#ragsy this is you in my brain

[ragsy]

my brain: okay ragsy listen up. we have a lot of shit to get done and we’ll feel much better when you finish it.

me: roger that.

my brain: let’s sit down at our computer and start working on our resume

me: you got it. we’re sitting down, opening minecraft.

my brain: no, see, we’re supposed to be working on our resume.

me: okay. closing minecraft, downloading minecraft mods.

my brain: no, no, no, stop that.

me: sorry. i’ll close my browser.

my brain: okay, good start. let’s open this PDF--

me: installing minecraft mods

my brain: ...

me: 

#ragsycon exclusive

[librariankiss]

Real Talk Okay (Ragnarok Spoilers)

Okay I enjoyed Ragnarok (though tbh the Thor movies mean so much to me for personal shit I can’t dislike one of them lol) but like ... I think it is one of the better examples of one of MCU’s biggest problems, which is when the humour ends up taking away from the story rather than building on it.

For example, have a friend who said to me that Wonder Woman stole Marvel’s sense of humour or joking or whatever, but it isn’t true. That film uses humour to build on scenes and the people in them. It adds to what’s going on.

Marvel’s a little guilty of bathos. Time and time again a dramatic scene is sabotaged by a joke. If you want an example, Dr. Strange reaching its dramatic shit only for the cape to fucking whip Strange in the face. Like, let me feel sad or uneasy, Marvel. That’s okay too. Not every single scene needs a joke to lighten the mood.

And it’s not even like there wasn’t opportunity to break your heart but it’s like it doesn’t have the balls to follow through on what it’s doing. “Here, have a touching scene between Thor and Loki, but now here have some slapstick that doesn’t add to the emotional scene we just saw.”

And it’s especially sad because some of the humour was good. For example, “Get Help” is used to show that Thor and Loki did have a childhood together and are brothers, which contrasts with Hela, a blood relative who really isn’t any sort of sister to them at all.

Did any of the deaths (of major characters, no less) feel sabotaged by this over use of this sort of comedy to anyone else? Did anyone else think that Loki repeatedly being the butt of jokes, especially slapstick, kind of ... sabotaged what his character was meant to be in the first place? Did anyone else feel like Hela having a comedy sidekick made no sense? Why would she put up with his incompetent ass?

Oh. And Devil’s Anus. Way to build up some suspense by naming it that, guys. I’m in fucking awe.

Okay, yes. I enjoyed it and I’m seeing it a second time with a friend this weekend. It did good things for the series, and great things for the character development of both Thor and Loki, who you’ll know if you follow my shit are two of my favourite characters to write about.

But I fucking hate (poorly executed) bathos. And it’s a problem that all of MCU has, to be honest.

Sorry that this was such a ramble. All of this was stream of consciousness, and I guess at some point I should write about what I did like to even things out. But, since @securitybreach got me thinking, I had to write this before my brain exploded.

tl;dr: good job on all that character development Ragsy but quit it with the poorly done bathos.

#mcu #thor: ragnarok #kiss.txt