I thought it was fun how present days OBs mind was somehow updating in real time as Loki had a conversation with past OB.

DubFalls said:

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I thought it was fun how present days OBs mind was somehow updating in real time as Loki had a conversation with past OB.

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my favorite scene of the episode

Well that's not very nice.

Low-key awesome first episode of Lokie.

C@LAg said:

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the bombing of the timelines was supposed to be a BIG THING. But it carried no weight in the scene for me.

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Yeah, this season hasn't done enough yet to earn that scene.


Another thought... I was really happy to see Loki get to be a little bit of his former self in this episode. Need more of that going forward.

C@LAg said:

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shows been out a few hours and only 1 response so far.

that is how bad the MCU has fallen.

loved the chase scene/shadow loki scene. we need d more of the tricky/smart Loki,.

even Sylvie cannot look hot in a McDonalds type outfit

loved the interrogation scene.

the bombing of the timelines was supposed to be a BIG THING. But it carried no weight in the scene for me.

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It's not that it's fallen. Quite opposite, it's the best Marvel thing since Endgame. It just has a horrible time slot. You can't compete with the NFL. I just saw the new episode this morning. Loved it! Just wish new episodes premiered on Tuesday or Wednesday.

It's definitely a bit muddled…

At the end of S1, He Who Remains convinced Loki that he'd been pruning all divergent branches to prevent other Kang's from emerging and conquering all of space time in bloody wars.
Sylvie thought that was bullcrap so she killed He Who Remains.

So I'd expect Loki to now be onboard with pruning timelines. Why isn't he? Has he decided Sylvie was right?

Agree with others that the timelines should start branching all over again. So the pruning plot and everyone trying to feel devastated at the end landed flat.

Despite that, it was still an enjoyable episode. They do a good job with the silly banter moments and set design remains top notch.

No argument from me there. Just pointing out that Thursday evenings in October are already pretty packed with content. In addition to baseball, there was an NFL game and CFB on last night.

That said, it's a shame the other D+ series have burned so many bridges for folks, because Loki is a damn good show.

Aggie_Journalist said:

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It's definitely a bit muddled…

At the end of S1, He Who Remains convinced Loki that he'd been pruning all divergent branches to prevent other Kang's from emerging and conquering all of space time in bloody wars.
Sylvie thought that was bullcrap so she killed He Who Remains.

So I'd expect Loki to now be onboard with pruning timelines. Why isn't he? Has he decided Sylvie was right?

Agree with others that the timelines should start branching all over again. So the pruning plot and everyone trying to feel devastated at the end landed flat.

Despite that, it was still an enjoyable episode. They do a good job with the silly banter moments and set design remains top notch.

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I do agree with that. I think what they were going for was - this small faction of workers in the TVA (and assume more throughout) recently realized that there are all living breathing souls in all these timelines. So they were trying to show the weight of billions upon billions of real people and creatures being killed in an instant.

Does anyone really expect any well thought out direction from Disney and marvel at this point? Hope Loki bucks the trend but marvel has been on a pretty damn rough trajectory lately.

I love, love, love the look and the vibe of season two so far. They took the '70s/early '80s TVA aesthetic a step further, and now the entire thing almost feels like it was shot in the '70s or early '80s, in the coolest possible way. Like some trippy, long-lost experimental thing from that era. The cast is great too, especially Owen Wilson, who remains so perfect for this role. Overall, Loki is just so far ahead of all the other Marvel Disney+ crap, and I'm definitely having fun through these first two episodes.

That said, man, the multiverse nonsense has never been more annoying or dense. I'm just so over it all, especially with how much telling and not showing they did in episode two, with B-15 having to let us know over and over again that they were killing billions, without us having any emotional stake whatsoever in the bombing of the timelines. That, and I've completely lost track as to what the difference is between a traditional variant vs the TVA employees who simply had previous lives in the real world, as they've been referred to as "variants" as well.

Again, I'm having fun, I just constantly wish they were talking about anything else other than timelines and pruning. I just really, really miss pre-multiverse Marvel storytelling.

Did tonight's episode feel like a boring mess to anyone else?

This version of Kang is just… boring
Renslayer and Kang's… romance? Was boring
Miss minutes getting jealous is… Odd

Folks just seemed to show up and go away at random.

I spent most of the episode waiting for it to end.

Seemed like an episode to set up the rest of the season to me.

Hopefully it isn't disappointing like most Marvel stuff. I did really like the ending of the first season of Loki though.

I want full blown psychopath Miss Minutes to come out and play.

Aggie_Journalist said:

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Did tonight's episode feel like a boring mess to anyone else?

This version of Kang is just… boring
Renslayer and Kang's… romance? Was boring
Miss minutes getting jealous is… Odd

Folks just seemed to show up and go away at random.

I spent most of the episode waiting for it to end.

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I appreciate what they were trying to do, how ambitious the episode was, how much they clearly spent on it, etc, but yeah, it was just too all over the place. It simultaneously felt like like something super important was happening, but then also felt like a bunch of wheel spinning and water treading.

That, and the whole variant thing continues to confuse the hell out of me. In season one of Loki all his variants were different enough, were played by different actors and animals, and were clearly part of all kinds of weird and wacky multiversal timelines. Oddly, that actually made more sense, compared to now, where all the variants of He Who Remains each look exactly like Jonathan Majors, and I straight up don't understand Victor Timely's path compared to the path of, say, He Who Remains, who told us in the season one finale that he was/is a scientist in the 31st century or something, in another timeline. He talked about eventually meeting another variant of himself from another timeline, which clearly wasn't Victor Timely, but yet He Who Remains needs Victor to do... something... in the past... in in order for his plan to work... in the future... but in another timeline... and I'm just fed up with trying to keep track of any of it.

It used to simply be: purple guy bad, purple guy wants to bring balance to the universe by eliminating half of the population. Ok, got it, let's go.

Now? I get the basic gist, but when I'm watching any of it in real time I couldn't tell you a single thing about how it all relates, or what's truly at stake. And worse, I don't even really care. Multiverses on their own are complicated enough, but throwing time travel into the mix as well is just too much to keep track of, and I'm really, really close to giving up on all of it. And this is coming from the guy who usually loves time travel in movies, and is the one having to explain to everyone else how it all works.

Maybe he hid a child version of himself in the past, and the sacred timeline is the one timeline with no Kangs, bc the variant lived an meager life in the 1800s.

If you notice, the book drop was on the sacred timeline, but the world's fair was on a branch timeline.

I get the feeling at the end thst renslayer is a kang variant.