Originally Posted by
Raye
Interesting thoughts. Kind of puts things in a new perspective i hadn't quite considered. it definitely makes sense, though. And Aaron has often been critical of blind faith, too, so I can easily see him going down that path with the Mjolnir story.
And yes, it was a slow reveal. At first when the Mother Storm aspect was revealed, I was... not so hot on the idea. But now that it's more sinister side is coming to light, it's becoming a lot more interesting to think of the hammer not just as a character, but as the hidden villain of the story. One that has been hiding in plain sight all along. The signs were there from the beginning, if you look back, but it was a sort of slow drip of one kinda shady thing after another. I saw from early on that Mjolnir was acting independently at times, and that Jane acted and spoke differently under it's influence. She seemed extra judgemental and quick to fight. But because the change wasn't as overt as it is with Volstagg, it was hard to say if this was anything that was necessarily bad or not. Until the fight with Odin, that seemed.... over the top. And the flashback story about how the storm was trapped, and how violent and unpredictable it was. And the reveal about her cancer, and that Mjolnir was preventing her chemo from working. And it is telepathic, so it KNEW this. Now this scene where she is on death's door, and it's still come to snatch her away. Separately, these don't necessarily mean a lot, but when they are all put together... Mjolnir starts to look more sinister.
the only thing left to be explained is.... why is it showing itself NOW? when it was in Odinson's hands, it didn't display these same qualities, he seemed shocked that it spoke to her, that it acted independently in her hands but never had in his own. What is it about him that kept the storm i check all this time? or, alternately, what is it about Jane that set it loose?