Yeah, when I first saw it - well, I wasn't watching for plot at all! but as I like my supervillains super-scheming and manipulative I was thinking that Loki was allying with the Chitauri but using them for his own ends, like they were using him. But watching it again with this theory in mind, it makes sense that he's not really in control, even though the movie leaves it unresolved - actually there's enough narrative hooks for it that they have to be intentional; I'm just trying to figure out if the story got changed partway through, or if they're planning to raise it in another movie?
Good point about Loki's threat potential as a villain! In some ways he is posed as the secondary villain...more like the henchman/spokesman of the big bad? More Gollum or Wormtongue than Sauron or Saruman. And yeah, avoiding the underdog was a good idea - the Hulk-smash is hilarious but not long enough to make you feel sorry for him. It's a delicate balance to make a villain somewhat sympathetic but still make his trouncing satisfying, and Joss pulled it off (I suppose not so surprising; he did invent Spike among others...)
I don't have spoilers for later movies (I know Loki is in Thor 2 but not the main villain, but that's it?) but by Loki's record so far, he's on track to semi-reform and die in a dramatic self-sacrifice in a later movie (which I would have few problem with, considering how that worked out for him in the comics! ...as long as it came late enough that I got at least a couple more movies of him XD)
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Date: 2012-05-28 09:57 pm (UTC)Good point about Loki's threat potential as a villain! In some ways he is posed as the secondary villain...more like the henchman/spokesman of the big bad? More Gollum or Wormtongue than Sauron or Saruman. And yeah, avoiding the underdog was a good idea - the Hulk-smash is hilarious but not long enough to make you feel sorry for him. It's a delicate balance to make a villain somewhat sympathetic but still make his trouncing satisfying, and Joss pulled it off (I suppose not so surprising; he did invent Spike among others...)
I don't have spoilers for later movies (I know Loki is in Thor 2 but not the main villain, but that's it?) but by Loki's record so far, he's on track to semi-reform and die in a dramatic self-sacrifice in a later movie (which I would have few problem with, considering how that worked out for him in the comics! ...as long as it came late enough that I got at least a couple more movies of him XD)