Why does this show always shit on Loki, the one who’s supposed to be the main character? He’s Eric Cartman levels of narcissistic unsympathetic moron now. I think the writers actually hate the character.
Yeah, but this show just feels like a shitty comedy. Loki is quite literally Rick Sanchez without the intellect or Eric fricking Cartman without the self awareness. At least he had some depth in the movies no one watched, he doesn’t here, regardless how much Cinemaphile worships this show.
Isn't the whole point of this show supposed to redeem him and make him a hero?
The movies did that, but no one watched them (outside of the 1st avengers) or even knew who Loki was before then.
This. Odin was a really good dad and Loki randomly threw a tantrum for no reason bc he’s an unsympathetic butthole who’s supposed to be a comedic relief.
>Straight >White >Male >Was hyper intelligent and cunning >Technically nobility which means privilege
He's the antithesis of the kind of male hero Disney wants, so they made him a simp for his female counterpart and have other stronk wymyn kick his ass constantly to put him in his place.
Loki's ass was constantly kicked since Avengers, not sure why people shit on the show for this when he's been consistently a buttmonkey in the MCU for more than a decade now.
He’s a comedic relief narcissist who’s unsympathetic and he’s not cunning he’s a moron with no powers. I watch this show bc Sylvie and mobius are the best writing I’ve seen from Disney
>Antagonist of the first Avengers movie >Arc from villain to anti-villain to anti-hero >Now reduced to shallow comedy relief
>Arc from villain to anti-villain to anti-hero >Now reduced to shallow comedy relief
He was already both, like think, what did he actually accomplish in Thor Ragnarok and Infinity War that wasn't just "I still care for Thor deep down"?
He’s a comedic relief narcissist who’s unsympathetic and he’s not cunning he’s a moron with no powers. I watch this show bc Sylvie and mobius are the best writing I’ve seen from Disney
>he’s not cunning he’s a moron with no powers.
Captain America was getting bodied by him in the first Avengers movie but this was before Cap got a huge boost in popularity thanks to Winter Soldier, after that Cap has no problem fighting Ultron and Iron Man with his bare fist. It could also be a case of Whedon underselling Cap though
Critics did a good job of lowering my expectations for this episode because I actually thought it was decent, nice to see Loki finally utilizing magic and everything with X-5 was interesting.
Season 2 might shaping up better than the first because it's actually living up to the premise of Loki and Mobius going on mission of the week adventures for the TVA.
If all the branches are gone, I guess that confirms the X-Men and Spider-Man universes weren't branches to begin with. Just ones within the proximity of Earth-199999.
Oh shit, does that mean What If's realities are all erased now?
My guess is another mass branching is going to occur later on in the season, first episode already teased it with the TVA being in chaos and the power going crazy in the future, the trailer also had the entire cast in the temporal room watching the timeline go crazy.
what does it matter if "the branches are gone"? They'll grow back. They did it instantly and retroactively at the end of Season 1 when the TVA stopped actively and continuously pruning them, why wouldn't they again after the bombs ended?
It's nice that they're actually acknowledging that the TVA basically commits genocide whenever they branch a timeline but it feels like they kind of forgot about the whole Kang threat and why letting the timeline branch was dangerous in the first place although maybe the next episode will address this since Victor Timely's fair is going to be the subject.
What do you mean forgot? Loki literally will not shut the frick up about it, it's practically the only thing he mentioned to Sylvie even with juicy relationship drama on the table
I don't know if they're getting over this break up at the end of the episode. Especially that shot when the TVA is all working together with Loki like a team and she just stands there and glares at all of them. That foreshadowing in the first episode has to be a bait and switch.
Oh, they're absolutely going to string the will-they-won't-they shit out for as long as the show runs, it's really the only consistent plotline they have that works and it has people hooked deep
As much as I want to see Tom Hiddleston happy and having sweaty desperate leglock babymaking sex with his rule 63, they'd be stupid to give that thread up if they still have more seasons planned
The reviewers that already saw the first 4 episodes say she's barely part of the plot though lmao. Who knows with the last 2 episodes. Mobius gets a lot of character development instead.
>Through Sylvie's actions the TVA is splintered, with many realizing she's right and the branched timelines need to be protected >THE TVA IS CORRUPT AND ROTTEN TO THE CORE, I WILL NOT AID YOU IN DOING THE THING I WANT TO HAPPEN
what's her problem
It's been applied inconsistently in the show, probably a budget thing. The first season established that the TVA automatically negates magic which is why Loki can't just resort to ig, he later does magic sometimes like when he straight up reverses time to stop a building from collapsing and he combines his powers with Sylvie to tame Alioth.
I hate that magic blocker bullshit in the TVA. He uses magic to hide the fact he's a frost giant. That was established in the first thor movie. They forgot all about that. At the very least they could have thrown in a bullshit excuse but they flat out just forgot and don't care.
The show is so fricking boring, I have no idea how you people have patience to sit through these 40 minutes.
Season 1 was garbage so I didn't want to give Loki a second chance, but I liked the trailer.
"Eh how bad could it be, really?"
I watched ep 1 and it's just pointless talk talk talk. Jokes are not funny. Characters are not charming, Loki doesn't even feel like Loki anymore. Somehow it's even worse than s1.
Then we're introduced to "antagonists"- two LITERALLY WHOS working in TVA (yes I know Kang is "big bad" but as usual these two no-names are going to be against Loki and co). Wow. Loved these guys since... uh... I mean...
Literally nothing exciting happens. Nothing to catch my attention. "Big tension" about Loki/Owen Wilson dying... b***h, I watched the trailer, I know they are going to be just fine.
Watch Everything Everywhere All at Once. This movie alone is better than last 2 phases of MCU. I am dead serious. Watch anything else other than Loki. Nah man, I am out, I am not watching 5 more hours of this shit.
>Loki's first confession attempt to Sylvie gets cut off >first episode of S2 has Loki trying to confess something to Mobius and gets cut off >Sylvie is close to her McDognalds co-worker and likes it there
That parallel is too obvious and Sylvie is getting chummy with some other dude. Disney pussied out of the selfcest didn't they? Loki is going gay.
There is no love triangle, anon is baiting or unironically thinks that Disney will be willing to put a major gay couple in one of their high profile IPs
It's not that it matters who "wins" the show puts in bait for both sides while having Loki end up with no one. The only winner is Disney when they sell merch for both couples.
>There is no love triangle
The last two episodes have been nothing but Mobius and Loki after the last season ended with a kiss. And after all that Mobius watched Loki and Sylvie out the window and said "opposites don't attract" when the whole point of his own dynamic with Loki is that they are opposites. So it was clearly a jealous passive aggressive remark.
That doesn't mean it's going to go anywhere only that Disney knows it's more profitable to keep people guessing and bait the audience. My bet is Loki is going to end up with no one this season or straight up get "killed" in a cliffhanger.
Season will end with a Mobius sandwich.
If Loki and Mobius are a compatible couple then Sylvie and Mobius are too, and with Sylvie and Loki loving themselves, they form a pure OT3.
Maybe but everything else about that movie was such shit it was hard to notice. All I can remember is that moronic temper tantrum he had at the end and all the hoards of moronic Kangs screaming.
Quantumania Kang was poorly written, the antagonist is supposed to challenge the protagonist in a meaningful way and Kang never does other than being a powerful roadblock for the Ant Family. The part where he doesn't honor the deal and takes the macguffin and Cassie just because he's evil was awful, literally anything else could have been better like actually honoring the deal, something that would present a choice for Scott. Kang was just a generic comic book tyrant, he could have been replaced by other comic book characters like the Psycho-Man or the Living Eraser and the movie would have been the same, the variant gimmick is something only comes into play with his unseen backstory and the post-credits scene, it wasn't well used and quite frankly doesn't sound interesting to me or at least it didn't make me reconsider my stance on the variants gimmick. Only thing he has going for him are his theatrics.
Kang is a hard villain to sell because Jonathan Majors is essentially playing a different character each time a new variant appears, so they might as well not be different versions of Kang and just someone new entirely.
>immediately prune all the timelines created by the death of HWR
I forgot why they did this but doesn't this mean that they already stopped the Multiversal war if no more Kang variants will appear?
The timeline constantly branches, which is why the TVA has a continual job pruning them.
The ones that had suddenly built up got nuked, but more are going to keep forming as long as the TVA chooses to leave them be.
>still remember when movie twitter said High Evo was better than Kang because he abused the heckin otterinos
lmao morons
our Kang is already dead anyway so the villain in KD is going to be the whole council rather than one Kang reborn.
Loki actually showed some good progression in this episode. In S1 he would have stupidly chased after Sylvie after she left like that at the end of the episode but he made the right choice and stayed to try and fix things and didn't kick Mobius to the curb.
it's amazing how in just 2 years marvel managed to kill all the hype for these tv shows. i haven't heard a single person mention this show. even the obese pink haired chick i know who is a loki fan said she was just going to wait and watch the season in one sitting.
I think a good amount of people have just lost interest with the MCU. The recent movies suck. Also Loki S1 didn't end that well. The selfcest shit was stupid. Sylvie is also an obnoxious character and a bad choice for him. They have no chemistry at all. She's good to look at in a tight suit but she's just Loki if he was a mary sue.
The framing of the scene feels that way. The context could definitely be different I'm just wondering if anyone else got that same feeling or it's just me. Why is the lighting so dark and why does it remind me of the shining axe scene with her forcing the elevator open.
>Through Sylvie's actions the TVA is splintered, with many realizing she's right and the branched timelines need to be protected >THE TVA IS CORRUPT AND ROTTEN TO THE CORE, I WILL NOT AID YOU IN DOING THE THING I WANT TO HAPPEN
what's her problem
It's the same as Loki having basically the opposite opinion(though refusing to really commit to it yet) but still remaining in the TVA- the characters are driven by emotional baggage, not logical thought out principles
It's already worse than season 1.
>McDonald's ad
>pushing gay bait
No product placement in my MCU, no siree
Why does this show always shit on Loki, the one who’s supposed to be the main character? He’s Eric Cartman levels of narcissistic unsympathetic moron now. I think the writers actually hate the character.
Loki has always been shat on, that's the point of his character
Yeah, but this show just feels like a shitty comedy. Loki is quite literally Rick Sanchez without the intellect or Eric fricking Cartman without the self awareness. At least he had some depth in the movies no one watched, he doesn’t here, regardless how much Cinemaphile worships this show.
The movies did that, but no one watched them (outside of the 1st avengers) or even knew who Loki was before then.
Loki was in other movies besides the first Avengers? Why am I just now learning this?
Maybe but his depth in the movies basically amounted to "I'm jealous of Thor but I still secretly love him and his family"
This. Odin was a really good dad and Loki randomly threw a tantrum for no reason bc he’s an unsympathetic butthole who’s supposed to be a comedic relief.
Isn't the whole point of this show supposed to redeem him and make him a hero?
>Straight
>White
>Male
>Was hyper intelligent and cunning
>Technically nobility which means privilege
He's the antithesis of the kind of male hero Disney wants, so they made him a simp for his female counterpart and have other stronk wymyn kick his ass constantly to put him in his place.
Loki's ass was constantly kicked since Avengers, not sure why people shit on the show for this when he's been consistently a buttmonkey in the MCU for more than a decade now.
Loki is a comedic relief
>Antagonist of the first Avengers movie
>Arc from villain to anti-villain to anti-hero
>Now reduced to shallow comedy relief
>Arc from villain to anti-villain to anti-hero
>Now reduced to shallow comedy relief
He was already both, like think, what did he actually accomplish in Thor Ragnarok and Infinity War that wasn't just "I still care for Thor deep down"?
He’s a comedic relief narcissist who’s unsympathetic and he’s not cunning he’s a moron with no powers. I watch this show bc Sylvie and mobius are the best writing I’ve seen from Disney
>he’s not cunning he’s a moron with no powers.
Captain America was getting bodied by him in the first Avengers movie but this was before Cap got a huge boost in popularity thanks to Winter Soldier, after that Cap has no problem fighting Ultron and Iron Man with his bare fist. It could also be a case of Whedon underselling Cap though
X-5/Brad Wolfe trolls harder than /misc/
this thing is actually already airing? nobody is talking about it
The OP's image and title isn't really eye catching admittedly
Pretty much every show from Disney fills that bloated niche.
Only the ultimate moron homosexuals still care.
the synderverse is dead homosexual
Some anon said this episode was supposed to be boring. I quite enjoyed it. I liked Loki referencing the events of the first Avengers movie
It's boring compared to the first one imo.
Critics did a good job of lowering my expectations for this episode because I actually thought it was decent, nice to see Loki finally utilizing magic and everything with X-5 was interesting.
Season 2 might shaping up better than the first because it's actually living up to the premise of Loki and Mobius going on mission of the week adventures for the TVA.
If all the branches are gone, I guess that confirms the X-Men and Spider-Man universes weren't branches to begin with. Just ones within the proximity of Earth-199999.
Oh shit, does that mean What If's realities are all erased now?
My guess is another mass branching is going to occur later on in the season, first episode already teased it with the TVA being in chaos and the power going crazy in the future, the trailer also had the entire cast in the temporal room watching the timeline go crazy.
what does it matter if "the branches are gone"? They'll grow back. They did it instantly and retroactively at the end of Season 1 when the TVA stopped actively and continuously pruning them, why wouldn't they again after the bombs ended?
It's nice that they're actually acknowledging that the TVA basically commits genocide whenever they branch a timeline but it feels like they kind of forgot about the whole Kang threat and why letting the timeline branch was dangerous in the first place although maybe the next episode will address this since Victor Timely's fair is going to be the subject.
What do you mean forgot? Loki literally will not shut the frick up about it, it's practically the only thing he mentioned to Sylvie even with juicy relationship drama on the table
I don't know if they're getting over this break up at the end of the episode. Especially that shot when the TVA is all working together with Loki like a team and she just stands there and glares at all of them. That foreshadowing in the first episode has to be a bait and switch.
Oh, they're absolutely going to string the will-they-won't-they shit out for as long as the show runs, it's really the only consistent plotline they have that works and it has people hooked deep
As much as I want to see Tom Hiddleston happy and having sweaty desperate leglock babymaking sex with his rule 63, they'd be stupid to give that thread up if they still have more seasons planned
The reviewers that already saw the first 4 episodes say she's barely part of the plot though lmao. Who knows with the last 2 episodes. Mobius gets a lot of character development instead.
She's going schizo.
Eh, their relationship was really only part of like 2 or 3 episodes in the first season, too
I want to believe
They were pretty much the focus of S1 by episode 3 though. Then again who knows what's going to happen in the last 2 episodes.
Wasn't this guy a Norse God?
What? He’s just named after the god…Loki is powerless and stupid af unlike his namesake.
I was actually confused for a second when Loki actually used magic this episode.
Hilarious that the MCU only now remembered Loki has always been a magician and not a knife throwing moron.
It's been applied inconsistently in the show, probably a budget thing. The first season established that the TVA automatically negates magic which is why Loki can't just resort to ig, he later does magic sometimes like when he straight up reverses time to stop a building from collapsing and he combines his powers with Sylvie to tame Alioth.
I hate that magic blocker bullshit in the TVA. He uses magic to hide the fact he's a frost giant. That was established in the first thor movie. They forgot all about that. At the very least they could have thrown in a bullshit excuse but they flat out just forgot and don't care.
The show is so fricking boring, I have no idea how you people have patience to sit through these 40 minutes.
Season 1 was garbage so I didn't want to give Loki a second chance, but I liked the trailer.
"Eh how bad could it be, really?"
I watched ep 1 and it's just pointless talk talk talk. Jokes are not funny. Characters are not charming, Loki doesn't even feel like Loki anymore. Somehow it's even worse than s1.
Then we're introduced to "antagonists"- two LITERALLY WHOS working in TVA (yes I know Kang is "big bad" but as usual these two no-names are going to be against Loki and co). Wow. Loved these guys since... uh... I mean...
Literally nothing exciting happens. Nothing to catch my attention. "Big tension" about Loki/Owen Wilson dying... b***h, I watched the trailer, I know they are going to be just fine.
Watch Everything Everywhere All at Once. This movie alone is better than last 2 phases of MCU. I am dead serious. Watch anything else other than Loki. Nah man, I am out, I am not watching 5 more hours of this shit.
>Loki's first confession attempt to Sylvie gets cut off
>first episode of S2 has Loki trying to confess something to Mobius and gets cut off
>Sylvie is close to her McDognalds co-worker and likes it there
That parallel is too obvious and Sylvie is getting chummy with some other dude. Disney pussied out of the selfcest didn't they? Loki is going gay.
>Sylvie is close to her McDognalds co-worker and likes it there
Isn't the guy underage though?
Asgardians don't care about moral age.
>love triangle bait all over again
I thought Disney lost their writers after production of S2 wrapped up
There is no love triangle, anon is baiting or unironically thinks that Disney will be willing to put a major gay couple in one of their high profile IPs
It's not that it matters who "wins" the show puts in bait for both sides while having Loki end up with no one. The only winner is Disney when they sell merch for both couples.
>There is no love triangle
The last two episodes have been nothing but Mobius and Loki after the last season ended with a kiss. And after all that Mobius watched Loki and Sylvie out the window and said "opposites don't attract" when the whole point of his own dynamic with Loki is that they are opposites. So it was clearly a jealous passive aggressive remark.
That doesn't mean it's going to go anywhere only that Disney knows it's more profitable to keep people guessing and bait the audience. My bet is Loki is going to end up with no one this season or straight up get "killed" in a cliffhanger.
Season will end with a Mobius sandwich.
If Loki and Mobius are a compatible couple then Sylvie and Mobius are too, and with Sylvie and Loki loving themselves, they form a pure OT3.
Sylvie needs to stop being a whiny b***h first.
it's so unfair bros
She's not pregnant anymore and her boobs shrank.
Praying she ends up staying a cute McDonald's girl and tells Loki to frick off for good.
>2 throwaway male characters interacting
they're gonna be gay.
also does anyone else not care about timelines and space shit? I wanna go back to earth to see kamala and what they do with the skrulls and tiamut.
Disney wouldn't even go that far honestly.
Next week, shitposting returns.
Will it stand up to the only time he played Kang well which was episode 6?
Quantumania Kang was good.
Maybe but everything else about that movie was such shit it was hard to notice. All I can remember is that moronic temper tantrum he had at the end and all the hoards of moronic Kangs screaming.
Quantumania Kang was poorly written, the antagonist is supposed to challenge the protagonist in a meaningful way and Kang never does other than being a powerful roadblock for the Ant Family. The part where he doesn't honor the deal and takes the macguffin and Cassie just because he's evil was awful, literally anything else could have been better like actually honoring the deal, something that would present a choice for Scott. Kang was just a generic comic book tyrant, he could have been replaced by other comic book characters like the Psycho-Man or the Living Eraser and the movie would have been the same, the variant gimmick is something only comes into play with his unseen backstory and the post-credits scene, it wasn't well used and quite frankly doesn't sound interesting to me or at least it didn't make me reconsider my stance on the variants gimmick. Only thing he has going for him are his theatrics.
Kang is a hard villain to sell because Jonathan Majors is essentially playing a different character each time a new variant appears, so they might as well not be different versions of Kang and just someone new entirely.
>immediately prune all the timelines created by the death of HWR
I forgot why they did this but doesn't this mean that they already stopped the Multiversal war if no more Kang variants will appear?
That destruction didn't stop the timeline from branching.
The timeline constantly branches, which is why the TVA has a continual job pruning them.
The ones that had suddenly built up got nuked, but more are going to keep forming as long as the TVA chooses to leave them be.
>still remember when movie twitter said High Evo was better than Kang because he abused the heckin otterinos
lmao morons
our Kang is already dead anyway so the villain in KD is going to be the whole council rather than one Kang reborn.
Loki actually showed some good progression in this episode. In S1 he would have stupidly chased after Sylvie after she left like that at the end of the episode but he made the right choice and stayed to try and fix things and didn't kick Mobius to the curb.
it's amazing how in just 2 years marvel managed to kill all the hype for these tv shows. i haven't heard a single person mention this show. even the obese pink haired chick i know who is a loki fan said she was just going to wait and watch the season in one sitting.
I think a good amount of people have just lost interest with the MCU. The recent movies suck. Also Loki S1 didn't end that well. The selfcest shit was stupid. Sylvie is also an obnoxious character and a bad choice for him. They have no chemistry at all. She's good to look at in a tight suit but she's just Loki if he was a mary sue.
Seaosn two had the second most viewed premiere for a Disney+ show behind Mando S3
Test.
You will eat the apple pies.
Was this intentionally or unintentionally sinister looking? Or am I misreading this scene? This happens in the future of the TVA right?
I think the point is to make the viewers wonder what's the context behind that scene and what's happening in the future.
The framing of the scene feels that way. The context could definitely be different I'm just wondering if anyone else got that same feeling or it's just me. Why is the lighting so dark and why does it remind me of the shining axe scene with her forcing the elevator open.
thought the glitching would be more prevalent
dumb they fixed it so fast
>Through Sylvie's actions the TVA is splintered, with many realizing she's right and the branched timelines need to be protected
>THE TVA IS CORRUPT AND ROTTEN TO THE CORE, I WILL NOT AID YOU IN DOING THE THING I WANT TO HAPPEN
what's her problem
It's the same as Loki having basically the opposite opinion(though refusing to really commit to it yet) but still remaining in the TVA- the characters are driven by emotional baggage, not logical thought out principles
>writers remember loki is literally magic
finally
And they still haven't shown him using enough magic. He better be shooting out green lazer beams in every remaining episode.
the shadow scene to track down brad was sick
I mean last season had an experienced Loki cast an illusion of an entire realm
And then he was right back to swinging knives around in the next episode. Loki should be a mage and drop the knife bullshit once and for all.
He's primarily an illusionist by nature, that gives few options in split-second cqc