Alright, most of the people I follow don't like Thor: Ragnarok, and it seems to be for good reason. I can sympathize with Loki, and how he was the center of every joke, but I wanted to show some highlights of the movie.
We got to see Loki as king. It may have only been for a few minutes, but it was still there, and we still got to see his technique. Loki isn't a violent king; he invested his time in plays and creative arts. He's respectful to his citizens (cue, "thank you, darling" as the handmaiden hands him some wine), and he built rails on the bifrost bridge, which I don't know why he did that, but it looks cool, right?
We get to see the differences in Thor's and Loki's style on Midgard. I mean, we all love the suit, right? Plus, Thor's "you look like a witch line," was pretty brotherly. I understand some people see that as condescending, but if you have siblings, you understand we tease eachother non-stop, so, to me, that line is pretty special. Also, the suit was amazing. You can not prove otherwise.
Doctor Strange. If you don't love Benedict Cumberbatch, there is something up with you because he's awesome. I've been wanting Tom and Ben in a scene together since I learned about War Horse, and, though I didn't necessarily like how it played out, I'm glad my wish came true. Besides, I can deal with Doctor Strange and Loki's bickering. I didn't like the portal situation, but find their additudes towards eachother to be pretty funny.
Hela is pretty cool too. I found it weird that they added her into the story as a daughter of Odin, given she's Loki's daughter in myth (I think), and I really wanted Thanos and her to have a thing like in the comics. Besides that, she was amazing. Cate Blanchett is by far one of my favorite actresses, and I think she portrayed the character really well. Plus, we got a lot of fanart of the Odinson trio together. (If only Odin wasn't the world's worst dad™, we could have actually had that)
Sakar was like a comic book brought to life. I know plenty of you could care less what Tikita Waititi says or does, but I know he purposely made Sakar look colorful and different.
This is probably as close as we'll get to a Planet Hulk movie, at least until someone starts either re-making the movies or the MCU goes off the alternate realities thing and makes a movie for it.
Jeff Goldblum gets 10/10 goldblums, my friend. I know the Grandmaster\Loki situation is a touchy subject, but when you look past that particular peice, we get a great character. We know the Grandmaster and the Collector are related, so it leads to the question of what the heck happened to their family? Why are they so weird? When did the Collector start collecting things and was it because of the Grandmaster? When did the Grandmaster get to Sakar and did the Collector ever go there? Do you think the Grandmaster and the Collector keep in touch? And if they do, does the Grandmaster know about the infinity stones? Do you think he took such an interest in Loki because of the Tesseract? And, yes, these are actual questions I'm asking, so if you know, please tell me.
Valkyrie is also a great character. I know she's meant to be, "more of a guy than the guys," but really who cares? We got a tough, flawed, awesome woman hero. Not to mention Tessa Thompson's confirmation that Valkyrie is indeed bisexual.
To add onto the previous comment about Valkyrie being bisexual, we got a pretty LGBTQ+ movie here. I'm pretty sure the Grandmaster is sexually active, no matter the person or species. Loki is most definitely genderfuild\genderqueer. Even Korg is canonically gay (despite Tikita saying he doesn't play him gay).
Bruce is adorable throughout the whole movie, and I will fight you on this.
We got to see Fenrir, the wolf, which I found was pretty cool, even if he wasn't Loki's son.
We got some wonderful Heimdall shots. I think he should have had more screen time, but we can see, even after Asgard has gone to chaos, Heimdall is loyal and reasonable, as he's always been. I'm really glad his character wasn't victim to any jokes or condescending comments.
Finally, the elevator speech. Before you freak out and start sending me hate mail, hear me out. This speech totally split Loki and Thor apart. The, "there is no Thor without Loki and no Loki without Thor," totally got demolished. But isn't that a good thing? Chris Hemsworth has said that he wouldn't bring Loki back, so Tom is on his own, which leaves Loki with so many plays. He doesn't have to be dependent on Thor, and he doesn't owe anything to Thor because Thor is ready to be on his own. Loki can build new, hopefully more stable relationships with other characters, and he can practically do anything. I don't know where the Loki tv show is going to go, but I really hope they use the elevator speech as a turning point for Loki.
