3. "REALLY looking forward to this one. Season 1 has definitely been " In response to Reply # 0
my favorite of the Disney+ MCU content so far. Performances were really good - the music score was incredible, as was the cinematography. The story was really well done and left the perfect amount of mystery going into season 2 while still paying off a lot in season 1.
4. "The more fantastical series bring a little more to the overall MCU." In response to Reply # 0
Falcon/Winter Soldier was kind of a bummer, and they pretty much dropped the ball on Secret Invasion, but Loki was pretty fun and set some high stakes (that were fumbled by Quantumania).
12. "So I need to watch Quantumania first?" In response to Reply # 5
I started that movie a few months ago, and fell asleep. Tried watching it again a couple days later and it just wasn't holding my interest. I really liked Loki season 1 though, but sounds like I gotta go back and watch that movie...?
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15. "FACTS on OB. Instant favorite." In response to Reply # 11
I think he's being set up for something big. Notice how no one else in the TVA remembers the past, but he remembers everything going back to the beginning. He wrote the guide book. I think he has somehow a higher level of importance along with He Who Remains and Miss Minutes.
Who was the brother in the white sitting by himself in the TVA room right before Sylvie left? Thelonious Monk? When I got up to the tv a little closer I saw Sylvie wearing an ankh earing in her left ear? What is the meaning of that? I saw one video of a guy breaking down all types of stuff down in the Loki ep but he didn't touch on that. Maybe because is style was to have a reference point to the things he touches on?
23. "My take on Miss Minutes was that" In response to Reply # 20
she was jealous of Renslayer and wanted to be a partner with He Who Remains. And she knows she can't be a full "partner" without a human body.
This episode ended with sort of a cliffhanger with Miss Minutes telling Renslayer that she knew a secret that would make her angry. We know from Episode 2 and the recording Mobius heard that HWR at some point did see Renslayer as a partner (the quote was something like "it's an honor to lead with you.) We can also assume that at some point that partnership ended, with him wiping her memory and placing her into the TVA. So maybe her secret has to do with how HWR broke up with her, demoted her, and wiped her memory.
>Miss Minutes being hungry for the D was a weird choice, and >now she’s a woman scorned.
21. " I loved this episode." In response to Reply # 19
Majors was hamming it up and I dug every bit of it. Being able to portrait different variants of the same character spread across time and branches has got to be fun.
28. "I mentioned something about this in post 15 after Ep 1..." In response to Reply # 27
>With VT & OB’s past relationship, could OB be a portion of >VT and HWR?
There's definitely some connection between OB and HWR. His memory has never been wiped, and the two of them together essentially created the TVA and the loom. OB could be a HWR variant, or possibly the real HWR.
>Renslayer is a cold piece. They didn’t have to keep the >gushy, dripping sounds in there like that.
This was seriously one of the best/worst deaths I've seen on TV. Everything about it...the foreshadowing/setup with Brad having been in the box before when Loki interrogated him, which added to his own terror and sense of survival in his decision to go with Renslayer (along with us in the audience, because we knew exactly what was happening without having to see it), Dox's last words to Renslayer which were GANGSTA, Miss Minutes's entire vibe of being so goddy about what she was seeing, and like you said, the dripping sound (which was still there when B-15 came back!)
>Sylvie not realizing she’s a god was weird writing or weird >for her to forget.
I didn't think it was that weird - first because Sylvie never really got to rule as a god...she was adopted into the family and then was taken by the TVA as a child. Second because it's not really the same thing, being one of many lowercase "g" gods of Asgard vs. the phrase "Playing God" which is a reference to a monotheistic supreme God making life or death decisions for the universe.
Loving this show. This episode wasn't as amazing as episode 4, but was a great setup for the finale next week.
I really hope OB shows up in some other MCU content somehow. He's been my favorite character this season by far. His office/study in the 90s looks to be the start of what would become the TVE in the "real world". And taking that idea further, it looks like Loki was always the person who actually founded the TVA with the gathering of the group we see here, though all of that was likely set in motion by HWR. The "snake eating it's tail" bootstrap paradox seems to be the basis for everything in this multi-verse...
31. "yeah this all seems planned by HWR" In response to Reply # 29
Even tho Loki and Silvie thought they were doing things their way, it appears everything is going as intended. I can't wait for Thursday. Gonna be a Marvel day for me. Seeing the Marvels that afternoon and Loki finale that night. Curious to see if/how the Marvels tie in.
39. "I definitely think it was. " In response to Reply # 33
It made the series a perfect loop, ending where it started. Same title as the premier - Glorious Purpose. Loki’s story in the premier started with the end of Avengers when he was a villain seeking a throne. Series ends with Loki actually getting a throne, but as a hero who is sacrificing his own life on the timeline to “rule” over the multiverse literally holding it all together and with no one even knowing of his eternal sacrifice.
34. "Where does Hiddleston’s Loki rank in GOAT on-screen comic characters?" In response to Reply # 0
He’s got serious comp just within his own camp, as Marvel several home runs in RDJ’s Iron Man, Chadwick’s Black Panther, Evans’ Cap, Hemsworth’s Thor, and Holland’s Spider Man.
I’m not talking about their movies per se, but their overall portrayals.
Hiddleston’s body of work as Loki is damn near spotless, and his overall story is about as compelling as anything I can think of in the genre.
He arguably has the best executed character portrayal in the genre, and I’m not sure anyone else is all that close. Boseman probably has the performance that’s hardest to replicate.
At first thought, this was a tough one.
I’m not sure it’s all that tough the more I think about it.
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“Why didn’t you do this in your own god damn country?"
-All Stah's view on undocumented immigrants wanting to be treated like human beings.
36. "It STILL seems like it's going as HWR planned" In response to Reply # 0
When he knew Loki would save him in the elevator that gave reason to pause. But my favorite part of that episode was when HWR paused and was like "how long you been doing this?" That whole convo. Mannnn
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41. "Nice convo overall but...." In response to Reply # 36
the HWR castle scenes from episode 6 in season 1 and season 2 don't "match up" vibe wise with HWR. Like if he is supposed to go back in time the vibe should match. It didn't. Some interesting lines in the dialogue but the different filming times threw it off for me.
42. "Most of that scene SHOULDN'T have matched up." In response to Reply # 41
Back in season 1, HWR was able to dodge every attempt Sylvie was making to kill him, and anticipate every word that was said, because up until the threshold was passed he literally had a script of everything that would happen. What we saw in this finale though was on the elevator Loki timeslipping into the scene and then saying different things from what he originally said in season 1. I saw a Youtuber specifically point this out - you can see HWR reacting differently at this point because he realizes what Loki is doing. He still keeps up the façade though, until he's sitting at the desk and says "how many times have you been at this", and at that point the entire vibe shifts because HWR isn't "acting" anymore, he's being himself and actually leveling with Loki about his options (though eventually Loki finds another way.)
40. "This was by far the best MCU Disney+ show. " In response to Reply # 0
Pretty sure that was the series finale. But they managed to do something that not only the shows but all of the MCU has struggled with since Endgame - have huge stakes that don’t essentially have to get ignored in the rest of the MCU. Loki’s sacrifice was amazing - he’s in the throne at the end, offering the choice of free will to the multiverse. The TVA won’t be able to keep up with all the Kang Variants, which means that Secret Wars is still coming. But because of Loki offering free will it’s not just going to go as HWR planned it - the characters in the multiverse will have a fighting chance to change things. And they likely won’t even know that their chance exists because of Loki literally holding the multiverse together without letting the branches die.
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