Huge disappointment after the Season 1 cliffhanger. Episode filled with dumb jokes. And then the most grating character keeps repeating the same unfunny routine over and over again. Do people like this freaking actor just bacause they liked him as a kid on Temple of Doom? He is awful.
Cool premiere and sets up some high stakes and dynamics and one of my favorite actors introduced in the MCU and I love it.
Absolutely epic return of Loki. I am glad that there is still a great content in Marvel universe after several disapointing movies and series in last 2 years.
I absolutely love all the details in enviroment, costumes, lore and everything. This episode felt like 5 minutes, how intensive all scenes were.
Very sorry to say that this is no longer enjoyable. The timeline shenanigans have always been annoying but it never detracted from the story. Now, it does. The only people this helps are the YouTubers making breakdown videos. Tom Hiddleston hard carries, of course, and Sylvie remains as interesting as ever, but combine a plot quite complex for even the writers with a lackluster threat in Kang and you have a botched sequel to what was probably Marvel’s best attempt post endgame.
Some seeds of hope… but they are certainly waning.
Back to the good Marvel shit
I love this show! It really did not feel like 47 minutes had gone by. It was faced paced, exciting, and hilarious. I look forward to seeing where this season goes.
Also, stay after the credits for a post-credits scene as the MCU is well accustomed to doing by now!
Good opening and Ke Huy Quan is a fun addition but the 2 year wait makes it harder to get fully back into it for now.
I can watch Loki Mobius and O.B. all day.
Sphagettification is a great word tbh.
not sure what to think about this just yet, i don't hate it or love it but Syvie showing up doesn't bode well, probably not long before the bait and switch and they make it about her again
“You have… ONE hour!”
crack
“You have… five… minutes”
:sob:
Finally back! I missed this
I have a bad feeling about this...
I'm so fucking happy to have Loki back, and better than ever! Epic season kick-off!
This was a really great episode. I'm glad we finally got something good from Marvel after a bunch of weak content.
really weird. on one hand felt rushed, on the other nothing happened storywise. hope e02 will deliver more
This is profoundly my shit.
Skin? :rofl:
Impressive return for one of Marvel's best series. I wish characters would bounce off of each other like this in the other series. the character chemistry in this show is so much higher than it needs to be.
One thing I loved in particular was how the whole show looks like it was restored from old film stock. It adds to the aesthetic and makes even the fakest CG seem more physical and in the room.
I'm also glad that O.B. seems like he's going to be hanging around for the rest of the series, and not just be a one-off character.
SKIN?
What a convoluted mess of a story. I'm sure only the hardcore Marvel fanboys that watch everything MCU multiple times are able to follow the plot.
This absolutely banged. It's wild how much better Loki is than any other MCU series, like it's not even close really. The only MCU project recently that has its own distinct and creative feel. This came as a massive breath of fresh air when it comes to the MCU and this is the first time I've been genuinely super excited for an MCU project coming out recently. They kicked this premiere off right where the first season ended and kept a rapid pace throughout that just grips you and doesn't let go. So intriguing, character relationships are full of chemistry and genuinely good humor, and the direction was an absolute standout in this episode. The use of so many handheld shots immerses you in the environment in a way even better than the first season. This is also the only MCU project that gives that ominous and threatening sense of danger, dread, and doom when it comes to Kang and the multiverse, something that the MCU has desperately needed since the end of the first season of this show. Loki is about to carry to MCU on its shoulders and I couldn't be happier with this premiere.
[7.3/10] Hoo boy, this one is confusing. Let’s start with the obvious. It’s been two and a half years since the first season of Loki came out. A lot has happened, in the MCU and in the world at large, since then. So even with a quick “Previously On” recap, for a show as wild and wooly as this one was and is, thirty seconds of backstory isn’t quite enough to jog your memory of everything.
This also starts very much in the middle of things, which kind of works! Loki is disoriented! He doesn't know what’s going on! The happenings seem random and puzzling to him! Why shouldn’t they feel the same way to us?
That said, “Ouroboros” plays out more like the second half of last season’s finale than a new start for a fresh set of adventures. A lot of the early part of the episode is very plot-heavy, starting with strange teases from General Dox about some greater battle, Hunter B-15 wanting to spread the news about the TVA being staffed with kidnapped variants, and Mobius wanting to do things slowly and gently.
The plot stuff is my least favorite part. For one thing, again, it’s just hard to follow. Some of that's on me. I could have revisited old episodes or watched a longer recap somewhere or something. But I do think the show could do more to reorient viewers. That said, a lot of it feels like clunky setups for things to come rather than stuff that matters now. Even major details, like the expansion of the timeline causing problems with the “time loom” that threaten the power source for the TVA feels just kind of thrown in instead of being something that feels organic to the story told so far.
Even apart from the plot stuff, Loki jumping back and forth through time is a little odd. The show winks at how cause and effect shouldn’t work the way it does, but the temporal mechanics and causality of the whole thing are a head scratcher. On top of that, the logistics get especially convoluted when they need to extract his “temporal aura” to stop his “time slipping”. How and why that's supposed to work, why he’s slipping in the first place, what it means to pull him from the timeline, etc. etc. etc. are all opaque as hell. So it’s hard for the actual plot events to matter too much.
That said, it’s not hard to get the gist of it. Mobius has to insert the goober into the big giant machine. Loki has to prune himself when the light turns green. If they both don’t do it in time, they’ll both meet bad ends, possibly including skin coming off. The outline of what’s happening is clear enough, but the details matter, and the details don’t make much sense, or at the very least, come out of nowhere.
All of that said, the nice thing about LokI is that you can pretty much get by on vibes alone. Even if nothing else is working, the back and forth between Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Owen Wilson as Mobius continues to be top notch. The two of them bantering about what it looks/feels like to time-slip, where they have to get to and why, and whether you’d have a memory of your memory being wiped is all tons of fun.
Throwing Ke Huy Quan into the mix as the titular Ouroboros only adds to the fun. Him as the matter-of-fact, happy-go-lucky, but eminently capable head of repairs for the TVA makes for a great new ingredient in the stew. His responses and reactions to Loki and Mobius across two different spots in the timeline is fun, and he even brings some good dramatic chops when he holds out as long as possible before closing the blast doors on Mobius. The personalities mesh well, bringing laughs and charm, which makes it easier to forgive the hodgepodge of plot machinations.
In that vein, I do appreciate the basic idea. It’s confirmed that He Who Remains created the TVA, and set this operation up to nip his other versions in the bud. The show blurs the line of malevolence/good-intentions in that, carrying that over from the season 1 finale, to where you’re not sure if there’s a good reason to stop other Kang variants from emerging or how that could justify kidnapping all of these people from their lives and taking away their memories. (Something tells me Mobius enjoyed jet skiing in his real life, which is why he’s still fixated on it now.)
And the aesthetic here is still a blast. Mobius’ “World of Tomorrow”-esque space suit, the orange and brown color scheme of the TVA, and the various bits of fantastical tech lying around Ouroboros’ shop all give the TVA a real sense of place. The show’s neat to watch for its visuals alone, even if it suffers from the usual bouts of unreal CGI in several places.
Overall, this is a very mixed start for season 2 of Loki. Diving back into a cold pool of temporal shenanigans, alternate dimensions, and the inevitably cryptic teases for yet further reveals make it hard to get oriented. But the best parts of the show -- the characters, the fun, the sensibility -- are all still intact. Hopefully with some throat-clearing out of the way, the show will be able to lean into the latter over the former.
(Oh yeah, and the glimpse we get of Sylvie, free from being pursued by the TVA for a moment, trying to experience the glorious multiplicity of life by...having the works from a 1982 McDonalds, is an appropriately arch tease for the character. Looking forward to seeing more of her.)
I will try my best to make it through this show but honestly it is so uninteresting to me.
The trio feel like coming from a Wes Anderson film, in a good way.
After complaining my way through the last season I'm back for more (???) happy ke huy quan is employed but he's Wasted in this role
The previous season clearly setup that Loki was in an alternate universe where Kang was the rules. Now they totally changed that cool premise to the illogical explanation that it was actually the past that no one on TVA remembers, even though Kang wasn´t supposed to exist in the past of that timeline because "he who remains" whole stick was to precisely prevent that from happenning.
This story doesn't make a lick of sense. It feels like the writers were replaced and the new ones never watched season 01.
Goodness. I am one of the few who looked at this and wondered if I should just abandon it
Maybe it was too long ago since Season 1. Maybe it was the nonsensical plot line. Maybe it was that a couple of the lead characters are irritating. Or maybe it was because I am not the target audience. Maybe it is because it is rubbish - to the point where I started watching the clock and volunteering to do to other things around the house. If household chores are more attractive than watching "entertainment", then maybe it is not entertaining
such a beautifully shot episode
Now that Ke Huy Quan (Goonies) is back acting, he needs to be in everything. Anyway this was as trippy and fun as expected.
So of course some how the whiners are calling it disappointing and not what they wanted.
I didn't love or hate it, I'm hoping for a Kang appearance at some point in the season
What if OB is actually Data pulled from the Goonies timestream?
The aesthetic of Loki is so good and the cinematography is well done to the point that it feels so off to include this in the MCU phase 4/5. Thankfully, the show is removed enough from the other MCU plotlines that this feels strong enough to stand on its own.
For something coming out of woke Disney this season starter was actually quite good and fun to watch.
This opening to the season felt a little all over the place. We start with a bang as Loki races to find Mobius after the emotional high of the season 1 finale but at a certain point the frequent time slipping felt like an unnecessary diversion when the branching timeless finding Sylvie and figuring out the Kang situation were already such high stakes situations I was desperate to see momentum on.
Plus i legit just found certain sequences utilizing the time slips incredibly confusing. For example Time Counsel scene kept utilizing this shot-reverse shot technique and I couldn't figure out when we were switching between timelines. It didn't help that this was a scene with a bunch of new characters talking to each other that were arely introduced.
Overall the episode had a high energy that kept me hooked even if the plot occasionally got a bit convoluted. I'm hoping follow up episodes payoff this time slip stuff more
Side Note: can someone please tell Marvel studios that TV shows should not have post credit sequences. Put everything you wanted a watcher to know in the actual episode please and thank you.
I'm usually all for mind-bending series, like Dark for example, but this season premiere left me scratching my head... After the recap at the beginning of the episode, I immediately dove into YouTube for more on season 1. Then, after the episode, I needed another YouTube breakdown. Maybe I'm not the nerd I thought I was... But I'm hanging in there!
8/10
Great season premiere
and after a very very
boring and
Lacklustre season 1
I was pleasantly surprised
how much I enjoyed
this first episode of
season 2.
OB slayed this episode
and I hope he's in for the
entire season,
(What a scene stealer).
I enjoyed the chaos and
all the fallout from
S1 and I'm interested
to see what shit comes
next.
If this episode was
clear about one thing
is "WE ARE DEEP
IN IT".
Okay episode, but I hope they come up with a better plot for the rest of the season than all of them running around, technobabbling.
Ke Huy Quan was excellent. :thumbsup_tone1:
This is televison, so vast and beautiful, the stages
This is a terrific season opener. The pacing is great, the humor is nearly perfect, and the team of Loki and Mobius and OB is awesome. I haven't had this much fun watching a TV episode in a LONG time!
Loki going around in time to show us more of the TVA ? Great.
But the mumbo-jumbo mission to "get Loki back" and how everything works out only because he's somehow catapulted in the right direction, really fills like filler stuff, on a show that does not have many episodes.
O.B. and whatever his job is, great addition too. He seems to be there for a very long time, knows everything, wrote the TVA rulebook, and doesn't get memory wiped like the others. Seems like a lot could be learned from him, but somehow also feels like a character they will get rid of quickly. I hope I'm wrong on that.
Anyway it's still a fast paced episode. Like the first episode of season 1 it opens a lot of opportunities on what could happen. And the humour is still there (Owen Wilson ftw).
Since it's not clear how Loki pruned himself, I'm assuming another episode will be dedicated to sending Sylvie in the right place and time to do it, probably ringing the phone to draw him too.
A bit weird that the past TVA had either Kang or several versions of him, but since Time is a weird notion in the TVA, could be that it has been controlled differently before. After all we don't really know how far in the past he was.
one of owen wilson’s greatest roles and Ke Huy Quan was good too this show is pretty good
Well that was confusing but it was fun and I love Ke Huy Quan.
“I want to try everything.”
I didn’t like the first season very much. it seemed too complicated and uninteresting. This was a good start though.
47 minute episode and 10 minute credits seriously? Ok for a first episode of s2
Not as bad as I thought, but I think several scenes needed another take, and the flow of the script kinda trip in itself.
Good opener. It was okay but man it felt short, and there's only 6 of these.
This Is Perfect Everything Down To The Last Minutes Details.
The best episode so far of all Marvel series!
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"I have no memory of having my memory wiped"
Mobius is still hilarious.