This is hysterical: modified unicycles set to thrash
So there is a football coach at unl who spoke in Omaha against some sort of anti-discrimination-thing that would cover gays and transexuals. One of my friends on facebook (a male version of liberal college girl) posted a link to a petition to get him fired. On this link, someone commented "I read this article the other day. The fact that he thinks this way disgusts me!" Without knowing anything else about the story, I thought that there was something seriously wrong with the public discourse if having different (and wrong) opinions is enough to disgust someone.
I mean, Mountain Dew provokes an actual physical rejection but I wouldn't say that the fact that people drink it *disgusts* me. I don't actually know what it means to be disgusted by someone's opinion. Are you actually physically nauseous?
(It turns out that the coach had started his testimony by mentioning his position as a coach at UNL, which is in violation of the university's ethics code. But the problem I want to talk about is the way we react to each other, not one isolated bigot.)
I agree with both of you in a way.
Thor didn't spend nearly enough time fighting in the movie, and in basically every fight he was in, he kicked ass. There was a definite notable lack of tension in the movie on account of that.
That's actually the biggest problem I have with these comic book movies. The protagonist is rarely ever shown struggling to win a fight. The difficulty always lies in the antagonist being smart enough to take advantage of some foil the hero has (Superman's kryptonite, Batman's dumbass refusal to kill, Iron Man having a second rate reactor, etc etc).
It'd be nice to see Superman struggle because the other guy is stronger, or to see Batman struggle because the other guy is a better martial artist.
I'm hoping in the Avengers movie we see some of that.
Thor being weaker than Enemy X though isn't crucial to the plot. The main thing that Thor comes to realize is that his boundless power is useless without a moral counterbalance, and that pure warmongering is beneath the future king of the gods. The other lesson he learns is sacrifice. Thor puts the race of giants above his own personal happiness because he's realized that being a badass only matters if you have some greater ethics.
Having Loki pose as anything other than an opportunist or another opponent above Thor would have been pointless because Thor's growth is in realizing he can be strong and wise at the same time. Unlike other superheroes who have problems fitting in, self-doubt, or are hiding terrible secrets from others, Thor is relatively straight-forward. He kicks ass. And the origin movie is about him learning that he has to do more than kick ass to be a good person.
Also, Thor is already the strongest Avenger in the line up. Might as well establish that early on. It's not like anyone other than Odin can beat his ass at this point.
Originally posted by Stealth MooseOf course, but it's a comic book movie. Good action is basically a pre-requisite, plottage aside.
Thor being weaker than Enemy X though isn't crucial to the plot.
Also, Huk strongest there is. 313
edit- Funnily enough, the trailers for the movie show Thor jobbing a lot. Getting smacked around by Iron Man, not insta-killing Cap, Hulk being hyper awesome in every ****ing scene. etc