Sometimes I regret the non-Danishness of the majority of the internet...

[oneiriad]

I'd like to leave a prompt at norsekink that would basically go something along the lines of: Loki - while exploring Midgard - discovers the travesty that is Jul i Valhal. He quickly reconciles with Thor as the brothers make a bonding experience out of punishing the people responsible for this blasphemy.

Somehow, I doubt anybody would know what I was talking about...

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[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

*blinks, a lot* Wow. That ... I don't think ... *shakes head* I could have done without the music video, I think. Heh. Not how I usually imagine Loki. Or Hel, for that matter. Though she does kind of remind me, there, of Mab in the 1981 version of Excalibur. Heh.

Still. Wow.

Pardon my long-winded-ness

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It wasn't exactly the best christmas calendar tv series ever made, though the music videos was a particular low point for Danish tv...

Mind you, Hel was one of the better bits - regal and acting all evil, while really she was just lonely - her family never visits, so when Balder comes down to her, he is bloody well going to stay. That said, it's just plain weird seeing Loki call Hel "auntie" - dear Loki, your family must be exceptionally twisted even by divine standards if your daughter is your mother's sister...

The series didn't ever feel like its own story - I mean, the main plot of two children managing to free the chained Loki, thus accidentally starting Ragnarok and then having to scramble to stop it - that's alright. It's just - the series simply didn't have the budget to tackle Norse myth (ie. the Jotun armies looks like somebody rounded up a bunch of larp'ers and it wouldn't surprise me if that was actually the case) - but then, I doubt anywhere outside of Hollywood could do a live action Norse myth version that would do it justice in scale.

Also, the whole thing is so obviously made (as tvtropes puts it) lighter and softer for its intended audience, which in some cases has gone so far as to be ridiculous, and finally, there's already two extremely succesful intended-for-children modern versions of Norse myth in Denmark (Peter Madsen's awesome Valhalla comic books and Lars-Henrik Olsen's novels about Erik Menneskesøn), which actually manage to be child-appropriate while remaining faithful to the myths and not being particularly lighter and softer - actually, a lot of Jul i Valhal had clearly stolen chunks of inspiration from these, for instance, Loki looked suspiciously like Peter Madsen's version - evidence: http://www.petermadsen.info/pages/vh/valhalla-eng.html

And still the series managed to be a big enough hit that a sequel movie was made, having a bunch of Aesir coming to modern day Denmark to prevent the gold horns from being stolen, which leaves me wondering if somebody in charge missed the 19th century class in Danish history or something, because seriously... (I haven't actually worked up the courage to watch that one yet, I'm still cringing from JiV...)