I had to rewatch parts of the season plus s1 finale because I was watching this in the background. It's incomprehensible if you're not paying attention. There's still a couple of plotholes needed resolving for the finale, but to think this left off immediately after S1 is damn impressive.
I think it's pretty amazing they were able to create this season after how badly season 1 was written. It's not perfect but it's been pretty damn good in my eyes. The addition of Ouroboros has been great too.
Marvel did themselves a big favor with that finale. Loki S2 had a tough act to follow but it decisively beat S1 IMO.
Excellent. Very powerful (glorius) and yet somewhat ominous ending. Liked. And, according to rockstars, this guy not that far off in his season one analysis:
Face of "new" Avengers. It shouldn't be spiderman or Thor or captain marvel or Dr strange or bringing back iron man. It should be Loki for a period. And I guess. It will be? None of this show made sense though. It's what I imagine the old Dr Who to be like. But I like OB saying the solution needed was one of fiction not science. And it also calls back to Thor 1 - science vs magic.
Great finale. Self contained but enough to let you wonder how it ties in with secret wars. Spoiler Loki is the new Nick Fury. Nick Fury throws away his lightsaber with apathy. Ironically Loki finally sits on the throne of power he wanted...
After I saw the explainer videos I loved the finale so much more. But it sucks that I had to watch explainer videos to fully understand what exactly was going on at the end. Overall, I still rate it 8/10 or 9/10 for the series as a whole. Much more creative writing than anything Marvel has done that I can remember and it salvaged very questionable/poor season 1 writing and direction. I hope they start to realize massive budgets don't matter as much as thoughtful creative writing. I was revisiting some Star Trek TNG and those budgets were clearly not big but they had some pretty cool psychological concepts that will always stick with you. Not putting Loki season 2 in that class but it almost felt like they could go in that direction rather than just prototypical superhero CGI spam
Watched episodes 5 and 6 back to back. Then I went and got my youngest son and made him do the same and I watched with him. I really enjoyed it and even more the second time. It gave me the feels like the earlier films. Hiddleston is a badass.
My favorite sci-fi TV show of all time is Farscape, and I felt the characters PTSD grow and deepen as they psychological assault kept on coming and growing. Just loads of memorable moments that always stick with me. I know, not directly related, but always worth pointing out.
It was interesting that the temporary commander who relieved himself of duty in the Star Trek episode "4 vs 5 light" was the same guy who fired robocop. In the robo movie, as I recall, he essentially altered the rules of the world to change the outcome. Not that dissimilar from the point of the Trek episode and Loki. That fiction can alter reality. Both Robocop and the Trek episode, like Loki, run deep.
I bet you money only Marvel purest liked Loki as a series. I want to see the viewership of this show. I get Loki is like master of time or something, but man I feel like nothing really happened in this show. 2 seasons and i feel like i wasted my time. I know yall saying this the best mcu series.. how? Are yall really going to go back and watch this again? for what? IMO if you have to think somehting is amazing because you have prior knowlwedge Hiddleston is sounding like this is the end of Loki too. so dude just going to be in the time tree? Im also not a real fan of loki as a character so i might just be hating, lol. Hiddleston did a great job playing Loki, but the character of loki I always found annoying and boring. i dont get why people like him so much, I wait for him to exit the screen. I have no desire to see loki ever again.
This is bigger than MCU. It's 1984, George Orwell good. They were defining the importance and ominous nature of what is science fiction. They are commenting on if reality/science is first defined by fiction. Which actually comes first? Reality, or fiction? But they did it without telling you they were doing it. That is great writing. They were also defining the true nature of evil. That evil often itself defines and forces your reality on you with fiction (Think Hitler and some of the leaders of today). They tell you to say 2+2=5, or you die. Forcing your reality to change by simply beating you into submission. By the end of this, most us were rooting for and supporting Loki, but should we have been? Are we just the Germans... They did this subtly over two seasons. So the rewatch is well worth it because you will see it differently when u rewatch it.
Loki was partially self-contained and it wasn't dedicated to just moving the overall Marvel story arc. It was well written and acted and ended on a note that redefined and gave closure to its main character. It was the exact opposite of Secret Invasion who's sole purpose was to create another female hero for Marvel's bigger picture. The supposed main character was not advanced at all. It was complete trash IMO. Prior to the series, the MCU Loki wasn't worth a dime but Tom Hiddleston made the most of what he was given. The Loki series allowed him to redefine and mature the role and take the character to another level. Loki wasn't likeable until the series. I loved S1 but had very low expectations for S2 (because the MCU is a flaming train wreck that has fallen off the rails). It far exceeded my expectations. My understanding is the ratings for S2 were far below S1, probably because the Marvel brand is permanently damaged. I never believed the MCU could continue the same momentum after Endgame, but the spectacular failure since then was unnecessary.
i dun get the ending. is loki the green marvel jesus nao? so wat is marvel jesus' job, just sit there and watch green ropes swing around him? wats the point of the tva in the marvel jesus era? and mobi finna kill his real mobi self and take over? i need to know this
Spoiler It started off with Good Kang controlling one main timeline through the temporal loom and nuking any timelines that spring up variants for Bad Kangs. Silvie wanted to kill Good Kang because there wasn't free will on the sacred timeline By killing Good Kang and that temporal loom, you get infinite timelines with many Kangs So Loki and the green ropes means he offs the Kangs in those timelines without nuking them, so there's "free will" But there are infinite Kangs, so Loki just sits there like a tree doing his thing.
