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IfGodCouldDie posted...
And just for clarifications sake, I don't consider any of your opinions to be wrong. I just think we look at things differently. Like I don't really hold fiction to a very high standard and it really take a lot of egregious mistakes for me to really criticize things that a franchise might be doing. When I see flaws in characters or their development I see it more as a humanizing quality because I constantly see people that are trying to better themselves fall back and make mistakes. I also see very smart people make stupid mistakes so again when I see that in fiction it comes across to me as much more natural than others do.

I think that's totally a fair way to watch things. My frustrations weren't even in Loki changing as a personality so much as dumbing down as a being, and I think my sticking point is that the scope of the games Loki has been shown to play are equivalent to the time-nonsense. Loki can be good - but he shouldn't lose his ability to play the game, if that makes sense. He certainly should have seen a lot of things coming, or been able to respond to them more swiftly. I'd rather engage on this discussion anyways, IfGod! Planets or dimensions, the intellect of Loki is a defining positive characteristic for the character, and to lost that I think loses the bite of the character.

And for you, IfGod - I wasn't indemnifying stepfamilies. I've never been great at communicating my points, but I was trying to show a similarity in lack of context in "the realms are planets, therefore Loki isn't that impressive" to "Laufey is the real father, therefore the relationship with Odin is irrelevant." Clearly, didn't communicate it well to you, so I'll apologize. Not my intent to actually upset you, since it seems I did? I was trying to be equally as facetious since it would take an absolute monster to actually think that being a stepfather, stepchild, etc is somehow inferior to blood relationships. But apparently Chris thinks that lowly of me, so I guess I've never demonstrated myself to be more than a shitty human being. Thanks, Chris!

EDIT: Post won't format right on my phone for whatever reason.