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
Conversation
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 didn’t think the lady Thor subplot was a bad subversion. Quite liked it. It just wasn’t really developed. The whole thing reeked of half-ass sloppiness.


