Friday 13 October 2023

Loki: Breaking Brad

 "We're all gonna die! Oh, hey, pleased to meet you."

This new season continues to be very good indeed. In fact, thus far it's the best Disney Plus Marvel show for some considerable time.

Ostensibly there's a lot of plot. Loki and Mobius need to find Sylvie, so they inyterrogate Brad, an agent working for Dox who may have found her, and said interrogation takes up much of the focus.

Except the interrogation is not the point: it's really aboiut the amazingly deep friendship and rapport that has built up between Loki, a god and a bureaucrat, who have really bonded to the point that Loki can relate... well, the plot of an episode of What If? (nice touch) while Mobius can express his fears aboiut finding out what his life would have been on the original timeline. I'm fairly sure jetskis would be involved.

Eventually we end with truly horrific scenes of Dox and her crew carrying outb their mission- not, as we'd thought, to find Sylvie, but to prune all the new timelinesband therreby slaughter untold quadrillions. We can sympathise with Sylvie- a goodess, albeit never having lived like one, who has found happiness in 1982 Oklahoma working a dead end job. A normal, humble life is heaven for her.

Last erpisode was about awesome concepts. This episode, while advancing the plot, reminds us that this show has such deep characters and such bloody good actors. Top telly.

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