Thor 036: Is Jane the Worst Driver in the MCU?

<h2>Minute Thirty-Six: From Empty Bed in a County Hospital to Chained Hammer in an Impact Crater</h2> <h3>We’re digging deep into the movie as well as the impact crater in the thirty-sixth minute of <a href="https://trustory.fm/director/kenneth-branagh/">Kenneth Branagh</a>’s 2011 film <em>Thor</em>...</h3> <ul><li>Before we get back to Mjølnir’s impact crater, we return to the County Hospital.</li> <li>Even the god’s-eye view shots that Branagh uses in this film end up as dutch angles. They’re so great!</li> <li>Jane <em>really</em> wants to find Thor specifically for the science. He’s evidence. He can tell her all about what it was like in that event. They really focus on Jane and her science in this film. And it works well.</li> <li>Thor is hot, and for a lot of people that’s why they’d return to him but we talk about how there’s an entirely possible reaction from Jane that it’s really all about science here. Even if he wasn’t hot but was gross with a beard down to his knees, she’d likely want to talk to him.</li> <li>Erik really seems to be getting a better sense of what’s really going on. He’s a scientist also, but brings the older wisdom.</li> <li>But is Erik starting to get a sense that this person may be somebody from his storybook tales?</li> <li>At least Erik is trying to keep everyone alive.</li> <li>Darcy is fine tracking him down, but apparently ready to tase him again. But why does she cock her taser like a gun? They don’t work that way.</li></ul> <h2>First she forces Darcy to drive into an atmospheric disturbance, then hit Thor, and now back into Thor. Jane clearly shouldn’t drive.</h2> <ul><li>Jane backs up, and even though <em>we</em> can see Thor walking through the side windows, Jane apparently can’t and backs into him.</li> <li>To be fair, she’s rather worked up so maybe isn’t paying attention that well.</li> <li>But if Thor had his powers, would he dent the Pinzgauer? It’s a lot of mass... would it at least push Thor back a bit or knock him over?</li> <li>In the script, this is when he final