Board Thread:Movies/@comment-3048593-20171206004220/@comment-3048593-20180517161052

LoveWaffle wrote: No way in heck we're not getting Asgard back. All that talk about letting Taika Waititi do another Thor movie, about doing more with Valkyrie - all that was b*********ing just to hide that almost all of them die off-screen before the movie begins? The stakes are whether or not they can save everyone, not who they can't.

I figure Rhodey helps Cap and his team because Rhodey's a good person. But as for potential plot holes, did the movie address how Thanos knew who Tony Stark was during their fight on Titan? I don't remember if it did. Or how Thanos knew the Time Stone was on Earth? He has to have a spy on Earth who's been feeding him information at least since the end of The Avengers. I seem to remember Waititi saying something along the lines of "I want to make another Ragnarok-type movie, rather than another Thor movie." Which to me makes sense, mainly because I think Marvel will stick to just trilogies in terms of solo movies for their characters, and I don't think what Waititi did with 'Thor: Ragnarok' should be limited to a movie starring Thor. If he ends up doing that planned 'Eternals' movie, that might work for that. But with the remaining Asgardians, assuming Thor survives, I could see them introducing the cycles that the comics has, and establish Asgard being on Earth (Asgardia) which Odin in his last words suggested.

With how Thanos has been behind-the-scenes for all of these movies ("sitting on his floating space-toilet" as cynics have been saying), I like to think that he's been taking his time and studying earth and the heroes on it (including keeping track of Vision secretly being with Wanda, since that's where the Mind stone he gave to Loki ended up at). Hence why for New York he only sent Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian, and for Edinburgh sent Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive; while for Wakanda he sent the remainder of the Black Order along with an army of Outriders, because he knew of that place's advanced technology would be a challenge (when compared to the rest of the world).

With the Time stone, from what was said in 'Doctor Strange', I took it as this individual Agamotto got his hand on it somehow a long time ago, and used it for the purpose of protecting the non-physical world. So Thanos might've known about the Sanctums, and sent his goons to New York to draw the sorcerers out (or failing that, invading Kamar-Taj through the Sanctum(s) to retreive the Time stone, in the same way he did with Xandar and the Power stone). There is still a sense of mystery behind these stones (which I don't think enough people give credit for), like how the Space stone ended up in the Tesseract, and how the world of Vormir works in relation to the Soul stone and cursing Red Skull to be there (which may or may not be explored in the future).