#magne ragnarok

[loki-erlking]

3 days till season 3 of Ragnarok

[marsconer]

me vs the urge to write ragnarok fanfiction

[chillysbrainrot]

I just watched Ragnarok Season 3 and have some thoughts about it. Most of all, this is about Magne, and what I had in mind watching him throughout the series. Come scream at me with your own thoughts.

Keep in mind, this has some major spoilers of season 3.

Magne

I totally get him, I get why the writers had us living through everything and then just to end it without the huge fight everyone expected.

Magne himself: he is the lone, strange kid. Too big, too silent. Maybe he could be considered to be on the neurodiverse spectrum. He also struggles with being dyslexic and seems to be behind his peers. That alone makes him a pariah for most. Season 3 with the comics and Turid‘s speech made a lot of things clear. (Maybe Magne never really understood or worked through the death of his father Asbjorn. He had somehow to cope.) Magne used to flee into whatever he could to feel like he belongs, to escape reality and not feel „worthless/powerless“ all the time.

Turid: She wants to be helpful but can’t to seem understand either Magne or Laurits. The death of Asbjorn has forced her to be the sole provider for their family, she struggles with the problems they have and while she sees her children struggle, she doesn’t take the time needed to fully listen to them, thinking it’s just a phase most of the time we see her. It takes tragic accidents (and whatever really happened to Trym) for her to finally understand that something is really bad, that Magne needs help.

Isolde: She is an outsider herself, but it seems to be partially by choice. She is the one to see Magne, not his problems, but him, and really wants him to come out of his shell and learn to life. She sees him and he latched onto that, because for once someone doesn’t see the kid with problems but Magne as a human being. She seems to be the first.

Isolde‘s death: A major trigger. Magne began to feel human around Isolde and maybe blamed himself for her death because he was supposed to be with her. It also seemed to have triggered the episode of Magne falling back into the pseudo-reality he built to cope with the accident. The Jutuls were an easy target to blame.

Everyone against Magne: Teachers, the police, even his own mother seemed to be against him. Magne couldn’t understand the world anymore, He couldn’t understand why Isolde’s death wasn’t “as big of a deal” for everyone else as it had been for him. He felt betrayed by Erik especially because he was Isolde’s father and seemed to take it as it was. It didn’t make sense for him, because Isolde told him she was a good paraglider and why would she make the mistake to fly down in a thunderstorm? The police seemed to change their opinion again and again. He lashes out, flees into being Thor because then he could be strong, and look for the real reason.

Laurits seemed to be the first to understand that his brother really has some problems, and that he should stand with him (cue the Ran/Jutul-Parody). Laurits is also portrayed as hopping sides whenever Magne escalates because I think he is one of the few to call/disrupts Magne out of his parade/pseudo-reality

Police, Hospital and Medication: Magne visiting the psychiatrist and getting medication as a paranoid schizophrenic. Magne has lived through a traumatic experience with Isolde’s death and can’t seem to cope with it at all. They said he seemed to believe he needed to be a hero and to protect Edda from the evil of the Jutuls. He seemed to realize himself fleeing into the “Thor-identity” because he said: “I wasn’t myself” but fell right back into it. Did he ever take the medication, after the fight with Vidar, didn’t Turid ever force him to take it? Didn’t a doctor ever check in if Magne took his medication? Or did Magne already flee so far into this pseudo reality that he kept living it? (Maybe it is a major plothole)

Wench and Isolde’s words: Wench might be a bit strange, I would say she, while being a “strange old lady” somehow get’s Magne and means to be helpful to guid him along the way when others couldn’t. The vision of her turning to Isolde, saying she would always be with him (in his heart), is for me a step forward for him, because while he still seems to be trapped in his pseudo reality he starts to open up to others. The other gods come into play, Signy, and the other local kids. He becomes approachable but the war in his head is not over.

The other gods/friends: They became Magne’s friends along the journey but also fight with each other so often, or become strangers along the way again. Totally natural. Magne is more open to them, maybe even relates to them but a lot of it depends on his behavior. Whenever he seems to withdraw back into the “war in his head” he becomes unapproachable, even hurtful.

The Jutuls: They are, in his head, the enemy and source of all evil. An target to put his anger, instead to eat it up and let it fester. For him, they are at fault for everything bad that happens in Edda. Maybe they are for some of these: certainly a big company into mining rare resources has some skeletons in the closets.

Mjolnir: A power-fantasy. Magne felt useless, a loser. When everyone who was “hurt” by Jutul Industries turned him down on the rightful way, and people kept dying from the neglect by the Jutuls, he snapped and turned to the one thing that gave him power. It made him feel strong, but enstranged him to Signy and his brother, even the other gods/friends who at first enabled him to get stronger through it. It’s why it helped to have it at first. He had some sense of power because his friends helped him to believe in himself, he was strong, and didn’t need that “fantasy” for the time being. But when he felt helpless again? He needed that hammer, and needed to feel strong against the “Jutul threat”. Maybe he had a lawsuit that could stand in for the hammer, people certainly could be weary. The woman Magne found was the best example that Jutul Industries neglected their (former) workers. Maybe even after the death of the woman they had an ongoing lawsuit, up until it either got maybe dissolved, left for the time being or something else happened. Magne “lost” his weapon in the Fjord and the Jutuls had the hammer for a short moment, maybe the offered compensation in the “real world” and the family of the woman thought about accepting? Magne regained the hammer but got a reality check.

Wotan’s/Odin’s reality check: Wotan took Magne out of the escalating situation before more people could get hurt. He forced Magne to come back to himself and realize why he was behaving like he did. It is the point that finally brought Magne to himself, to understand while the death of Isolde, his fear to have disappointed her, it was what fed the pseudo reality into what it was festering into. That he needed to come back to the “real” world. It is why he, even if we expected the fight to happen, he finally let it go. He forgave himself, the Jutuls (to an extent), and let it, and symbolic the hammer with its power, go. Because, and that is why we see the fight in the pseudo-reality in the last episode, he has to move forward at some point, and not loose himself and the others forever.

Thor’s death: Thor needed to die for Magne to life. Magne finally found his way out, and realized that he had escaped into a wrong reality. Thor had to die, so Magne could become himself. He was a young man about to graduate from school, and had scared the girl he lived away with how he behaved. We are how Ragnarok plays out, how Thor does, but Magne lives and ends it with throwing the comics away. He no longer needs to flee reality and was ready to rebuild his relationship and strengthen those he made on his way to recovery.

Thor dies so Magne could life.

[themistymountainscold]

has anyone watched Ragnarök on Netflix?

please i just finsined s2 i need to talk about it whgfwihkfg

[oversharer-that-overshares]

I’ve finished watching season 3 of ragnarok netflix.

Kinda confusing ngl but it was nice

sTOP MISTREATING LAURITS GODDAMIT

Still not sold on Jens but he seems to be the only one on Laurits’ side (Turid doesn’t count bc she ends up being excluded and she deserved better tbh, i feel like she’s a more peaceful/less physically violent version of Sally Jackson bc somehow i’d believe Sally hitting someone but not Turid). Also how did they end up together??? Like. Jens just joined their hands at the wedding and that’s it, they’re boyfriends????? But ok, they’re cute and they trust each other

U know how to be gods they had to be awakened first? After the truce they went back to sleep at different times, but Magne couldn’t let go of the power, not again, until he realized that the moment of ragnarok was over, the timeline was off again so the giants vs gods went back to the beginning, and he could go back to being human, there are people who’d help him with the ptsd and the self-esteem and shit, and power already drove him mad once, he didn’t want it to happen again

[lokiodinson21]

Kind of spoilers for Rangnarok (netflix)

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Wow what a garbage end to an incredible show @netflix way to ruin Ragnarok. The end literally doesnt make any sense.

If you havent watched it yet and plan on watching it END ON EPISODE 5. 👎🏻

[thebvbbletea]

"This is it. The last battle between Gods and Giants"

— RAGNAROK Season 3 (August 24th)

[njutul]

...what was that ending- how did they just- pick up two whole seasons of setting everything up for a big show down and- turn it into a "well, nice allegory wasn't it?" in twenty minutes??? i- why- how- this feels like that ending of Harry Potter where he just wakes up under the staircase because he dreamt everything- THAT CAME OUT OF THE BLUE WHAT THE HELL

[multigaydom]

are you really telling me that after this whole climate oriented subplot of destroying the water supply and stuff, Magne won't recycle those comics?????

[loki-erlking]

1 DAY TILL SEASON 3 OF RAGNAROK!!!!!

[marsconer]

just started watching ragnarok. it’s GOOD. i like it.

[limerental]

I'm rewatching Netflix ragnarok and GOD the genderfluid queer freak mother of monsters morally grey trickster outcast loki of it all

[darkellaine]

Promoting Ragnarok Netflix because no one else does.

[midnottart]

Character study based on E01S01 of Ragnarok • Magne's and Laurits' faces are beautiful but hard to capture! Also from a sibling's perspective it's funny that they both sit at in the back of the car.

[zingiber-santi]

I call this one Magnes "Oh shit" moment

[m-adp-each]

by the way, the placement of personnel is very interesting.

have you noticed that combat is intertwined with "mundane" life? Moreover, some frames are similar to each other, I would even say that they have a continuation of each other (at least a shot of Ran).

what if this fight takes place in another dimension, while in reality everything is different?

... just imagine how they run around the field, fighting with wooden sticks and arguing who hit whom first.....