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lokifanSTILL LACK A LAPTOP OMG. But I’ve now seen Avengers Assemble twice. (Would’ve been three times but shit kicked off - and incidentally, kids, I currently lack a phone so plz email me if you need me.) Major feeling about the film?
It’s like a present to me from Marvel. It’s like Joss Whedon put all my obsessions and loves and sparkles and wrapped them in a bow. I am SO HAPPY.
OKAY OMG I CANNOT EVEN.
The pacing was great - I liked that the action wasn’t back-loaded and the momentum stayed tight. Apparently loads of scenes got cut, which makes me happy: I love that the film wasn’t bloated and I will be RABIDLY buying the DVD for the deleted scenes.
I loved that Natasha got plenty of attention despite not having a franchise. I loved her and Clint, and her and Bruce - both the fight scenes and the talk scenes. I have massive love for the Clint-vs-Natasha fight especially - it was cool to see, and also, I had this “bugger” moment when he dragged her head by her hair and she bit him. It struck me as an unpleasantly gendered moment. And then she immediately HIT HIM IN THE HEAD and took him down. I mean Black Widow’s never been much of a one for fair fighting and I am totally reading too much into it, but it made me really happy: Clint used her curly hair against her, she bit him, it was all gendered, and then she brought him down anyway.
Also, the Natasha-vs-Loki scene filled me with joy. I love them both, and it could not have made me happier to see Loki so entirely owned at his own game. The “quim” line struck me a bit oddly - that was totally scripted as “cunt” and then changed - but still. Loki tends to go for the unpleasant sexism when he’s on the edge (see also ‘maybe I’ll pay her a visit myself’ in Thor) and it totally worked as a THE CRAZY BOILS OVER moment.
Tom Hiddleston seriously rocked those crazy eyes. Even at his quietest moments there was never anything less than serious crazy vibrating in the air around Loki.
Although on Loki - his villain speeches about how freedom was crap and yay totalitarian dictatorship? Those struck me as bizarre. When he was telling the German crowd how freedom hurt them I was slightly going what, Loki? Because those were lines for a different sort of villain. Loki is a god of mischief, an agent of chaos, a trickster - even taken to gleeful-murder extremes, Loki’s flavour of villainy isn’t the ‘I bring glad tidings...you’ll be free from freedom’ type.
Which is why I was very pleased with Coulson’s “you lack conviction” line. Because while I find it hard to buy Loki telling people en masse that freedom sucks (as opposed to “you should all follow my lead with the crazed destruction”, for instance) I completely buy Loki saying that stuff, and not remotely believing it, so he can get everyone to look at him and kneel to him and tell him how great he is. That totally works for me as an interpretation (especially considering Tony’s perfect “diva” line). I see Loki’s speech in Germany not as a Magneto-esque moment of expounding on his true philosophy to a literally-captive audience, but as Loki lying and menacing so they’ll look at ME ME ME I AM THE KING EVERYONE LOOK AT ME IT’S ALL ABOUT ME NOW.
On their setting it in Germany and the explicit Hitler comparison and Captain America coming to the rescue, I will say only that they did it better in Captain America.
OKAY ALSO COULSON. OMG. I cannot believe they did that. I mean, I love how they did it, Coulson was quietly competent and brave and fucked with Loki and it didn’t turn sentimental, but OMG THEY KILLED COULSON. A girl behind us on Friday said “I hate you Joss Whedon” when it happened and... yes.
Also I really, really hope Natasha telling Clint about his death is on the deleted scenes.
And oh, poor Clint. :( I mean. All the violation, and he was up and ready to go in a second. I was so happy he didn’t let Thor make it all about his issues with Loki.
I loved Tony, natch. Yay for all the great little lines, yay for him and Steve’s bickering, yay for their working together well so quickly. Yay for the little scenes with Pepper and his getting defenestrated by Loki and the phone call failing when he was going to his ‘death’.
Yay for Cap! SO SO ADORABLE, no one has ever been that adorable. I loved his little murmured lines - “is [English] what just happened?” - and his happiness at getting the Oz reference and his Captain-ness, that quiet assumption that he’s in charge of his soldiers. ♥
Okay WOW this is really really long BUT must also note that the Avengers argument was excellent. And that I really liked the continuing dubiousness of SHIELD and Nick Fury, especially on the weapons front. The nuclear thing was a slightly unfortunate consequence of that, I think - for me it was TOO vast a thing to be doing but it was necessary to position Fury as a hero. Anyway, really liked that.
And I loved Hulk - that was a million times less ridiculous and more heartstring-tugging than I expected. Perfect. Also Hulk’s randomly punching out Thor and beating up Loki? HUZZAH SAYS I.
OKAY NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT MY FAVOURITES. Let’s talk Loki and Thor.
Overwhelmingly I loved it. That the first thing Loki hears, on arriving on another planet and announcing himself, is “brother of Thor?” has me FOREVER ALOL. It gave me naughty tingles that he was afraid when he realised Thor was coming - and “I’m not overly fond of what follows” is such an excellent line and I loved that it explicitly equated Thor with the storm. The Thor/Loki scene that followed was wonderful, I’m so pleased we got it. Thor’s easy physicality, his willingness to forgive, seriously I love him even more than Loki he is the greatest. The body language between the brothers, how Loki swerved away from Thor’s friendly touch, it said so much. I loved Loki grinning and settling down to watch his big bro fight Cap and Tony.
Btw, Loki’s whole “he isn’t my father but I am his heir” and “you threw me into an abyss” bollocks? WAY more annoying to me than attempting to rule Earth.
I love Thor quickly checking on Jane - he cares for her, he’s concerned that she be safe, but he doesn’t go nuts over the chance to see her. Perfect for my preferred interpretation of them, as liking each other very much but not being CRAZY IN LOVE.
I was so, so happy that Thor defended Loki. NO TALKING SMACK ABOUT MY PSYCHOTIC LITTLE BROTHER. And Loki’s little “are you ever going to not fall for that?” This perfect little got-one-up-on-my-big-brother moment in the middle of all the supervillain crazycakes. I was genuinely startled that he actually chucked Thor out of the fortress, actually.
Loki’s stylish surrender? Also happy-making. He knew he was beaten and worn down and he just gave up, to live to fight another day - no random trying to hurt an Avenger just to show he could. Sly and unsadistic and therefore glee-making for my fangirl heart.
And finally... OMG THE HANDCUFFS. THE GAG. THE GAG AND THE HANDCUFFS. IT WAS LIKE A PRESENT JUST FOR ME. DID YOU SEE THOR KIND OF PUSH LOKI SO LOKI STUMBLED? I SAW THAT. I’LL BE SEEING THAT IN MY DREAMS.
GIVE HIM SOME OF THAT ASGARDIAN JUSTICE, THOR. HE’S BEEN A VERY, VERY NAUGHTY BOY.
It’s like a present to me from Marvel. It’s like Joss Whedon put all my obsessions and loves and sparkles and wrapped them in a bow. I am SO HAPPY.
OKAY OMG I CANNOT EVEN.
The pacing was great - I liked that the action wasn’t back-loaded and the momentum stayed tight. Apparently loads of scenes got cut, which makes me happy: I love that the film wasn’t bloated and I will be RABIDLY buying the DVD for the deleted scenes.
I loved that Natasha got plenty of attention despite not having a franchise. I loved her and Clint, and her and Bruce - both the fight scenes and the talk scenes. I have massive love for the Clint-vs-Natasha fight especially - it was cool to see, and also, I had this “bugger” moment when he dragged her head by her hair and she bit him. It struck me as an unpleasantly gendered moment. And then she immediately HIT HIM IN THE HEAD and took him down. I mean Black Widow’s never been much of a one for fair fighting and I am totally reading too much into it, but it made me really happy: Clint used her curly hair against her, she bit him, it was all gendered, and then she brought him down anyway.
Also, the Natasha-vs-Loki scene filled me with joy. I love them both, and it could not have made me happier to see Loki so entirely owned at his own game. The “quim” line struck me a bit oddly - that was totally scripted as “cunt” and then changed - but still. Loki tends to go for the unpleasant sexism when he’s on the edge (see also ‘maybe I’ll pay her a visit myself’ in Thor) and it totally worked as a THE CRAZY BOILS OVER moment.
Tom Hiddleston seriously rocked those crazy eyes. Even at his quietest moments there was never anything less than serious crazy vibrating in the air around Loki.
Although on Loki - his villain speeches about how freedom was crap and yay totalitarian dictatorship? Those struck me as bizarre. When he was telling the German crowd how freedom hurt them I was slightly going what, Loki? Because those were lines for a different sort of villain. Loki is a god of mischief, an agent of chaos, a trickster - even taken to gleeful-murder extremes, Loki’s flavour of villainy isn’t the ‘I bring glad tidings...you’ll be free from freedom’ type.
Which is why I was very pleased with Coulson’s “you lack conviction” line. Because while I find it hard to buy Loki telling people en masse that freedom sucks (as opposed to “you should all follow my lead with the crazed destruction”, for instance) I completely buy Loki saying that stuff, and not remotely believing it, so he can get everyone to look at him and kneel to him and tell him how great he is. That totally works for me as an interpretation (especially considering Tony’s perfect “diva” line). I see Loki’s speech in Germany not as a Magneto-esque moment of expounding on his true philosophy to a literally-captive audience, but as Loki lying and menacing so they’ll look at ME ME ME I AM THE KING EVERYONE LOOK AT ME IT’S ALL ABOUT ME NOW.
On their setting it in Germany and the explicit Hitler comparison and Captain America coming to the rescue, I will say only that they did it better in Captain America.
OKAY ALSO COULSON. OMG. I cannot believe they did that. I mean, I love how they did it, Coulson was quietly competent and brave and fucked with Loki and it didn’t turn sentimental, but OMG THEY KILLED COULSON. A girl behind us on Friday said “I hate you Joss Whedon” when it happened and... yes.
Also I really, really hope Natasha telling Clint about his death is on the deleted scenes.
And oh, poor Clint. :( I mean. All the violation, and he was up and ready to go in a second. I was so happy he didn’t let Thor make it all about his issues with Loki.
I loved Tony, natch. Yay for all the great little lines, yay for him and Steve’s bickering, yay for their working together well so quickly. Yay for the little scenes with Pepper and his getting defenestrated by Loki and the phone call failing when he was going to his ‘death’.
Yay for Cap! SO SO ADORABLE, no one has ever been that adorable. I loved his little murmured lines - “is [English] what just happened?” - and his happiness at getting the Oz reference and his Captain-ness, that quiet assumption that he’s in charge of his soldiers. ♥
Okay WOW this is really really long BUT must also note that the Avengers argument was excellent. And that I really liked the continuing dubiousness of SHIELD and Nick Fury, especially on the weapons front. The nuclear thing was a slightly unfortunate consequence of that, I think - for me it was TOO vast a thing to be doing but it was necessary to position Fury as a hero. Anyway, really liked that.
And I loved Hulk - that was a million times less ridiculous and more heartstring-tugging than I expected. Perfect. Also Hulk’s randomly punching out Thor and beating up Loki? HUZZAH SAYS I.
OKAY NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT MY FAVOURITES. Let’s talk Loki and Thor.
Overwhelmingly I loved it. That the first thing Loki hears, on arriving on another planet and announcing himself, is “brother of Thor?” has me FOREVER ALOL. It gave me naughty tingles that he was afraid when he realised Thor was coming - and “I’m not overly fond of what follows” is such an excellent line and I loved that it explicitly equated Thor with the storm. The Thor/Loki scene that followed was wonderful, I’m so pleased we got it. Thor’s easy physicality, his willingness to forgive, seriously I love him even more than Loki he is the greatest. The body language between the brothers, how Loki swerved away from Thor’s friendly touch, it said so much. I loved Loki grinning and settling down to watch his big bro fight Cap and Tony.
Btw, Loki’s whole “he isn’t my father but I am his heir” and “you threw me into an abyss” bollocks? WAY more annoying to me than attempting to rule Earth.
I love Thor quickly checking on Jane - he cares for her, he’s concerned that she be safe, but he doesn’t go nuts over the chance to see her. Perfect for my preferred interpretation of them, as liking each other very much but not being CRAZY IN LOVE.
I was so, so happy that Thor defended Loki. NO TALKING SMACK ABOUT MY PSYCHOTIC LITTLE BROTHER. And Loki’s little “are you ever going to not fall for that?” This perfect little got-one-up-on-my-big-brother moment in the middle of all the supervillain crazycakes. I was genuinely startled that he actually chucked Thor out of the fortress, actually.
Loki’s stylish surrender? Also happy-making. He knew he was beaten and worn down and he just gave up, to live to fight another day - no random trying to hurt an Avenger just to show he could. Sly and unsadistic and therefore glee-making for my fangirl heart.
And finally... OMG THE HANDCUFFS. THE GAG. THE GAG AND THE HANDCUFFS. IT WAS LIKE A PRESENT JUST FOR ME. DID YOU SEE THOR KIND OF PUSH LOKI SO LOKI STUMBLED? I SAW THAT. I’LL BE SEEING THAT IN MY DREAMS.
GIVE HIM SOME OF THAT ASGARDIAN JUSTICE, THOR. HE’S BEEN A VERY, VERY NAUGHTY BOY.
