"It's harder to stay."
Hi everyone!
I was fully going to do Red, White & Royal Blue but got side-tracked during the weekend so it got postponed over to next week (I hope ... we'll see how it goes!).
This meant, however, that I would need to figure something else out for this Tuesday.
Enter our favourite god of mischief who just so happens to currently be airing on Disney+ if you've been paying at least a little bit of attention.
Now I'm not going to lie, I won't be going fully into details about all that's happened or hasn't happened.
Mostly I'll just be musing out loud.
Ready?
Then let's have a look at the first two episodes of Loki, season 2.
I haven't really covered the Loki show on here, but I've done a lot of other Marvel stuff so if you search around on the blog I'm sure you'll find something worth your while!
Loki, as we all know, has always been a slightly controversial character in that he is SUPPOSEDLY the villain, but fans loved Tom Hiddleston's performance of the character so much they would have allowed him to burn the world to the ground and still cheered him on.
The first season of this Disney+ original covers exactly how Loki finds himself at the TVA, which happens to be an agency that protects what's called the Sacred Timeline. He also finds out he's just one of many, many Loki variants that occur on DIFFERENT branches of the Timeline, but which have been carefully pruned.
Through trial and error he ends up working with Mobius (Owen Wilson) in discovering that the TVA was actually set up, not by the Time Gods, but by He Who Remains, at which point the first season ends when a Loki variant, Sylvie, kicks our Loki through a time door and kills He Who Remains.
Now in season two, Loki's doing a little bit of ... time slipping, one explains it.
As in, he randomly keeps getting pulled either into the past or into the future, but both are bleak: the past shows just how the TVA originally was, and that He Who Remains must have wiped everyone's memory a lot because no one remembers anything from that particular version. The future, also, isn't really all that good, as the TVA seems to be headed towards its inevitable demise.
But meanwhile, everyone and their mother is looking for Sylvie, or at least Mobius and Loki are.
It turns out, however, that even finding her happily working at a McDonald's's in the late seventies isn't the answer, because loyalists who think they're in charge bomb the branching timeline, which is the biggest continuity error in my opinion: because why did nobody try to figure them out?
Anyway, Sylvie is disgusted, even though the majority of the TVA is trying to do its best and only this rogue faction is to blame for the whole fiasco, and Loki is fighting for the TVA because this is now his home, and the people there are his friends.
This is a huge step forward for the god of mischief given just how much of a solo player he used to be, and Tom Hiddleston continues to portray the character to perfection.
Supporting cast members also round out the series quite nicely, bringing both charm, humour and the edge that's sometimes sorely missing from Marvel.
But we still don't really know what specifically happened for He Who Remains to remake the TVA, plus they've discovered that at least one member (currently missing and/or on the run) seems to have been working with him from the very beginning, which complicates matters.
More importantly: the Timeline isn't safe yet. It can't handle branching out as the Time Loom overloads. So basically, no matter how we look at it, the TVA seems to be screwed.
Either they keep murdering billions, or they face off with multitudes of He Who Remains from different timelines, all of which have proven to be murderers and tyrannical dictators.
This will be a season of exploration if you ask me, figuring out what's right from wrong, and what you stand up for and fight for in the end. I feel like it'll be a wonderful enrichment to Loki's arc because he needs people around him who cheer him on and care for him without any delusions of grandeur, though I think he still needs to outgrow those.
... they're at least letting him flex his godly powers a little though. And Tom looks like he's having an absolute blast! I, for one, am here for it.
xx
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