Thor 071: Is Loki Looking for a New Gatekeeper Yet?

<h2>Minute Seventy-One: From Loki’s Icy Dealings to Heimdall’s Suspicious Leanings</h2> <p>Joining us to discuss Loki’s plotting and planning, and how he treats Heimdall, is Bubbawheat from the Flights, Tights and Movie Nights podcast.</p> <h3>In the seventy-first minute of <a href="https://trustory.fm/director/kenneth-branagh/">Kenneth Branagh</a>’s 2011 film <em>Thor</em>...</h3> <ul><li>Loki and Laufey continue their conversation about Loki’s involvement in the raid on Odin’s Vault, and Loki’s plan to get Laufey into Asgard to kill Odin.</li> <li>He says they’d look down on him if he were the one to kill him father, but wouldn’t that fit perfectly with this Shakespearean story?</li> <li>Loki also says he’ll return the Casket of Eternal Winters to Laufey. Does he mean it?</li> <li>Why does Loki not reveal to Laufey that he’s his son? We stew on that some more.</li> <li>Bubbawheat theorizes about the three frost giants and how Loki may have mind controlled one to tell two others he knows of a secret passage to Asgard.</li> <li>Laufey stands up when Loki presents his offer. Is he playing his cards a bit too quickly?</li> <li>We theorize some more about the possibility that this planet is falling apart and the Jotuns are actually weakened as a species right now.</li> <li>It does seems Laufey knows his power is fading.</li> <li>Loki digs on the way Jotunheim looks. Is that part of his plan, or could he just not help throwing in another dig at this place?</li> <li>After all, Loki is in a power position to piss Laufey off with the idea to get him to agree to this plan.</li> <li>Laufey’s “I accept” is so slow and drawn out. It’s interesting how his pattern works.</li> <li>So is Laufey then trying to downplay his “I accept” after he showed his hand too quickly when he stood up.</li> <li>It does read as very deliberate.</li></ul> <h3>Loki returns through the Bifrost to Heimdall’s Observatory</h3> <ul><li>Loki stepping off the Bifrost weirdly looks like he’s getting off the subway. Very strange.</li> <li>Loki and Heimdal