I think there might be a minor predestination paradox behind that nexus event.
Loki and Sylvie sharing that moment together caused a divergent timeline. Which shouldn’t have happened, because they were about to die. But they didn’t die - the TVA popped in at the last moment and captured them, because they were worried about this extreme nexus event. If they hadn’t stepped in, Loki and Sylvie would have died, and there’d be no nexus event. But they did step in, so there was.
That’s what I think, too.
First, I’m not convinced it was a romantic moment (I’m not saying it wasn’t. But at this point, there is room for other types of emotionally significant moments in that scene)
Second, I think it might be some sort of power/magic/something. He had just repelled a building, which is a thing I don’t think we’ve seen him do before, because he and Sylvie were physically threatened. It is plausible to me that one or the other or both of them together might be capable of somehow saving one or the other or both of them if one of those meteors were to fall directly at them or the planet fell apart or whatever.
Agree … having Mobius driving in the perception that Loki was “caring for her”, the ultimate narcissist, so on … seems to be there just to make sure that that romantic connection is the way we viewers are (mis)perceiving it. And she clearly did not feel it. (See her confusion over what he was about to say, but pointedly never had a chance to.)
A bit too on the nose but she is the yin to his yang - more the Loki who was going down the hero path to his villain role than the female to his male - the antimatter Loki maybe as a better way to put it?
Two things that occurred to me that may be obvious to everyone else:
We don’t really know anything about the TVA since everyone we know is either a liar or mindwiped. That view of the rest of the TVA? Maybe an illusion.
Do those charges prune whole timelines or just “sanitize” the spot where the person was? I’d assume the whole timeline, because wouldn’t it make a problem if a Loki just vanished? Affect history?
I think that the Stark tower (not avengers tower at that point of time) that we see in the background of the post credits scene has been clipped from a timeline where Loki succeeded in defeating the avengers, so the TVA turned up and clipped that version of Loki along with the building. My money is on that Loki being the president Loki we see in the initial trailers. I almost see this as a place similar to Sakaar where all the Lokis and associated rubbish get sent to, existing outside of the timeline and TVA.
So Pruneworld is just a trash pocket dimension aka’ Sakaar?
Interesting. Maybe they arn’t being teleported or disintigrated (obviously) but shrunk. Maybe Pruneworld is in the Quantum Realm
But probably not…I’ve been wrong about EVERYTHING the last three series except Sharon Carter.
Yeah, I don’t remember seeing that particular power before either.
That’s a quite reasonable theory. And certainly better than my “Miss Minutes is the mastermind behind the TVA!” one.
Rewatching the show I spotted a number of snow globes in renslayers office, what if they are in one of these snow globes as an alternate reality? Interesting enough Kang’s homeworld of chronopolis also appears to look like a snow globe with all of his trophys inside.
My prediction is that “Pruneworld” is Loki specific that some Loki-variant set up. Loki’s brought up multiple times (and twice this episode) that what makes a Loki a Loki is their ability to survive.
The creator of the Timekeepers and the TVA has to be another Loki, right? It’s too late in the game to introduce a new character now, and as Silver Age Loki points out, every time a Loki tries to become a better person they get pruned - perhaps the entire purpose of the TVA is to prevent a Loki from becoming selfless enough to want to challenge him. I liked Silver Age Loki getting a chance to live out his Glorious Purpose, though it’s a shame we didn’t get to spend more time with the other variants - President Loki only gets one brief scene to shine in, and we barely even got to know the black Loki who has a Mjolnir.
A couple Easter eggs I noticed in the Void - the Lokis have a Polybius machine in their bunker, there was a frog Thor in a jar buried in the ground (along with lots of cafeteria trays and at least one Mjolnir), the USS Eldridge dropped in presumably from a timeline where the Philadelphia Experiment was real, Thanos’ yellow helicopter from the comics, and there was a wrecked Golden Gate Bridge that I got the impression was supposed to be the one from X-Men 3.
Also I think Yellowjacket’s helmet from Ant-Man.
I just don’t feel the romantic chemistry between Hero?Loki and Sylvie. They’re both great, but I just don’t see a spark. Friendship and battle-buddies? Sure. But not love.
Richard Grant really sells being a Loki, and he does a great maniacal laugh at the very end. I could buy him as a supervillain. I didn’t realize all of President Loki’s army were ALSO Lokis though it makes sense.
Hot take of the week: The castle and ‘asteroid’ was Battleworld from Secret Wars. After all, Loki is one ofthe few beings in the comics to survive the collapse of the Multiverse.
Also, at the very beginning, in the TVA, we briefly see a readout indicating a Nexus Event at Oak Island. The Money Pit being a Nexus that shifts between timelines, sometimes being the site of an ancient treasure, sometimes being a simple sinkhole, makes a certain amount of sense.
Also, in the Void, the crashed flying saucer standing upright is an image that’s been used in a lot of different projects. And some of the Void imagery seemed to be visually quoting the Will Ferrell Land of the Lost movie, although that might have simply been coincidence, deriving from the very similar premise.
I hadn’t considered the possibility that it could have been from X-Men 3. Good observation.
Best episode yet. Just wild and wacky and so much fun.
If it’s the same bridge I’m thinking of - the one visible in the background when Sylvie escapes from the schoolbus with the giant birds nest - that wasn’t the Golden Gate. There’s four towers visible on the ruined bridge, and the middle two have X-shaped cross-braces in them. The Golden Gate Bridge only has two towers, and there are no cross-braces.
Also, the head of (a statue of?) the Living Tribunal…
Slightly more meta, but the episode’s title, “Journey into Mystery,” was the name of the Marvel comic that first introduced Thor.
When I noticed the remains of the Thanos helicopter, I shouted a laugh.