return to his brother and his people. Him laughing at Thor being Hulk smashed. Putting Odin somewhere safe and the sheer sadness in his eyes when he died. Seeing the magic he used on Brunnhilde (don't see his magic often, made a nice change). But all in all, the bad outweighed the good. I want to see Loki happy, but not as a cheesy over the top caricature.

[laschatzi]

The 100

what the fuck, Clarke?! 

[littlewichita]

a minute of silence for bellamy blake, whose writers fucked up his two seasons character development in a single episode