| Posted: 18 April 2010 at 5:41am | IP Logged | 1
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They actually made the sleeves look like plates instead of little puffy quilted squares.•• Unfortunately, that serves to point up the absurdity of the "skin tight" aspect. Unless we are being asked to believe Thor's sleeves and leggings are CONTOURED to the shape of his muscles! There are a lot of odd design choices in that costume/armor, really. The circles on the front of the body become three dimensional "shields", which has become something of a habit when sculpting Thor -- except below his belt they are merely silver circles (as they properly should be in all six instances, imho). Why the change? And why does that rippling version on his right side look like it would not turn into a circle if laid flat? Then there's the strap across his chest. What's that for? If it holds his cape across his right shoulder, what holds it on the left? And if something ELSE is holding it on the left, what's it for on the right? All in all, this smacks of the same kind of design-think that has infected STAR TREK. The more recent versions have had MORE bells and whistles. Everything is much more complex. As if technology got knocked back a couple of centuries after TOS. So too with Thor. Why does THIS Thor look so much more "primitive" than the traditional Marvel version?
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