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kerravonsen) wrote2021-07-13 01:03 am
Loki S1 E5: Journey Into Mystery
Oh this is fascinating. I just want to bask in the process of it all coming together. This show. This show. Oh this is beautiful. Because character is plot. And also, this continues that blend of profound, portentous, mysterious, amusing, ludicrous and surprising.
I am just staggered by how unique and important the nexus point of the previous episode has turned out to be. Because I hadn't realised how profoundly difficult it is for there to exist a Loki who has grown up enough to turn into someone who won't betray everyone around him, including himself. Not until it was amply demonstrated by the Loki free-for-all fight that erupted there in the dumping-ground of Time. Which was both ridiculous, and proving an important point.
As Kid Loki said, every time there's a Loki who manages to change, they get pruned by the TVA.
Out of the entire multiverse, there were four Lokis who could be trusted:
- Kid Loki, who killed Thor and lived to regret it
- Classic Loki, who lived long enough in peaceful isolation that he started longing for company.
- Sylvie, who never had dreams of power in the first place, only revenge against the TVA.
- and our Tesseract-divergent Loki, for whom we have both Mobius and Sylvie to thank, I think.
Character is plot. I love it when that happens.
Loki the betrayer, Loki the self-sabotaging, Loki who does not realise how powerful he actually is. And if two (or three) Lokis could actually work together, wonders can be achieved.
That scene, that scene at the end where Sylvie and Loki join their powers to enchant the monster, while Classic Loki distracts it with illusions and dies for a "glorious purpose", that was beautiful, climactic, profound. I loved it.
That bit where Loki and Sylvie are sitting outside, sharing a blanket, and they both basically say, "Look, I don't know how to do this friendship stuff." Cool. And also that neither of them really know what they want to do if they survive this.
More rambling points:
- How did they know the monster's name, anyway? Or who decided to name it that? (No, I can't remember the name, was it Onedis?)
- Ravonna really walks the line, doesn't she?
- Yay for Hunter B-15 for telling it like it is. "You want to find them, but she needs to find them."
- Lots of "do you trust me?" events happening here, aren't there?
- Wow, amazing opening cinematography with the camera movement there.
- Congrats for making a cloud look scary.
- The glorious lunacy of having an Alligator Loki.
- Mobius offering Loki his hand and Loki giving him a hug, yay.
I've just been looking around, and lizbee offered up the suggestion on
Twitter that the person behind the TVA is another Loki variant. I think
she's right. That makes perfect sense.
- Because it's better storytelling not to pull your Big Bad out of thin air.
- It's an echo of the reveal in episode 1 that the person Mobius was after was "you" (Loki).
- Loki himself said in the first episode that the TVA was the ultimate power in the universe. A narcissistic power-hungry Loki would love that kind of power.
- Mind you, it would be ironic if the god of chaos had set himself up as the Ultimate Order.
- It's the kind of scam that a Loki would probably find amusing. After all, it's the ultimate lie.
So now I am all caught up, you can comment freely with no worries about spoilers! So tell me your thoughts!
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Good ep, loved the scene where Loki opens the hatch to see all the other Lokis, including President Loki. Curse their sudden yet inevitable betrayals! It was nice seeing Alligator Loki getting some action in. The finale tomorrow night and seeing who is behind the curtain should be quite interesting.
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(smirk)
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I've always liked that line from Firefly. Applicable in so many places!