When Thor: Ragnarok was greenlit, I wish I was in the room. To me, it felt like a successful pivot. It seems to me that Kevin Feige and his team at Marvel Studios did something the brass at the DCEU can never quite bring themselves to do — change things up.
Flip the script. And man, was Thor: Ragnarok different. The result? So, was the plan to do Ragnarok all along and have it be the rock concert director Taika Waititi churned out? Like sticking with the Russos to close out the Infinity saga, Waititi has been asked back to bring his particularly eclectic style of superhero storytelling for Thor: Love and Thunder. Sharp observation, Susan. You get full credit. Strange ends up in conversations about this question with Christine, Wanda and, finally, with Wong.
At the end of Spider-Man: Far From Home , Strange found himself atop the Statue of Liberty fending off beings who were trying to enter our world through a giant rip in the sky. That film took the more interesting approach of using multiple universes not as a source of danger, but as a mirror to look at your own life. Wanda, of course, took a look into alternate universes and saw herself happier there and would kill and destroy whatever was in her way to get to that happier life where she had children And who knows?
A brother again? Marvel has explored another human truth with Thor: Love and Thunder — the idea of choosing love. And it comes in many complicated forms, from choosing it when time is running out to choosing love when you are hell-bent on revenge. What Waititi does here better than in Ragnarok is explore these themes with a more balanced mix of drama and humor.
As much fun as Ragnarok was, it was really tough having a blast when Hela slaughtered the entire Asgardian army and eventually ALL of Asgard was destroyed, along with Odin, Hogun, Fandral, and Volstagg. Some of the jokes seemed hollow sharing the screen with such rampant good guy death. The film begins with Gorr a father and member of an unnamed, God-fearing race traveling across the desert carrying his daughter.
