kerravonsen | Loki S1 E4: The Nexus Event (Reply)

OMG! OMG! I cried. !!! This show. This show. Wow.

Aiiiie! They faked me out real good. I mean, it was bad enough when Mobius was killed, that hit me in the feels, that was bad.
And then Loki oh what the heck, I was crying, I really was.
And then... he's alive. Somewhere. Somewhen. Probably at an apocalypse. With what looks like other Loki variants.

Spthpthpthptrh...

(sputters, speechless)

(takes a deep breath or two)

So. From the top. Well, not from the top, I'm not going to try to do this in order. Here we have another bullet-point list of doom.

I totally called it on the Timekeepers not being real! Go me!
- But, as Loki said, "Then who created the TVA?"
- I hadn't really gotten as far as trying to figure that out. (My "Miss Minutes" theory is not a real theory.)
  - Problem is, there aren't any obvious suspects. Not that I can think of. (I'm ruling out the Judge-lady, see below.) I'll probably end up kicking myself for missing the obvious when all is revealed. Assuming all is revealed, that is. It might not be.
So the Judge-lady (google tells me that her name is Ravonna) seems to be in on the conspiracy. But not a mastermind of it.
- Because she wasn't always a judge, so I assume she wasn't always in the know.
- It's clear that she is in the know now, and heavily implied that she killed Hunter C-20 for knowing too much.
- Willing to die... because of course that would protect the conspiracy. But of course Sylvie would not fall for that.
- I think Ravonna was being sincere when she said she wanted to protect Mobius. Because she knew that if he figured it out, she'd have to kill him, and she didn't want to do that.
  - But oh MOBIUS!!!! Just when he and Loki had been reconciled. Aiie. I am so sad.
    - And again with Mobius and his profound questions to Loki: "Do you really think you deserve to be alone?"
I found it really hard to understand what the Timekeeper-androids were saying.
- And why was it that they (or I should say, whoever is behind them) wanted both Lokis brought before the Timekeepers anyway?
- Yay for Hunter B-15!
Ouch with the repeated time-loop of Sif beating up Loki both physically and verbally.
- "You will always be alone, and you deserve to be."
- (My friend JB The Elder, in our discussion about Episode 1, dropped hints about Loki's aloneness being important; looks like it's coming to a head here)
- Mobius was wrong when he said that Sylvie was Loki's girlfriend, so wrong. Sylvie is Loki's sister. His little sister.
- And it seems that the nexus event has something to do with that. With two Lokis no longer feeling alone, making a connection with each other.
  - What makes a Loki a Loki? God of Mischief, god of lies, god of chaos, perpetual loser, perpetual survivor, always alone.
  - And, as Mobius said, more trouble than any other variant combined.
  - Which makes me think that the reason why that is such an unusual nexus event is that when multiple Lokis work together, they can create enough chaos to bring down the TVA. Because the TVA is the enemy of chaos, and chaos is the enemy of the TVA.
But how come Loki isn't dead? Does that mean Mobius isn't dead either? (crosses fingers, but doesn't hold out much hope)
In the flashback of where Sylvie was originally captured, there was a man with a goatee being manhandled by a guard. Was that a Tony Stark variant?
- I along with Loki, have to really admire Sylvie for surviving and overcoming her circumstances.
- I think Ravonna was probably lying when she said she didn't remember what Sylvie's nexus point was. Just to twist the knife.
Those Loki variants at the end all have really terrible fashion sense. And was that a crocodile?

More philosophically, the TVA and Endgame!Thanos have this in common: they want an orderly universe, created in line with their own vision, and have decided that the only way they can have stability is to wipe out (the memories of) any of the pesky insects who are so ridiculously stubborn that they fight against the inevitable because they remember how it was Before.

(Aside about the previous episode: Tom Hiddleston can sing! Whoa! Now I want him and Robert Downey Jr. to sing together.) C'mon, please, somebody comment! Am I all alone here, like Loki?