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Saw Thor last night at midnight (Thursday 5/5...or should I say Thor'sday?)

All of the portrayals of Asgardians were phenominal, but Tom Hiddleston's Loki stole the show.

The story was well written and well paced.

The special effects were mind-blowing. Asgard and Jotunheim were fantasy-based but real enough to believe, but the Destryoer took the cake.

I don't know as much about Thor as I do other Avengers, so part of me went to the movie to see the "next chapter" of the expanding Marvel Movie Universe and this is where it let me down. The only things that connected this move to what's been made before are the appearance of Agent Coulson and S.H.I.E.L.D. We know going in that this takes place during Coulson's absence in Iron Man 2, but there's no connection to Incredible Hulk that I could find except a passing reference to Gamma radiation.

I also found the human characters to be somewhat lacking in personality with the exception of Kat Denning's performance.  She took the gold there.

My only other significant gripe is the lack of easter egg references. I saw Hawkeye, but there was no mention of the name. There were references to Journey Into Mystery, Donald Blake, and Tony Stark, and the Stan Lee cameo of course...but not much else.

I plan on seeing it again, in the daytime, so I may catch stuff I missed. Still a great film that's worth the ticket price.

See, I thought about that myself, but according to the newscaster in The Incredible Hulk, the storm takes place in South Dakota/Virginia, near Culver University. According to the Thor trailers and what Coulson says in Iron Man 2, Thor lands in New Mexico.

It's possible he lands in Virginia and makes his way across the country with Jane to find the hammer in New Mexico...