Loki! (spoiler thread)

[Mind of tempest]

Did anyone else have to turn on the subtitles for the Timekeepers scene?

yeah

 

[trappedslider]

Did anyone else have to turn on the subtitles for the Timekeepers scene?

I always have subtitles on

 

[Maxperson]

Some of the apocolypse scenes I agree were a bit weak. There were several moments where it literally felt like "ok keep walking until explosion, ok explosion, now walk in a different direction"....I didn't really feel the stakes.

The TVA reveal of course is the plot highlight, but the character interaction is interesting, how much is it just them manipulating each other versus actually forming a connection between like minded people.

My issue was that the meteorites were impacting all over the place, yet not one of them hit either the train track or the ark. My second issue was that at one point Loki catches a very large chunk of falling building with his magic and easily propels back up in the other direction. If he could do that, why didn't he just lift the two of them up and over the wall to the ship?

 

[hopeless]

Their budget most probably...

 

[Maxperson]

So, following from earlier speculation, these are most definitely not Variants of the same physical person. There was no point in time at which one of these Lokis was split off onto a different timeline and then developed into the other person.

At the absolute least, this was a split before birth - in one timeline a male Jotun child was abandoned, in another the child was female. More likely there is no genetic connection between them. They have different origins and different life stories.

In which case, in what sense are they both variant Lokis? Is there some constant factor throughout multiple timelines which says that, at some point, a modestly-superpowered mischievous being called Loki will appear, and some law of equivalence that makes them all, in some fashion, variants of each other rather than simply people with similar names and hobbies?

Splits happen with every decision point or every random chance point. One of you might decide to have Wheaties in the morning and another Life cereal. With Loki, conception would be a random chance point, but still reflect a being with the genetic make-up of the same two parents, so one could be born genetically female and still be a capricious trickster, while another is genetically male.

 

[Maxperson]

The whole thing just hanging casually overhead at the end got really ridiculous. I'm not usually too fussy about physics in a setting like this, but a colliding planet shouldn't feel so... leisurely.

I also doubt that the planet would break up like that prior to impact.

 

[hopeless]

Please note DO NOT READ if you want to watch the latest episode!!!

Spoiler

Did they seriously kidnap a child from fricken Asgard and got AWAY with it?

 

[Maxperson]

I feel like I'm watching a different show than many of you folks . . . so far, I've enjoyed all three episodes immensely.

Oh, I really liked it. It just had some issues.

 

[Maxperson]

I'm pretty sure that if he reverses the polarity of the neutron flow he will be able to wind time back far enough to launch the ark before it is destroyed.

Maybe he'll use quantum magic, since "quantum" can accomplish anything!

 

[Maxperson]

The use of "dottir" implies the child was born female, rather than just chose a female form, so either she is a sister or the "variance" occurred before conception. One thing they may be hinting at is although we know the identity of the father, we do not know the identity of the birth mother.

Not necessarily. The divergence in gender occurred before conception, but not necessarily the variance. That portion of the timeline(s) could have accounted that divergence as normal(inside the plan of the Time Keepers), and later she did something else to become labelled as a variant.