Friday 6 October 2023

Loki: Ouroboros

 "I need a Loki who remains!"

Yep, this is bloody brilliant, all right.

We ended last season on a big reveal and a big dilemma: to kill He Who Remains... let's justcall him Kang, ok? To kill Kang or not to kill Kang? Kill him, and his TVA will no longer prune the other timelines, meaning countless quadrillians will not be murdered. But does this mean inevitable multiversal way with multiple Kangs, and extinction? Yeak. Tough choice for Loki. So Sylvie makes it for him.

A lot happens here, not least with Loki slipping between what we learn is not different realities but the TVA in the past and present. It seems Kang has been changing things over the millennia and wiping everyone's minds, again and again. And the TVA, led by a general and a judge we haven't previously met, are having to face this new reality. It's going to tke a while to see how this all shakes down.

We end with an exciting action sequence which really shows us the genuine friendship and bond between a much-changed Loki and Mobius. Well, esxcept for the post-credits sequence with Sylvie in a 1982 Oklahoma McDonalds, which is a whole other thing, but the characterisation here is superb, as is the humour. This is a supremely well written, acted, directed and designed piece of television. I'm excited.

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