Sorry, all! I think I am going to declare a hiatus on FMK polls at least until the YT deadline - I am super behind on writing reviews and reading as it is, and I really need to not get distracted from [redacted] until then. We are exactly 2/3 of the way through! And I promise I will bring it back once my YT fic is posted!

Meanwhile I will try to catch up on FMK reviews and maybe even post some non-FMK stuff????

First up: Thor: Ragnarok: super fun, there has not been nearly enough Valkyrie/Bruce/Hulk fic being posted yet. And I keep kind of going *headtilt* at ( all the commentary about it being anticolonialist )

Also I can't make the demographics of Asgard make ANY SENSE. Is the entire on-planet population of Asgard supposed to be on that ship with Thor? Because there were AT MOST 2000 people crossing the Bridge. Which is pretty much in line with the population size we see in the comics, but that says really specific things about how Asgard's culture and its empire work; "King over less people than went to my high school and some vassals in other lands" frankly sets him well below Tony Stark in real power even before Ragnarok. Or were there still people in the city at the end and Thor and Loki just killed them all? That actually makes more sense in terms of the movie's timeline - because there were still a lot of people there when Hela discovered the location of the hideaway, and the time-gap between that and when everyone was on the bridge was at most an hour or so, which was not enough to finish a larger evacuation. But the emotional note of the ending was really, really not "we just killed a bunch of our own people."

Fanfic seems to be split on whether they saved most of the civilians or killed most of them. What do y'all think?

I mean, the real answer is probably "they didn't want computer-generated crowd scenes and you can only handle so many extras". And I did think the way they seem to have used computer animation only for the stuff that really needed it was pretty cool - the fact that I looked at the crowd scenes and though "oh, they ran out of extras" somehow made the amazing floating space city they were in *more* real, because my mind was reading it as an on-location shoot. Which was pretty cool.