#punkpeche

[akajustmerry]

hi Merry, I’ve been following your blog for a while and I love your thoughts on tv and film. I saw Thor Love nd Thunder recently, and I read your review of it (great piece btw) and I was wondering what your thoughts were on the decision to kill Jane at the end of the movie? personally, I felt like it came out of nowhere and I hated it

hello! thank you 🥰

look, i'll be upfront with you on this one, I've never been a jane foster fan (or a natalie portman fan). i don't hate her or anything, i simply don't find her to be a particularly interesting or compelling character. largely because she's the sort of character things happen to, rather than the type to make things happen.

i did appreciate that love and thunder finally gave her a more active role than what she'd had in the past, but i still personally find "lady versions" of any typically male character to be extremely condescending. and.....this was no different. also to dangle the concept of a "lady thor" in front of people that do care about it only for her to die is disappointing.

again i am not a jane fan by any means but i also felt the cancer plotline and the way it was handled was just..........cliched to say the least and out of nowhere, for sure! i know its in the comics, but in the mcu it's been 10 years since we the audience have even seen jane on screen. to make like she'd been at the forefront of thor's mind this whole time felt unearned. especially, when val is right there.

i couldn't write any of this in my review, but what i will say is that I thought the focus on jane was VERY white feminist which is especially insane since val is literally king of asgard. They can't even give her a NAME in canon because god forbid we take the focus off a palatable white woman being empowered!. a powerful asgardian warrior woman has been by thor's side as his equal since thor ragnarok. but i guess valkyrie wasn't white enough.

as for the dying itself?? i think its justified enough in the narrative in a convoluted and condescending way. Still, ultimately it's very on-brand of the mcu to literally just dangle the concept of women being important in front of you before killing/sidelining her. they've done it to every single woman in the mcu. even the one's lucky enough to get solo films/series.

in short, i hated it too, but as someone who doesn't like jane i never expected to like it so 🤷🏽 i hope tessa moves on from this franchise. she's absolutely wasted and disrespected.

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[whimsyprinx]

@punkpeche nonononononoNO please no,,, keep me out of that

it has been a little over an hour,,

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@punkpeche 👀👀👀

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i look up what a vegetable placenta is hoping for answers and the only answer I get is “the placenta obtained from a plant” like gee thanks

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@punkpeche the tiktok??? Yes,,, please god tell me you haven’t seen it in the wild

the way this was meant to be seen by three friends