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shapinglightWent to see Thor: the Dark World last night. The first time I've been to the cinema since...well, I can't remember.
Spoilers for the film, plus for Ripper Street season 2, ep 2, and The Good Wife up to early season 3 behind cut.
First of all, I enjoyed the Thor film a lot more than I thought I would. It was utterly daft, of course, but in a way I find enjoyable - as opposed to Avengers, which is equally daft but somehow gets my back up. But then, back when I used to read the Thor comic, I much preferred it to Avengers.
Of course, it has bugger all to do with real, actual Norse mythology (the comic, weirdly, whenever it did use the original mythos, which it sometimes did, would change things for no good reason. Sif, for instance, Thor's wife in mythology, was noted for her long golden hair. But, when the character was introduced in the comics, she was Sif the Raven-haired. Weird, but then I suppose the comic already had an Asgardian female character with long blonde hair - the Enchantress, again nothing to do with the mythology - so I suppose they thought there shouldn't be another).
Oops! Went off at a tangent there - and another tangent might be to recall that when the comic decided to do the story of the Volsunga Saga, they went with Wagner's version rather than the original Norse one - if there is an original, as such, I'm not sure. Also, they once had Thor face off with the gods of the Hindu pantheon, who were portrayed as fat and unpleasant. Doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone that these gods, unlike the Norse ones, are still worshipped by millions. Bet they wouldn't do that these days.
Okay, stopping with the tangents.
The film was lots of fun, as I said, with the only bit that I didn't care for being the protracted attack of the Dark Elves on Asgard, which looked like it had escaped from Star Wars. Yawn! Loki was great, and Hiddleston and Hemsworth spark off each other in a Spike/Angel type way. I like that Hiddleston managed to put some ambiguity into his portrayal of Loki, so that, yes, he really did risk his own life to save Thor's, but on the other hand, when he said he didn't do it for their father, he really, really wasn't kidding.
And if there isn't a third Thor movie, Loki's effectively won, hasn't he? He's sneakily replaced Odin (who I can't help thinking no one much would miss) and no one has even noticed. Heh!
As with the first movie, my favourite bits were probably the interactions between Thor and Jane's 'gang' (enhanced by Darcy's intern, which is hilarious, an intern having an intern), and the juxtaposition of a larger than life character like Thor and 'normality' (even more enjoyable for me this time because it was set in London, and just for once didn't make all the Brits out to be snobby idiots). My absolute favourite scene was Thor on the Underground. Both M and I laughed out loud at that one. Loki-as-Captain-America was also very funny.
And thankfully there wasn't too much of the minor Asgardian characters, who get on my nerves (except Heimdall, because Idris Elba could never get on my nerves, and Frigga, sadly dead).
Also amusing how being comfortable with nudity seems to be the norm in the Skarsgard family.
Must say, though, I was completely thrown by that teaser scene at the end, whether for what's coming up in another franchise film, or for a possible third Thor one. I vaguely remember a comics character called the Collector, but nothing about him. It was just weird, and Sif and Volstagg looked as bewildered as I was.
As for ep 2 of Ripper Street, all the way through it, I was saying to S, they can't kill the Elephant Man, he was a real person. But they did, and apparently he died just as stated in the show (except that if someone called Shine murdered him, that's never come to light), with Doctor Treves even saying what he said about Merrick wanting to 'be like other people' and trying to sleep lying down. I liked that they brought back Anton Lesser's character from the previous series (nasty bloke!), though have to admit that I never saw Mrs Reid as the type to lose her mind, as described. I suppose it will probably turn out that she's banged up in some horrible asylum somewhere.
Good ep. The plot thickens in every way.
Finally, The Good Wife. I finished watching season 2 last week and went straight on to season 3. I love it. I can't think why I stopped watching for so long. Now wondering (and please no one spoil me) how long it'll be before Will works out that Alicia is not in love with him. Not long, I suspect. She doesn't want to talk about the fact that he inadvertently said he loved her on the phone, and she doesn't want him to meet her kids. The writing is on the wall. Good. I like Will, but he's sort of...sleazy. Alicia deserves better. Also, I don't know what it is exactly about this show, but I normally hate case-of-the-week procedurals, and in this show I find them completely fascinating.
Not a mystery really, I suppose. It's because the show's so well written and well acted.
Spoilers for the film, plus for Ripper Street season 2, ep 2, and The Good Wife up to early season 3 behind cut.
First of all, I enjoyed the Thor film a lot more than I thought I would. It was utterly daft, of course, but in a way I find enjoyable - as opposed to Avengers, which is equally daft but somehow gets my back up. But then, back when I used to read the Thor comic, I much preferred it to Avengers.
Of course, it has bugger all to do with real, actual Norse mythology (the comic, weirdly, whenever it did use the original mythos, which it sometimes did, would change things for no good reason. Sif, for instance, Thor's wife in mythology, was noted for her long golden hair. But, when the character was introduced in the comics, she was Sif the Raven-haired. Weird, but then I suppose the comic already had an Asgardian female character with long blonde hair - the Enchantress, again nothing to do with the mythology - so I suppose they thought there shouldn't be another).
Oops! Went off at a tangent there - and another tangent might be to recall that when the comic decided to do the story of the Volsunga Saga, they went with Wagner's version rather than the original Norse one - if there is an original, as such, I'm not sure. Also, they once had Thor face off with the gods of the Hindu pantheon, who were portrayed as fat and unpleasant. Doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone that these gods, unlike the Norse ones, are still worshipped by millions. Bet they wouldn't do that these days.
Okay, stopping with the tangents.
The film was lots of fun, as I said, with the only bit that I didn't care for being the protracted attack of the Dark Elves on Asgard, which looked like it had escaped from Star Wars. Yawn! Loki was great, and Hiddleston and Hemsworth spark off each other in a Spike/Angel type way. I like that Hiddleston managed to put some ambiguity into his portrayal of Loki, so that, yes, he really did risk his own life to save Thor's, but on the other hand, when he said he didn't do it for their father, he really, really wasn't kidding.
And if there isn't a third Thor movie, Loki's effectively won, hasn't he? He's sneakily replaced Odin (who I can't help thinking no one much would miss) and no one has even noticed. Heh!
As with the first movie, my favourite bits were probably the interactions between Thor and Jane's 'gang' (enhanced by Darcy's intern, which is hilarious, an intern having an intern), and the juxtaposition of a larger than life character like Thor and 'normality' (even more enjoyable for me this time because it was set in London, and just for once didn't make all the Brits out to be snobby idiots). My absolute favourite scene was Thor on the Underground. Both M and I laughed out loud at that one. Loki-as-Captain-America was also very funny.
And thankfully there wasn't too much of the minor Asgardian characters, who get on my nerves (except Heimdall, because Idris Elba could never get on my nerves, and Frigga, sadly dead).
Also amusing how being comfortable with nudity seems to be the norm in the Skarsgard family.
Must say, though, I was completely thrown by that teaser scene at the end, whether for what's coming up in another franchise film, or for a possible third Thor one. I vaguely remember a comics character called the Collector, but nothing about him. It was just weird, and Sif and Volstagg looked as bewildered as I was.
As for ep 2 of Ripper Street, all the way through it, I was saying to S, they can't kill the Elephant Man, he was a real person. But they did, and apparently he died just as stated in the show (except that if someone called Shine murdered him, that's never come to light), with Doctor Treves even saying what he said about Merrick wanting to 'be like other people' and trying to sleep lying down. I liked that they brought back Anton Lesser's character from the previous series (nasty bloke!), though have to admit that I never saw Mrs Reid as the type to lose her mind, as described. I suppose it will probably turn out that she's banged up in some horrible asylum somewhere.
Good ep. The plot thickens in every way.
Finally, The Good Wife. I finished watching season 2 last week and went straight on to season 3. I love it. I can't think why I stopped watching for so long. Now wondering (and please no one spoil me) how long it'll be before Will works out that Alicia is not in love with him. Not long, I suspect. She doesn't want to talk about the fact that he inadvertently said he loved her on the phone, and she doesn't want him to meet her kids. The writing is on the wall. Good. I like Will, but he's sort of...sleazy. Alicia deserves better. Also, I don't know what it is exactly about this show, but I normally hate case-of-the-week procedurals, and in this show I find them completely fascinating.
Not a mystery really, I suppose. It's because the show's so well written and well acted.
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Date: 2013-11-06 02:44 pm (UTC)