Loki! (spoiler thread)

[Davies]

Anyone want to to gove a synopsis of the episode?

In spoiler tags of course …

Or I could just link to one, and if you follow the link you have chosen to be spoiled.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Yeah, I expect the "What If?" series will explore alternate timelines.

Yep, just like the comic books always did, but without any of the stories ever being official alternate timelines. Plus, What If? is an animated series and not canon, unlike how the animated Star Wars series are canon for that universe.

 

[Dire Bare]

Anyone want to to gove a synopsis of the episode?

In spoiler tags of course …

Spoiler tags in a spoiler thread . . . file that under redundant in the redundancy file . . .

 

[John R Davis]

Bit meh and now confused

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I know little about Kang's history (future?) from the comics, so I had to do some recap article reading to understand the ending better. We know already that Jonathan Majors will play Kang as the main villain in Ant-Man 3, and that was Majors as a Variant of Kang in episode 6, but Ant-Man 3 does not come out until 2023 and there are 7 MCU films that will come out before it, and not all of them are origin story movies. That is a lot of time to pass before he is the main threat. It is a good thing we will get season 2 of Loki between now and then. I just wonder how many of those other 7 films will have an appearance by Majors as yet another variant of Kang?

 

[JohnF]

I'm sensing a River Song-like approach to this villain which could lead to

Spoiler

his origins related to Nathaniel Richards, dad of Mr. Fantastic, and his use of Doom-tech, during or at the end of Majors' time as the character

-- or, then again, virtually anything else because, you know, multiverses.

 

[embee]

MCU/Disney/Star Wars need their cute sidekicks. Alligator Loki is the Grogu of the MCU. lol

No. Grogu is the Alligator Loki of The Mandalorian.

 

[tomBitonti]

I have to ask ... how does resetting the time-line prevent the events from deviating in exactly the same way what caused them to be reset? It would seem that "deviant" means "not following the desired goal", in which case, folks have free decision making, but are not allowed to meaningfully exercise it. That is, if they "choose poorly" they are reset and must decide again. Assuming sufficient randomness in decision making, but also assuming that most choices are made in a core range which is considered non-deviant, the expectation seems to be that most often, after a reset, a non-deviant choice will be made.

TomB

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

By the way, in season 2, Loki has to bump into the crew from Sliders.

 

[tomBitonti]

Also ... the last episode provides much less closure than either WandaVision or Falcon and the Winder Solder. Perhaps that is a consequence of there being a definite second season of Loki.

I'm glad that there will be a second season. I've found this first season to be refreshing and entertaining. That being said, I felt that there was too much unresolved in the episode. I think that goes with still having incomplete information, and not trusting what has been said. I'm thinking the authors have woven a narrative pickle, in that there are no reliable narrative sources.

I think I'm mostly with Sylvie. Being unable to trust what was said, I would have carried on with the original goal.

TomB