Loki

[BeastieRunner]

Yes - I was just about to say the same thing. Considering how powerful the TVA is supposed to be, their people are all being taken down by someone with a knife. (and a lantern in the first ep) Is it a Vibranium knife? A magic knife? Is it The Time Knife? How lame is their armor? You'd think after the first few ambushes they'd think of a way to protect themselves from a knife. (they should go to Kingpin's tailor) Also, I get that Marvel doesn't want to overuse guns, but they should have some kind of long-range weapon. Still, I can sorta let it go since I think part of the point of how the TVA is being presented is meant to demonstrate that they're not as powerful or righteous as they think they are.

A time gun seems like a bad weapon for the work they do, IMHO. The batons that mess with your personal time field, the reset bombs, and time loop collars I think fit what they need to do. A gun tied to time could end up missing the target and erasing/resetting someone or something they didn't intend to.

I think showing them outmatched is a good story beat. They probably have "the Bug Guns™️" held in reserve. Would not be surprised if Justice Peace unloads one later in the series.

Personally I don't see why they bother to try and apprehend variants in the first place. Just pop in, use the reset thingy and leave. Boom. Any variant standing around would be pruned, it seems.

I'm sure they'll be explaining why that is bad in the next episode since the other Loki just created a TON of branches with the scatter bombs.

I bet if you reset a timeline with a variant present, the variant just gets to watch it go back to normal. Then they could just start over again. That would explain why you have to "delete" or "remove" a variant physically from the timeline.

Hence why they can hide in big events and not be seen because they can just do whatever after each reset.

[Frontier]

I'd be surprised if those batons don't have a long-range feature, but considering they haven't used it yet...

[DrNewGod]

You know, this is almost certainly not what's going on, but when we saw the Villain Variant I couldn't help thinking that one of Loki's specialties is illusion

[ZuLuLu]

It seem that her TVA file has her named as spoilers:

Sylvie Laufeydottir

end of spoilers

This would point to the evidence that she is a Variant.

Maybe she doesn't like being call Loki because, that name rubs her of her identity, the fact that she had a life of her own that the TVA erased because it didn't fit their sacred timeline.

[Frontier]

It seem that her TVA file has her named as spoilers:

Sylvie Laufeydottir

end of spoilers

This would point to the evidence that she is a Variant.

Maybe she doesn't like being call Loki because, that name rubs her of her identity, the fact that she had a life of her own that the TVA erased because it didn't fit their sacred timeline.

spoilers:

Are we ever going to get Amora in the MCU?

end of spoilers

[Adam Allen]

A time gun seems like a bad weapon for the work they do, IMHO. The batons that mess with your personal time field, the reset bombs, and time loop collars I think fit what they need to do. A gun tied to time could end up missing the target and erasing/resetting someone or something they didn't intend to.

I think showing them outmatched is a good story beat. They probably have "the Bug Guns™️" held in reserve. Would not be surprised if Justice Peace unloads one later in the series.



I'm sure they'll be explaining why that is bad in the next episode since the other Loki just created a TON of branches with the scatter bombs.

I bet if you reset a timeline with a variant present, the variant just gets to watch it go back to normal. Then they could just start over again. That would explain why you have to "delete" or "remove" a variant physically from the timeline.

Hence why they can hide in big events and not be seen because they can just do whatever after each reset.

See, I think it would be weird for me if they do have some kind of special forces in reserve or something, because what were they waiting for? They've already been saying how many of their teams have been wiped out by the Variant, and their recruiting Loki has been portrayed as kind of an act of desperation, something they wouldn't usually do and most of them still think is crazy -- with all that established, how do you later come back and so, oh no, we weren't serious before, but now we're really mad?


Meh, anyway, and more importantly -- you guys really following all this Sacred Timeline and Variants and "no more multiverse" business? Because I'm just kind of along for the ride, but I really don't get it. There's already more than one timeline, right? Like, the Avengers movies showed there's at least two, the one where Thanos dies on that alien planet, after the Snap, and the other where their Thanos and all his forces just disappear into thin air way before he ever assembles the Gauntlet, because he followed our main storyline Avengers back to earth, and was killed there.

That's going to make for two pretty different timelines, right? One where half the universe was wiped out for five years before being brought back, and another where that never happened? So, there's lots of timelines? If that's the case, then the TVA is monitoring all of these, and only "pruning" when someone does something they're not supposed to?

So ... those Time Masters or whatever, are monitoring all timelines, but just have the TVA in the Sacred Timeline, and send them out to other ones to stop a branch from happening, based on whatever special knowledge they have? Is that ... the basic setup, prior to whatever Lady Loki just did? Or was I already misunderstanding?

Full disclosure, didn't understand exactly what she did at the end there, either.

[inisideguy]

I know its been said before but the production design on this show is brilliant

[DrNewGod]

spoilers:

Are we ever going to get Amora in the MCU?

end of spoilers

Probably not. I love her, but spoilers:

the sex vixen temptress is not a character Disney has any interest in depicting. AoS did so with Lorieli, but that was before the Disney deal

end of spoilers

[DrNewGod]

I know its been said before but the production design on this show is brilliant

Yeah, it really is. There are some confusing bits, like why they have to pour over files, instead of an AI doing the work, or the inefficiency of dialing a rotary phone, but it is gorgeous. I wonder if they'll explain the contradictions, or just leave it to us to puzzle over.

[godisawesome]

Yeah, it really is. There are some confusing bits, like why they have to pour over files, instead of an AI doing the work, or the inefficiency of dialing a rotary phone, but it is gorgeous. I wonder if they'll explain the contradictions, or just leave it to us to puzzle over.

I suspect the TVA is a place formed by “impressions” of reality in a way - it’s a hodge podge of anachronisms and oddities that alters reality within its domain.

Or it could be a sign of the fall ability and limits of the Timekeepers powers.

[Frontier]

Even Loki asked exactly where they were. The future? Somewhere outside of time? Mobius didn't answer him.

Probably not. I love her, but spoilers:

the sex vixen temptress is not a character Disney has any interest in depicting. AoS did so with Lorieli, but that was before the Disney deal

end of spoilers

spoilers:

I don't think Enchantress is that far off from actual Disney villains. It's probably way past where they would be doing anything between her and Thor anyways.

end of spoilers

[Frobisher]

A time gun seems like a bad weapon for the work they do, IMHO. The batons that mess with your personal time field, the reset bombs, and time loop collars I think fit what they need to do. A gun tied to time could end up missing the target and erasing/resetting someone or something they didn't intend to.

I think showing them outmatched is a good story beat. They probably have "the Bug Guns™️" held in reserve. Would not be surprised if Justice Peace unloads one later in the series.

The idea that cops should be sparying bullets everywhere like John Matrix seems like a peculiarly American affliction. I absolutely agree that the minutemen are going into known situations to carry out delicate correction work and their equipment is clearly a sufficient edge to achieve that objective. We also now know that they're often being ambushed by their own team mates during these incidents, and that would catch pretty much anyone out.

[Jack The Tripper]

My one big hope for this show is that Mobius doesn’t die

[Captain Craig]

I finally got to watch the first two episodes of LOKI. Curious how many answers we will get in the next 4 episodes. Loki asks a lot of questions(cause in some ways he is our stand-in) but hasn't gotten much in the way of answers.

-these Timekeepers decide time, no free will you say?
-where/when exactly are we...is it the future?
-I'm(loki) in trouble for violating time but I wouldn't even be here if not for the time traveling Avengers, why aren't they in trouble?(Mobius does say that was approved but Loki has a point)

Mobius shows that across the timelines their main Variant foe has been Loki doppelgangers. To even get on the TVA's radar you'd need to powerful. Lets circle back to that disintegrated person for not taking a ticket. Now, assuming he's making valid threats, his dad is "_________"(CEO, President, whatever) at Goldman Sachs. So, who is his dad? A powerful entity masquerading as his human dad and he stumbled across a powerful element that got him on TVA's radar? My thinking is.....how many possible threats to Time exist in any ONE timeline to really warrant a TVA in the first place??

With the Dr. Strange 2 film being about timelines and alternate realities I also have trouble thinking this TVA is that all powerful. Same for these Timekeepers. This show is going to trump the cinematic entries?

Loving the production value and acting and I'm along for the ride.


EDIT: Can the thread title be renamed? Remove 'trailer'. I'm guessing the OP intended to just discuss the trailer and it has been hijacked as the show discussion thread now.

[Frontier]

My one big hope for this show is that Mobius doesn’t die

I wonder if he'll get to ride a jet ski.