Okay so I’m making another attempt to return to this website cause I just binged the whole 6 seasons of justified (very current, i know) and I am upset.
1) What the fuck did they do to Boyd and Ava? I get they wanted to break them up and cause tension with the spying story but the way they did it was frankly stupid. That scene where Boyd has caputered the guard who accused Ava of attacking him and he just… let’s him go? On what planet does that make any sense. Boyd has killed men for disrespecting Ava before no matter their motives and suddenly he lets this creep go? And then when he thinks he’s about to die he tells his gang to take care of Ava by… continnuing to provide her with heroin in prison? When he could have got her out of prison simply by torturing rapey guard a little bit? Extremly OOC. I dont blame Ava for turning on him, she had no other choice, but the way they got her into this situation where she could no longer rely on Boyd was extremly contrived and silly. Boyd always took care of his woman!
2) Okay, I dont like cop shows and I just came here for the slash (And ended up stanning Boyd/Eva instead) so I skipped a lot of the scenes with the cops, but what exactly is the message of this whole story in the end? That you will never make it above your birth circumstances UNLESS you lick boot and become a cop and turn your back on your former self and community? That’s depressing man.
I mean I loved everything with Boyd and Ava and Mags Bennet and Loretta. And I really enjoyed the humour of the show and even Dewey and his four kidneys. But in the end I’m left with a kind of bad taste in my mouth. I liked it, but this show hurt me.
That scene where Boys has caputered the guard who accused Ava of attacking him and he just… let’s him go?
That scene made me so mad, I stopped watching this show.
The level of absurd, out of character behavior, and utter rubbish that was this scene was first, second, twenty-seven and the final straw.
here’s a hot take. Darcy is one of the best female characters the MCU has written because she actually feels real and human and isn’t an empty sexist #Girlboss with no agency or depth or flaws or humanity. She’s an actually strong female character. She’s human. Unlike a lot of the empty dehumanized women the MCU writes.
Tom Hiddleston, who I guess Marvel must have memory-wiped and reprogrammed or something because what the fuck (x):
Thor: Heroes & Villains:
It would be one thing if they wanted to retcon it that Loki has always wanted to rule. That wouldn’t be accurate either, but it would at least be more defensible than the notion that he’s always believed he was preordained to rule. Hell, they even could have gone with, “Once Loki learned the truth of his heritage, he snapped and became consumed with the desire for a throne”. That framing isn’t necessarily right, IMO, but it’s reconcilable with canon. But nope, the story they’re going with is that he’s grown up believing he was predestined for greatness. Please excuse me while I laugh myself to death.
Every interview with the various creators involved with the show echoes the same thing. Because that’s the messaging Disney wants to push. Which completely retcons Loki’s arc and motivations and characterization and also contradicts old interviews. Disney may wish to convince us that Loki is in character in the show but he’s not.
Loki’s story is defined by his lack of control and lack of agency, by the way he is pushed aside and by his self hatred and self doubt.
He is insecure and resentful in Thor 2011 because he knows he is not favored. He feels he doesn’t have a lot of the dangerous flaws Thor has and yet no one looks twice at him or values his opinion.
Remember when Sif & the W3 mock him? Remember when Thor silences him and tells him to know his place? His “place” being subservient to Thor and following his lead bc Thor is the elder, higher ranked son who is the future king and Loki is supposed to obey him. Remember when Loki describes himself as “nothing more than a stolen relic” and as a “monster”? Remember when he says he never wanted the throne, just that he wanted to be Thor’s equal…which means he didn’t consider himself Thor’s equal. Remember how the cinematography frames Loki as lower than Thor and his Father to mirror his position in the family dynamic? Remember how Loki says he remembered being in Thor’s shadow?
Also in Avengers Loki is being mind controlled and threatened by Thanos and has also been conditioned by him. In interviews at the time Tom compared it to having been kidnapped by terrorists.
Also when is Loki in control??? In Thor 2011 no one will listen to him and he fears Thor will start a war so he takes matters into his own hands. Then his plan blows up in his face. He ends the movie by having a mental breakdown and trying to commit suicide. Then he gets captured and tortured and and mind controlled and sent to retrieve the tesseract. Then he gets beaten by the Avengers. Then he gets imprisoned without trial. Then he has to hide and impersonate Odin. Then he ends up under the thumb of the Grandmaster. Then he gets killed by Thanos. Where’s the bit where he was in control?
Loki is someone who ACTS like he is in control because his dignity is all he has. Not someone who IS in control. I could explain it but Tom himself said it best in an interview around the time of Avengers. “The thing with Loki is that, if he’s afraid, he won’t show it. He’s been highly trained, through the experience of his slightly traumatic life, to shield his fears.”
Disney is now trying to retcon all of that. But they can’t gaslight us into forgetting the truth. This show is out of character. It’s badly written. It’s a narrative of victim blaming. And it is an insult to Loki and his fans. They are taking a beloved character and stripping him of everything that made him popular. Why? It feels like a punishment for liking the “wrong” character. Or for the fact that the character appealed to audiences Disney doesn’t like.
Can somebody please let Tom, Kate, Mike and everyone else promoting this show know that people who feel in control of their circumstances don’t try to kill themselves? That would be great, thanks. :)
If you like any highborn character in asoiaf it means you personally condone and enjoy feudalism and monarchy
Just a couple of examples of how grey are the “good guys” in ASOIAF. People loves Tyrion from the beginning, but they forget that in A Game of Thrones, Tyrion VII, he is pleased to see the body of the innkeeper Masha Heddle rotting in a gibbet (taken from the wiki). What did that poor woman do to deserve such cruelty? She was just a defenseless commoner in a room full of highborns and knights armed to the teeth. What could she possibly have done to stop Catelyn from kidnapping him????
It’s just the same as when Ned tells Varys he did nothing when he was betrayed by Janos Slynt and Littlefinger. What could Varys have done? One unnarmed man against a host of bloodthisrty men?
What about Cat? Also in A Game of Thrones, Catelyn XI, she thinks Edmure is a fool because he let the common people, his people, into the castle. Useless mouths she calls them, the innocents trapped in a war of her own making.
Or the Blackfish, who throws all those useless mouths out of the castle, but takes all the food inside, and let the people to their own devices, in a destroyed land, at the begining of winter.
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