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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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)
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.