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[awanderingbard]

Made Mum watch the first Star Trek reboot movie, and she 'really enjoyed' it. She also enjoyed Captain America. We're going to try The Avengers next, when we have a chunk of time to kill (that thing is long). We're also reading the Sherlock Holmes stories aloud. I am on a roll with fandom conversions.

Next stop...er...I don't know what's left...

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[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

We've done Thor, and rewatched at the cottage, so she is going in with everything except The Hulk movies. She has done her Marvel 101 course.

Yeah, I don't think Loki was right in the head by the time the Avengers rolled around. I mean, more so. Whedon says he got messed up falling through the abyss at the end of Thor. There's also the theory that he's brainwashed, too, due to his eyes being blue in The
Avengers and green in Thor. But I don't know, maybe Hiddleston just got sick of the contacts.

[joonscribble.livejournal.com]

There's also the theory that he's brainwashed, too, due to his eyes being blue in The
Avengers and green in Thor. But I don't know, maybe Hiddleston just got sick of the contacts.

I love this very simple and most likely true explanation. It reminds me of how Nick Hornby rolls his eyes at Bob Dylan fans who dissect every single lyric of his and jump on how since this word doesn't rhyme with this word it must have some super-deep meaning. Hornby's explanation is basically, "I think at some point Bob Dylan was just like, 'Fuck it. Close enough.'"

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I felt this way every time we had to dissect something for English, because I kept thinking 'if people were doing this to something I wrote, I would think they were nuts'. I mean, maybe they did write with the deeper meaning in mind, but I know for myself that things that end up having layers in my stories are more accident than design.

I also think there's an element of fan girls going 'but he's not evil, he's just misunderstood! He's brainwashed, he doesn't know what he's doing!'