Anonymous
9/7/2025, 7:25:18 PM
No.150255971
>>150255307
>there wasn't much he could have done considering he had just been bisected
Sure but then from a narrative perspective, what was the point of activating it at all? It would serve a purpose if we could see just how powerful the curse was and Loki, despite being cut in half, could still come back and fuck shit up. Or it would serve a purpose if we already understood just how powerful it was normally, but in this case things were so far gone that it didn't make a difference. Instead, we got an info-dump that *told* us how powerful the curse was, but when it came time to actually experience it, we got nothing which completely diminishes the lore. There was really no narrative reason to use it at all in this case.
>We do briefly get to see him annihilate a hallway full of goons in the introduction
No we don't. We see the wifi powerup sequence and then a wide shot of the aftermath. We never actually see him do anything which, from a visual storytelling perspective, does not convey the ferocity or power. We mentally understand what it means, but we don't viscerally understand it. Again, had we actually seen him go full psycho in the past at some point (ideally several times), the anticlimactic ending would have been far more effective because the audience would have expected an outcome we'd already seen play out several times before just to have it subverted.
It's kind of like doing the knock knock joke with bananas and oranges but instead of knocking and telling the person you're "banana" three times, you just knock, tell them you had already knocked three times before as banana, but now you're orange. The punchline doesn't work unless you actually go through the motions. FWIW, I don't think this is something they had time to set up in this single episode. I think the anticlimactic ending was a gag they should have saved for the future.
>there wasn't much he could have done considering he had just been bisected
Sure but then from a narrative perspective, what was the point of activating it at all? It would serve a purpose if we could see just how powerful the curse was and Loki, despite being cut in half, could still come back and fuck shit up. Or it would serve a purpose if we already understood just how powerful it was normally, but in this case things were so far gone that it didn't make a difference. Instead, we got an info-dump that *told* us how powerful the curse was, but when it came time to actually experience it, we got nothing which completely diminishes the lore. There was really no narrative reason to use it at all in this case.
>We do briefly get to see him annihilate a hallway full of goons in the introduction
No we don't. We see the wifi powerup sequence and then a wide shot of the aftermath. We never actually see him do anything which, from a visual storytelling perspective, does not convey the ferocity or power. We mentally understand what it means, but we don't viscerally understand it. Again, had we actually seen him go full psycho in the past at some point (ideally several times), the anticlimactic ending would have been far more effective because the audience would have expected an outcome we'd already seen play out several times before just to have it subverted.
It's kind of like doing the knock knock joke with bananas and oranges but instead of knocking and telling the person you're "banana" three times, you just knock, tell them you had already knocked three times before as banana, but now you're orange. The punchline doesn't work unless you actually go through the motions. FWIW, I don't think this is something they had time to set up in this single episode. I think the anticlimactic ending was a gag they should have saved for the future.