MARVEL'S: LOKI

[goatchumby]

What about it? S1 ended with Loki being sent to the TVA's

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past. This is why Mobius and Hunter B15 did not know him. This is the past that predates the 3 Time-Keepers, when Kang/He Who Remains himself ruled the TVA (hence all the Kang statues). This is why when Loki pruned the wall on the conference room, the 3 heads of Kang appeared.

He spent most of the first episode time jumping between the past, present and future of the TVA.

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IMO, just a lot of exposition spent not advancing things much (e.g. failed attempts at fixing the timeline). When Timely got himself Twizzlered a lot of screen time was lost with that plan. It reminded me of the frequent rebel screw ups in The Last Jedi.

But hey, people love the show (it definitely has had its moments) so I must be a tougher customer this time around. And I'm usually pretty positive about things too. That being said…

I'll just sit tight and watch the finale.

 

[jaztermareal]

I may give season 2 a go since the response here is mostly positive. I was gonna skip due to just not caring about MCU any more.

I watched Love and Thunder and Ant Man: Quantumania due to the mrs wanting to watch them but skipped pretty much everything else of the past couple years. It is just all so poorly written but the comments here indicate that Loki s2 is better so perhaps the MCU has something worth watching in its death bed. I hope I like it!

 

[Dino_Ranger_White]

That's really not saying much.

It is for me, as I've enjoyed every show so far.

All of them IMO are better than 90% of the crap on regular television anymore.

 

[Garlador]

I may give season 2 a go since the response here is mostly positive. I was gonna skip due to just not caring about MCU any more.

I watched Love and Thunder and Ant Man: Quantumania due to the mrs wanting to watch them but skipped pretty much everything else of the past couple years. It is just all so poorly written but the comments here indicate that Loki s2 is better so perhaps the MCU has something worth watching in its death bed. I hope I like it!

Don't want to give you any unfair expectations, but Loki S2 definitely runs circles around Quantumania and Love & Thunder, by my metric.

 

[goatchumby]

Ok, just finished the finale.





Much better

 

[BladeS]

This might be my favorite MCU property post endgame. Movie or TV show. Absolutely incredible. Probably the best finale to any of their shows.

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The entire sequence where he's walking out on the track and just rips the loom apart and then turns into the ******* God of Time... Holy ****. And when it zoomed out and rotated and you see that it's Yggdrasil. I think I audibly gasped and did the DiCaprio meme.

God I hope this show gets proper recognition.

 

[batmanfan23]

Why was Loki able to time skip? Where did that power come from?

 

[chrisstbh]

Why was Loki able to time skip? Where did that power come from?

The writers

 

[Dave_W]

While I liked the finale, I have no ******* clue what's going on.

 

[loki2371]

While I liked the finale, I have no ******* clue what's going on.

Clearly the sign of a well written show.... The writers must be Jar Jar Abrams and Ruin Johnson fans..

 

[Dave_W]

Clearly the sign of a well written show.... The writers must be Jar Jar Abrams and Ruin Johnson fans..

I think it's more that I have no idea about any of the comic book lore and the ending is clearly aimed at fans who recognise all of this stuff.

 

[Sassafras]

I think it's more that I have no idea about any of the comic book lore and the ending is clearly aimed at fans who recognise all of this stuff.

Yep.

My first reaction was "chaotic. WTF. Jerky." but there's something mesmerizing about it too. The interactions between Loki and Mobius remain stellar with Hiddleston and Wilson continuing to knock it out of the park. But the other actors do a fine job; appealing characters sort of morphing into a ragtag team.

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Considering there was a whiff - maybe more than a whiff - of Loki and Sylvie having a thing, it was jarring to see that completely jettisoned and Sylvie to me felt a bit sidelined. On the other hand, for all the flack Majors has gotten, IMO the last interaction with Loki and Kang I thought was great e.g. Loki facing the checkmate, of sorts. What was that quote by Loki "we are born with the dead" I am still looking that one up, no luck yet, unless it's a reference to the sci fi book with the same title? Anyway their conversation I thought was pretty good.

As well as the spaghetti disintegrations...maybe it's comic accurate but didn't like Loki's last look - like, bedroom slippers? He's supposed to be a nature god now? Thank gawd I have other Lokis - but it was good to see Loki bein' a god, and there was some fun stuff like the evil Loki fakeout (warm fuzzies seeing Loki be a bad boy again lol however briefly). Other stuff I liked was Ms. Minutes sort of going HAL etc. like every AI horror movie ever - plus that end line about when she's rebooted whether she'll kill them all and the science geeks just shrug. Typical science geeks.

I figured Loki's end was a comic reference so looked that one up; so those end shots of the tree were awesome AND for me, it's nice to know, there's room for Loki to make a reappearance in the MCU; or a cameo; gawd knows the MCU movies need some help.

Overall, I liked Season 1 better - lol partly because of all the Lokis, partly because I'm not comic immersed to understand everything in Season 2; but I'm not the kind of person who's good with time and thoughts of infinity "I'm a simple man making his way through the universe." On the other hand, IMO this was a lot better handling of time concepts than the smaltzy rehash in End Game. It brought up the concepts of choices, and what those choices mean. Actual stakes.

As much as can be crammed into a TV series, tho this series didn't look cheap to do, at all. I need to watch some YT breakdowns and rewatch. I waited to binge watch and dodged spoilers. For me it's the best of the series; can't even remember Ms. Marvel something something bracelet something.

 

[choombaz]

Yeah i thought season 1 overall was much better. This season was up and down for me but still one of the better recent MCU. Sylvie was sidelined quite badly. I love her character and to see that happen was disappointing. As much as I liked all the new characters there were too many and meant that the core characters all suffered. The three leads just didn’t get as much to do and didn’t feel like there was much character progression.

BUT. That last episode was pretty amazing. On a purely visual storytelling level it was incredible even if I didn’t understand a lot of it on a literally. Sure it was basically Groundhog Day lol but it was well done and I will admit Majors I thought was much better as Kang in this episode than he was in the season 1 finale.

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If this is it for Hiddleston, an incredible performance.

 

[Garlador]

The best praise I can give “Loki” is I don’t give a crap about the character in the comics, or MOST of the MCU. I had no real interest when a “Loki” show was announced. I thought they were scrapping the bottom and bringing back a character I thought was fine staying dead in Infinity War…

… yet this became one of my favorite MCU projects, and by the end I was on the edge of my seat as the main character achieved his “glorious purpose”.

Now I’m just sort of stunned silent and digesting what we experienced.

Loki ran circles around every other MCU project post-Endgame, I think.

 

[chrisstbh]

While I liked the finale, I have no ******* clue what's going on.

Loki ascended to actual godhood and freed the multiverse giving all free will, downside is it also frees all of the Kangs.

This is how we will get Deadpool and Fox-verse/Mutants in the MCU.

 

[Dave_W]

Loki ascended to actual godhood and freed the multiverse giving all free will, downside is it also frees all of the Kangs.

This is how we will get Deadpool and Fox-verse/Mutants in the MCU.

I understand the overall plot, but it's the logistics of it I didn't get.

He destroyed the loom that generates the timelines, so to prevent the timelines from dying he uses his magic to keep them all stable? Where did that power come from?

 

[chrisstbh]

I understand the overall plot, but it's the logistics of it I didn't get.

He destroyed the loom that generates the timelines, so to prevent the timelines from dying he uses his magic to keep them all stable? Where did that power come from?

Yes

 

[Garlador]

I understand the overall plot, but it's the logistics of it I didn't get.

He destroyed the loom that generates the timelines, so to prevent the timelines from dying he uses his magic to keep them all stable? Where did that power come from?

Yes

Apparently so.

 

[BladeS]

I understand the overall plot, but it's the logistics of it I didn't get.

He destroyed the loom that generates the timelines, so to prevent the timelines from dying he uses his magic to keep them all stable? Where did that power come from?

Loom doesn't generate timelines, it just kept them all flowing nice and neat. You know, like when you use a loom to make rope. When too many strands were going into the loom it was breaking.

And to answer the last question:

 

[choombaz]

Well Hitchcock always said if you made a suspense film that was completely logical there would be zero suspense and I think that logic applies here. Wait, did I just time loop myself.