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“Joss and I talked about the villains of human history, all the people in the course of the history of time who’ve tried to subjugate people, who’ve tried to get everyone else to bow down and kneel at their feet, and if you do any kind of amateur psychology on these guys, or not even amateur— books and books and books have been written on the fact that at rock bottom, they hate themselves. They don't have any self-worth; they don't have any self-approval, and so the only way they can get power or status is to get everybody else to physically be beneath them.”
- Tom Hiddleston, talking about his conversation with Joss Whedon and Loki's characterization.

The fanboy glee that Mr. Hiddleston has in regards to working with Whedon causes me slight pain in my soul. It's not my own hate for Whedon that does it (because I'm very glad that he is treating these actors with dignity and respect... probably because they cost too much not to). It's just that it reminds me of how Mr. Marsters used to speak of Whedon before things went sour. I will say, though, that if Whedon ever calls Mr. Hiddleston an "ingenue" or blames him for Loki's popularity over the "heroes" because he cries a lot, I will find Whedon, and I will get the Hulk to punch him in his big potato face. I'm sorry. I'm just having a lot of Hiddleston/Marsters parallel feels right now.

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Yup! Good old Joss the joy-killer.

I refuse to let him take my joy. No, he can't have that. I'm just resigned to him being sad old oats.

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I have no idea what it would be like to go to work everyday, to just try to do your job, and have everyone around you come up and say, "This isn't the SPIKE show!" when all you're doing is reading the lines on the page and wearing the clothes someone else picked out for you to wear. I mean, by the gods, did anyone do that to Boreanaz? If they did, I would have liked to have seen the "Haha! Irony!" moment when he actually did get his own show.

Loki, in Kenneth Branagh's Thor, is pretty much a woobie. He's jealous of his big brother's big day 'cause Thor is heir to the throne, and he plots to ruin it by letting frost giants crash the party. Cue unintended consequences of Thor getting banished and Loki finding out that he's adopted and that the race he's been taught to hate and fear is actually his own race. Loki cries. Loki continues to cry. Loki gets given the throne while Odin sleeps, and suddenly he has something that he never really wanted (he just didn't want big brother to have it). Cue more crying. And fighting. And crying while fighting. He's a heart-broken child who's always felt lied to and now that he knows the truth he wishes he didn't. If he can't be the hero, he'll be the villain and still prove himself better than Thor. And then he cries and cries and cries. Damn, Hiddleston can really get those tears going.

From what I understand of the Avengers, Loki went from being a woobie to being crazycakes. He's a pretty, pale, cheekboned, blue-eyed monster with slicked-back hair and a long black coat who feels that he's "a man surrounded by fools who cannot see his strength, his vision, his glory... [He walks] in worlds the others can't begin to imagine." And he cries and complains about his big brother hogging all the glory, and there's a hint of redemption for his misdeeds. I'm not saying he's Spike because... Spike did not control a giant evil snake beast, but... Yeeeeah... He might be Spike. It also doesn't help that Hiddleston and Marsters are like the same person. XD

Tom Hiddleston cries in pretty much every movie he's in, and he's absolutely gorgeous while doing it. Some of the best scenes in Thor were cut to try to make him seem less sympathetic as a character, so if you can find a copy of the DVD with the deleted scenes on it, get that one!

Awww, Connor. I miss him. I miss all my boys. *hugs Angel, Spike, and Connor*

Oh? I never knew there were issues between Joss and Marsters? I remember he had a bit of the squiggles with anyone getting feels for Buffy (Angel included hence him getting his own show) but never knew the actor and director had a beef :/

I do really love Hiddleston's observation of Loki's character, I believe that very much ;)