Jane Foster falls into the Aether, and Pete falls for the cinematography—while Matthew wonders if someone accidentally put Twilight in his Thor. This episode dives into horror pacing, Infinity Stone inconsistencies, and the infinite dramatic range of Stellan Skarsgård (who, mercifully, isn’t in this scene).
Matthew Fox and Pete Wright are back to the MMM bridge—for the first time together—picking up the hammer and heading back to Asgard for Thor: The Dark World, and they’re taking it apart five minutes at a time.
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Jane Foster falls into the Aether, and Pete falls for the cinematography—while Matthew wonders if someone accidentally put Twilight in his Thor. This episode dives into horror pacing, Infinity Stone inconsistencies, and the infinite dramatic range of Stellan Skarsgård (who, mercifully, isn’t in this scene).
Thor pouts, Odin plots, Lady Sif thirsts, and Jane Foster attempts to move on by dating the human embodiment of wallpaper — until Darcy crash-lands their lunch like the beautiful social wrecking ball she is. Also: a surprising amount of time spent discussing space laser tag.
Is Thor: The Dark World misunderstood? Or is it, as some claim, a cinematic black hole, sucking the very life out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Matthew Fox and Pete Wright return to Asgard to begin their coverage of the eighth film in the MCU. They ask the big questions, like: why is there so much exposition? Is Odin a big fat liar? And most importantly, why does the Aether scream?
In 2013, Marvel Studios released Thor: The Dark World, the eighth film in what was, at the time, a still-experimental attempt to build a unified cinematic universe. The film made nearly $650 million at the global box office, was a technical success by virtually any Hollywood standard, and yet—if you ask the average Marvel fan today to recall its plot, you’ll likely be met with a long pause, followed by something like, “Was that the one with the elves?”
