Imitating Gods Can Get Dangerous

Today I take a look at the next installment of Thor: God of Thunder and Gorr, the God Butcher, certainly looks to be in charge. He’s getting prepared to detonate the godbomb and kill every god for all time, but Thor is, of course, doing everything in his power to stop him.

I also take another step in my rewatching of Star Trek the Original Series as I watch Charlie X and see how the Enterprise crew deals with a god-like being of their own.

On the whole, it was a pretty good day.

An Adolescent God

Charlie X
Episode 2 of Season 1 of Star Trek
Written by D. C. Fontana
Directed by Lawrence Dobkin

This second episode of Star Trek: The Original Series again shows how well the family of the Enterprise crew works as a unit.

The crew picks up a teenager who lived stranded alone on the planet Thasus for 14 years. Unaccustomed to social interaction and exhibiting incredible powers, Kirk and company have to tread lightly or risk some severe consequences.

Crew members are ‘disappeared,’ all phasers on the ship vanish, and chess pieces are melted, all demonstrating the god-like powers of Charlie Evans.

The episode is full of great interactions between Kirk and Spock, Spock and McCoy, Kirk and McCoy, and we even get to see Spock reciting poetry and Uhura singing. Once again, I’m impressed with how much like a family the crew seems, and while Kirk is clearly in charge, he relies on his crew to make the right decisions.

In the end, the Enterprise survives the encounter with Charlie and his god-like powers, and the Thasians even restore the missing crew members.

That’s certainly more than can be said about Thor and his troubles.

A Personal God

Thor: God of Thunder #10
God Bomb: Part Four of Five – To The Last God
By Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic.

The three Lords of Thunder were defeated. Gorr, with the slaughter of numerous god slaves, was able to absorb their essence and overpower the three Thors, and I’m not sure how the forces of good will come back from this loss.

King Thor was shot off into space, Thor the Avenger was buried in the ground, and Viking Thor was being dragged around by Gorr as he set the timer for the godbomb. Things do not look good. Not even the granddaughters of Thor are able to effect any rescue.

Gorr miscalculated though when he kills his wife. She was treating him like her own personal god, and he was not gonna have any of that. When his son learns of his mother’s death, his love for Gorr turns to hate.

Will the worship of Gorr’s son be enough to strengthen Thor to fight back and stop the godbomb?

The conclusion is next, and I am definitely looking forward to seeing how things turn out.

It’s a Wrap

Gorr is getting closer to killing all the gods while Charlie is just coming into his own god-like powers. Both run into issues with women, though, as Gorr’s downfall begins when he kills his wife, and Charlie can’t handle his feelings for Janice Rand. I think it’s an interesting comment on how, even with god-like powers, you have to be able to interact with others, particularly members of the opposite sex.

Ramble 2020.02.53 | Imitating Gods Can Get Dangerous