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  1. sallyp (Guest) on Chapter 1 Tue 16 Nov 2021 03:51PM UTC

    Odin didn't become completely horrible until The Dark World, when he threw his son into the dungeons without an actual trial, and said that he should have died at birth. There really isn't any way to come back from that, and saying "I love you my sons" just before dying without even looking at either one of them, doesn't really redeem him either.

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    1. Glaurung_II on Chapter 1 Fri 26 Nov 2021 12:01PM UTC

      I blame that on constant script rewriting and (maybe) executive meddling. Something that irked me when I first watched TDW was that Odin threw Loki into the dungeon because he tried to invade Earth, to then treat jane as if she was nothing (despite her being special to his allegedly favorite son).

      Then we learn what he did to Hela, and maybe his treatment of Loki was caused by his fear of him turning into another power-hungry murdering deity. In any case, his parenting is terrible.

      The scene at Norway was a last hour addition, since they were supposed to have found him as a crazy beggar in NY. In any case, it was quite jarring to see him going from the nursing home to Norway and calling it "home" with no explanation. It was weird and yes, it didn't redeem him because he didn't do anything to remedy what he had done just a few "well done son" words that would content both boys after a lifetime of living with a tiger dad and that was all.

      The image I have of Odin was that he was this conqueror when he was younger, and then tried to erase that past and start with a clean slate... and making a good job of it until the past came back to bit him in the royal a$$, then he handed everything quite poorly.

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