#urgh all these bitter feelings about a film that's not even out yet xD

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Misgivings for Infinity War...

Having read a few theories and turned my brain over trying to figure if the trailers are a massive red herring or not, I guess what i’m most afraid for Infinity War at the moment, aside all the death, is that they’re going to undo all of Thor: Ragnarok’s fine work. So obvious declaration, I really liked the movie. 

We see Thor’s more vulnerable and happy-go-lucky side, he becomes so much more than this kind of stoic and stuck-up God just there in the background to bash things with Mjolnir. Confession: So before Ragnarok for me personally Thor was a character who was just kind of there - Loki was always a much more compelling character to watch. But Ragnarok changed that - things actually hurt Thor - and it’s not even necessarily physically. He loses his father, his hammer, his cape and his hair. So we’re seeing Thor without the pomp, seeing his journey trying to negotiate this new world where his identity and autonomy have been stripped from him.

We get more development on Bruce and the Hulk, and how it hurts Hulk to think that humans don’t like him and that he’s not wanted on Earth. We see a Hulk who remains in control, is self-reflexive and an almost child-like glee to him - he speaks, he has emotions, Hulk and Bruce share the same insecurity that they’re not as loved as the other half, or that they’re not as valued as the other Avengers. 

Loki as well begins to explore ‘turning over a new leaf’ as it were, to consider the possibility that if he wants to he can, as Thor says, be more - and that maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Take the one scene in the lift where we see actual emotion from him, that when faced with the prospect of being let go and never seeing Thor again, it saddens him. Loki finishes the film by Thor’s side - still the God of Mischief and a little shit, but with the opportunity for a new beginning, even when that means returning to Earth.

And finally after all their trials Asgardians are left as a refugee camp searching for a new home - but it doesn’t matter where they are, Asgard is a people with Thor as King and with friends/family by his side. Ragnarok is a film with an incredibly hopeful ending.

So now what I am terribly afraid Infinity War is going to do is just shit on Ragnarok within the first five minutes of the film by killing all of the Asgardians - probably along with the wonderful Valkyrie and Heimdall (who I’ll miss sorely) - rendering them pretty much extinct. Loki seems to be either dying straight away after one bold choice or just doing a 180 out of nowhere and allying with the enemy (perhaps worse), meanwhile allowing Thor to return to a more serious, stuffy and godly character.

I do hope I’m wrong, if that happened it would be like a massive kick in the teeth.