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You know, another thing that struck me about Thor: Ragnarok, and this is something I was suspicious and concerned about since long before the film actually came out, just from the news we were hearing about it at the time, and which was horribly confirmed when it actually was released, was that in all the reviews for the film (and I read dozens of reviews), I realized it was the first Marvel film, and certainly the first Thor film, that Loki had appeared in, in which he goes almost totally unmentioned in the reviews.  And across the board, if he was mentioned at all, it’s the first time we don’t see the critics praising Tom Hiddelston’s performance, or talking about how Loki is a more interesting character than Thor.  I knew that was going to happen, because the director kept making it a point, really, shoving in down people’s throats in interviews, that this was going to be “Thor’s film”, that Thor was going to be made front and center.  As if he wasn’t front and center in the last two THOR films, and gee and wow, Loki just happened to be a more powerful and impactful character, despite his far lesser screen time.  I knew the second I heard that, that Taika Waititi’s solution to the Thor problem would be to aggressively make Loki seem inferior to Thor, despite the fact that it would utterly ignore and even destroy previously established characterization for BOTH of them.  Talk about uncreative, lazy writing.  There’s a reason Tom Hiddleston and Loki don’t get even a fraction of the attention each was given in the previous reviews of the first two films, and also even The Avengers film.  It’s because Waititi purposefully wrote a character who was both insignificant and flimsy, who was emasculated and idiotic.  Basically, a character who had nothing whatever to do with the Loki of the first films.  And yet I still see people trying to claim Loki progressed as a character, that he grew, etc…  LOL, no.  It was total character assassination is what it was, because Taika Waititi’s ass had a very real agenda in wanting to steal the spot light from Tom Hiddleston and give it to Chris Hemsworth.  And I guess he succeeded, because again, look back over reviews of this film, and compare them to reviews of “Thor” and “Thor: The Dark World”, and notice the absolutely glaring difference in regards to Loki and how he’s perceived.  In reviews for the first two films, Loki absolutely captivates the critics, many of them talking about how he’s the most interesting and complex character in the whole MCU.  In reviews of Ragnarok, he’s either not mentioned at all, or he’s mentioned as being a wasted opportunity and inconsequential to the plot and story.  That was purposeful on the director’s part.  I absolutely know it was.