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[ SECRET POST #4398 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4398 ⌋

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Disney in charge of not ruining things.

I agree no one wants it

Well, that just isn't true.

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(Anonymous) - 2019-01-20 03:26 (UTC) - Expand

I don't mind Hiddleston not coming back. I want Loki's death in IW to be permanent. Whether it is a Kid Loki series OR a series where Loki is narrating events from his childhood, I'd enjoy both.

If they must bring Loki back, I hope he sticks to the show and stays out of the movies. And they do an episode where Thor and Loki tell the same story from their POV and it is wildly different.

Yes, I agree.

And they do an episode where Thor and Loki tell the same story from their POV and it is wildly different.

AMAZING.

Eh if it makes you feel better OP Tom was on BBC Radio 2 the other day and basically implied nothing has been decided yet. I think the Twitter account where this rumour originated is from a guy who is desperate for attention, at least from what I've observed.

Personally I feel like the *actual* kid Loki thing wouldn't work in the MCU at present as that was necessary to rectify years of comics Loki being an outright unrepentant villain, whereas MCU Loki was sympathetic from the start and after a brief flirtation with extreme villainy has been dancing over the anti-hero line for a while.

Obviously if they just mean "Loki as a child in general" that's different. But if you say Kid!Loki in some circles it does mean a certain thing to most people.

Am I the only one utterly unsurprised by this news??? Tom Hiddleson is a film actor, and at least in the US, going to TV is often seen as going backwards. He's also aging, and having him in his own series set after Endgame doesn't make sense - he'd continue in the movies, logically, or he's really really dead.

As long as the cast young!Loki well, I'm good with it.

Is Hiddleston actually a Serious Film Actor? I mean, does he want to be, is he still? Since 2015, he's done 3 MCU movies, a King Kong movie, and a voice role in an animated movie. And he's also done TV work over the period (the Le Carre thing he was in). So IDK it doesn't seem implausible that he'd do a Marvel TV thing, it would depend on how serious the project was.

He rocked three movie-length episodes of The Hollow Crown, and it doesn't get much more serious than Shakespeare. Also, the Hank Williams biopic.

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(Anonymous) - 2019-01-20 11:45 (UTC) - Expand

Going from movies to TV is no longer going backwards if it's ~*Prestige Television*~ and not a regular show, and even a regular show is not considered a step down for actors with a history of regular TV roles but who have done some movies. Not everyone "graduates" from TV to movies or is an "I only do theater" person, but they continue to do both/all. It's unlikely a Loki series would ever be considered Prestige Television, no matter how good it could turn out to be, but on the other hand I couldn't say how Hiddleston feels about doing TV. At the end of the day, an acting role is a job and actors can pursue or decline jobs as they wish, and they will have a variety of different reasons for their decisions that may not be obvious to audiences.

this. The idea that movies are somehow superior to TV is pretty outdated.

Yeah, as soon as I heard about the show I figured they would recast unless it was like a really short miniseries.

Nope. That used to be true, but the lines between film and TV are very blurred these days. Film has gotten rather conservative in terms of wanting low risk projects, while TV has gotten more daring. The term "prestige TV" is a thing, and plenty of people understand that getting on board the superhero bandwagon means $$$$$. And remember, Hiddleston's other highly acclaimed role was The Night Manager, which is TV, not film.

Also keep in mind that the British aren't as snobby as Americans are about the supposed line between TV and film. (And as previously noted, Americans aren't as picky about this as they used to be, with good reason.) As a working actor, you do TV, you do film, you do theater, etc. There's no "go into films and avoid TV forever".

Definitely true regarding your snobby comment imo. Most British actors start out on TV first and then get a breakthrough film role. Hiddleston would definitely fit this pattern, though he also has his theatre stuff (and I feel like theatre is probably his favourite) - British actors who have been in film will go back to TV quite happily more often than not. And continue to switch between the two. Or three if they do the stage as well.

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(Anonymous) - 2019-01-20 03:18 (UTC) - Expand

Ben Whishaw keeps going back to TV. And there's Michael Douglas and Julia Roberts. Steve Carell is going to do something called Space Force. Chris Pine, Don Cheadle, and Idris Elba have all seemed to have missed this memo, too.

Re: Somebody had better tell actors this.

(Anonymous) - 2019-01-20 11:48 (UTC) - Expand

Yeah, what everyone else said. You're working off some pretty old attitudes about film vs. television that no longer apply. Hiddleston being British also changes things. Plenty of British actors move between film and television all the time and don't consider it anything to be ashamed of, because it isn't.

Hiddleston Loki is the only Marvel Loki I give a shit about, so a Loki show where Hiddleston is not physically on the screen for most of the run time is a haaaaaaard pass for me.

~~Plus the guy who's name is floating around to play young Loki is nowhere near as pretty as Hiddleston was in the first Thor, no fucking thanks!~~

Edited 2019-01-20 03:44 (UTC)

Hard same on all of this.

Same.

(who's the name floating around?)

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junee - 2019-01-22 01:25 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2019-01-23 00:55 (UTC) - Expand

(Young Sheldon is way better than The Big Bang Theory, though...)

Right? Everyone agrees it is the much funnier show.

(...which is not saying much.)

listen, nothing against Hiddleston but the dude has noticeably aged between even the first Thor and Infinity War. unless they're gonna work that Marvel CGI de-aging magic on his every scene, he's gonna look absurd playing a prequel version of himself. that hairline alone is already headed for the hills.

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