Loki episode 1 has gone up on Disney Plus this morning, a return to a weekly Marvel and/or Star Wars series we can all overanalyze to death.
Loki episode 1 has gone up on Disney Plus this morning, a return to a weekly Marvel and/or Star Wars series we can all overanalyze to death. And I can’t wait. We’re opening with a 50+ minute episode, so we are not doing WandaVision-style shorter entries, it seems. But even though this was half the length of a movie, Loki needs to spend a whole lot of time explaining what exactly it is, and what it will be doing over the course of this first season, and possibly the second season, which has already been greenlit. Spoilers follow. If you watched the trailer, you get the gist of it. During the events of Avengers Endgame, Loki manages to escape his “correct” timeline using the Tesseract. But he doesn’t know that, and is confused when he’s abducted by the Time Variance Authority (the TVA) and brought to a strange, Twin Peaks-looking place where his magic doesn’t work. Loki is informed that as a Variant, he’s screwed up the “Sacred Timeline” which must now be rectified. Loki, being the arrogant god he is, believes none of this, but slowly comes to terms with it over the course of the episode, and once he sees a box full of Infinity Stones that the office uses as paperweights, he starts to wonder if the TVA somehow is the most powerful force in the universe.
