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When Thor told Loki that, "You have no idea. Been quite the revelation since we last spoke.", what did he mean?
Their last conversation had been in the prisoner's quarters and Thor was not in a talking mood. But then he had time to think up in Hulk's penthouse and he would have realised that:
A. Loki had allowed him back onto Asgard. Scourge was under orders to annouce Thor's arrival, but not to ignore his request for the Bifrost or to kill him. Loki wanted Thor to be able to return.
B. Loki could have killed Odin, but instead only banished him (and a relatively comfortable banishment at that, compared to what Hella had).
C. Loki was a peaceful (if laissez faire) ruler of Asgard as he pretended to be Odin. He could have warred, plundered, slandered Thor, made dangerous and damaging mischief. But instead he relaxed and gloried in the luxury of palace life, aggrandised himself, and left the Realms to do their own self-governance (perhaps for some future purpose...).
A+B+C= Loki is not evil. Self-centered and devious, but not evil. He wanted to be a king, ideally "the rightful king of Asgard", and ruling was his priority.
Thor knew that Loki would always try to take the crown for himself, and by trapping him on Sakaar with the obedience disk he could count on Loki to return to Asgard and "save the day" as a back-up plan if he, Valkyrie and Hulk could not depose Hella themselves.
Thor learned that Loki was loyal to Asgard, would do anything to frame himself as the rightful king, and that retrieving the Tesseract was a very strong motivator...
Their last conversation had been in the prisoner's quarters and Thor was not in a talking mood. But then he had time to think up in Hulk's penthouse and he would have realised that:
A. Loki had allowed him back onto Asgard. Scourge was under orders to annouce Thor's arrival, but not to ignore his request for the Bifrost or to kill him. Loki wanted Thor to be able to return.
B. Loki could have killed Odin, but instead only banished him (and a relatively comfortable banishment at that, compared to what Hella had).
C. Loki was a peaceful (if laissez faire) ruler of Asgard as he pretended to be Odin. He could have warred, plundered, slandered Thor, made dangerous and damaging mischief. But instead he relaxed and gloried in the luxury of palace life, aggrandised himself, and left the Realms to do their own self-governance (perhaps for some future purpose...).
A+B+C= Loki is not evil. Self-centered and devious, but not evil. He wanted to be a king, ideally "the rightful king of Asgard", and ruling was his priority.
Thor knew that Loki would always try to take the crown for himself, and by trapping him on Sakaar with the obedience disk he could count on Loki to return to Asgard and "save the day" as a back-up plan if he, Valkyrie and Hulk could not depose Hella themselves.
Thor learned that Loki was loyal to Asgard, would do anything to frame himself as the rightful king, and that retrieving the Tesseract was a very strong motivator...
