Loki! (spoiler thread)

[Morrus]

It’s the spoiler thread. You don’t need to put every post behind a spoiler box, folks.

 

[MarkB]

Spoiler

Prune the branch not the entire timeline.
It would be one thing to modify the timeline, but that ignores far too much to pass that readily.

Spoiler

The branch is the entire timeline. What else did you think it was?

The TVA only enter reality within branching timelines. Once there, they remove whatever caused it to branch, and reset it back to baseline. Nobody ever knows they were there, because within the main timeline they never were. Odin and Freya never know their little girl was taken away, because they now exist in a timeline where they adopted a little boy, and he's still there, safe and sound.

 

[MarkB]

It’s the spoiler thread. You don’t need to put every post behind a spoiler box, folks.

I prefer to be a little circumspect on the first day a new episode comes out, at least until the evening when people have caught up with it. Others seem to have similar sensibilities.

 

[Rabulias]

We're talking about the people who were responsible for sealing away the reality stone and you think someone time travelling would be able to bypass defences that would only eventually fail after Odin was incapacitated or dead?

As pointed out, Rocket and sad Thor time travelled into Asgard while Odin was alive and well. I find it likely that time travel (the quantum realm, which folks here theorize the TVA utilizes as well...) might be one of the best ways to penetrate Asgard's defenses.

Recall in the first Thor film, Loki was able to tell the frost giants a way to get into Asgard, and Loki knew a secret way to escape Asgard in Thor: The Dark World. True, Odin was in the Odinsleep during the first one, but it seems that Asgard may be a bit more porous than believed...

EDIT: On a tangent, the Asgardians really did not do a very good job securing the reality stone, did they? And they had two opportunities!

 

[Morrus]

I couldn't make out anything the Timekeepers said.

So are they robots in the comics? Or is that a change for the show? They seemed quite easy to dispatch.

Does everybody who gets pruned get teleported? Does that mean Mobius is still alive somewhere?

2 episodes left. And now we have Richard E Grant in Loki's comic-book costume!

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

And for something a bit ....... different:

 

[Mind of tempest]

And for something a bit ....... different:

I am parshal to shorts.

 

[Davies]

I couldn't make out anything the Timekeepers said.

So are they robots in the comics? Or is that a change for the show?

Yes to the latter, they're biological entities -- albeit created ones -- in the comics. See here for details.

Does everybody who gets pruned get teleported? Does that mean Mobius is still alive somewhere?

This has been my guess, though I'll admit that until we saw Loki again it was just wishful thinking.

 

[MarkB]

I couldn't make out anything the Timekeepers said.

Yeah, I had to restart the scene with subtitles.

Does everybody who gets pruned get teleported? Does that mean Mobius is still alive somewhere?

It also means there may be a cart full of infinity stones out there.

 

[tomBitonti]

Spoiler

The branch is the entire timeline. What else did you think it was?

The TVA only enter reality within branching timelines. Once there, they remove whatever caused it to branch, and reset it back to baseline. Nobody ever knows they were there, because within the main timeline they never were. Odin and Freya never know their little girl was taken away, because they now exist in a timeline where they adopted a little boy, and he's still there, safe and sound.

I was thinking that pruning was limited in extent — to the region so far affected by the deviant. Which ought to spread at the speed of light, although I can see the comic book effect only counting large effects and being slower.

It Seems the amount of time which is pruned before there is a more severe event is small .. just a few minutes. I don’t see how that could reach back to Sylvie’s conception.

TomB