Warning: The scoring only represents the subjective opinion of a radical fan of Loki.
MCU really lived up to expectations and reached a new height. A 6-episode TV series has never been so long in my life. I can’t believe that after watching ep1 and ep2 a few weeks ago, I am still confident that I will tell a different story this time. I must have caused some abuse in my previous life. Every few years, you have to be smashed into a sieve. For anyone who likes the role of Loki and wants to dig out the charm of the role more through the TV series, this TV series is an official punishment, full of malice. Fortunately, today's nightmare is finally over.
Before watching this show, we first need to understand who loves the character of Loki and who hates the character:
Tom is undoubtedly in love, Ken and Taillight, and Lei Fu1's screenwriter team, comics including Kieron Gillen and Al Ewing, Loki's army (and possibly painful love). Kevin Feige may have loved it, but I do not love it now. The Russell brothers hated it. Ray 3 director Waititi made it clear that he did not like Loki and called him "Universal Orphan". The screenwriter Michael Waldron did not love it. He may have never seen Ray. 1 I don’t even know the setting of Frost Giant. Director Kate Herron doesn’t love, but loves Sylvie, which he pushes. The MCU Loki started in Lei 3 was like a motherless child (and indeed motherless) who was ridiculed, humiliated, and acted as a clown. Now she is reduced to a passerby in a personal drama. The character I like is really miserable. I was pinched so that my mother couldn't recognize it and I had to forcefully resurrect it and abuse it again.
Do you think Loki died too uselessly in Infinity War? It doesn't matter, mcu can make him useless again in his personal drama.
The play sums it up as: selling dog meat with a sheep's head. Although we are familiar with Loki standing in the center of the poster, it is like the vicious declaration of Sylvie's appearance: "This is not about you!". Audiences who are not familiar with the role of Loki may want to say: Yes, this show actually talks about Lokis instead of a Loki, and variants including Sylvie, their life experience is different from that of MCU Loki, of course they have no personality. The same. People who think this way are nothing more than: 1. They are not familiar with the character of Loki, do not understand the traits that make up Loki, and speculate on him as a mortal. 2. "As long as the experience is different, no matter what strange shape Loki turns into, it makes sense." This kind of panacea can be bought.
For viewers who have watched Lei 1 and 1 or have watched some comics, this TV series called Loki is more like a group of characters with the same name as Loki but not touched (one of them even has the name Loki). No more). What makes a Loki Loki? The answer in the play is "Independence, Authority, Style". In fact, it should be "Mischievous, Misleading, Mastermind." He likes pranks, embracing chaos, laughing at the fateful ending... etc., he is fun enough and dangerous enough to gather all the elements of a perfect villain, and it is more than enough to be an anti-hero. Loki has always given me the impression that he is easy to do, he is ignorant. The role that provokes trouble at all costs, even if in the end he has to bear the tragic consequences, but he has infinite momentum to plan, arrange, and provoke all forces. He is not afraid of failure, and he will leave a good way to come back, even if he Knowing that he could not escape the fate of another failure, he would never surrender because of this. But what do we see in this TV series? Can't fight against mortals (a 500-pound god is thrown up by passers-by), only plays tricks, starts to lose his mind from ep3 and runs around behind Sylvie's butt, is laughed at by Sylvie and other Loki, and is attracted by light sticks. Cloud monsters...TVA Loki is just like what Mobius said at the beginning as a "stepping stone to achieve others", but from a more narrative point of view, it has become a stepping stone to portray other characters in this personal drama. .
In addition to the most fundamental role modeling digress, the 6-episode miniseries also failed in terms of rhythm, continuity, and logic. The directors and screenwriters (Micheal Waldron & Eric Martin) have low level of imagination and limited imagination. Only heterosexuals save the universe with love and other kitsch stuff in their minds. When the overall strength of the screenwriting team is weak, they have to choose one screenwriter for one episode. Coming to the sword magnifies the weaknesses in the connection of the plot. Not only is the storytelling level so bad that it falls to the floor, but the plot is patchwork. The only consistency between the story and the characters is their inconsistency. For example, Mingming ep2 With a Sylvie detonating chaos at the end, it caught the audience's curiosity. By the time of ep3 and ep4, there was no follow-up. TVA employees seemed to continue their daily office work as if nothing had happened. Sylvie was not able to cast spells on Loki in ep3, but at the end of time, she can cast magic on a super powerful life/power that spans time and space, because this cloud is very human, not as uncontrollable as such a weak Loki . However, if you copy the plot of the comics, it will not be so bad. The self-reconciliation in the original work has become vulgar and old-fashioned. The process of watching made me feel very embarrassed for several times. Besides copying the modeling in the comics, the character creation Throw in LGBTQ gimmicks and nothing is left. The irony is that the show also talks about "Loki fights against the fate of being crucified as a villain on the sacred timeline", and in fact, MCU has been constantly strengthening the stereotype that Loki is a rookie. The old Loki is one of the highlights of the show. It shows that the screenwriter team does not know how to write Loki, but it is limited to showing a small climax in a few minutes. It is completely useless to write a complete miniseries with Loki as the protagonist.
Although we all know that MCU Loki is a weakened Loki compared to the modeling in the comics, but in the personal drama, he is weakened to an outrageous degree, and the crew is not even willing to use the rest after showing how old Loki used magic to raise high buildings with bare hands. The budget of Loki created some phantom clones that he often used in Thor 1 and Avengers 1. He is more like a sensitive ghost who runs with other characters. Not only is he no longer a powerful god, but he is not even a powerful one. Although he stands in the center of the poster, he is not a core role at all. He should have a strong subjective initiative and should promote the development of the plot, not as a stepping stone for other characters. However, from ep3 The image of TVA Loki began to crumble all the way: on the planet Lamentis, he broke Sylvie’s plan with unknown motives, made the two people unable to come up with a decent remedy plan after being in a crisis, and Sylvie was like two mentally retarded people. Loki, who was supposed to continue Reunion 1, became a mentally handicapped chicken with neither strategy nor combat ability. He was stripped of all the characteristics that originally belonged to Loki, and he was reduced from a complex and aura to a mediocre passerby, continuing his presence in Thor 3. Li's treatment-continue to be ridiculed, humiliated, run by the nose without own opinion, reluctantly rely on Dou Sen's acting and personal charm to maintain our sense of identity with this Loki. ep4-ep6 has become Sylvie's attendant, like a fool who was swept away by love. He is like those NPCs who sing and encourage when other characters in the game upgrade and fight monsters.
Sylvie failed very much from casting to character creation. He became a stitched monster of Sylvie Lushton and Lady Loki. There was no trace of Loki on his body. Like a textbook-like Mary Su, he couldn't stand up at all. The script's description of Sylvie is not only not like a Loki, but also very superficial. This is not only because there is not much time to portray the new character, but also because of Sylvie's own positioning problem. The director and screenwriter are in "She is Loki" and "She is not "Loki" swayed between the two, and the result was that Sylvie's shape was very flat. Although she promotes the development of the second half of the plot, she is not a character that can arouse the empathy of the audience. She still can't jump out of the mcu assembly line production of female characters in recent years: beautiful and able to fight, she said that other characters are not at all Dare to have any objections, she needs which props and which props can be obtained, with a high force value to cover up the weakness of character creation, and the so-called "feminist theme" is advertised with Mary Sue. Of course I also like film and television dramas with female themes, but the premise is that the female characters are well-written, convincing the audience, and allowing the audience to have a sense of substitution and closeness. Regrettably, the MCU's portrayal of female characters in this play is still facial makeup. Such flat heroines are nothing more than female-gender thugs.
However, this is not the worst! Sylvie is not only an original character of Mary Su, she is the only female variant of Loki's gender fluid character in the parallel universe (so funny!), she is also a Loki title, steal Loki style, no Loki characteristics, but The "unique and independent character" that made Loki fall in love with it, but unfortunately there is only a man in a lantern cloak on the promotional poster, which insults Sylvie's fans. It is recommended that the show should be renamed "Sylvie" or "Sylvie and Her Followers" , And let Sylvie occupy the center of the poster in the next season.
Maybe most of the audience is not disgusted with Loki and Sylvie's love scene, thinking it is a kind of self-acceptance of Loki, but in my opinion it is not. Not only can I not accept that Sylvie is a variant of Loki, even if MCU can come up with one to make me Convincing Lady Loki, I also cannot accept the love scene between Loki and Lady Loki, not to mention how blunt and abrupt the development of love between Sylvie and Loki in this play. Mobius solemnly marveled in the play that Loki fell in love with another one of his own. The rhetoric is funny and ridiculous, since Sylvie is not like Loki anymore (of course, we must not forget that TVA Loki is also stripped of cunning and clever God in this play. of Mischief's traits, it seems embarrassing and clumsy), then the so-called "narcissism" is completely invalid. MCU just staged an ordinary heterosexuality under the banner of narcissus, or the kind that is particularly badly written. If I want to see daffodils, I might as well go to Prometheus to see two David's kisses. To be honest, what was the original intention of MCU to join the role of Sylvie? The excellent story of Agent of Asgard is there. The wits and the final self-reconciliation between the two Lokis are there, deep and unconventional. Why on earth is it ignoring the outstandingness of the original work, and why should I join the stitching monster of Sylvie? Is it to take the hot spot of narcissus into consideration and consider the cisgender and heterosexual masses? However, the appearance of Sylvie seems to be just a tool person serving Loki love interest. If the female base and the male base are equally independent and autonomous individuals, then the emergence of Sylvie should not be too soon as the target of the male base’s emotions, at least It should be after she and the main line Loki tried each other for a long time.
About Loki's genderfluid and bisexual:
Mcu entering pride month: We are homo...
The mcu out of Pride Month: ...sapien.
While labeling the characters with colorful labels including genderfluid, while strengthening the single sex by creating two Lokis for men and women, I am very disgusted with this approach. Comics are five hundred years ahead of the MCU in terms of expressing Loki’s gender fluid and bisexuality. In addition to queerbaiting, the MCU only writes about heterosexuality using love to save the world, which is clichéd and boring. In the comic, Loki can seamlessly switch between male and female bodies. It is Odin’s sentence "my son, and my daughter, and my child who is both", and Lady Loki’s sentence "I'm me, first, last and always" (Agent of Asgard), Loki’s bisexuality is also directly shown in the comics, and he directly expressed his interest in Prodigy in Young Avengers V2. What about the show? The gender-fluid Loki was abruptly cut into male and female individuals (the female is still blond!) Zhongji also expressed his surprise and fear of the "Woman Variant"! MCU has to touch everything but can’t write anything well, or don’t want to write at all, the mud can’t support the wall, a bunch of labels are posted, and the non-binary and bisexual groups are represented incorrectly in an incorrect form. The crowds come to whitewash their own conservativeness, with the purpose of exporting family carnival products to the more popular antegrade heterosexual people to make money. The operation can be described as skilled and ugly.
Through these shameful and pathetic means, the MCU, or Disney squeezed the final popularity of Loki's character, and pitiful the audience who are still chasing the Phantom. What is that even the Phantom is not? It's just the imitation sound made by Disney this abyss behemoth in order to attract food, but when you listen carefully, it clearly shouts: money! money! money! The super high score is just the last fig leaf of the show. Disney’s kidnapping the scoring system by buying favorable reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and imdb is nothing new. This vulgar and bad plot actually gets 9 points for every episode. The above is also pretty good.
My scoring may not be fair to passers-by. It only represents the anger of a fan who once loved MCU Loki at the moment. One star for Natalie Holt's OP and Richard E Grant's old Loki, no more. Dou Sen has indeed changed Loki’s fate on the screen, and may even affect the portrayal of Loki in the comics. I have loved him unreservedly, and I may still love him and appreciate him for his dedication and dedication to Loki. The character brings life, but if Loki is nailed to death by MCU like this, and becomes a "flea on the back of a dragon", my love for him can only stay in the past. I was deceived for the last time in this drama. I thought I was unlucky. Loki is still active in the comics, and the story continues. Friends who love Loki, see you in the new issue of the comics.
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