Apologies if this might've already been posted, but this totally reminded me of our roleplay a couple weeks back. XD Thought it was worthy enough to share.

The birth of a roleplay, pt. 2...

(this roleplay is a two-day special, due to everyone not being able to participate on our first day)

To fill you in about this roleplay, the 10th Doctor and his companion, Rose, visit a strange land called Hyrule, where they are immediately greeted by a strange imp girl named Midna, who is the Princess of the Twilight Realm. She tells them that Hyrule is once again in trouble and that they all need the Doctor's help.
Apparently, black creatures have been wreaking havoc upon the land, as well as a blue hedgehog.
The hedgehog then appears and introduces himself as Sonic.

As the Doctor studies him, two other visitors appear, being the 9th Doctor and Donna Noble.
Here, 10, 9, Rose and Donna begin to have a confusing, wibbily wobbily timey wimey discussion, as Link appears, sword unsheathed.
He questions how Sonic got out of his cell and Sonic bolts into the T.A.R.D.I.S., where Link chases after him. 10 follows and among the chaos, Sonic accidentally knocks against a button and causes the T.A.R.D.I.S. to be on high alert.
Meanwhile, yet another visitor appears out of the shadows, an agent named Black Widow, who explains that she is there to take them all to S.H.I.E.L.D., saying that they need the Doctor's help.

Princess Midna detects that the black creatures tracked them down and goes to confront them, where the Doctor follows, and she puts up a protective barrier to keep the black creatures from getting to the others.
The Doctor questions what the black creatures are and so does Midna, when a young boy suddenly appears, slashing away at them, making them disappear.
He introduces himself as Sora and is apparently friends with the Doctor, where he then explains that the creatures are Heartless, though are a new breed, that he suspects the dark fairy, Maleficent, had something to do with.

There, his friend, Riku, appears, and Midna transports herself, Link and Sonic to a location the blue hedgehog can't escape from.
On the way out of the T.A.R.D.I.S., Sora bumps into Donna and Black Widow, whom were tensely conversing, where Sora discovers Donna has something on her back. The Doctor explains that this creature alters time and creates paradoxes and orders the boy to destroy it. He does, but the others realize the Heartless were returning and so all pile back into the T.A.R.D.I.S..
Just when they are about to leave, Sora yells that he has to protect the 9th Doctor's T.A.R.D.I.S., or else the Heartless will use it to destroy even more worlds. And so him and Riku jump off, 9 in tow, and Sora uses his keyblade to open the T.A.R.D.I.S. and lock himself and the other two inside.
Black Widow suggests that her and the others travel to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters.
Sora suggests his small party track down the heart of Hyrule to seal it, so the Heartless would be defeated on that world.
And we are yet to find out what happens. :)

Characters:
Character Queen- Princess Midna, Link, Sonic the Hedgehog and Sora
Charlotte Black- Tenth Doctor, Rose and Riku
Elara Dorne- Ninth Doctor, Donna Noble and Black Widow
Artemis- Darth Vader and Loki
River Song- River Song and her character, Ariella Wylde.

Let the madness continue!

Thor Review

I was not very familiar with "Thor" until 2011; before then, I just knew he was some god from some mythology. But after I watched the film and "The Avengers", I became more familiar and interested with the character. While "Thor" wasn't my favorite film, it was surprisingly good. I must admit that I was disappointed in the second film, but overall I love the Thor universe, which is probably my favorite solo MCU universe :)

The thing that Marvel did right with the story was modernizing the Norse mythology. For instance, the characters are not gods, but aliens who were worshiped due to their enormous powers. They also live in  somewhat old-fashioned way and talk like people used to in Old English, but the setting is also modern. It's like an urban mixed with Middle Ages.

And then there's the mythology itself. After Greek and Egyptian mythology, I am interested in the Norse myths. I'm always fascinated with the idea of these extremely flawed "gods", who really just seem like powerful beings, and their conflicts. Too be honest, though, I only got interested in Norse mythology because of this film. That's how good it was.

One of the biggest reasons I like this film is because of the character of Loki. There's a reason he's so popular on Tumblr, why he has so many fangirls: he's the most interesting character of the series. He's not the hero, he can play the villain, but he's not just purely evil. There's a reason behind his malevolence  Loki doesn't feel loved by his father, Odin, and is jealous of his brother Thor and thinks that Odin favors him. He is attention-seeking, but only because he's truly insecure, feels unloved by the one and only man who raised him, who feels as if he's being overshadowed by his brother.

Of course, I don't know if Loki's awesomeness could have been established without the genius acting of Tom Hiddleson. He plays Loki so well, with his touch of evilness yet vulnerability. Tom is just awesome in so many different forms. Seriously, he's one of my favorite actors. The dude has swag written over his face.

Okay, now that I'm done fangirling over Loki and Thor itself, I'll talk about my dislikes of the film, and just places where I felt like there could have been improvement:

The biggest problem with Thor was the shortness of the film. Thor appears to be a jerk at the beginning of the film, but after a little while he turns nice all of a sudden. There's no character development; it happens way too fast. The whole film is supposed to be about Thor learning to be a good leader, but I never feel it happen. It doesn't feel believable how he becomes selfless all of a sudden.

Besides Loki, none of the other characters felt as fleshed-out to me Odin is fine, I suppose, but Thor's friends, The Warriors Three, barely get any screen-time. I know it's about Thor, but they seemed really cool and fun. I wished I had gotten to know them better, even if it was only a little more screen-time.

And then there was Jane. I think Natalie Portman is a good actress, but her character doesn't have much development at all. Jane seems so interested in Thor, but I can't understand why. She seems like a very capable woman and smart scientist, but she somehow crumbles at the sight of Thor. Thor is jerk to her at the very beginning, but she seems very unfazed by this. And when he suddenly turns nice, she doesn't really make any comments on his previous behavior.

Jane is also Thor's love interest, but we barely see them together. I don't believe that they are so in love near the end of the film because they don't get time to know each other. They don't seem to have a lot of chemistry, which could just be the actors, but it's hard to tell.

I did like the first film better than the second one, though. The love story between Jane and Thor feels more forced in this one than the other one. It's two years since the first movie and Jane appears to be moping over Thor since he left in the first film. Considering the time they spent together (which I reckon wasn't very long), I don't see how him leaving would make her that depressed (of course he's Chris Hemsworth, but that's another story ;). When Jane does reunite with Thor, too, they don't spend much time together, at least on-screen (this is probably due to the little time run the film has), so I'm not feeling the emotion as much.

Speaking of Jane, I really didn't like how they portrayed her in this film. She gets possessed by the Eether, which is magical energy that Malekith wants to get his hands on, and from thereon the film is about saving Jane/stopping Malekith from getting to her. Jane gets sidestepped to the damsel-in-distress role—perhaps it's the feminist in me, but I'm getting tired of the damsel-in-distress trope. Jane basically is used as a plot device, and this causes her not to have much character development

Also, the villain, Malekith, is no Loki. Not that I expected him to be, but I really think they could have focused on him more. He barely did anything in the film. I don't mind if the villain is hiding behind the shadows (The Emperor was notorious for doing this in the "Star Wars" saga, not to mention the main antagonist of "Iron Man 3" did this as well). However, if they are, I want to see them pulling the strings on the people they put on the front line, becoming a "puppeteer", so to speak. Malekith didn't do this, and the fore I didn't find him interesting nor very threatening. His idea on making the world dark, too, I found flimsy. It's not really explained why he wants this and puts him into the Standard-Villain-Wants-To-Cause-Destruction-Just-Because category. I just wished they had spent more time developing his character.

This is more of a minor issue, but the attempt at a love triangle involving Jane-Thor-Sif suddenly gets dropped, which, I think, was again the fault of the film's short time run. We first see Odin implying to Thor that he should be with Sif, then Sif showing signs of liking Thor, and later on, Sif gives Jane a look while passing by. But that's it. Nothing else happens. I can't say I'm one for love triangles, but I don't see the point of making one if it's going to be dropped. Like I said earlier, though, this probably has to do with the fact that the film is too short for all of the story lines it's trying to fit in.

I don't like how they changed Odin in the film, too. In the first one he was pretty harsh, but I could see that he genuinely cared for his sons, wanted the best for both of them, and wanted to teach Thor to become a better king than the arrogant prince he was. But in The Dark World, Odin turns into a jerk himself, frustrated with Thor's fascination of Earth, feeling as if he belongs only on Asgard, refusing to help Jane once she's possessed by the Eether, and I think he actually uses her as bait to capture Malekith (of course, he was mad by them--I won't say why because that would involve spoilers--but it was still pretty rude). He just felt out of place, different than the Odin I saw in the first film, and I didn't like it.

I really did enjoy the "Thor" film, don't get me wrong, but it defiantly had its flaws. I think the writers/directors were afraid how the public would react to "Thor", given that he wasn't very known before, so they made it shorter. But I wish it had been longer. It had so much potential, and, while it wasn't bad, it really could have been better. It left something to be desired, you know? But I still enjoy the film series. I already want to go visit Asgard, and you can betcha I'm watching the third film :) And even if it's not my favorite film series ever, it's entertaining, and let''s face it: we all want to shut off our brain every now and then and kick back and watch a classic tale of heroes vs. the advisory :)