This week, Pete Wright and Matthew Fox finally emerge from the long, dark tunnel of the pants gag as Thor: The Dark World enters its final act — and somehow also a crash course on the history of time itself. These minutes open with Stellan Skarsgård reclaiming his trousers (thank the Norns) and end with Jane Foster tearing a hole in physics over Greenwich, England — the very cradle of Greenwich Mean Time and, apparently, Marvel’s newest convergence point.Pete celebrates the sequence’s visual effects — “a parade of pixels,” in his words — and the historical symbolism of setting the climactic battle at the Prime Meridian, the literal zero point for world timekeeping. Matthew, meanwhile, goes full historian, dropping knowledge bombs about King Charles II, astronomer royal John Flamsteed, Chester A. Arthur’s International Meridian Conference, and why France held out until 1911 to accept GMT. You’ll learn more about longitude, time zones, and colonial pseudoscience than the filmmakers ever intended.Then, of course, there’s the elevator. Malekith’s spaceship has one — an external elevator bolted to the side of his interdimensional warship. Pete calls it “the embassy suites of interstellar travel.” Matthew calls it “proof the filmmakers lost a bet.” Between that and the “myth meets science” hand-waving (“He must be in exactly the right place at the right time!”), the hosts debate whether the film’s creators were having fun with fans or outright mocking them.Only 21 minutes left. Hold fast, friends.If you want to hear these conversations unfold in real-time, join the Marvel Movie Minute community at trustory.fm/join, where members get early access, invitations to live stream recordings, and other bonus content.Film Sundries
