It’s also a good character tell, because in Loki’s head he’s already seized control of the TVA and changed the timeline. His emotional reaction to the file on Ragnarok is very different from learning of his inevitable failure and death in the previous episode, as now he is back to scheming.
A renaissance fair would have been the perfect opportunity to put Loki in his classic costume. I am so disappointed they didn't go there.
So is Miss Minutes like an actual, physical, AI that the Time Keepers created? Man, it was hilarious watching Tom Hiddleston and Tara Strong trade jibes.
I love how the TVA give Loki a jacket that says "Variant" just so everyone knows what he is and where he stands. Like he's one mistake away from getting vaporized at this point.
Loki is that common a variant? I guess his grand purpose drives him to mess with the timeline often. I feel like they missed a chance to show off a bunch of different Loki looks from the comics over the years, although they did include a brief one in the Jason Aaron Thor run.
Debating which is the superior Loki when the real one is still dead is...kind of surreal.
So Loki's grand plan it to see the Time Keepers and overthrow them, or at least that's his plan on the surface, but it's kind of interesting to me that not even Mobius has ever actually seen the Time Keepers but Ravonna has. And then Loki keeps questioning about their existence and the TVA's purpose and whether free will actually exists, and it seems like we have an overarching mystery on our hands.
That one TVA desk guy is going to end up getting picked on by Loki all season, isn't he?
So in 2050 are there no Avengers ready to intervene in a disaster zone and save people trapped in a storm? I can see why they probably wouldn't want to nail anything that concreate down in a future flash forward, but I was genuinely curious.
Of course Roxxxon is now a corporate conglomerate with their own supermarket.
I have to admit I wasn't expecting the actual look of Lady Loki. Like, I had this image in my hand of Oliver Coipel's Lady Loki with luscious, long, black hair and a divine beauty with huge Loki horns, but here she has blonde hair, short horns, and doesn't quite look like a Tom Hiddleston gender-flip. Granted, in the comics back then Loki was possessing Sif and looked like her, and that's obviously not the case here. Not sure how to feel about it, although the actress feels great, as did all the possessed people having to play Loki in their bodies.
Why is this Loki transformed into a woman, specifically? Is it to feel incognito? Did she just feel like it? Or is it because she's so far away from her origin point that she doesn't acknowledge herself as the old Loki? She seemed genuinely insulted or mad when he called her "Loki."
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I think you misunderstood the Pompeii scene. It's not that Pompeii can't be prevented, it's that there's almost nothing they can do that would matter to the Golden Timeline. If Loki had stopped Pompeii from erupting, it would have caused a huge variant, but there's nothing he can say to the residents of Pompeii that would've had any effect on the timeline because the volcano would wipe away all the evidence.
Which is a little ironic considering that the word "apoclypse" is derived from the word for "to reveal."
Was anyone else thinking about Peter Capaldi and David Tennant during the Pompeii scene? I could practically hear the Doctor - "TVA? You're not from Gallifrey. Wait a minute, who are you?" Points screwdiver.
Anyhow, it seems apparent to me that we are dealing with the second Enchantress and the TVA just assumed it was Loki because its the same magic since she got her magic from Loki to begin with. I just don't think there are two Lokis running around and this is about something bigger, like a variant timeline trying to save itself from being "pruned."
Every day is a gift, not a given right.
Well, she has horns, so obviously she's evoking Loki to some extent, but considering she's blonde like all the comic Enchantress' are...
That would be a fun twist.
I still want to see FemLoki but I like that.
"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
2 for 2, still loving the tva
cool scene with the timeline bomb
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.
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.
Every day is a gift, not a given right.