In January, "Wanda Vision" ushered in Marvel's "blockbuster era" in television.
Douban ended 9.0, and word of mouth is hot.
The first shot was a resounding victory.
In March, "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier" became the highest-rated drama in the first week since Disney+ began broadcasting.
But speaking of the real king fried.
The two parts still have to lean aside.
Marvel's big game on the small screen is the most dangerous move.
It depends on him -
Rocky Season 1
Loki Season 1
Why does Sir say it's "dangerous"?
Rocky's popularity is too high —
In 2018, in Empire Magazine's "20 Greatest Villains in Film History" selection, "Rocky" ranked third as the only Marvel character shortlisted.
And "Rocky" is also the first single-player series in Marvel history to be created for villains.
Popularity is a double-edged sword.
Shoot well, everyone is happy; shooting badly, even affect all the layouts of Marvel's next stage.
One wrong step wrong step wrong.
Fortunately, "Rocky" did the former —
Douban 9.2, Rotten Tomatoes 96%, IMDB score 9.1.
Almost booked in advance for the ceiling of this year's Marvel show.
On its first day, it attracted more than 890,000 North American viewers and set a record for opening ratings.
Who can not say a word: the three princesses of Asgard, mighty.
The question is, how?
To sum up the two sentences -
First of all, "Rocky" is by no means an additional Easter egg, an expanded version, or an extended version of a Marvel movie, it is an independent "biography of a person".
secondly.
"Loki" is no longer an outsider's perspective, a look at the "cute and hateful Loki".
It's Loki's self-gaze —
Me, what I love, what I hate, and why I hate.
Let's start with the background of the story.
The episodic version of the timeline inherits the movie "Avengers 4".
To defeat Thanos, the Avengers travel through time and collect the Infinity Rough.
Among them, the US team and Iron Man came to the New York Battle of "Avengers 1" to try to steal the space rough, that is, the Cosmic Cube.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he lost his hand, the Cosmic Cube slipped into Loki's feet.
In the confusion, Loki picked up the rough and took the opportunity to run.
Did he run? Where to go?
The story of Rocky begins here.
After escaping successfully, Loki falls into a Gobi Desert.
Just about to catch your breath, the next second.
Immediately before his eyes appeared a group of soldiers claiming to represent the "Time Mutation Authority" and arrested Loki in the name of violating the timeline.
What's up, what's up.
Loki couldn't help but snicker.
Arrest me?
I am a god.
Allow a few of you ordinary people to be reckless in front of me.
Just about to make a move, immediately snapped in the face.
Time Guards are armed with weapons that can manipulate the flow of time at will, and when hit, they can slow down the opponent's time.
Effortlessly knocked Loki to the ground.
△ This GIF is estimated to be loaded into Marvel's famous emoji
Here, sir, it is necessary to explain the concepts first.
Time Variation Authority, or TVA for short.
Once upon a time, countless timelines were caught up in a multiverse war.
They competed for supremacy and nearly destroyed the world.
At this time, three all-knowing and all-powerful guardians of time appear to quell the war.
They merged the multiverse into a single timeline, the "divine timeline" in which we live.
In order to ensure the normal flow of time, fix bugs in time.
Catch "time criminals" who disrupt timelines like Loki.
That's what was created: the Time Variation Authority.
Here's the problem.
Also through time and space, why didn't the Avengers get convicted and arrested by the TVA?
First, as the judge said:
Their actions take place in the prescribed "script".
Second, there was a "timeline" theory as early as Avengers 4.
When hulk hulk travels through time to find The Ancient Mage and borrows the Rough Time Stone from him.
Gu Yi Mage warned Hulk of the serious consequences of the rough stone being stolen across time and space.
It is to cause a "time shift".
Therefore, the task is completed.
They followed the instructions of the Ancient Master and put the Infinity Rough back into their original timeline and returned them to their original owners.
This avoids the occurrence of time shunting.
The emergence of the Time Mutation Authority has upended many of the original settings of the Marvel Universe.
Here, magic power does not work.
I tried to hold back a big move, but I ended up holding back a lonely one.
Here, the Avengers fight Thanos, and Camorra and Black Widow take the Infinity Stone of Life.
It's like Yiwu mall wholesale.
It is used by the staff as a paperweight.
Here, there are no superheroes, no protagonist aura.
Whoever has time and controls time is God.
The court eventually prepared to execute Loki on charges of time series violation.
At the crucial moment, an agent named Mobius (also named Easter Egg) rescues Loki.
Why save him?
It turned out that there was a time criminal on the run in the bureau, and he had killed several time guards.
Mobius wanted to ask the "god of trickery" to help solve the case.
But the Rockies here come from the universe of 2012.
At this time, he was in the most stubborn stage of his temperament, dreaming of becoming the king of the universe who ruled the Nine Realms.
And the next series of plots, he has not yet experienced.
Cooperation is basically impossible.
Until Mobius released the images and endings of Loki's life.
Not long ago, Loki boasted of being a god, deriding human free will as the biggest lie in history.
Only oneself is the supreme arbiter of the universe, unconstrained by any force.
After watching the time projection, he found that everything in life had already been set.
His own free will is likewise nothing more than a lie.
Before, we always thought that Loki was a troublemaker who didn't grow up.
But when the wish is so nakedly pierced, we still can't help but feel sad for him-
Loki said: The Guardians of Time built a great circus.
But I never expected that I was the clown in this circus.
The Nine Realms he called were like a large "Westworld", where everyone lived their entire lives according to the script.
He thought he was an immortal god, enjoying supreme glory.
Actually?
What I take is only a supporting role script, which sets off the glorious villain role of the protagonist.
You weren't born king, Loki
Your birth caused pain, suffering and death
This is true now, it was so in the past, and it will be true in the future
In this way, others can achieve their most brilliant selves
There is more pain.
From the images, he is forced to foresee the fact that he indirectly led the Dark Elves to kill his mother.
Father Odin exiled himself in the prophecies of the gods' twilight and died as a ray of light;
And he himself died at the hands of Thanos in order to protect his brother Thor.
The dearest and most loved ones, dead and dead...
Suddenly, the tragic background of the characters is about to come out.
Loki's psychological defenses also collapsed completely.
He ran away and came back.
Confess to Mobius that the killings were not his intention.
Everything comes from one's own weakness.
"It's a brutal and elaborate hoax, a tool for fear-mongering that the weakman manipulates."
Rocky said this twice before and after.
For the first time, it was used to describe the Time Mutation Authority.
The second time, describe yourself.
Loki agreed to Mobius's cooperation.
But there is only one problem:
Why me？
The reason is simple:
That "prisoner" is Loki himself in another timeline.
Don't be surprised.
The big move is still behind -
Starts with the Gender column on the Rocky Profile.
It was clearly written: Fluid (liquidity).
High-energy !!! ahead
This big boss is the legendary: the female version of Loki (Sophia di Martino).
This time, it was really the third princess of Asgard.
At present, "Rocky" has only been launched for two episodes, but there are many highlights.
Especially the setting of the Time Variation Authority.
Jump out of the main story of the Avengers and deconstruct the Marvel Universe with a broader worldview.
This makes this drama completely separated from "Wanda Vision" and "Falcon and Winter Soldier", becoming the most subversive Marvel series at present.
Loki and Möbius, this "fatalistic" discussion that extends according to the timeline.
It can also be seen that Marvel episodes turn to the exploration of philosophy and human speculation in addition to the grandeur of the scene.
The biggest highlight, back to the Rocky People.
In 2018, after the release of the movie "Avengers 3", the entry #Loki is actually dead immediately triggered a hot search.
All sorts of fantasies, brain holes, and discussions about Loki's resurrection came and went.
To sum up in one sentence: Loki can't die!
Speaking of which, Loki is the weakest villain in the Avengers series.
He also did not appear in Marvel movies as a protagonist.
△ At the end of the first part, he was also lifted up by the Hulk and hung four or five times
But when it comes to personality and psychological curves, few decent people are fuller than him.
In addition to the personal charm of actor Tom Hiddleston, there are of course the key elements of Loki's character itself.
When you connect the stories of Loki scattered in several movies and enter his heart, it is not difficult to see the complexity of the role under the expansion.
Unlike ordinary villains, all of Loki's rebellion stems from family affection.
Loki is Odin's child retrieved from his enemies.
He grew up in the shadow of his brother Thor and did not receive the same attention from his father.
In such an environment, he learned to play pranks, and every three to five years he made some moths.
But we all know that.
Why a child should play a prank is nothing more than more attention.
In Thor 1, he designs everything.
But in order to destroy The Giant Town of Jotun in front of his father and prove his ability.
In "Thor 2", the death of his mother is his opportunity to change from evil to righteousness.
He accompanies Thor to the dark planet to avenge himself, and in order to protect his brother's girlfriend, he is almost caught up in the black hole of the dark elves.
In Thor 3, he talks about the unfathomable combat power of Hela, the goddess of death.
Advise Thor not to return to Asgard to die.
In fact, he did not come back in a spaceship to save the people of Asgard.
Join the fight with your brother.
Therefore, even if he has done so many bad things, the audience can't live and hate it.
It seems as if Loki has been killing Thor.
Just stabbing the knife is no less than fifty times.
But in the first part, Thor is exiled to Earth by Odin and loses all his powers.
Loki came to Earth, supposedly, the best chance Loki had to kill Thor.
But what do you see Loki doing?
Well, nothing was done.
It was with a false message:
Your father is dead, your mother forbids you to go home to prevent war, and you have to stay on Earth for the rest of your life.
Not even a single hair of my brother's sweat had moved.
And when it comes to the throne.
Loki wasn't unsuccessful.
He also deceived all his people in the form of his father Odin.
But what do you see him doing when he ascended to the throne?
Rule Over Asgard, expand your sphere of influence, and attack other planets to establish god authority?
Think too much.
Eating fruit and organizing his people to watch dramas is his old job.
At the end of the day, he doesn't have as many evil thoughts and desires.
His hatred, more than that, was overwhelmed by too much twisted love.
Therefore, three years later, thousands of calls.
Finally waited for him to return.
One of the things that touched Sir the most was that Loki was still the Same Loki.
Dead for face.
After falling into the desert, I saw someone coming over.
Adjust the appearance at the first time, find the highest position, and put the most arrogant and arrogant shelf.
Run the train with your mouth full.
Ming Ming had just failed to invade New York and became a prisoner of the order.
One mouth is "I have a glorious mission."
Without changing the nature of the leprosy, in just a few minutes, the nonsense that has been said can be stacked so old and high.
Seize the opportunity to retaliate and absolutely make a prank.
The last second was still disdainful of the Time Administration, emphasizing that he was the innocent god of tricks.
After seeing that the prisoner in front of him did not listen to being reset by a stick and disappearing, he panicked and flipped out the small ticket in his pocket.
Hahaha.
Laugh because he's "stupid"
Even more because he is not at all like "God", but like the very ordinary of ourselves.
There is a detail.
For Loki, the screenwriter specially installed a bridge section.
In Loki's capacity, a new interpretation of the D.B. Cooper hijacking incident is given.
D.B. Cooper's hijacking incident, one of the four major unsolved cases in the United States.
It is also the only hijacking case in the world that has not been solved to this day.
In 1971, Cooper boarded a Northwest Airlines flight, where he told the flight attendant that he had a bomb in his handbag.
The police were asked for $200,000 in cash, as well as 2 parachutes and 2 backup umbrellas.
Police, considering the safety of the passengers, agreed to Cooper's request.
At that time, the plane hovered over the airport for nearly 2 hours.
But according to the captain's recollection, Cooper stayed in the cockpit, did not look nervous at all, and occasionally chatted with the crew.
(Don't say, it is indeed very in line with the style of Ji Mei)
What's even more bizarre is that at 8 o'clock that night, the plane has not yet flown to Reno.
Cooper jumped out of the hatch with a parachute and cash, and evaporated.
With the exception of the $20 bill in 1980, which matched the ransom number, the FBI couldn't find any clues.
Since then, Cooper disappeared from the night sky has become the most suspenseful legend in the United States.
In Loki, the director explains the Rainbow Bridge in as Cooper's disappearance.
It can be said that it is a dimensionality reduction blow of the gods not talking about martial virtue.
Seems unrelated.
But because it is Loki, the logic is also quite reasonable.
And after a new round of "resurrection".
This time, Loki can finally pick up the script of the protagonist.
"Be honest with the audience".
The scene of being sucked away from the sky by the Rainbow Bridge.
It is precisely the most accurate portrayal of the character of "Rocky".
What attracts us to Loki is that —
Not because he is "both good and evil," but "man and god."
In the bones is the melancholy of man, but in fate, it is full of God's care.
Sir had to lament Marvel's grip on the audience's psychology again.
The ultimate gamble as the big screen shift to the small screen.
"Rocky" which is a superhero blockbuster.
It is what we ordinary people most yearn for and most desire to see.
The legend of man.
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