Ive Been Thinking About This Line A Lot. And Im Not Sure Its Given All The Credit It Deserves. It Is

I’ve been thinking about this line a lot. And I’m not sure it’s given all the credit it deserves. It is well overshadowed by Thor’s immediate response (”surrender’s not in mine”), and by the line that steals this whole scene: “Trust my rage.” 

But there’s something about this line that gets me, and I think it’s because it is probably the truest thing Loki has ever said about himself. 

Loki, as we well know, is a master of avoiding his own problems, or else manipulating them to look like everyone else’s. He has told himself so many lies that he has begun to believe them: that he is hated, that he is alone, that he will never be anything but Loki. Frigga even points this out: “Always so perceptive, about everyone but yourself”. Loki can read everyone else, but when it comes to reading himself? Oh, Hel no. Those are dangerous waters, and he would rather not drown there. 

And that’s why this line is so surprising and just so good. The fact that Loki is never satisfied is, when you think about it, pretty much the root of all his problems (at least ones that he can control). As a child and young adult, he appears to have mastered magic, but that was never enough, because it wasn’t like Thor, it wasn’t what Asgard wanted, it wasn’t what Odin wanted (or so he thought). He wants to be Thor’s equal, little realising that in many ways he is, but that, too, is not enough. He tries to be Thor, and is never satisfied. He tries to be Loki, and is never satisfied. He goes out of his way to prove himself to his family, and still he craves more. And so it escalates. A throne. A planet. He keeps reaching and reaching, oblivious to the fact that whilst he is grasping for the mountain’s peak, the rocks beneath him are slipping away. 

And now we come to Ragnarok, and Loki has what he claims he has always wanted: the throne. A chance to rule. And I don’t think for a moment it is what he expects. Because once he has something, it no longer fulfills him; and he is stuck without a family, bearing the weight of the kingship, and I’m nintey-nine percent sure all he can do is sit there thinking ‘Well. Now what?’

And this is why happiness is so foreign to Loki, and always will be, and why he has doomed himself: for contentment, he must learn to settle, and because he is Loki, he will never settle. And so the cycle continues, and he proves time and time again that Loki’s worst enemy will always be Loki. 

Sebastian’s ET interview: A summary

can we just talk about Sebastian Stan....

just for a moment…

how he plays with his lips when thinking of answers for interviews…

or licks his lips….

or bites them for fuck sakes….

his adorable laugh, the one when he laughs with his whole body…

and if he throws in a lip lick at the same time because he’s trying to kill us all…

the fact that he geeks out at fans geeking out at him…

his Loreal moment on the set of civil war…

when he had a photoshoot with a giant stuff wolf ball and was totally into it…

the time he got really into the game before it even began on Fallon….

and then got so into it that he accidentally drank the beer and decided to spit it back in the cup….

which Jimmy had to drink and he was kind of apologetic about….

at least he hugged Jimmy afterwards….

and then there’s his friendship with Chris Evans… 

the two dorks….

and his friendship with Anthony Mackie…

I could watch them snark back and forth for hours…

and then you get the three of them together and it’s just magic….

love it!

and in case you forgot there’s this body under those close….

and he knows it!

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Sebastian Stan

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