Cultural Crossovers #8: Thor - The Dark World

Straight on with it:

• Well, they don’t look much like pre-stellar ignition creatures, but we’ll roll with it. (Anyway, wouldn’t they be Hot Ones in that case, not Cold Ones?)
• …using a K does not make words extra-special. Just ask the Krell, the K’kree, the Kazon…
• Don’t Seal the Evil in a Can! That trick never works!
• Ah, Loki. Snarking in the face of death.
• …Thor? Have you been listening to your brother?
• THEY HAVE A CAVE TROLL.
• This audience would point out that yes, Odin has a point about relationships between the short-lived and the long. But also that there is a cure for that, and if they haven’t figured it out yet, why the heck not?
• Ah, Darcy, never stop being you.
• Someone’s suffering some aftereffects of being brain-stirred with a scepter, methinks.
• Welp, something’s plaited space-time like a much-used handkerchief. Wacky fun with metric engineering?
• That’s a mite impressive.
• Evidently you can explode more than once.
• Holy shit, indeed. Bifrost is a delightfully showy method of interstellar travel. And your reaction, Jane, is simply adorable. The scientists squee and proclaim you one of their own.
• Yes, “soul forge” is definitely a more poetic name. Our science team agree, although the description of what it does is… odd.
• Rather civilized dungeons, Asgard has.
• Interesting cosmology. One presumes that the Nine Realms are themselves an artificial construct.
• There is perhaps something to be said about what one ought to bring to a battlecruiser fight.
• Given some earlier comments about woman warriors, it’s good to see that the Queen of Asgard is appropriately badass. And tricksy.
• …and dead. Shit.
• A worthy funeral.
• Lecturing the nuthouse. A sorry end for a great mind and someone who got drunk with a god.
• Ah, Loki. You may not be a troll, but you’re definitely a troll.
• Nice flying… for a vehicle you’ve never seen before.
• Hell, a man takes that many pills, no wonder he’s crazy.
• Nidavellir: it’s a miserable place.
• Loki, damn it.
• Let me rephrase that: Damn, Loki!
• Oh, well played with that grenade.
• Is there anyone in this audience who believes that Loki actually just died? Signs point to no.
• You may have found a body, but the audience still doesn’t believe it.
• Given that Mjolnir can lay down the smack on someone wielding the functional equivalent – or actuality – of an Infinity Stone, Asgardian weapons technology is really quite impressive.
• And, hell, where are they gonna run to, anyway? Might as well get a good video on the off-chance the universe survives.
• Welcome to Vanaheim, gentlemen. Hope they have airfields.
• Excellent rising to the occasion, intern’s intern.
• …kinda hope we get to visit Muspellheim sometime. It looks interesting, what we can see through the big ol’ skyhole.
• Rendered ‘armless. Ho, ho, ho.
• …aww, the fighter pilots didn’t get to stay in Vanaheim long enough for any mead. I hear it’s excellent.
• Oh, Loki, you magnificent bastard! (And one wonders what he did with Odin?)
• And he’s back! Good thing too, bilge snipe and all.

Anyway. Perfect movie for this audience – modulo some serious suspending of science disbelief – complete with perfect demi-villain. Couldn’t be better.