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Inviso posted...

Late to the party, but I'd like to highlight this post and my agreement with it. There's a reason why we look at movies like Signs and the War of the Worlds remake, and find their endings laughable. The idea of an alien species that is capable of interstellar travel and just a general ability to make a laughing stock out of humanity through their technological superiority...only to get beaten because they didn't realize that germs and fucking WATER were their weakness. When you establish a character like Loki as particularly intelligent and cunning...I don't care what new dimension you send them to, or how overwhelmingly intelligent the people there are (or planet, as the case may be, since different planets and different dimensions have the same connotations from the standpoint of fictional storytelling), that doesn't suddenly sap Loki's intelligence to that of a simpering moron. He's still intelligent, even if he's facing other characters perhaps capable of demonstrating greater intelligence...and admittedly, it's like the writers of Loki decided to neglect his intelligence in favor of a general concept of Loki being charismatic and witty.

Like I agree with this to an extent but at the same time I think it completely ignores the fact that Loki's understanding of the universe and time has been completely shattered and flipped upside down.(and it is the shattering of his understanding of both those things that lends credence to him not being at his peak.)