How did I not know this was in the works?

I am warily hopeful about it. The few images I've seen LOOK gorgeous. I'm just hoping they don't give her a tragic backstory to make her "more relatable". She's an evil fairy sorceress, keep her that way! It doesn't lessen her appeal!

I'm just hoping they don't give her a tragic backstory to make her "more relatable".

Wrod. Let evil be evil. Sometimes you just need to crush your enemies beneath your feet.

Sleeping Beauty.

I wonder if I'll ever catch up on that segment of pop culture.

But however else will you appreciate "Disney Princesses as Hipster Superhero Manatee Zombies"?

I'm just hoping they don't give her a tragic backstory to make her "more relatable". She's an evil fairy sorceress, keep her that way!

I'm relating to her now! As an evil fairy sorceress! Let evil be evil.

I'm just hoping they don't give her a tragic backstory to make her "more relatable".

As long as you are prepared for possible disappointment, because this seems very likely.

Yeah, I don't see any way that doesn't happen. It's Disney, and it exists in a post-Wicked world.

I know, I know, but I still have that tiny spark of hope. She's evil! She has awesome minions, not a tragic backstory, dammit!

What if her tragic backstory is that when she was younger, her minions weren't awesome enough, and she had to become an evil fairy sorceress to attract sufficiently awesome minions?

So I saw Thor 2 yesterday. I kind of get where Sean is coming from: some of the decision-making was a bit of a stretch.

For instance: Why did Odin insist on not removing Jane from Asgard? He's portrayed as a wise man in the first movie, but that decision, even influenced by his anger and grief, makes no sense.

Also, Jane and Erik's realization of what Malekith was doing just... well, it was kind of pulled out of a hat. How could they know exactly what he was going to do, and where? All of the dialogue there was just complete gobbledygook. Felt like the end of the first Star Trek reboot movie.

I also noticed a bit of an editing screwup in the big final fight scene. In one clip, Jane runs off down the stairs and Erik runs after her, shouting, "Jane, no!" or something like that, as if she's come up with an idea that's dangerous and wants to pursue it. In the next clip, Thor shows up and Jane and Erik approach him as if they had nothing else on their minds. It's a bit odd, as if something had been edited out there late in the process.

That said, I disagree with you, Sean, about Darcy and Ian. I do think that it's ludicrous for saving someone's life to mean you get to kiss them, but in this instance the instigator of the kissing was clearly Darcy. As shown by the way that she was bending him over when the others arrived. I thought that was a nice twist on the trope. And, really, they needed to give Darcy something to do, after all...

I'm a bit confused about Loki's switcheroo with Odin. I was sure Loki wasn't going to die, but it occurs to me to wonder if he had one of those things the Cursed was using. Also, what did he do with Odin? He wouldn't have killed his mother, but he seems to have no such warm feelings for his father. If he killed him, would no one notice? That seems unlikely.

Also, I found it unlikely that Thor never tried to recover his body. It's the sort of thing Thor would do: go to great lengths to bring Loki's body back to Asgard to be burned at sea like Frigga and the other warriors. True, they had little time, but there was that sequence where he and Jane got back to Earth through the anomaly and then to Asgard: he could have gone for the body then.

All that said, I rather enjoyed it: loved Cap's cameo, the bits of humor, seeing a lot more of Asgard, Heimdall being awesome, Sif being awesome, Frigga being tough, and Jane having something to do.

I will wonder how Asgard will react to having Loki on the throne, and how long it will be before anyone realizes it...