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The Tesseract or, your brother’s head. I assume you have a preference.

Just checking btw: you all realize, right? That Loki was never choosing the Tesseract over Thor. He was hoping to appear ruthless and loyal to Thanos long enough that Thanos would spare Thor and they could go off together, him quietly plotting Thanos’s death, while Thor escaped.

But Thanos is a master manipulator and abuser, and he called Loki’s bluff. Which Loki figured was probably what would happen, but it was worth a try.

That’s why Loki said “ALRIGHT, stop.” As in, alright, you got me, you figured out my ruse.

I’m just worried people will somehow think Loki was actually going to ever let Thor die. He wasn’t. He was just hoping at first for a way to spare both their lives without resorting to desperate measures.

lokiloveforever:

foundlingmother:

jackpittgregor:

makerofrunevests:

Co-director Joe Russo says Thanos ultimately murders Loki “for disobedience.“

“Remember, he [Thanos] had a relationship with Loki, even if it was
off-screen where he entrusted him with a duty in ‘Avengers 1’ and Loki
failed,” pointed out “Infinity War” screenwriter Stephen McFeely.

“He’s [Thanos] making him [Loki] pay,” added Joe Russo.

“Thanos has a long memory,” McFeely concluded.

Except that they didn’t write it that way. It wasn’t Thanos that said ‘hey, I’m going to kill you for failing me years ago. Instead they wrote a scene that basically had the bad guys preparing to leave and they made Loki interrupt them so Thanos could kill him.

The entire beginning scene was just written horribly. A battle obviously had just taken place and they had lost. Dead asgardians all over. Yet HULK is supposed to be a surprise move. You expect me to believe that he was hiding behind a rock while all the asgardians died waiting for loki to say ‘we have a hulk’. That Heimdall is going to waste the very last of his magic to send a guy he just met out of harms way and not use it for one of the prince’s he’s known for over a thousand years? That Loki is going to DROP the tesseract instead of using it to transport him and Thor the hell out of there? That Loki with all his power, magic, tricks is going to try and kill Thanos face to face with a little dagger.

Those first five minutes definitely set the tone for the movie, it told me that the Russo brothers don’t give two shits about continuity or staying true to their characters. They are a ‘I need to get from point a to point b so I’m going to have characters do OC shit and make things happen that don’t make sense in the universe I’ve created so I can get to the outcome I want.’ type of writer and they suck. They couldn’t even bother to look up how old Thor is.

Here’s an idea: Have the characters with a relationship to Thanos be important to the fucking plot. The audience will be far more invested in that then whatever you’re doing where Thanos ~knows~ Tony. Nothing against Tony–I like him–but honestly they had Loki and Gamora and Nebula and instead of making them vital to defeating Thanos, they decided to force this connection between characters that do not have one, and kill and/or under use those who had that established connection.

It’s bad bad bad bad bad bad bad (I cannot possibly write enough bads) writing.

Infinity War is extremely poor storytelling with predictable, meaningless deaths, several of which are unnecessarily brutal in their depiction (to the point that they’re legit triggering) and are the catalyst for a whole lot of screen time dedicated to the manpain of other characters (Thor, Thanos, and Quill).

I was thinking they were probably just going drop the whole story where Loki was concerned,like what happened when he fell from the bifrost, how did Thanos get ahold of him, him being tortured and threatened, ect. and go on and act like none of that ever mattered or was important. It’s like Marvel is trying to give all the motivation to the Avengers, and they want all the attention on them. Nothing against the Avengers, but Marvel starts stories and doesn’t finish them. Loki started out having a major role in this, and now he’s not even there. I knew when they showed Banner telling Tony and Strange that it was Thanos behind Loki’s attack on New York, that that was probably the only time it will ever be mentioned.