Conversation

Sequence of thoughts watching Thor: Love and Thunder 1. This is bad 2. Oh wait it’s by Taika Waititi, maybe it’s just metamodern weirdness I don’t get 3. Uhh no, it’s just bad 4. It feels deliberately bad like he’s trying to subvert MCU 5. Maybe that’s a good thing
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It had the structure of a traditional tall tale from a pre-modern folk tale culture but deployed to mess with MCU in an unserious way. And unlike Ragnarok it didn’t exhibit any affection for the material.
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On second thoughts, not such a good thing. For all its flaws, MCU doesn’t deserve internal sabotage driven by random conceits that don’t harmonize. Make a separate satire/parody.
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I got the sense that the bad subversions (a lady Thor!) we’re from the studio, and the good subversions (Zeus bit) were from Taika. I’m a little partisan, but I think that lines up w what would be bureaucratically added to script vs creatively.
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