Has it occurred to anyone that Frigga, at least in Norse mythology, is supposed to possess the gift of prophecy? She knows the future, and yet tells no one because she knows that she hasn’t the power to change destiny. If we think on the implications of this, then she knew, without a doubt, that what everyone else thought to be a prison break was in truth an invasion, and that she would die as a direct result. All her decisions are made knowing that they would lead to her death. Maybe that’s why she makes such an effort to see to both of her sons right beforehand, and looks so very sad. Despite all this, she still acts bravely and faces her fate like a true warrior goddess. What an awesome lady.
OH THANKS NOW IM SAD
I thought it was interesting how she hid Jane like that, given no one knew the true nature of the prison break. Now it all makes sense.
AND NOW IM SAD
which is exactly why i am uncomfortable calling what happened to frigga “fridging”. she made choices and had agency in her death, and while, yeah, there was some manpain resulting, i can’t really bring myself to believe that it was the sole intent of this event.
frigga is way too awesome for that.
am i pissed she died? yeah. you betcha. but she had an active hand in what she likely knew was her own fate, and she protected jane. i am not going to cast that away.
Yeah I mean. Women are going to die in stories sometimes. And it would be WEIRD if the men who supposedly loved them, for example their children and partners, weren’t made sad by this.
What bothers me about it isn’t Frigga’s death, specifically. Taken in isolation, it works within the story. She has agency in all of the choices that lead up to her death. And while her children and widower are sad that she’s dead, there was more to her death than just providing that emotional backdrop for Thor and Loki’s teamup
HOWEVER
It’s also within a wider social context of women, especially mothers, dying for the plot. And it’s hard to separate that. The mothers are ALWAYS the one who die so their children (almost always their sons) can go on adventures. That’s what’s disturbing about it. It’s not the individual case, it’s the overall tidal wave of dead mothers.
