Season 2 launched.

That was wild with a ton of rapid-fire shit, and I think there are a load of easter eggs easily missed in there. There is an after credit scene.

Damn that was a good start to the season. I definitely recommend watching one of those nerd explanation videos on YouTube like new rockstars. He pointed out a few things that I either didn’t notice or went over my head. Can’t wait for episode two!

What in the ****?

Okay, so Imma have to watch that 3 more times to figure anything out at all.

I just don't watch these shows closely enough for stuff to get this deep into the weeds. I'm trying to eat lunch and play games on my phone while Loki flips off one-liners here, fellas.

This time traveling multiverse stuff is just gonna make my head hurt.

I liked the scenes with OB, Mobius, and Loki. Great cast and interactions
Owen Wilson still cracks me up. Even though he's very much himself

I'll check out a "nerd video" as someone recommended as I'm sure I missed most stuff. It felt like it just threw in a new judge & general w/o much explanation

That felt like they skipped something, likely intentionally. I had to check and make sure I was watching episode 2 and not 3.

They cram pack these episodes full of easter eggs and hints at what's to come. New Rockstars are mad scientists with the way they break this shit down.

So that General Dox (the Scottish chick that was breast feeding her grown son on game of thrones) basically just leapfrogged Thanos on the body count tally right?

Well, were those universes she pruned? If so, then absolutely.

Dude TVA had surpassed Thanos body count pretty damn early in their creation.

It's crazy how much this show outclasses all of the other Disney+ series. This is good shit.

Haha! Same here. Glad to know it wasn’t just me.

Acting,

Mobius/Loki interaction is some of the best acting I've seen. Their chemistry on screen is amazing. The both have range, and depth.

Yeah, I think B-15 was like “she’s killing billions” as they’re pruning multiple timelines.

In my head I’m thinking she’s probably killing trillions if each one is an entire universe.

Yep, this was what I was going to say. Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson have great chemistry and their scenes are top notch.

Plus, Loki feels like it's integral to the current MCU more so than any of the movies or current shows.

Does anyone have any interest in the new Marvels movie coming out. I know I have 0 interest in it.

Very, very, very little. Will wait until it comes on Disney +.

Low interest.

I did see a recent trailer that hinted at Thor making an appearance. But after Love and Thunder, I'm not sure if even Thor showing up would be good enough.

Pffffft.

This ep almost felt as if they were pimping Tom for 007.

Saw him in the limited series 'The Night Manager', he would make a great Bond or the recurring villain in thr next Bond series.

Underrated show

No and my lack of interest is pretty much directly tied to the Ms. Marvel character. Do not give a shit about her. Cool let her have a Disney + show, but no reason for her being in this movie.

I'm thinking it's not going to be Thor that shows up to help out, but Valkyrie that shows up for more grrrll boss power super kick ass fun time.

Another good…and very strange episode. The Loki tv show might actually be able to salvage the whole Kang saga.

This show is getting deep, really curious to see where it goes.

Tom Hiddleston is great

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Loki?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Loki</a> Season 2 producer Kevin Wright has opened up about Episode 3&#39;s Balder the Brave reference:<br><br>“Had that happened in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MultiverseOfMadness?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MultiverseOfMadness</a>, we probably wouldn’t have done it…” Full quote: <a href="https://t.co/6kMp1mnk3E">https://t.co/6kMp1mnk3E</a> <a href="https://t.co/wnnC4ungh5">pic.twitter.com/wnnC4ungh5</a></p>&mdash; MCU - The Direct (@MCU_Direct) <a href="https://twitter.com/MCU_Direct/status/1716324084810711345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

So, I assumed Miss Minutes' secret was



or is that too obvious?

This show is kick ass.

Not too obvious, really. And

I’m loving the stuff with HWR/Kang.

Feels like they’re actually building toward something in the MCU again and that’s piques my interest, unlike the other shit they’re pumping out these days.

yup,

everyone should know by now foreplay is very important

Holy crap that was riveting. Can’t wait til next week!

Well that ended unexpectedly

What the ****?

We're going to need more Kang variants

https://i.imgflip.com/2ni5xi.jpg

It is too bad that Johnathan Majors is apparently a piece of shit because the man has range.

Yeah, he did well as Victor Timely.

Did you ever watch Quantumania? How was he in that?

He was good, played a great baddie, the rest of the movie was dreck.

Feels like Miss Minutes has to be the most evil villain in the entire MCU at this point.

Eh his perfomance as Timely in this series was kind of cringe. The stuttering was annoying, and felt more like a Simple Jack.

But he was good in Quantamania, and Loki S1. I just think some of these variants are going to be cringe/annoying.

I'm enjoying S2 so far though.

He was good in Creed 3 as well.

I have a bit of an odd theory about them making him a little goofy. It comes back to stunt casting.

I don't know much (anything) about the comic book arcs, but I'd bet any amount of money that it ain't a black guy in the comic books, right? No worries - they didn't focus on him being black as a character trait or anything.

Buuuuuuut...now you have a brilliant scientist in the 1800s who's, I guess, generally accepted? I mean he's out there in public giving these presentations. He seems respected if a bit goofy.

So how do you sell this character as being able to exist in this time period without completely suspending all disbelief? Well - you make him non-threatening. And you make him a little goofy so that people aren't exactly thinking about him as being out of place in that era.

I mean you can't exactly have him playing Damian Anderson. You can't have him playing He Who Remains. Because lets be honest here, that guy gets lynched in 18XX.

I dunno - it's hairbrained and a bit out there. I don't even know if I put much stock in it. But I'm not sure what purpose the character choice served.

Just finished tonight’s episode - here is what I’m trying to wrap my mind around…


WTF is Marvel/Disney doing with all of these other shows not named WandaVision? I mean, Hawkeye wasn’t bad, but it was nothing special, a passing of the torch story. Falcon and the Winter Soldier had great potential but was ultimately a waste. MoonKnight fizzled out pretty quick. She Hulk, eh, maybe I’ll give it a pass because the very origin of how that story came to be in the comics means it should never be taken serious, but that begs the question: why spend the money on a series? Ms Marvel I’ve not watched and not planning to from the reviews I’ve read on it here. Secret Invasion was a dud.

So the question is: was all the big money for writing spent on WandaVision and Loki? Are those the only two shows that anyone at M/D cares about? Loki took a very solid first season and to this point is absolutely killing it in the second. It just obvious that while these two series are part of advancing a larger story like the other series, they are doing so with serious thought and care. I just don’t understand how you take two series and throw all kind of TLC into them and sleepwalk through all the others. And maybe that is not by design, maybe those in charge of those other stories had a vision that they thought fit the world created to this point and were just mistaken. I don’t know. What I do know is that the difference in storytelling between WV and Loki and all the others is a night and day difference.

Also, as a heads up, I started typing this out as the credits started rolling, and as I am busy putting my thoughts to digital paper I let them run all the way through, past all of the foreign language credits to the VERY end… there is a short end of credit audio piece within the last 10-15 seconds or so. It made no sense to me but, it is there. Frankly it frustrates me, because now I feel like I need to go back and check the very end credits of all the other various Marvel series episodes.

To Raiderhater: I’m wondering if they sleep walked through the other series just to get content on their streaming platform. I do think there has been a change to quality over quantity based upon changes made to the Daredevil Reborn showrunners. Only time will tell.

Apparently they just got a script and directors with no showrunners or show bible to make sure the shows were internally consistent.

This might shed light on the issues

https://variety.com/2023/film/featur...ng-1235774940/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XCIdBhWl_I0

Might shed light

Tonight's episode was easily the best of the season. Also the first one in S2 that really got back into the story that S1 was telling about Loki's self growth/development as a character (which is what grounded this show from the beginning).

I wonder if the finale is already long (like well over an hour)? Because I feel like tonight’s episode should have just been part of the finale. To me, it just felt like a filler/set up episode so they could get to the full allotment of 6. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed it though.

Loki God of Stories

I predict Loki sacrifices himself and then become Loki God of Stories Where he can manipulate time

Finale is tonight! Gotta wonder if this is the series finale or if we'll get a season 3. Also wondering if Kang the Conqueror makes an appearance.

Finale? I had built up my head canon to believe the show was going through the end of the month.....

Getting old sucks, lol

So.........yeah

I have questions

Damn…you ever watch a movie or show and when it ends, you “know” that you just saw something freaking epic, but you don’t exactly know why? I’m gonna need a Rockstar explanation like ASAP. Not gonna lie, there were points during that episode where I thought, “F yeah, the MCU is BACK!” Wow.

Here is how I understood it.

My understanding of the ending is

As a whole I think I'd put Loki up there with No Way Home and GOTG 3 as the best Marvel stuff since Endgame. I don't know if it could have worked as a movie (or two?) but I wonder if it should have been, just for the sake of putting their best foot forward. And significance too, I guess it's hard to say without knowing where things are going, but it feels like Loki will have more relevance to what's coming than Multiverse of Madness or Quantumania.

OMG I just saw something so special. That was amazing TV.

Tom deserves an Emmy for that episode alone. Unbelievable they could pull that off from where the Marvel universe was and now, possibilities are endless.

I know. This is the best Disney TV they have ever done.

How’s that for character development? The most selfish character in the continuity makes the most selfless sacrifice he could have made. Loki is a ****ing badass.

Glorious purpose indeed.

I never gave two shits about Loki or Hiddleston prior to this series but now I think they’re both ****ing awesome. They did such a great job.

Unfortunately I knew they’d have to sideline him somehow as soon as he started to perfect his time slipping powers. He was far too OP by the end of that finale.

I do wonder what sort of influence he’ll have over the timelines, if any.

That was incredible.

Explained

https://youtu.be/yLa7j3MMLhA?si=TbTj8CO3xFSDs4l2

Loki God of Stories

Very good ending to this series, particularly these last two episodes. Given that they stuck the landing, I'd rank the series overall up there with anything done in the MCU.

Also, with Loki's control of the timelines now it felt like they ended that in a way that they can write Jonathan Majors' characters out of the MCU going forward if they have to as well.

Ahhhhhh, I see. So this guy here has a theory that God of Stories Loki will handpick heroes from different timelines to destroy Kang in the Secret Wars. That is a great theory.

If you’ve ever read Secret Wars, the multiversal war was a big part of it. The big issue is what they call “incursions” which are basically just inverses colliding and wiping each other out. By the end of the story, all but one universe is wiped out. I’m guessing that’ll be the end goal for the MCU too in order to clean up these timeline shenanigans.. and what better way to introduce beloved properties than by plucking their established counterparts from other timelines and bringing them to the main MCU timeline?

If that does end up being the case, I wonder which heroes will be kept from this main timeline..

You have to imagine Spider-Man and Doctor Strange will stick around. Thor is iffy with Hemsworth’s new diagnosis. Deadpool seems to be going strong so I’d imagine they’ll keep him somehow. Seems like they’ve got a hard-on for Captain Marvel.

They’ve also spent 10+ years building this continuity so I wouldn’t be shocked if they just make this universe we’ve been watching the sole surviving reality and just plop some others like FF4, X-Men, Beta Ray Bill, maybe Miles Morales, etc. from other realities into this one and roll from there.

I watched the last episode last night. This was my first thought as it was wrapping up too. Pretty dang good, especially if they did rewrite it to possibly eliminate HWR's if needed.

I agree with someone earlier who said Majors seems to be a very good actor. I don't know a lot about his legal troubles. I guess we'll see how they play out.

It felt like that may wrap up the Loki series then which is too bad as it's been very enjoyable.

How would this ending help them write out Majors? Loki destroyed the loom, which allows the Kang variants to run amok and start their multiversal war.

I mean, it’s Disney. They could write Majors out in a million different ways and still make billions. I just don’t see how people think this ending would make that easier in any way.

I think he's a great actor so it would be unfortunate to lose him from the saga. But if he gets convicted of something, you'd have to think he's gone.

And I think at least this variant Loki's story is almost certainly done. It's too bad because it's might be the best thing the MCU has done this decade, but it is always better to go out on a high than dragging something out unnecessarily.

Kang is like the easiest character to actor swap. Just have another actor be Kang and say they are a variant.

Well they wrote it in such a way as to completely close HWR's story. Timely wasn't gifted the handbook as a child and HWR no longer controls the timelines at the end of time because of Loki.

That makes it easier to get rid of Majors if they have to. There were no cliffhangers here.

Exactly.

Right.l that’s why I don’t understand when people say this ending made it easy.

It was already easy lol they literally showed a stadium full of Kangs and one of them was like some lizard alien looking dude. Sylvie is a female Loki variant, we’ve seen frog Thor variants, an Indian Spider-Man, and an alligator Loki variant.

With infinite realities they could have written Majors out at any time.

You don't see that not ending this series on a cliffhanger in the greater saga with Majors' HWR character doesn't make it easier for them to just cut him out? There is nothing hinging on him at all now.

https://www.insider.com/loki-season-...lained-2023-11

Seems I'm not the only one with this take unsurprisingly.

How did it not end on a cliffhanger? The Kang variants are on the loose; they even discussed that in the final scene at the new TVA.

This article is saying it would be easier to write out Kang. I’m saying it was always easy to write out Majors.

Two totally different arguments.

Loki's story is done (at least this variant). Most importantly for Majors going forward, HWR's story is done. The stories of all the other characters in this show...all done. For me, this was the furthest thing from a cliffhanger they could have written. There was closure here, which was something I didn't expect at all considering past MCU shows.

And it gets even easier when HWR's story was effectively closed here.

Ok, you’re not getting it..

I would suggest it is vice versa.

https://www.slashfilm.com/1444038/lo...s-marvel-kang/

Found another person who isn't getting it.