# Loki TV series discussion (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** disney-hulu\ **Created:** [January 27, 2021, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625 "2021-01-27T18:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/521 "2023-10-07T03:54:11Z")
Agree! I’ve no idea where this plot is going to. Not sure I remember enough to know if I am just forgetting characters or if they are new. Clearly I am not remembering much that is of significance. Unsure if anything makes sense. And don’t care! It’s fun! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/522 "2023-10-07T20:27:31Z")
Something refreshing with regard to the crop of Disney Plus shows from the last two years or so, this actually got better the more I thought about it rather than worse. Having the cliffhanger be the past instead of a parallel universe was very clever and I enjoyed the whole Bill and Ted “The past affects the present” angle. Interested in what happens next. PS. Unlike most of last season (as I recall) this one had a scene after the credits. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2023, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/523 "2023-10-07T21:39:46Z")
I liked it fine. My expectations for it were fairly low. The MCU tv-verse is uneven and I didn’t like the S1 finale very much. As an episode I found it not compelling overall. More info-dumping, setting up S2 and movies. All the Disney + stuff needs to just focus on this one season of a show needs to stand on its own. I’m fine with wacky time adventures that have no significance past this show. I find the humor levels great, the aesthetics amazing, the cast almost perfect. I just want to enjoy 40 minutes a week and it’s looking good that this season of this show can do that. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2023, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/524 "2023-10-09T12:13:07Z")
Initial guessing: I predict a certain amount of temporal pathcrossing, as suggested by the scene with Sophie and the phone (_somebody_ pruned him - and I bet it was him). All justified by his “removal” from the timestream. But it’s very early indeed for WAGs. Eugene Cordero remains fun. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/525 "2023-10-13T03:36:36Z")
Still really good but kinda videogame like. I also feel like they’re not spending enough time to earn their emotional beats. How about less time on the time hunter and chasing him and more time on earning those beats. Needed a good re-edit. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/526 "2023-10-13T13:59:11Z")
I don’t know if I missed something, but it wasn’t clear to me why they decided to suddenly look for X-5 / Brad or when he decided to pick up / start his life as actor Brad Wolfe? As I recall, last we saw him, he was marching off with Dox (Kate Dickie) and a platoon of overly armed Minutemen, ostensibly to look for Sylvie. I’m a bit confused as to why Sylvie is a “variant” or how these different branches are created. I thought branches were created when someone like Loki uses time travel (i.e. the Tesseract) to travel to another time. Thus creating two versions of Loki in two parallel timelines that branch from Loki’s arrest at the Stark Building / Avenger Tower after the events of Avengers. Loki’s “crime” was that he was in a place where he wasn’t supposed to exist outside of the Sacred Timeline. But why was Sylvie arrested as a little girl? She was born in an alternate timelime that already existed and had been living there for years. She didn’t just show up from the past or future… > [@Pavelb1](#): > > Still really good but kinda videogame like. I also feel like they’re not spending enough time to earn their emotional beats. How about less time on the time hunter and chasing him and more time on earning those beats. > > Needed a good re-edit. Don’t you mean “…spending enough TIMES…”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/527 "2023-10-13T15:29:24Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > But why was Sylvie arrested as a little girl? She was born in an alternate timelime that already existed and had been living there for years. She didn’t just show up from the past or future… Because it’s not time travel that creates another branch, it’s going against the sacred timeline. Sylvie picked up a Valkyrie doll and got excited, the implication was that she was going to chose to stop being Loki and become a Valkyrie, so she was due for pruning. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/528 "2023-10-14T14:51:08Z")
I was happy to see Loki getting to do Loki stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/529 "2023-10-15T01:41:29Z")
S2E2 was very good, but it also seemed like a McDonald’s commercial. Could they have discussed how good the food was more? Also, the french fry packaging was not circa late 1970’s (at least not on the Sacred Timeline) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/530 "2023-10-15T23:55:19Z")
You mean your local McDonalds isn’t so appealing that a demigoddess would be delighted to work there? Sad variant timeline, man… ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/531 "2023-10-15T23:56:08Z")
In this economy, gotta take whatever job you can get. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/532 "2023-10-15T23:57:07Z")
Fair enough. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2023, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/533 "2023-10-16T02:50:39Z")
A couple of things: It’s probably a budget non starter but seeing one or two of the timelines that got pruned, even briefly, would have gone a long way to sell the scope of the tragedy of what the TVA was doing. It’s not clear to me exactly what Loki’s goal is. Is this to defeat Kang,.or save the TVA or what? I think the point was that Sylvie was just enjoying living a quiet normal life for the first time in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/534 "2023-10-20T04:46:34Z")
In her discussion with Timely in S2E3, entitled “1893”, I was half-expecting Miss Minutes to try and kill him as she kept talking and talking. Somehow, her admitting that she was in love with him was _even creepier._ Especially when she covered that mannequin head with her own face. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/535 "2023-10-20T14:19:07Z")
I think that the true villain of the series will be revealed to be Miss Minutes. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/536 "2023-10-20T17:49:49Z")
She’s too cute. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/537 "2023-10-20T17:52:29Z")
Which is the sting. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/538 "2023-10-20T19:43:47Z")
I would enjoy a superhero story set in the Wild West. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/539 "2023-10-21T02:15:01Z")
_Cowboys vs. Aliens._ And it was pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loki-tv-series-discussion-spoilers/931625/540 "2023-10-21T17:18:55Z")
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