THOR RAGNAROK: FAMILY & MEMORY
Time for another one shot! We’re talking about one of our fave films, Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok. We look at it through the themes of family and memory, and let’s just say those Asgardians have some family issues. This film is a delight from start to finish - we had a lot of fun with this one!
This episode was recorded on 3 July 2021.
Show notes
Jen V feels she did a bad job explaining EMDR so read more about it here.
New Zealand’s delightfully ridiculous ads:
“You know I can’t grab your ghost chips!”
“Pine…apple lumps, well done New Zealand!”
More Kiwi humour: Flight of the Conchords.
More Taika:
Since we don’t have time to link to every single movie or TV show in the MCU that we mentioned in passing, we’re gonna link the wiki instead - MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Wiki.
GQ interview with Tom Hiddleston here.
Also here’s an interesting article about Joss Whedon that touches on some of the let-downs of the films he directed for the MCU franchise.
Red - Jenn D says this is a criminally underrated film. Jen V agrees.
Mark Mothersbaugh - composer, musician.
Led Zeppelin’s Immigrant Song.
Shout out to Korg, we love you!
And finally, next week we’ll start chatting about Fangirl!! Here’s a link to buy the book if you don’t already have seven copies (like we do). We’re reading chapters 1-4.
Check out the themes here for reading Fangirl along with us!
We would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land where this episode was recorded - the Guringai and Darug people, and the Whadjuk Noongar people.
Our intro and outro music is by the excellent Scott Buckley. Check him out here.
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Thanks for listening!