I never wrote a review of Thor back when I watched the film, not because I didn't like it, but because I didn't feel passionately about it one way or the other. I was mildly entertained, agreed with many others that the female characters fare much better than in any other superhero film in recent memory, and I also liked the genre atypical attention paid to getting civilians to safety so they weren't harmed in the big action set piece showdown (and who, again atypically for the genre, chose the task of civilian rescue as opposed to taking part in the big action set piece). However, that was about it as far as my reaction was concerned. Flash forward a few months and many another watchers's reactions later, and I find I do have something to say after all. For the very character who was and is the universal favourite in Thor viewerdom, Loki, only elicited a big "eh" from me, and I finally figured out why, when in theory I should have been all over him, given my usual fannish tendencies.

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