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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Off-topic but fucking hell I think I actually hate everything about TBBT. It basically slots right into that category of unwatchably bad and obnoxious sitcoms for me that's also occupied by Family Guy and How I Met Your Mother. There may or may not be a pattern here.
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)Eh, I agree that the Peggy romance took a nosedive with Endgame, this Medium article
articulates pretty well why it failed when previous films worked.
It mainly boils down to Peggy has no dialogue and thus not even a sliver of any kind of agency, making her a prop for Steve's arc and it's difficult to actually intuit what she makes of his choice, where before she had a very clear defined character.
If you want to watch a show that deliberately avoids the Asian male stereotype, watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. One creator (Rachel Bloom) stated that she had never seen the type of Asian men she knew in real life on TV — so she made one. Josh Chan in the show is an "Asian bro" and the main love interest to the main character.
> the Asgardians were reincarnated into human bodies and Thor had to travel the world and find them.
I'm not so keen on this,maybe its just the part of me that hates physical gods but I'd rather he survive somehow with a new identity rather then "He actually a god so he can't die"
have a listen and have a link to my discord server"Its also a regular source of humor how effeminate he is & the other guys making fun of him for it.
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That is because being produce by chuch lorre from two and half men, Raj and early seasion Howard were pretty much Alan harper, the quintasencial weak, overly effimate and mockable guy.
"until it got Flanderized to the point of ridiculousness in Endgame"
I havent seen endgame, but it was also there in civil war, specially by kissing Peggy niece, there wasnt any way to not see that as anything but creepy.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"Heimdall, with very careful wording, lets the Warriors Three in Thor 1 use the Bifrost against Loki's wishes, then waits for Loki to fire him before he tries to take him down himself.
In Ragnarok, he leads the resistance against Hela, rescuing civilians and keeps his sword, key to the Bifrost, out of her reach.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Aug 14th 2019 at 4:28:32 AM
No no, I love that Heimdall commits treason.
Thor: Heimdall helps Thor go to Jotunheim, doesn’t tell Odin, then sends the warriors three to get Thor, then tries to attack Loki, the current ruler, with his fuckass giant sword which Loki only stops by freezing him in place.
Thor: The Dark World: Joins Thor’s plot to save Jane, then calls Odin out to the Bifrost so he’s away from the palace when Thor frees Loki and escapes with Jane.
Thor: Ragnarok: Abandons his post under King Odin (Loki in disguise), hides in the woods until Queen Hela arrives, then helps people escape from Hela and shelters them, helps bring Thor back to overthrow her, and fights her army.
So he commits treason against Odin twice, Loki twice, and Hela once. God bless him he’s great.
I fail to see how Hela could be the rightful heir considering her father disowned her by locking her up inside a Pocket Dimension for the rest of time.
Besides, I think the actual line of dialogue from Thor is "you have a claim to the throne".
A weaker claim than either his or Loki's considering neither was exiled to the middle of Das Bumfuck or whatever that place is supposed to be called.
Edited by HailMuffins on Aug 14th 2019 at 8:40:22 AM
It was Loki disguised as Odin residing as Asgard's king then, and even then Odin's proved many a time to be a kind of shitty person and king, so one could hardly blame Heimdall for giving him the slip, even if he didn't know everything about them.
Self-serious autistic trans gal who loves rock/metal and animation with all her heart. (she/her)> I fail to see how Hela could be the rightful heir considering her father disowned her by locking her up inside a Pocket Dimension for the rest of time.
It really doesn't matter that she was exiled,she came back to claim the throne because she had a strong claim being a blood relative (the laws of succession typically make their children have the strongest claim above all else)
Edited by Ultimatum on Aug 14th 2019 at 11:43:45 AM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverHela's claim to the throne is legitimate, and in a way stronger than Thor's. Thematically, it's meant to tie in with how her power is drawn directly from Asgard. Thor realizes Hela can't be separated from Asgard, anymore than it can separate from its own imperialist past, so he has to settle for destroying both.

I remember watching a video critique of the toxic ideas of masculinity in The Big Bang Theory & it pointed out that Raj the only Asian member of the cast was unable to find an ongoing love interest even long after the rest of the boys (all white) settled down and got married.
Its also a regular source of humor how effeminate he is & the other guys making fun of him for it.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."