Tom Hiddleston first appeared as Loki in 2010's Thor before going on to play the part in The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame. When the Marvel Cinematic Universe expanded to television shows, Loki was at the top of the list for his own series, telling a story which started with a moment in Avengers: Endgame and brought the character's canonical experiences back to those of The Avengers. Though Loki has been killed off more than once, Tom Hiddleston remains in the role ultimately took the character to a new role in the Loki Season 2 finale. As such, Hiddleston says it would be "unwise" to assume he won't be back as the God of Everyone's Story.
Hiddleston talked with ComicBook.com in an interview coming soon to the Phase Zero channel, opening up about whether or not he thinks Loki's new throne is the final time and place where we will see him. "It's so hard because I'll be completely honest with you, Brandon, I have at least twice in my life said goodbye," Hiddleston said. "I've written to Kevin Feige and Louis de Esposito and Victoria Alonso and been like, 'Thank you so much. It's been like the role of a lifetime,' and they've written notes back saying, 'Come and see us anytime. You're always part of the family. We're always here. You've given us so much and tears have been shared.' So I think I'd be unwise at this point to be conclusive about any of it."
Hiddleston is not announced to be a part of any of the upcoming projects, similar to his Thor co-star Chris Hemsworth. However, should Hiddleston and Hemworth share a set as Loki and Thor, respectively (as Marvel Studios seems to be hoping for), the encounter would be quite different from any which we have seen through half-a-dozen titles.
"I think both Thor and Loki have had to excavate and analyze the past and who they feel they really are and what they really want," Hiddleston said. "But what's interesting about family as well, this is just me thinking about it, is sometimes it will be difficult to let go of the preconception of who they used to be. Loki might be expecting Thor to behave in a certain way or be a certain way. Thor might be expecting Loki to be a certain way. So I think initially it would be really confusing, but also they'd been apart for a long time and no doubt they've been objects in each other's mind. And so yeah, I think I wonder a reunion would likely be, we'll see."
What did you think of Loki Season 2? Do you want to see Hiddleston play the part again? Share your thoughts in the comment section and head over to the Phase Zero channels for full interviews!
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Currently watching - December
Because I love a good little list 😊
Regularly updated during the month, latest update 30.12.2022, colored = finished
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The director who buys me dinner (6/10 on iQiyi)
I read the webseries and I loved it! So no pressure Korea 😅 But I did enjoy the first two episodes. It is funny and I had some really good laughts! It has an interesting story, if they keep up with the original. I am really looking forward to the next episodes.
Never Let Me Go (3/12 on Youtube)
The tension between the two mains is definitely there and noticeable. I already love the little shimmers of jealousy and the fact that it was love at first sight. I really enjoy their story and the plot around them. Nice show to watch.
Ameiro Paradox (2/8 on Viki and Gaga)
An enemies to lovers story with journalists and cute smiles? Count me in.
A man who defies the world of BL (2/4 on Gaga)
A man who tries to avoid the world of BL, in which he lives, by reading Yaoi mangas to get to know all the tropes he has to avoid in order to not get involved with the world as a main character. It is hilarious and makes fun of not just the viewers, but of the industrie itself. Really good so far.
The New Employee (2/8 on Viki)
I just finished reading the manhwa and I loved it. Now I am curious how it is realized. The first episode was good, just as I expected and Moon Ji Yong is quite an excellent cast for the role of Seung Hyun.
War of Y (10/20 on Gaga)
I finally watched the next chapter...And yeah, I think I can't watch the stories week for week. I need to wait until one chapter is closed and binge the five episodes. This is one of the few bls I watch with a lot of tension in my body and no smile on my lips...I need to calm a bit before I can dive into the next drama...
Between Us (8/12 on Youtube)
I like it, but I am not super hyped about it. I liek their connection and that both are not perfect, but perfect for each other in their own way.
Love Bill (8/10 on Youtube)
A vietnamese drama about a young man falling in love with a screenwriter. Well, of course there are some other things happening in between, but this is the heart of the story. Our boy Nguyễn Bá Vinh is doing a great job! I really enjoy this drama so far.
Till the World ends (9/10 on Youtube)
It is something else. Kind of brutal and gory and a little bit explicit. Not your usual bl. I like it, no wonder 😅 The end of the world is coming and Art and Golf try to survive the last days on this chaotic planet, to get to the safety of the last bunker which lets people in, chased by some lunatics with a special taste in meat...and with ep 8 we finally got the long-awaited kiss and damn they delivered!
My School President (4/10 on Youtube)
Set in highschool we meet Tinn (the school president) and Gun (head of the music club). Tinn has a huge crush on Gun and Gun sees in Tinn the enemy who is standing between the success of his music club and the win of the Hot Wave Music Contest. The plot is predictable, but sometimes you just need a good old high school bl without the deep drama. I enjoyed this series so much. And the music is so good!!!
HIStory 5: Love in the future (1/20 on Viki)
Hm. This was kind of meh. I hope it is to early to judge and it will get better! Right now the story is a little bit...confusing. I hope for a little bit explaination or at least some help from the magical figure.
To Sir, with love (2/17 on Youtube)
Okay, it is finished by now and I looked up for spoilers. I didn’t have the emotional strength to watch it til now. But I will give it a try soon, because the first two episodes were really good!
Remember Me (12/14 on Gaga)
Okay what happend? I am emotional invested in this story! Why did it become so good within two episodes? I love the domesticity and the wholesomeness of the third episode so much! It touched me and moved me and now I am looking forward to the next episode! And the next episode was good too. I love Em and Name! Don’t hurt them, especially Name! JUST STOP HURTING NAME!!! This hurts so bad!
2 Moons: The Ambassador (10/12 on Youtube)
It is just bad.
I will knock you (1/12 on Youtube)
So Thi steps on the Lotus of Noey which is symbolic for his heart and now Noey wants his heart back so he can give it to the girl he has a crush on and Thi can't find it and gives him in exchange a charm for fortune, but in reality it is for love and soulmates...And Noey happens to be the leader of a gang which members wear khaki-shorts or way too colorful dresses for a street gang...the cringe radar is very strong with this one, but it is hilarious!
Something in my room (3/10 on Youtube)
I saw people talking about this one and how good it is. Well, it is quite okay. I guess it will get a little bit deeper with more episodes, but I haven’t had the time to watch more.
Finished in December
Series
Choco Milk Shake (11/11 on Youtube) - perfect recommandation score
Well, I love this one with my whole heart. On the one side it is light and comforting and the acting is on point and on the other hand it deals with grief and what happiness can be. The biggest message would be to love with your whole heart and live life to the fullest. Carpe Diem if you will call it that. You don't know how much time you might have left in the end, so cherish every second with what brings you joy and makes you happy. Choko and Milk made me really happy. The story was unusual and it is not explained why they could come back again just as they wish, but to be true, I don't care. I want them all to be happy!
10 out of 10 choco milk shakes
Happy Ending Outside The Fence (Happy Ending Romance) (on Gaga) - highest recommandation
This one was so good. The pasting was nice. The story itself is very complex. In the end Junghyun was the right person for Jungwoo when he needed to hide, to suffer and to feel the pain. But Jungwoo doesn't want to be this fragile, this hurt forever. He wants to go outside and live and that is when he meets Taeyoung. A literal ray of sunshine and he is exactly what Jungwoo needs to see the beauty in life again and to finally believe in himself again and lets face it, to say fuck you to all the haters and just don't give a fuck about what other people will think. The story and the complex relationships moved me deeply. It is a very mature story and so are the relationships built. Nothing is easy, but stagnation is no help in the end.
9,5 out of 10 manuscripts
Eien No Kino (8/8 on Gaga) - highly recommended
The aesthetics of this one is so beautiful. The story itself about a young love that is so strong that the one who dies can't leave this world because and comes back as a living corpse is both, unique and tragically beautiful. It broke my heart, especially the talk between Mitsuru and his father. The ending didn't wreck me the way I feared it would, because it was overall a great ending for their situation.
9 out of 10 loves at first sight
His - Koisuru Tsumori Nante Nakatta (5/5 on Viki) - highly recommended
Oh this was beautiful. The amount of thought that was put into this piece of media is amazing. I liked the dialogues and the dealing with coming out and the difficulties for lgbtq+ people in Japan and first loves and so much more in five fucking episodes. I wish there were more! Really good!
9 out of 10 surfboards
My Tooth Your Love (on Viki) - recommended without a doubt
I guess this could be called a nightmare for people with a fear for dentists. It is a slow burn, but when the fire was lit it was burning with a cozy and constant heat. I like Bai Langs and Jin Xun Ans story. And I must admit the last few minutes killed my cold heart with all the fluff and domesticity. As for Alex and RJ I wish we could have had a real reveal of their emotions. But it was a cozy last episode.
8,5 out of 10 plushies
Oh! My Assistant (8/8 on Viki) - totally recommended
This was funny and fluffy and cringy and lovely and I am in love with it! I don't know what it is exactly, but it brings me so much joy and a really good laugh! Even the fall-on-you-by-accident is just funny and predictable. The bi-awakening of the main is so simple and rational and I love this series for it.
8,5 out of 10 sexy drawings
Nitiman (10/10 on Youtube) - yeah sure, why not recommending
I read a review which said nothing happend in this series...and they were correct. The conflicts most of the times results in misscommunication or not communicating at all. What it is about? Well, college boy A likes college boy B and hits on him. They become friends and college boy B falls for college boy A. Some jealousy and some weird get-togethers of their friends to make a plan to get those two together. And college boy A and college boy B become secret boyfriends before going official. And you know what? I like it! It is just the right show to watch on a cold sunday afternoon to warm your heart.
8 out of 10 dumb reasons to get jealous
Ai Long Nhai (12/12 on Youtube) - recommended only if you want to laugh and love a slow death
Ai likes Nhai. Nhai likes Ai. They test a possible relationship. It works, they have a relationship and nothing more happens, okay yes, after knowing each other for like ten minutes, Ai asks Nhai in the last five minutes if he wants to marry him...Why? Just why? And I know, I said nothing happens in Nitiman, too, BUT! Nitiman has a decend acting, kind of likable characters and charisma, but this mess? I dont know...The story is flat and bland, the acting is not good in my opinion and I can't see the chemistry between the main couple for most of the times. The subtitles were one thing that made this whole experience funny.
4 out of 10 yellow ducks
Short films
Summerdaze Christmas together - recommended
This was a cute one. And a special chistmas episode? It is in my nature to love it. But it is really very cute and cozy.
8 out of 10 cozyness
Summerdaze (youtube) - recommended
It is so short! nd there is no dialogue. And yet the short film managed to tell a story. I am amazed. It is more of a trailer for a bigger project and we got a christmas special this year, which is so cute. Just have a look.
8 out of 10 good story telling
Movies
Sematic Error: The Movie (on Viki) - highest possible grade of recommandation
Well I rewatched the series a few days ago and now just watched this three hour long movie. There were only a few new scence, but I don't care. Every minute spent watching it was worth my time! I just love Semantic Error 💗
10 out of 10 gorgeous red outfits
rec (on Gaga) - recommended for the different type of view
Well, don't judge a book by its cover. I have to admit, that I needed to start this one for a second try. At first I was deterred by the way it was shot. The shaky cam and the amateur like filming was difficult to get used to. But I got used to it. I started to dislike Song Young Jun. He was a little bit too loud and too annoying. And I really thought, that they would break up, because his partner was annoyed by him. But they loved each other, dearly. And this movie can break your heart. It is deep and political and sad and yes, the nudity was part of this whole scheme of two people being vulnerable with each other, but not honest. It hurts. This movie hurts.
7,5 out of 10 beach scenes
What I’m looking forward to in December:
Oh! My Assistant (Dec 1)
My School President (Dec 2)
The Third Solar Term (Dec 5)
Lockdown (Dec 7)
Midnight Tod (Dec 12)
Never Let Me Go (Dec 13)
The Director Who Buys Me Dinner (Dec 15)
Ameiro Paradox (Dec 16)
The New Employee (Dec 21)
HIStory5: Love in the Future (Dec 28)
Sin (Dec 28)
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USS Texas (BB-35): Operation Goalpost, part of Operation Torch
"When France surrendered to Germany, in June 1940, an unoccupied area of southern France was allowed to have a collaborationist French government, in Vichy, France. The French authority in Algeria and Morocco at the time of the June surrender chose to follow the Vichy government."
A large portion of the French Navy, the Marine Nationale, and the French Army, the Armée de Terre, had been moved to the French colonies in North Africa. To neutralize the threat of these forces possibly being used against the Allies, the US and Britain sent out their militaries to capture or destroy any French assets and occupy the colonies. There were several ports invaded at the same time. Including the famous battle between the incomplete French Battleship Jean Bart and USS Massachusetts (BB-59) at Casablanca, French Morocco.
USS Texas (BB-35) was the flagship of Task Force 34.8, which consisted of USS Savannah (CL-42), USS Chenango (CVE-28), USS Dallas (DD-199), USS Roe (DD-418), and several other transport ships. Their main objective was to support the US Army 9th Infantry Division, 60th Infantry Regiment's capture of Port Lyautey, as part of Operation Goalpost.
The objectives of Operation Goalpost were:
Capture the village of Mehdia.
Capture Kashah Mahdiyya, a fortress at the mouth of the Sebou River
Secure an airfield.
The TF arrived in Port Lyautey in the early morning of November 8, and Texas quickly maneuvered into position to bombard targets. However, the US Army was running under the pre-war tactics and prioritizing the element of surprise, rather than softening up targets beforehand. This tactic was discarded shortly after. The element of surprise had already been lost since the other landings were already ongoing.
All three of her Vought OS2U Kingfishers were launched to provide spotting and support the troops. Some of Texas' AA crews fired at friendly aircraft but luckily none were hit. The officer who wrote the action report, chalked this up to nervousness.
Action reports of November 8. USS Texas was assigned to the northern most landing.
After the troops landed, the Army radioed for Texas to bombard a munitions dump near Port Lyautey. Only turrets no. 2 and 4 were needed to destroy it, firing only 59 rounds. The pilot reported about 20% landed on target. When the Kingfishers returned that evening, one of the planes capsized due to a wing float ripped off when it landed. The pilot and radio operator were rescued unarmed. The pilot reported he had taken AA fire from French forces, likely causing the accident. This plane was not recovered and was instead deliberately sunk with gun fire.
Action report of November 10.
On November 10, the Army called for fire support to disrupt enemy troop movements. Texas fired from the same two turrets as before, expending 214 rounds from 0843 to 1130, and making a road and the area impassable. The pilot reported the road was littered with wreckage and stalled vehicles. This road was later repaired after hostilities had ended.
During the fire support, one of the Kingfishers noticed a motorcycle with a sidecar leaving at a high speed. Thinking it was a high ranking official, the pilot broke away and strafed the vehicle with it's M1919 Browning machine guns. This caused it to crash in a ditch. The pilot then strafed other vehicles in the area, scattering troops.
At 1435, the Army radioed requesting aerial support as French tanks and other troops were advancing on their position. The two Kingfishers from Texas were quickly dispatched, along with aircraft from USS Savannah. One of Texas's Kingfishers was armed with a depth charge, AN-MK41, with instantaneous fuses. By the time they got there, the enemy forces were under attack by Savannah's planes and USS Dallas.
These pilots joined the affray and dropped a depth charge on a tank, making a direct hit. The pilot reported the explosion flipped two other tanks over and left a giant crater in the ground.
On November 11, the Army again called for fire support and Texas quickly made her way to the position. However, by the time she arrived, the French forces had surrendered. In the two days of battle, she fired 272 14" shells and 6 5" shells.
"When the fighting ceased, a party from TEXAS went ashore to Port Lyautey to clear the harbor of ships the French had sunk to blockade its use. Though French resistance in the area had ceased, German submarines were still active and had sunk several ships. On November 12, submarine activity was reported in the area around Texas and the escort destroyers dropped depth charges. Texas relocated to another area and encountered submarine activity again. She sailed figure eight inside a submarine screen while more depth charges were dropped. On November 15, Texas and the rest of TF 34.8 departed the area and arrived back in Norfolk on the 26th."
Note: there are no surviving photos of Texas during the battle, if there were any. In 1942, the US Navy actively discouraged sailors from taking any kind of photographs.
Photographed by Frank Scherschel of Life Magazine.
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Information from BattleshipTexas.info: link
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