Thor 027: How Does Sleipnir Gallop?

<h2>Minute Twenty-Seven: From Laufey’s Attack to Laufey’s Declaration</h2> <p>It’s a special week with a new guest each day! Today’s guest is Steve Sarmento from TruStory FM’s Trailer Rewind podcast. He joins us to talk about the arrival of Odin on Sleipnir and Odin’s discussion with Laufey.</p> <h3>In the twenty-seventh minute of <a href="https://trustory.fm/director/kenneth-branagh/">Kenneth Branagh</a>’s 2011 film <em>Thor</em>...</h3> <ul><li>We wonder what’s going through Sif’s and Loki’s heads as we see those closeups of them looking at the Frost Giants.</li> <li>Branagh uses yet another god’s eye view shot to great effect as he shows the Frost Giant army start moving in on the six Asgardians. But we see them stop when a light comes down from the sky.</li> <li>So how does Odin know that this is the right moment to arrive? Is Heimdall watching and telling him the right moment to go? And why does he get to bring his horse Sleipnir but Thor and his friends couldn’t?</li></ul> <h3>Odin arrives on the back of Sleipnir, and there's plenty to talk about with this horse.</h3> <ul><li>Speaking of Sleipnir, we talk about the complexities of an eight-legged horse and try to figure out how it would move. We also laugh about his crazy origin stories, one of which includes Loki and a horse... you know...</li> <li>As for Odin’s arrival on the Bifrost, we’ve decided that Heimdall leaves the Bifrost on just a few extra seconds because Odin loves the backlit rainbow look it gives him. Such a dramatic entrance and we’re here for it 100%.</li> <li>So Thor – with his back to the Frost Giants – shouts to his father that they’ll finish them together. Does anybody else thinks this perhaps isn’t the best strategy? Especially because Odin’s arrival is the moment that finally spurs the Frost Giants to start forming their ice weapons.</li> <li>Odin clearly has had some parenting issues with Thor, but his “Silence” he whispers to Thor is such a great moment that truly shuts Thor up and starts the doubt and confusion in his mind. Plus,