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LOKI (2021) | 2.06 ‘Glorious Purpose’

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The fact that Tom gets worried and doesn’t like seeing Simon getting hurt and doing stunts 🥺🥺

Thank you.

also it appears to be nuclear.

Ever since someone pointed out the sigh of relief Henry lets out, it's all I've been able to see

Sometimes I think about how both Benji and Ethan don't think the other could love them, because of their self-worth issues

Benji doesn't think Ethan could possibly love him, cause he's just Benji. He's so normal compared to Ethan: the best agent, the legend, the living manifestation of destiny. Not a hot supermodel or a sly superspy.. just. Benji.

Ethan doesn't think Benji (or anyone for that matter) could or should love him. Everyone that's ever loved him is either dead or in danger because of him. He's damaged goods. He doesn't think he can give his partner what they need in a relationship. (He doesn't think he knows how to love them right he's not normal) Ethan's just a tool, a cog in the IMF, and no one can love an object

But Ethan doesn't give two shits about what Benji is not. He loves Benji for Benji, because Benji is Benji. And would go through hell over and over for the man he sees is that is brighter than the sun.

And Benji doesn't give a damn if Ethan thinks he's too dangerous or damaged to be loved. That's for him to decide. He knows what he signed up for and he sure as hell will not give up on the man (not a tool, not just an agent) that is larger than the whole galaxy.

I can't help BUT...

...and the look that has proven everything I believe in !!

sorry but not sorry :P

I'm not the biggest Mission: Impossible fan, but Dead Reckoning Pt 1 has given me feelings about something (Benji, okay, it's Benji) and I need to talk about them.

Spoilers and ramblings under the cut.

So, while the Entity definitely fears Ethan and the rest of IMF for being the only people with enough braincells to want to KILL the Entity instead of use it (honourable mention to Degas; please join IMF, dude), it strikes me that right from the beginning, it's gone after Benji.

We start with the bomb. The Entity knew Benji would be the one to come looking for it. Why? Because Benji is usually Ethan's eyes (noticing the suspicious bag), and it's a pattern that when Ethan is in danger or out of reach, Benji takes to the field.

Of the team, Benji is most likely to be susceptible to the psychological prodding from the bomb's questions. He doesn't compartmentalize the way the others do; he brings his whole self to every mission, and that makes him a good agent; it's why he babbles when he's nervous, cries openly, complains about the sheer insanity of what they're attempting to do, and then walks straight into the fire without hesitation.

So right away, the Entity wants Benji to know that it knows him. And by doing so, it's letting US know that it knows who Ethan's lynchpin is.

Then it takes it a step further: it steals Benji's voice. Listen to the commands it's giving Ethan through the comms, they're disjointed, haphazard, but Ethan never stops to question it. Why? Because it's Benji's voice. Ethan has always given himself completely over to Benji's directions (Benji told him to jump off a mountain onto a speeding train, and Ethan's thought process isn't nope, find something else, it's how in the goddamn hell am I going to do this. Because if Benji says it's the only way, then that's good enough for Ethan.)

And this hurts Benji. You can see the panic in his face, because he knows Ethan will trust his voice, and he's completely helpless. The Entity has attacked him psychologically, it's undermining his greatest skill (working with tech), and now it's taunting him with the trust Ethan places in him. It's slowly rendering him powerless.

Even though the line of self-harming was removed from the final product (and personally, I don't mind, but that's another discussion), we know Benji has his demons. He's had a bomb vest strapped to him, and he's nearly been hung (which is a TERRIBLE way to die) and both situations rendered him totally helpless.

But I think it's interesting that the Entity never asked him what it was he most feared, because we already know, we've already been shown what it is: Benji fears being a liability.

Specifically, a liability to Ethan.

And although I'm hoping against hope that they WON'T kill off Benji, because he's my favourite and because I think the MI world would be so much darker without him, I can think of no better way to push Ethan into despair than to put Benji in a situation where he has to sacrifice himself for Ethan. Because Benji is the only one that Ethan has repeatedly promised, with words, 'I will not let anything happen to you'. He couldn't even make that promise to Grace, because he's not sure anymore that he can keep it. But he HAS made that promise, repeatedly, to Benji. And Benji knows better than anyone how far Ethan will go to protect someone, how far Ethan has pushed to protect HIM specifically. He has sat there with a ticking timer among innocents completely aware that Ethan is not going to walk away, because abandoning his friends and partners (abandoning Benji) doesn't even appear on Ethan's radar. And that's a lot of weight to carry.

Of course Benji is afraid to die; he's stared death in the face many times. But he's more afraid of being a liability to Ethan. Of being the thing that leads Ethan to fail.

And the Entity is SHOWING him this, it's showing US this. And it scares the hell out of me. Because the one thing that could break Benji, is the one thing I can think of that would break Ethan. Forcing Benji to choose between death and Ethan's failure…and Ethan being forced to watch him make that choice.

Killing Benji before Ilsa might have struck a stronger blow against Ethan; the only reason to hold off is to make it even more painful. Show Ethan he can't keep his promises to protect those closest to him, put the doubt in his mind…then make it a reality. Destroy the one person he's always promised to protect, right in front of him.

And even if they don't kill him off (plzdon'tilovehim), even if they find a third option, the amount of damage being in that situation would do to both Ethan and Benji would be catastrophic.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have made myself sad, so I'll just be over here, writhing in agony until 2024.

"Far be it from me, and forgive me for asking, and I don't mean to pry, but... Do you consider yourself as a happy person?"

SIMON PEGG as HECTOR in HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS

"Get him ready please..."

He started out as a lab technician in Mission Impossible 3, and then in Ghost Protocol he joined the field program became an agent and over the years since then through Rogue Nation, Fallout and now this one, he's kind of matured, he's become more experienced, slightly more battle weary, he's a little bit under pressure in this one, he always is but in this one, there's some emotional stuff which was really fun to play.

---20230626 Heart Radio, UK---

My Lord, he surely knows how to make me scream like a 3 y/o child.

Lovely and Lethal.

Killer Style: Benji Dunn Simon Pegg edition

I was wondering if both of them were sharing a set of suit, same top and same bottom colour 👀

yeah maybe im so over benthan to the moon and sky right now thats why 🤣

Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning part one team