oh, of course...

I was having a discussion on CBR and it led me to finally realize what the whole unworthyness thing in Thor is probably all about. You know how FUCKED UP it was that Thor’s worthy was a measure of what his father (via magic hammer) thought of him? Who cares if he’s unworthy if all it meant was that daddy approved? I don’t care if he’s king of the gods, Odin being his father doesn’t mean he gets to decide what is right for Thor. Thor is better than Odin, he’s demonstrated this countless times. I get that it was a teach him a lesson thing, preparing him for the throne. But that lesson has been learned, and  Odin’s an ass, he should not be setting moral standards for other people.

The sub plot  with the resurrection of Laufey and how he interacts with Loki makes a ton more sense now, too. i mean, I liked that scene, I just didn’t quite see why it was necessary to resurrect Loki’s long dead father from a storytelling perspective, but I get it now. It’s there to reinforce the point with Thor. If Loki met Laufey’s expectations and made him proud, Loki would end up being a worse villain then he ever was before. Getting Laufey’s approval would include murder for pleasure, rape, and other such nastyness,  and all done to be as brutal and cruel as possible. Meeting Laufey’s expectations would be an objectively terrible thing. And not only that, Loki is torn between two fathers, so… which one is he supposed to choose? The flat out evil one, or the one who never seems to approve of him no matter what he does? So Loki flat out says that he makes his own rules, fuck Laufey and Odin both. Loki still probably will never exactly be the best person in the world. But he’s better than he would be if he met Laufey’s expectations, or continued to try and fail to meet Odin’s, leading right back to bitterness and jealousy. So Loki finally has it figured out, now it’s just up to his brother to do the same.

Now, Odin is no Laufey, i get that. But he’s been a complete ass recently, and is obviously stuck way in the past, not exactly demonstrating to those around him that his ways are good ones to follow. Yet he is the one who set the enchantment on Mjolnir, set the rules for what it means to be ‘worthy’ at least initially. Those rules have obviously changed, as demonstrated by Odin’s inability to lift the hammer. They have probably evolved to be Thor’s OWN ideals, he just never realized it yet, and whatever Fury said shook his own sense of self-worth. He can’t pick up the hammer because he’s been made  to feel he’s betrayed his own ideals. Hence why it called out to Jane of all people in the world, who would Thor himself trust more than her? But he has to go through this bout of unworthyness in order to demonstrate all this, and show that his worth comes from within, that he is a good person just because he is not because he is meeting Odin’s expectations.

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