Best Spies!! The Duo We Never Got But I Wish We Did

Best spies!! The duo we never got but i wish we did 🥲

Totally random situation where Loki and Natasha go to a fancy party undercover to steal a USB.

Fav siblings!!

Somewhere in the royal library.

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so sorry for not talking much at all about goldi and the bears (I love them also I just didn't have too many observations people hadn't already made!) but this is one I haven't seen anyone mention so hopefully I'm pointing out something interesting?

The story that Goldi opens to in the book of fairy tales isn't just a random traditional fairytale. It's a wholly unique block of text to the movie. It's the tail end of a story in which a "proper family" is described having a snowball fight. I believe this text gives us a lot of insight into Goldi's character motivation.

The text is a bit hard to read so here is a transcript (its a bit long so the rest of this post is under a readmore, there is more analysis here too)

Year round, the old park was the most popular place for this proper family to walk on through and take in the beautiful sights on their return home. It was also quite understandably the most proper place for a young girl to make the perfect snow angel, build a quick snowman, or throw a few snowballs from behind the dense leaves of frosted maple trees. The father was no stranger to snowball fights. He relished every opportunity, in fact, to remind his family of his many past victories. Every snowball that he made was shaped with great care and purpose. However, all his best efforts would be for not. For the little girl, tired of battles lost, was determined to claim her first victory on this winter afternoon. It was the naive youth against the experienced adult. The mother laughed as the little girl struck her father square in the bum with her fastest snowball yet. A flurry of powdered attacks followed, overwhelming the veteran snowball soldier. Laying still on the very snow he once dominated, the father now knew his reign was over. It was an exciting moment. The little girl began to celebrate. Hoisted up onto her father's ice covered shoulders, the little girl looked at her mother and shared a smile. At that moment, they knew everything was just right… … and they lived happily ever after.

Knowing this little detail adds a lot of depth to our understanding, here. She wasn't just projecting onto a random fairytale family she read about in a story, wishing to be some little girl whose life she saw as perfect due to having "normal" biological parents. She was being told by this story from a young and impressionable age that families look a certain way, and as a result, she came away with the understanding that a family could be wrong too. And considering her catchphrase and arguably, some of her behavior could be attributed to her trying to emulate this story, it seems like she has always been trying to make her life fit into this mold that was never quite working out.

And that's where I think the animosity between Baby and Goldi comes in.

It's easy to see, watching the film, where Baby might have gotten his dislike of Goldi from. From the moment she first appeared she stole his bed and his food, and in reaction his parents adopted her and treated her like she did no wrong. Papa also seems keen on joining in insulting Baby often in this movie, while there's rarely a bad word said towards Goldi. That apparent favoritism is a perfect recipe for sibling rivalry. But lets be real, Goldi's attitude towards Baby is incredibly demeaning, even for a sibling rivalry. Not to say that Baby doesn't dish out his own deep-cutting insults, and it seems like the family overall has a kind of playful-ribbing type of relationship. But Goldi most consistently tells Baby that he is only useful, only cared for, when his primary skill - his sense of smell - is being used in her service. Like he's less so her brother than he is her underling.

But this book gives us a more solid reason as to why Goldi is so cruel to Baby, and that is that the "proper family".... does not have a brother. It is not only the bears being bears, but Baby's mere presence which disrupts the idealized image of a single-child family that Goldi has been desperately trying to fit her life to. So she becomes bitter towards him, pushing him down at every chance, attempts to micromanage him the most out of everyone.

That's why its so important that she specifically saves Baby instead of making her wish in the end. Its not only her abandoning the idea of a proper family, its her finally giving Baby a space in her heart which she denied him for a long time.

an in-depth analysis of the sylki kiss

i rewatched this scene last night and i am still not over it. for many reasons. so here’s a little breakdown of why this scene absolutely destroys me.

the amount of pain that both of these characters are in before this moment is insane. as hard as he’s trying, loki can’t get sylvie, the one person he cares about more than anything, to see that he’s trying to protect her. she can’t see anything but red. her mind is completely consumed by the fact that the opportunity she has waited for her whole life is right in front of her. she craves revenge on the people that stole her life from her more than anything.

loki trying to stop her from getting this revenge is the ultimate betrayal. she immediately sees it as him being selfish because she’s never been given a reason to believe that people can be anything else. they fight and fight and he pleads with her the entire way. his heartbroken “sylvie… sylvie…” and “no!” absolutely murder me. the only thing that finally makes her pause is him literally throwing himself in front of her blade and dropping his own. she finally recognizes in that moment that he really truly cares for her. 

is it enough to completely stop her? absolutely not. she has spent her entire life fighting for the right to merely exist. this one selfless act isn’t enough to make her forget all of that. but it is enough to get her to allow herself this beautiful moment where she bares her entire heart and soul to him.

the kiss. the most emotion-filled act in the entire series. she initiates it, and the look on her face says it all. it’s a mix of confusion, sadness, joy, and loss all at once. she is hanging onto this moment as long as she can because she knows what she’s about to have to do to see her plan through.

loki, on the other hand, has no idea. relief is really the only thing written across his tear-stained face as their lips meet. he thinks that she finally believes and trusts him and his intentions. he thinks the nightmare is finally over.

(by the way, my favorite part about this whole scene is the music. even for anyone who isn’t a music nerd like me, the crescendo in the music as they kiss heightens the emotion in a truly breathtaking way. but it does hint at what’s to come. although it is a beautiful theme, it is still in a haunting minor key and therefore lends to the idea that this kiss doesn’t mean a happy ever after is soon to follow.)

when they finally break apart, loki is still gazing at her like she’s the only thing that matters in the entire universe. he doesn’t notice her grab the tempad from the desk behind them. she pushes him through a time door. he rushes back toward it but doesn’t make it before it closes. all he can do then is collapse to the ground in despair. he wanted more than anything to be able to keep his promise to sylvie that he wouldn’t betray her, but because of her choices, he couldn’t. and look where it got him. he allows himself a few moments to grieve but then stands with new purpose. he needs to find mobius, fix all of this, and get sylvie back. maybe he can still fix this right? but of course he soon discovers that’s going to be easier said than done.

sylvie doesn’t allow herself time to process what she’s done until after she has pushed her sword deep into kang’s chest. then the gravity of her decisions hit hard. she falls to the ground in tears. she’s truly alone for the first time since she met loki, and though she was used to it before, she isn’t anymore. she knows immediately that she messed up. not because she just destroyed every bit of order in the universe that ever existed, but because she pushed away the one person she could rely on, the one person that cares about her more than anything.

so now we have our two heroes(?) ripped apart from each other and lost in a now-infinite multiverse. literally anything could happen from here. so season two is definitely bound to be interesting. i know that the whole fandom is split on how happy or unhappy they were with the season one finale, and completely divided about what they want to happen next. but we do have this quote from the amazing tom hiddleston about how he expects the next season to go:

“i don’t think he will stop searching for sylvie now. he feels that this is something he has done, a mistake that he has made, and he’s invested in setting it right.”

okay wow. not only does this scream sylki, but also does anyone else notice the character growth here? what happened in the season one finale is literally the furthest thing from loki’s fault. he tried everything in his power to stop sylvie from making this massive mistake. but still he blames himself! so now not only does he have to process the grief from the tragedy that befell him and his star-crossed love, but he also has to deal with all of the guilt and responsibility that comes with it. and just like sylvie, he is completely alone, stuck in a timeline where mobius doesn’t even know who he is.

so in summary, hey marvel, if you could maybe give our boy a break here soon that would be awesome. he and sylvie deserve to be happy together! please! thanks!

cackles

i like to think they finally get married…. at some point