Thor is the worst Avenger,
and his standalone films are clearly the weakest of the franchise. Once they
start getting into all that god nonsense, it’s hard to take seriously. I mean,
think about it – if you were a god, with power and sight beyond what we can
imagine as human beings, wouldn’t you not
act as if you were one of those silly, inferior humans? I mean seriously –
the palace (and even galactic) intrigue is barely worth mentioning. And who
even knows what Loki’s motivations are in the slightest, particularly pertaining
to his mind-bogglingly shortsighted actions in The Avengers? It’s madness.
Whatever. All this to say, Be My Friend in Exile, the recording alias
of Miguel Gomes, does a better job at personifying (or … what’s the opposite of
personifying? Godifying?) a deity through music than the Marvel team has ever
done through film. Maybe it’s just as well. Here, on Creator, You Destroy Me, Gomes is somehow in the presence of the
divine demiurge, and he can’t bear it. That mere presence is atomizing him. And
the creator doesn’t even notice – it’s too busy existing at a point where the
infiniteness of time and space cease to be separate, or indeed matter at all.
Guitar haze, drones, feedback – interstellar collisions and cataclysm on a
massive scale, yet experienced through distance. Tune in, turn on, warp drive
stuff.
And, we’re lucky, because Gomes would never, ever incarcerate any superhuman entity within a transparent prison.
They have those in movies because the
prisoner is going to escape, duh!
--Ryan Masteller
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