Well, I don't think it's that they're implying an EMT isn't awesome. I mean, Original Jane wasn't an EMT; she was a nurse. And she was a nurse because Don Blake was a doctor, and later on as people realised that girls didn't have to always be nurses, they made her a doctor - not because nurses aren't awesome, but because the whole dynamic where the man is the handsome doctor and the woman is the pretty nurse is kind of outdated and sexist. As Don Blake is no longer a doctor, there's no plot benefit to her being a nurse/EMT/doctor. I don't see any indication Thor will ever use Don Blake as a permanent cover, and I really, really doubt that Thor will work as a doctor - even if he ended up sharing bodies with Jane's ex Don Blake, movie Don Blake is not a medical doctor. Thor would have to go to medical school.
I don't know how she's going to be integrated, but I think a technical interest in the Bifrost and Asgardian technology will make it easier. In the movieverse fic I'm writing, she goes on study dates with Heimdall so they can work on fully rebuilding the Bifrost.
Also, switching her to a wormhole!scientist who just happens to specialize in Asgard makes it seem as if she was created just to be Thor's love interest. "Thor! Need someone to make out with? That's cool, we've got a crazy repressed lady who's dedicated her entire life to trying to find you (even though she didn't know it was YOU, but whatever), so, you know, you won't even have to try or anything!"
But she doesn't 'just happen' to - if she hadn't specialised in Bifrost/wormholes, she'd never have met Thor. It's not like he bumped into her randomly and found out she was studying him, she was investigating the phenomena, and her initial interest in him was because he was a part of that phenomena. Also, why do you feel Jane was crazy or repressed? Sure, she's dedicated to her subject, but she's good friends with a colleague, she's friends with her somewhat-confused intern, and she's clearly recently had a boyfriend.
his was after the only (on screen) interaction between them had been Thor kissing Jane's hand and Jane giggling a bit.
It was also after Jane helped him break into a secure government facility and then persuaded Erik to fake official documents to lie to SHIELD to break Thor out of SHIELD custody. By the point Erik warns Thor, Jane has already done something risky, made Erik do something risky, and had her life's work confiscated due to Thor.
a) Female scientists = awesome, but you can be a powerful, interesting woman and NOT a scientist.
Yes, you can, but when there are hardly any female scientists in Marvel comics and lots of male ones, I think it's great to even the field a little. Sure, nurses can be absolutely be awesome, but so can female astrophysicists, and we see a lot more female nurses on the screen than female astrophysicists.
And I really don't see the characters around them proclaiming their love; I don't recall Darcy, Loki or the Warriors Three bringing it up, and Erik had reasonable cause for worry that Thor would cause trouble for Jane, as he already had caused her trouble.
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I don't know how she's going to be integrated, but I think a technical interest in the Bifrost and Asgardian technology will make it easier. In the movieverse fic I'm writing, she goes on study dates with Heimdall so they can work on fully rebuilding the Bifrost.
Also, switching her to a wormhole!scientist who just happens to specialize in Asgard makes it seem as if she was created just to be Thor's love interest. "Thor! Need someone to make out with? That's cool, we've got a crazy repressed lady who's dedicated her entire life to trying to find you (even though she didn't know it was YOU, but whatever), so, you know, you won't even have to try or anything!"
But she doesn't 'just happen' to - if she hadn't specialised in Bifrost/wormholes, she'd never have met Thor. It's not like he bumped into her randomly and found out she was studying him, she was investigating the phenomena, and her initial interest in him was because he was a part of that phenomena. Also, why do you feel Jane was crazy or repressed? Sure, she's dedicated to her subject, but she's good friends with a colleague, she's friends with her somewhat-confused intern, and she's clearly recently had a boyfriend.
his was after the only (on screen) interaction between them had been Thor kissing Jane's hand and Jane giggling a bit.
It was also after Jane helped him break into a secure government facility and then persuaded Erik to fake official documents to lie to SHIELD to break Thor out of SHIELD custody. By the point Erik warns Thor, Jane has already done something risky, made Erik do something risky, and had her life's work confiscated due to Thor.
a) Female scientists = awesome, but you can be a powerful, interesting woman and NOT a scientist.
Yes, you can, but when there are hardly any female scientists in Marvel comics and lots of male ones, I think it's great to even the field a little. Sure, nurses can be absolutely be awesome, but so can female astrophysicists, and we see a lot more female nurses on the screen than female astrophysicists.
And I really don't see the characters around them proclaiming their love; I don't recall Darcy, Loki or the Warriors Three bringing it up, and Erik had reasonable cause for worry that Thor would cause trouble for Jane, as he already had caused her trouble.
Happy to have long conversations about Marvel movies! :D Not obnoxious at all.