Season 2 of Loki has lastly arrived, and, oddly sufficient, this collection was not referenced in any of the 9 films or 9 seasons of TV which have come out within the Marvel Cinematic Universe since Season 1. Loki, at the least for now, exists in its personal bubble separate from every little thing else within the franchise–the Season 2 premiere does nothing to vary that.
Nonetheless, the occasions of this collection are essential and ostensibly present the inspiration for the Multiverse Saga. This premiere episode, although, just about stays within the Time Variance Authority’s bubble, as a result of they have some fairly catastrophic stuff to cope with within the speedy aftermath of He Who Stays’ loss of life. Let’s speak about it.
Warning: This text incorporates main spoilers for the Season 2 premiere of Loki.
Season 1 ended when Loki and Sylvie lastly met He Who Stays, the key boss of the TVA. He goaded Sylvie into killing him, however Loki tried to cease her–and so she kicked him by a time door again to the TVA, after which murdered the previous man. Again at TVA, Loki discovered a giant statue of Kang the Conquerer the place the TimeKeepers was once, and his pal Mobius did not acknowledge him.
Within the Season 2 premiere, we be taught that this wasn’t what we thought. Loki hadn’t arrived in a brand new, alternate model of the TVA that had come into existence due to what Sylvie did. As a substitute, he arrived on the similar TVA, earlier than he had initially proven up there at first of the collection. After which he disappears, and reappears again within the previous TVA with the individuals who know him.
Earlier than lengthy, although, he disappears once more, and pops up in one other period of the TVA. This retains happening–he goes backwards and forwards between the place he belongs and another time interval. Ouroboros, a brand new character who has apparently been conserving every little thing operating for eons with no appreciation from his bosses or any of is co-workers, calls this phenomenon “time-slipping.” Ouroboros, or OB, says this should not be potential within the TVA, which exists exterior of time and thus has no previous or future. Nevertheless it is also clearly taking place, as OB acknowledges. What modified to make this potential? No rationalization is given on this episode.
Thankfully, OB is a super-genius, and he is aware of repair Loki. They should make use of the Temporal Loom, which is a big bodily machine that controls the stream of time, to lock Loki into his current. However there’s an issue: the Loom is breaking down due to all the brand new timeline branches popping up, so they do not have a lot time to drag this off.
However they do, proper on the buzzer. Loki and the TVA stay to combat one other day, and now we have a pile of Easter eggs and potential teases to mull over till we get one other episode subsequent week. Let’s dive in.