I've Been Loki'd

[pristineungift]

 So, after reading my fic The High Priest of Loki, 

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[vorquellyn]

I agree with you on most of what you say but I have a couple points of disagreement

[vorquellyn]

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[pristineungift]

I really liked the Loki of the Thor movie. I thought he was a good transition to a Loki from the same universe that Marvel!Thor is supposed to be from, a good transition based on the rules this new universe is running by. As such, I take him as being as separate from Myth!Loki as mirror!Kirk is from regular Kirk. Some similar personality traits but very different upbringing and potentially vastly different responses to the same stimuli. I came out of Thor shipping Loki/Sif and unless I see him with someone else in the movies, I’ll probably stick with that. I get the gut feeling that the movie’s Thor, Loki, Sif, and Fandrel are a lot younger than the other Marvel versions of them. Partly because the movie explicitly showed Loki to have been a baby when the frost giants were defeated. Yes to all of this. I personally see the movieverse as carte blanche to pick and choose from whatever canons you want, so long as it doesn't directly contradict something from the movies. (Of if it does, it's an AU, w/e

[vorquellyn]

I suspect that part of the problem that Avengers has with its Loki is that I'm not sure Whedon and Branagh were communicating very closely. Branagh's version is wonderful and Whedon's version is traditional for Marvel. I do like Whedon's work but he's writing Loki much the way he wrote Caleb in S7 of Buffy. It's something he's comfortable with. The impression I get from Avengers is that he's autoing Loki so he can focus on the Avengers... which is my problem with most of S3 and S4 of Angel and S6 and S7 of BTVS. He's great at certain kinds of stories and characters but has a bad habit of chasing the things he finds shiny to the occasional detriment of the plot