Hey guys welcome back and for those of you don't know my name is Robert Macfarlane and I
take your favorite film and TV series analyze it and show you just why the filmmakers do it
and today we're going to be taking a look at 'classism' in Loki
Marvel Movies and TV series tend to make rather huge universe encompassing
save the world type movies and story so what's really interesting is Disney+ latest series
Loki does take a moment to actually make a statement on class in one of his episodes
spoilers for Episode 3 of Loki also stick around for the end of the episode
to see why this scene shows us just how different this Loki is to the one that we lost in Avengers
Endgame if you're suitably caffeinated right now like I am don't forget to like and subscribe so
you don't miss any more of my fully caffeinated videos in the coming weeks back to the episode
you idiot this is Lamentis One I don't know what that means so after a bit more ambling across this alien
planet they arrive at the train station because apparently Google Maps still works
so when we join the pair who've arrived at this train station we get to see what's happening and
this is where we start to expand upon what the filmmakers are trying to say
about human culture human nature as you see here there's a long queue of people dressed
very similarly down the queue now we don't know too much about the hierarchy of this planet just
yet but the first clue comes into view around here look at the way the guards are dressed
first of all they have guns so that keeps people relatively orderly
secondly the way in which the face shields cover their identities and the design of the guards
uniforms make them look far more regal far more upper class than those peasants that happen to be
in this queue side note the planet is about to explode and everybody knows it everybody's
trying to get off the planet to safety yet they are queuing in a very orderly manner they must
be English maybe a strongly worded email to middle management that'll get shit done I'll show them so
as the two Loki's find their way past the queue and they're about to enter the train we hear
yeah what about us well that confirms our suspicions that there is most definitely
a social hierarchy on this planet and it is just as corrupt as our own
we see ahead of the two Loki's two characters just sashaying towards the front of the train
not looking at the peasants across to the side who are screaming and shouting at them and complaining
that they're not getting on the train but they haven't been given tickets but these two do but
what's really interesting here is there's a little detail in the background which tells us even more
information about the social hierarchy of this situation check the background there is literally
a metric ton of luggage waiting on the platform to be loaded onto the train confirming that the issue
that the peasants aren't getting on the train isn't to do with lack of space okay
what a wonderful time to celebrate the end of the whole planet and all the people that
they've left behind on that platform to die so the first three shots on the train
show us just how bad this issue of classism is on this train first of all we get to see
some of the other passengers on the train they're smiling enjoying themselves we see
one or two spare seats around them nothing too bad but then as the camera pans across the space
we see more and more and more seats completely free the train was never full it was never even
meant to be packed and the passengers on the train are of a specific strata probably not wanting
to have shared the space with peasants on this last ride to the last ship evacuating the planet
in fact if you take a look here this passenger's positively ecstatic that they survived and the
peasants didn't I don't know about you but this kind of feels a little bit Snow Piercer
if you're enjoying the episode so far don't forget to comment down below let me know what other TV
series and films you'd like to see analyzed in the coming weeks also this entire space is so lavish
it's not designed to house a hundred passengers it's maybe designed to seat 20 in lavish comfort
being served by a bar that's in the center of the space it's so uneconomical it's so over the top
it's not meant to be for people who can't spend copious amounts of money on a seat
finally I want to address the big elephant in the room and that really is that this scene
totally secures where Loki's head is at in this series cheers to the end of the world
compared to the Loki who was killed in Avengers Endgame the tesseract or your brother's head
this leaves us with a really strange taste in our mouths we know that Loki is redeemable
and so this sequence where we see him pass by obvious opportunities where he could
be heroic he could save people easily have used his magic to sway the guards in the line to let
all of the peasants on instead he doesn't do any of that so we're stuck following a character who's
obviously still not seen the error of his ways you do realize we're about to try and hijack
the power source to a civilization's only hope I do it's not going to be easy we should rest
he's still 10 20 steps behind the character that we saw in Avengers Endgame and this also makes
Loki an incredibly compelling character to watch because we want to see him evolve we want to see
where these new events will take Loki's character will he become a hero or will he become a villain
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