{"id":4104,"date":"2023-08-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=4104"},"modified":"2023-09-02T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:54:20","slug":"blog-thor-5-please-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=4104","title":{"rendered":"[BLOG] Thor 5?  Please&#8230; no&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" style=\"font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/www.somethingcast.com\/episodes\/RobBlog825.mp3\">Audio Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey all, PCR here.<\/p>\n<p>So.. there interwebs are starting to bustle with an interview director Taika Waititi gave regarding what he&#8217;d do for Thor 5.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s be clear, Thor 5 isn&#8217;t green lit, and after Love and Thunder, likely (hopefully) *won&#8217;t* be green lit, and if it does, I hope to the MCU gods that Waititi isn&#8217;t attached.<\/p>\n<p>For those that didn&#8217;t listen to our Love and Thunder episode (with guest Erik Hall, you can listen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3867\">here<\/a>), I.. was not a fan.\u00a0 Ragnarok was fun and different from the first two Thor movies, but.. I dislike when movie makers are like &#8220;Yes.. but THIS one needs to go to ELEVEN&#8230;&#8221; Sometimes, you catch lightning in a bottle, and you need to go in a different direction.\u00a0 Granted, that&#8217;s what Ragnarok did, but.. Love and Thunder was.. just a mess, and I personally would cringe at knowing the guy responsible for that mess was back at the helm yet again.<\/p>\n<p>He certainly has a &#8220;style&#8221;, but so does Tim Burton and Zack Snyder.\u00a0 Sometimes the movies work because of the style, sometimes they work in spite of&#8230; Waititi&#8217;s &#8216;style&#8217; works for some movies, not for others, and it&#8217;s disappointing when Hollywood latches onto someone they make as their current &#8220;go-to person&#8221; based on some early successes and put them on projects that do not at all mesh with that style.\u00a0 Case and point&#8230; Ragnarok was fun and different, and while Thor can certainly have some comedic moments, he&#8217;s not a comedy character, and.. in my lowly opinion at least.. shouldn&#8217;t be used as such.<\/p>\n<p>For me, if a Thor 5 WAS to happen, I would want it to be more serious, more gravitas.\u00a0 Sure, comedy can be a part of it, but only to offset the drama and seriousness I think needs to be part of the character.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my take, what&#8217;s yours?\u00a0 Hit us on the socials and let us know!<\/p>\n<p>-PCR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" style=\"font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/www.somethingcast.com\/episodes\/RobBlog825.mp3\">Audio Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey all, PCR here.<\/p>\n<p>So.. there interwebs are starting to bustle with an interview director Taika Waititi gave regarding what he&#8217;d do for Thor 5.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s be clear, Thor 5 isn&#8217;t green lit, and after Love and Thunder, likely (hopefully) *won&#8217;t* be green lit, and if it does, I hope to the MCU gods that Waititi isn&#8217;t attached.<\/p>\n<p>For those that didn&#8217;t listen to our Love and Thunder episode (with guest Erik Hall, you can listen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/?p=3867\">here<\/a>), I.. was not a fan.\u00a0 Ragnarok was fun and different from the first two Thor movies, but.. I dislike when movie makers are like &#8220;Yes.. but THIS one needs to go to ELEVEN&#8230;&#8221; Sometimes, you catch lightning in a bottle, and you need to go in a different direction.\u00a0 Granted, that&#8217;s what Ragnarok did, but.. Love and Thunder was.. just a mess, and I personally would cringe at knowing the guy responsible for that mess was back at the helm yet again.<\/p>\n<p>He certainly has a &#8220;style&#8221;, but so does Tim Burton and Zack Snyder.\u00a0 Sometimes the movies work because of the style, sometimes they work in spite of&#8230; Waititi&#8217;s &#8216;style&#8217; works for some movies, not for others, and it&#8217;s disappointing when Hollywood latches onto someone they make as their current &#8220;go-to person&#8221; based on some early successes and put them on projects that do not at all mesh with that style.\u00a0 Case and point&#8230; Ragnarok was fun and different, and while Thor can certainly have some comedic moments, he&#8217;s not a comedy character, and.. in my lowly opinion at least.. shouldn&#8217;t be used as such.<\/p>\n<p>For me, if a Thor 5 WAS to happen, I would want it to be more serious, more gravitas.\u00a0 Sure, comedy can be a part of it, but only to offset the drama and seriousness I think needs to be part of the character.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my take, what&#8217;s yours?\u00a0 Hit us on the socials and let us know!<\/p>\n<p>-PCR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[215],"tags":[238,216,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4107,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4104\/revisions\/4107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethingcast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}