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tori_reviewsWhat If…1x07: What If Thor Were an Only Child
…again we have the use of ‘were’ instead of ‘was.’ I’ll say again that I think it’s grammatically acceptable, but it’s a weird way to phrase it.
This episode is pretty boring as I found myself zoning out a lot. It’s also just bad. And confusing. And dumb. It’s not a good story on basically any level.
I think it says something that the only thing that actually piqued my interest was wondering if I should read something into the person sitting on a beach watching the Thor-Carol fight. In my mind it’s probably Tahiti, so I try and make something of it. The shot seemed to linger just long enough and have just enough detail to seem like it might be more than just a place they were flying over.
I’m usually one to defend Darcy, because even if I’m not that fond of her I think she gets a bad rap in the fandom, but I do not like her here. Every line she has grates on me, and for a wide range of reasons. Darcy has always been used as a mouthpiece for the writers to one degree or another. Whether it was to talk to the youth and make them seem hip; or to voice some sort of meta commentary on things like Captain Marvel being a lady. I don’t know if Darcy just works better in love action or if the writers are using her especially badly here; but seriously, she didn’t know about Captain Marvel a few hours before the comment, if she’s heard anything about this person, Hill would have been using female pronouns, or it’s a complete mystery who Hill called so Darcy would have no opinion on who Captain Marvel would be.
I have never liked the Thor/Jane relationship but they somehow have less chemistry in animation when I already thought they had none. I understand even less here what would draw them to each other, at least in canon they kind of faked reasons for them to bond; and even then it wasn’t that hard to read their entire relationship as a bad idea. I truly do not understand why this Jane would have any interest in this Thor; she really has never seemed to me to be the type who was interested in super-parties like this turned into.
I really wish they had had Rumlow be the one to almost nuke the fight. It really doesn’t make sense for Hill, and Rumlow is Hydra so it’s more believable that he would be on the extra-aggressive train. That, or we needed to see a hell of a lot more of why Hill was so trigger happy when she’s not usually. She should be on the same level as Fury, with maybe a little less manipulative impulses, and Fury wouldn’t resort to nukes against the Chitauri. Maybe if there was a major invasion in Siberia, but the US nuking Russia seems like a terrible idea for SHIELD to engage in.
I was constantly distracted by Frost Giant Loki. It’s always been a bit of a question why he looks human/Asguardian instead of like a Frost Giant, but I kind of assume that he was a runt who was more or less human sized and used glamours to not have Frost Giant features. But if Loki would be a Frost Giant in form, I have to assume Odin and/or Frigga actually used magic to force Loki into a form that would fool him into thinking he was their son. And considering that Loki-the-show never had a Frost Giant Loki I don’t think all the writers are on the same page with how Loki ‘should’ look.
I’m also bothered by the fact that they had Jane put the pieces together about the Asguargian family line. In Thor 1, it’s Selvig who asks those questions while Jane doesn’t seem to have that knowledge base. Hell, Selvig goes to find a book on Norse mythology to brush up on it, and he’s the one with more reason to know. So I’m not sure if they’re trying to say something with Jane figuring it out on her own in this version of events, but it is taking a short-cut at the very least, and if it's saying something I’m pretty sure I disapprove.
I’m still not sure how you get from Thor being an only child to Thor being this extra party animal, and because I dislike so much about the episode I’m not super willing to meet them halfway with it. If anything, what we saw in Thor 1, was Loki egging Thor on so that he looked worse in front of their parents (one somewhat sad moment here was Frost Giant Loki talking about how Frigga wasn’t his mother, that was a nice subtle way of showing how things are different). Yeah, Thor was reckless, and likely would have been whether Loki was with him growing up or not, but there seems to be a bit of a leap here that I’m not able to make.
Also, did I understand right that in this world Jane’s studies were about some other world that got destroyed? Because either the show is suggesting that the destruction happened recently, in which case I don’t know how Earth detected something light years away; or, it happened years ago for the readings to reach Earth, in which case I feel like Thor shouldn’t have any idea what Jane’s talking about because for him it was decades ago.
Basically everything about this episode bothered me in some way. Probably my least favorite episode and if it doesn’t remain so I’m not going to enjoy the rest of the season.
…again we have the use of ‘were’ instead of ‘was.’ I’ll say again that I think it’s grammatically acceptable, but it’s a weird way to phrase it.
This episode is pretty boring as I found myself zoning out a lot. It’s also just bad. And confusing. And dumb. It’s not a good story on basically any level.
I think it says something that the only thing that actually piqued my interest was wondering if I should read something into the person sitting on a beach watching the Thor-Carol fight. In my mind it’s probably Tahiti, so I try and make something of it. The shot seemed to linger just long enough and have just enough detail to seem like it might be more than just a place they were flying over.
I’m usually one to defend Darcy, because even if I’m not that fond of her I think she gets a bad rap in the fandom, but I do not like her here. Every line she has grates on me, and for a wide range of reasons. Darcy has always been used as a mouthpiece for the writers to one degree or another. Whether it was to talk to the youth and make them seem hip; or to voice some sort of meta commentary on things like Captain Marvel being a lady. I don’t know if Darcy just works better in love action or if the writers are using her especially badly here; but seriously, she didn’t know about Captain Marvel a few hours before the comment, if she’s heard anything about this person, Hill would have been using female pronouns, or it’s a complete mystery who Hill called so Darcy would have no opinion on who Captain Marvel would be.
I have never liked the Thor/Jane relationship but they somehow have less chemistry in animation when I already thought they had none. I understand even less here what would draw them to each other, at least in canon they kind of faked reasons for them to bond; and even then it wasn’t that hard to read their entire relationship as a bad idea. I truly do not understand why this Jane would have any interest in this Thor; she really has never seemed to me to be the type who was interested in super-parties like this turned into.
I really wish they had had Rumlow be the one to almost nuke the fight. It really doesn’t make sense for Hill, and Rumlow is Hydra so it’s more believable that he would be on the extra-aggressive train. That, or we needed to see a hell of a lot more of why Hill was so trigger happy when she’s not usually. She should be on the same level as Fury, with maybe a little less manipulative impulses, and Fury wouldn’t resort to nukes against the Chitauri. Maybe if there was a major invasion in Siberia, but the US nuking Russia seems like a terrible idea for SHIELD to engage in.
I was constantly distracted by Frost Giant Loki. It’s always been a bit of a question why he looks human/Asguardian instead of like a Frost Giant, but I kind of assume that he was a runt who was more or less human sized and used glamours to not have Frost Giant features. But if Loki would be a Frost Giant in form, I have to assume Odin and/or Frigga actually used magic to force Loki into a form that would fool him into thinking he was their son. And considering that Loki-the-show never had a Frost Giant Loki I don’t think all the writers are on the same page with how Loki ‘should’ look.
I’m also bothered by the fact that they had Jane put the pieces together about the Asguargian family line. In Thor 1, it’s Selvig who asks those questions while Jane doesn’t seem to have that knowledge base. Hell, Selvig goes to find a book on Norse mythology to brush up on it, and he’s the one with more reason to know. So I’m not sure if they’re trying to say something with Jane figuring it out on her own in this version of events, but it is taking a short-cut at the very least, and if it's saying something I’m pretty sure I disapprove.
I’m still not sure how you get from Thor being an only child to Thor being this extra party animal, and because I dislike so much about the episode I’m not super willing to meet them halfway with it. If anything, what we saw in Thor 1, was Loki egging Thor on so that he looked worse in front of their parents (one somewhat sad moment here was Frost Giant Loki talking about how Frigga wasn’t his mother, that was a nice subtle way of showing how things are different). Yeah, Thor was reckless, and likely would have been whether Loki was with him growing up or not, but there seems to be a bit of a leap here that I’m not able to make.
Also, did I understand right that in this world Jane’s studies were about some other world that got destroyed? Because either the show is suggesting that the destruction happened recently, in which case I don’t know how Earth detected something light years away; or, it happened years ago for the readings to reach Earth, in which case I feel like Thor shouldn’t have any idea what Jane’s talking about because for him it was decades ago.
Basically everything about this episode bothered me in some way. Probably my least favorite episode and if it doesn’t remain so I’m not going to enjoy the rest of the season.
