Sorry this is so laaaaaaaate. Currently in the middle of editing 3x05. Reaction starts at 13:04 in which i scream a lot for no reason I can't watch this show...
*is playing a v risky game by coming on tumblr whilst not having seen 3x06 yet, but here I am anyway*
sksksksk this is literally two weeks late and I wanna scream but here it is anyway- WYNONNA EARO 3X04, in which ... well... lol.Ā
Before I forget, can someone be a doll and tell me what Jeremy and Robinās ship name is??? thannnnnks.
im trying to humanfy my anthro salamander OC but in canon he is goopy as fuck all the time so ive determined that as a human he's just sweaty as helllllllllll. my boy keeps wearing leather and gigantic black jeans in the heat and he is condensating.
So it took nearly a dozen and a half films but Thor: Ragnarok has usurped Iron Man as my favorite MCU film. Wow.
So thereās a Read More here and I wholly apologize to anyone on mobile bc i know tumblrās app doesnāt always work with these
holy shit
hhhhoHOHOHOHOHOohhohohooooooooolyh SHITt.
This film literally gave me everything Iād wanted out of the franchise in the first ten minutes - an Immigrant Song fight scene, and Iāll be honest in saying that I actually would have been disappointed in the film (likely still would have enjoyed it) had it not happened.
And the rest was just avalanche of things that werenāt in competition with it at all but were everything I didnāt know I was going to want out of this film.
Aside from Mew Mew, the Warriors Three, the lack of Sif, and Odin. Oh, oh oh, Odin. But. Story.
I was even superbly pleased with Hela and Fenris, Storyyyyyyy.
But let me preface this with a quick and delicious FUCK YOU to the few gals who put such a bad taste in my mouth when I suggested that āsundowningā was a panic button that wasnāt only known to Nat. Fuck you. FUUUUUCHCHHUHCHDUCHGJK you. My ship narrative is not entirely fed by the few moments where we see her, and thatās all wel and fine, I couldnāt care less and I have worked with absolutely far less when it comes to ships, but my theory that she was not the only one working closely with Hulk/Bruce could very easily be interpreted as canon. A couple if not the rest of the team has been at it and it was effective enough for Thor to attempt it and I rest well tonight knowing thatĀ āsundowningā had a point beyond your derision, and I thank the writers for ensuring that this really cool thing did not go to waste at the hands of Whedon.
Yāall might expect fic from me of this soon if i can get the time/words in bc god if that wasnāt a moment for me.
Moving on.
The story - Thor: God of Thunder. OYFJLKJFSLjlkdjglkdj. Smashed together with Planet Hulk?? Good good good good. Thereās a little twinge of Blood Brothers in there, too. In coming off the wave thatās Disassembled (allowing room to be made for the narrative to widen for the over-arcās finale and other items like The Defenders to set up and settle in) and the hot messes that were Extremis and Civil War, Iāll admit that I was a little worried. What was going to be shoe-horned in? Was was going to get cut? What a bummer that Iām even worried about this sort of thing at this point in the game!Ā
But this was. Beyond. All that.
Like. I know now I shouldnāt have been worried but I donāt feel silly about it at all. This was masterfully crafted to incorporate the story before it and yet it held it as if it was all meant to be and very okay to enjoy. All the throwbacks I caught (Iām certain I missed many, this was just such a lush environment for them) were delightful and did not feel at all like potshots from my perspective. If they were for the characters they were perfect. Hulk literally having free reign for two whole years and then Bruce weighing his decision, wuf uoohfhff, UHFHFHF. Hulk and Thor buddying it up after the ultimate showdown and their argument i just. Bruce and Thor coping. Valkyrie-
VALKYRIE. Good god but I wanted to slap Loki so hard and yet hug him for doing that Vulcan Mindfuck bc it worked out.
Iām very glad we see Thor and Loki teamed up again and talking things out.
Iām in love with the image of Thor now as Odin before him, with Heimdall as his Huginn and Valkyrie as his Muginn. In. Love.
The set up at the end with Loki being concerned about returning to earth makes me even MORE excited for the next few issues of Dr. Strange, because I hope to high hope that with A4 weāll get to see THAT story line come to life. And hopefully the Tesseract comes into play in IW and A4 with THAT because what. the fUCK. (I was oddly very pleased with Cumberbatchās short cameo??? for some reason I wasnāt very pleased with the way most of the humor rolled out in his solo film. idk why this worked for me, i was laughing pretty hard.)
but that looming shadow over them, oh, fuck. fuckkkkkkk
I mean it was all just so good. I enjoyed all of it. I cried a bit for Odin and I cried a bit for The Warriors and I felt a little something for Scourge. I tried not to weep loudly for Valkyrie and I think the older gentleman next to me was a bit concerned.
Iām also hereby demanding that when this is released on DVD we get all of the extra footage shot with Jeff Goldblum. All of it. I wanted more of The Grandmaster. I wanted to see Howard the Duck appear with The Collector in tow, presumably to aid with the revolution of Sakaar and rid himself of both the borthers at once or something, idk, that one is convoluted, but whatever. WHATEVER. Jeff Goldblum was such a perfect choice in casting.
So was Cate. Wuf. I really enjoyed watching her go from disheveled mongrel to the hellbitch stalking down the bridge to the bifrost towards the heroic trio. Lovely.
*_* and of course chris and tom ugh thor with short hair wow and thor with short hair and one eye wOWW? and lokiās black suit??? ????? ?
Some fav bits of mine were definitely the snake/throg story, Point Break and Tonyās Duran Duran shirt, HEIMDALL, and how I got a REPRISE of the Immigrant Song fight scene like honestly what did I do to deserve that dream being fulfilled and being fulfilled TWICE OVER what did I do?
Oh, and. The George Kirk moment was not lost on me at all and it made me feel weird in a daffy, stream-crossing sort of way.
Big props to Mark Mothersbaugh - the scoring on this film was batshit in the best of ways and while it was so far removed from the scoring in most of the other MCU films, it did not detract. It was so perfect. I also loved that Lonely Man was used, I died on the spot when I heard that start up.
The design? God. So Kirby. So perfect. The colors, Duke the colors. All of it. When the concept art and photos started cropping up and then when we got the poster it just dazzled me. Absolutely stunned me. And sitting through the film I was looking at everything I could and while I enjoyed it immensely I was laughably relieved when Thor saidĀ āJust pick oneā bc my brain. Always.
The direction and editing, yeesh. Taika has my heart. Iād heard that there was so much more slapsticky humor than before and after seeing this I have to say it was just the perfect amount; it was well-paced and very well placed. There was a believability to it all, every ridiculous moment. I love me the serious and angsty stuff. But I LOVE fast, visual humor just as much, if not more. And even the slow stuff like the skidding dragon head and all the Blue Velvet-y background lead-ins. And the dialogue, OHHHHHhhhhHhHHH. Itās snappy but not pretentiously so, it just flows so well. A few people had commented that it was all very cartoonish and it was such a divergence from the rest of the MCU films, but man, thatās Sakaar, and it wasĀ so goodĀ to see Thor behaving so comfortably and amicably than before, back when we first meet him, the Warriors, and Loki on Jouten. Theyāre jovial and a big pile of puppies. Once heās on Midgard/Earth he does have some of that excitement and carefree fun but he is still super regal and stiff and ānewā (I guess if thatās the best word I have for it) to his environment. There was so much tenseness in Dark World, and I can equate that to Thor trying but trying too hard and winding up frustrated and still already angry because of everything else in the meantime, but that too was hard to stomach. His ease now lends to mine. Big big big props to Taika and Chris for finding that medium between the scripting and the characterĀ that allowed that, and worked it into the story even as GROWTH bc I mean, Iāve long loved the Brodinsons, but gosh, theyāve just gotten so much better. Theyāre settling into their selves and their steps along their paths and itās good.
Frankly Iāll probably go see it again another time or two while itās still in theaters, but damn, this film was wonderful.
And man, the allegory between the Thor arc and Immigrant Song??
Awesomeness in spades. Iām so overjoyed by that. Iāll just be tickled forever that I finally got my Loop Zoop fight scene.
Big McLargeHuge thanks to everyone involved in this film.
