11 episodes ago, this guy had just failed to conquer Earth. Now, he's trying to save all of existence because he wants his friends back. What an insane character arc.
And they made it sane every step of the way! This episode was just … sublime. Really felt like an oasis (or oases) of normal, amid a torrent of crazy. Science/Fiction, indeed.
@@AngeloBarovierSDOh, fully agreed. It's an insane character arc in terms of how far he's come with relatively so little screen time - but it's 100% believable because of the quality of the writing and acting along with what we've learned about Loki in the rest of the MCU. He's always been a person who defined himself in relation to others, usually to the detriment of all involved - but now, as in Ragnarok and Infinity War, we're seeing a Loki who has learned to do so in a positive way. He's still the God of Mischief, but he's become so much more.
@@pali1dit's looking more like he may no longer be the God of Mischief. He's becoming the God of Stories. (A seriously OP version of him from the comics). Basically if he writes down "and then you were aborted" you would simply not exist. You were never born, you never existed, the universe itself never considered you as an idea. And if we think about the heavy emphasis this season has put on people's stories, it feels like it lines up.
I like that Loki is not only the God of mischief, but also the God of stories. This fits perfectly with him being able to control all the stories/timelines here.
This episode highlights what a great actor Eugene Cordero is. Casey is innocent, brilliant, approachable -- yet Frank is a hardened criminal, with all that comes with that. And he's able to portray those two wildly different characters without having to say a word -- just through his face and his body language.
@@tetsuoishiki4677yes. IIRC Frank and the other escapees were never found and despite being listed as wanted to this day it is widely assumed their boat capsized and they drowned. In the episode we see Morris and the others successfully escape, which as a result caused the branched timeline and led to him being taken in by the TVA and become Casey after mind-wiping him
A.D. Doug is intended to be a reference to beloved satirist and scifi author Douglas Adams, best known for authoring The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, references to whom are littered all throughout both seasons of this show
@@funnylilgalreacts Oh lord... there are different versions - actually every iteration has been intentionally different. Book series Radio drama 80s tv series Movie. Each has different plots, but the same general thing with same named characters (but they have different personalities) My favourite is the Radio drama... followed by 80s tv (my introduction), then the books, and last the movie.
You should. But you should also read the books or listen to them, as there is a great audio book version narrated by Stephen Fry, or at least the first one as there are 5 books in the "*trilogy." *he only intended to write three books, or to stop after the third one, his publisher and editor coaxed two more out of him. For being as great a writer as he was, he had to be forced. Famously being locked inside once and forced to complete some pages at one point.
I would also recommend reading the book first. It won't ruin the movie(which I loved). I read them and the Dirk Gently books as a teenager and still have them on my shelf 40 years later.@@funnylilgalreacts
Casey's character is a real-life guy-- he was played by Clint Eastwood in "Escape from Alacatraz." Note: they give people's name in the End Credits, so for example Owen Wilson is listed as 'Don,' not as Moebius.
Sylvie's variant timeline was pruned when she was a little girl, because the sacred timeline dictates that Loki should be a "male" and "evil/bad", so there was no variant timeline for her to be returned to (not to mention the fact that her aging as an Asgardian might mean her real timeline might have been pruned a thousand or more years ago). The closest thing was her "McDonald's" timeline, where she was trying to establish a "life", so she was returned to that one. Her memories might be a little trickier, since she has no lifetime established there, to be restored. Possessing He Who Remains TemPad might also be keeping her full memory intact, since He Who Remains would probably have some sort of built-in protection that allowed him to always remember how things are "supposed" to happen, which would be one of the reasons why his was different from the normal TVA ones.
Sylvie's nexus event wasn't being female. If that had been the case, she'd have been pruned at birth. It's most likely that she began showing inclinations to being good that got her pruned. Any Loki in the sacred timeline must be mischievous, must fail at taking over New York, must die to Thanos. It doesn't matter whether they're male, female, or alligator, as long as they follow the script for being a Loki, they'll be fine
I listened to the credits music all the way till the end and was surprised to hear Brad speak in the Zaniac arcade game just before the Marvel logo. I have no idea what it means as usual.
Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 with two other inmates. They fooled the guards by leaving behind paper mache dummies in their beds that fooled the night guards, crept through an unguarded access hallway behind the wall of their cells and up to the roof, and got off the island with an improvised raft. Bits and pieces of the raft and their improvised life-vests washed up on the shore the next morning. It's generally believed that the three men drowned. Casey is a variant of an actual historical figure!
It actually makes sense. He can’t travel to something that doesn’t exist… and yet he does. This establishes that our ‘knowns’ don’t take that reality into account and therefore it may be possible beyond our knowns..
Loki, God of Stories, lets go!!! Also, wouldnt all these be branched timelines? Since the sacred timeline imploded on itself? Also Loki was ripped from time when Mobius extracted him in episode 1, which IMO makes him outside of time.
Yes. That's what I believe too. I think becuz he & Sylvie were in the void, it left them immune to mind erasure. I also think Loki is travelling backwards to times before the timelines were falling apart. That's why Sylvie & O.B.'s timelines spaghetti-fied
Apparently in the comics, Loki goes from being the God of Mischief to being the God of Stories. Feels like they're leaning into that shift in the MCU now.
I work nights and have been waiting all night for your reaction. I'm surprised it took so long lol. I guess normal people sleep at night. In real life, three men escaped Alcatraz in 1962. One of the three was named Frank Morris. That's who Casey is. All three men were never heard from again. Frank Morris was declared dead in 2008. I think it's cool that Casey plays Frank because rather than being dead Frank aka Casey went to the TVA, that's why he was never heard from again.
I feel so much personality in the direction and production of this show, it's kinda like James Gunn's guardians especially with that Sylvie record store scene. The muted music getting louder as the world around her is breaking down was amazing!
I suppose that Loki timeslipped after handing over the manual because that "task" was done and he had to go to the next "goal" of the "plan" - the question for the last episode will be "whose plan" though.
Now Loki is The god of stories like in comics. He can now control the out come of everything and everyone like the comics amazing I wasn't expecting the MCU bringing back LOKI THE GOD OF STORIES
When O.B. is telling Loki that he already did something impossible, so therefore doing another identically impossible thing should be possible...what he means is that they're two infinities cancelling each other out. It's...like with your noise-cancelling headphones. They operate through something called wave interference. Throw two waves of the same type, at the same modulation, but exactly opposite frequencies, directly at each other...and they basically shut each other down. That generally only works with waves propagating through a medium like a gas, solid, liquid, plasma, or other form of material. With things like light, radio waves, and other phenomena, it doesn't really apply. But, since this is all bullshit anyway, the implication here is that two identical collapsing waveforms (quantum mechanics terminology for "any given thing that happens") in direct opposition to one another...should cancel out. Meaning that something that should've been impossible, is possible. It's super fast and loose here, and an extreme oversimplification...because nothing anywhere in this show is how anything works at all...ever. But, for the story, it's internally consistent, and the plot overall and the characters are worth a little bullshit tolerance.
My favorite bit of this episode was them insinuating that Casey was actually Frank Morris, from the real life Alcatraz escape in 1962. Same character that Clint Eastwood played in the 1979 movie Escape From Alcatraz, based on the real story. I thought it was so fucking cool they did that.
Incorrect.. literally at the end of this episode he time travelled back to before he recruited the small amount of people he recruited (aka the future?past? they didn't really state where loki brought the team).....point is, that branch was seconds away from being wiped out and he left it, so ye.... still haven't got the answer to how they all got there :/
All through the episode Loki's collar is flipped up. Possibly a reference to the Time Lords in Doctor Who, whose formal dress featured prominently arching back-collars.
Feel like the pie can at least partially be a reference to pi and hitting whole back to the beginning, circular story telling thing they have been doing throughout the season.
A.D. Doug was great, he reminds me of well me. Like him I had use interest in science but shiften towards fiction. And how he made the distinction between science and fiction is exactly how I talk about it. I felt almost uncanny, as if the writers of the show had read my mind. Also, I the girl with the cast was also me as a teenager, I loved climbing tree. This was a weirdly person episode for me. And I love it for that!
That whole bar scene was so heart breaking. It's like a crazy metaphor for life and change. How we don't like when time changes our lives and nothing lasts forever. That and the fact that deep down we dont like to feel alone.
I can't quite explain why but I think this why my favorite episode of the season. I was sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time. And yes Ke Huy Quan is so fantastic.
Loki is really OP now! I read somewhere that he could be the most powerful being in the marvel multiverse right now, right under "The One Above All" because he is "The God of Stories" now (presumably) he can rewrite the story 🤯 It would make sense, could also be wrong 😂 cant wait for next week! 🤩 Great reaction cheers from Austria✌
As soon as I saw the year 1962 and the prison cell, I knew Casey was going to be Frank Morris ...kinda explains why he was / has never been found ...but also, I was born 3 years later and given that same name..! But my main question is...will Casey ever get his copy of the TVA Handbook signed before the end of the season...? He's been blocked twice already...! And as an afterthought...if B15 was in New York in 2012...what did she do during the Battle of New York to end up on a branched timeline..? 🤔😁
Was I the only one who immediately thought of Lost as soon as Loki opened his eyes in the beginning sequence? ❤ Anyway, Lost should have been as good as Loki. 😂😂😂
I don't think it's an origin story for the TVA, I think Loki was trying to get to his friends, subconsciously, and so he teleported to their original places on the timeline.
Mobius having two sons, one mischievous and one who’s older who Mobius asks to to after the other son probably reminded Loki of his situation prior to the TVA.
Not to mention Mobius tells one son he's going to get him a puppy and a snake. Loki is the father of the world serpent Jormungandr, and the great wolf Fenrir.
I don't think this is an origin story, but it stands to reason that these timelines would have lives similar to the ones the TVA versions of them came from, since we know that Loki was time slipping to people he knows (or close approximations of them).
I'm really hoping Loki's redemption ark plays through into the coming chaos where he can show up and shock the crap out of some heroes by being a good guy. I think that would be awesome.
this episode (and the last) messed with my head and my heart... idk why but that time splintering spaghetti effect gives me a really uneasy feeling... GG to the art/fx team lol overall S2 has been great so far 😄
19:35 Since the original sacred timeline Loki died in 2018 Infinity War, he could go to ''present-day'' New Asguard, where at least he knows people. Brunnhilde (Valkerie), maybe Thor. With all the years that passed since Ragnarok and IW, it wouldn't really disrupt anything. It might be a bit awkward to explain, but him dying and coming isn't unprecedented.
Except, Loki might not know these things since he was only shown "his life story" in the start of Season 1, which ended with his death to Thanos in Infinity War.
If you want more great Tom Hiddleston acting then you should check out the movie Crimson Peak. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro it's a beautifully shot movie and Tom Hiddleston is great in it.
I may have missed this in the discussion, but what did folks think about Loki's "I'll gut you like a fish Casey" line from ep.1/season 1 & the line from Casey/Frank's escape: "if they catch us theyre going to gut us like fish"? Not a coincidence, right?
Another idea. What if he “rewrites the story” back to being on the Asgardian ship before Thanos attacks, or even wilder, back to the point where he uses the Tesseract to escape the Avengers, and then becomes a good guy. Resets the entire MCU?? 🤔
The next & final episode drops the same day The Marvels does. And I am beginning to think this was intentional and not just a fluke of scheduling. I think the events of this season will tie directly into the Incursions rumored to be happening in The Marvels.
I'm guessing there's a Kang variant manipulating things in the background. Loki was time-slipping to specific places and times, wasn't just a glitching thing. There was a purpose. Does he save Victor Timely and Timely becomes Kang?
Lol I was just thinking about season one and this is the new one. The idea of a mobius strip,ouroboros, the concept of imagination (science and fantasy). In the first season Sylvia was making/reviving the threads or reconstruct things. The timeline itself is isolated and in a constant repeated flux kinda like those fun toys you pull apart and expand, then retract and it shrinks. That’s maybe how that timeline is always isolated from the other versions/dimensions/timelines.
This was easily the best episode this season. There are still a buttload of problems with it but this felt like what the plot should have been from ep 2. B-15 still is given next to nothing to do in any scene except look concerned or confused. I still feel Slyive doesn't take enough accountability for her actions. She literally started the countdown to the end of reality, acted like it wasn't her fault, hid in a McDonalds and called Loki an asshole for trying to prevent it. Like i get she wants to be free to live a normal life but she doomed reality and acts like she didn't. I have read people say that she doesn't think she caused it and that's why. But the problem there is the writing because Loki never clearly laid out the fact that reality is ending because of her actions so we never got a chance for her to deny or accept that. I dunno it bugs me. And yeah, called it with the reset button. I'm worried Marvel is falling into the classic sci-fi trap of time-travel fixes. Endgame went to such great lengths to stress you couldn't just go back and undo mistakes because the writers for that knew that the second you introduce that all narrative stakes are gone. And that's what has happened here. Because of the reset button that is Loki's time-slipping who cares if Victor Timely got vapourized? Just go back to when he didn't. Who cares if reality ends? Just go back before it does and stop it. No death is permanent, no issue is unsolvable if you have infinite time to fix it. One left then i think i'm going to take a break from Marvel for a while. Glad you are still having a good time with it though, best reactions on youtube as always :)
Another reactor--sorry, I'm seeing other reactors (we never agreed we were exclusive, okay?)--noted that Casey makes sense because in the TVA is kinda klepto, like he has all those infinity stones in his desk for no real reason. And I think we've seen him take things somewhere else, too.
Yeah read that too. Even before E5 aired, people who read that were saying how can an episode giving us all this character development be considered as just filler. Then after it aired, many, if not most, we're calling it a banger. I like that people appreciate the various character arcs. Plus there was so much growth and awareness for Loki AND he got a new ability. The suspense factor shot way up at the end. These Loki seasons need to be 8 - 10 episodes long, not 6.
11 episodes ago, this guy had just failed to conquer Earth.
Now, he's trying to save all of existence because he wants his friends back.
What an insane character arc.
And they made it sane every step of the way! This episode was just … sublime.
Really felt like an oasis (or oases) of normal, amid a torrent of crazy. Science/Fiction, indeed.
@@AngeloBarovierSDOh, fully agreed. It's an insane character arc in terms of how far he's come with relatively so little screen time - but it's 100% believable because of the quality of the writing and acting along with what we've learned about Loki in the rest of the MCU. He's always been a person who defined himself in relation to others, usually to the detriment of all involved - but now, as in Ragnarok and Infinity War, we're seeing a Loki who has learned to do so in a positive way.
He's still the God of Mischief, but he's become so much more.
@@pali1dit's looking more like he may no longer be the God of Mischief. He's becoming the God of Stories. (A seriously OP version of him from the comics). Basically if he writes down "and then you were aborted" you would simply not exist. You were never born, you never existed, the universe itself never considered you as an idea.
And if we think about the heavy emphasis this season has put on people's stories, it feels like it lines up.
I like that Loki is not only the God of mischief, but also the God of stories.
This fits perfectly with him being able to control all the stories/timelines here.
Casey as "Frank" on Alcatraz in 1962... there was a real-life Frank who actually did escape from Alcatraz in 1962.
This episode highlights what a great actor Eugene Cordero is. Casey is innocent, brilliant, approachable -- yet Frank is a hardened criminal, with all that comes with that. And he's able to portray those two wildly different characters without having to say a word -- just through his face and his body language.
Is he Frank Morris? Supposedly he was one of three men who escaped from Alcatraz. Clint Eastwood played him in that movie.
@@tetsuoishiki4677yes. IIRC Frank and the other escapees were never found and despite being listed as wanted to this day it is widely assumed their boat capsized and they drowned. In the episode we see Morris and the others successfully escape, which as a result caused the branched timeline and led to him being taken in by the TVA and become Casey after mind-wiping him
A.D. Doug is intended to be a reference to beloved satirist and scifi author Douglas Adams, best known for authoring The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, references to whom are littered all throughout both seasons of this show
I’ve never seen HHGG… but I was planning on watching it and now I think I have to
@@funnylilgalreacts Oh lord... there are different versions - actually every iteration has been intentionally different.
Book series
Radio drama
80s tv series
Movie.
Each has different plots, but the same general thing with same named characters (but they have different personalities)
My favourite is the Radio drama... followed by 80s tv (my introduction), then the books, and last the movie.
Could also be an homage to A(Arthur) C Clarke 😁
You should. But you should also read the books or listen to them, as there is a great audio book version narrated by Stephen Fry, or at least the first one as there are 5 books in the "*trilogy."
*he only intended to write three books, or to stop after the third one, his publisher and editor coaxed two more out of him.
For being as great a writer as he was, he had to be forced. Famously being locked inside once and forced to complete some pages at one point.
I would also recommend reading the book first. It won't ruin the movie(which I loved). I read them and the Dirk Gently books as a teenager and still have them on my shelf 40 years later.@@funnylilgalreacts
Casey's character is a real-life guy-- he was played by Clint Eastwood in "Escape from Alacatraz." Note: they give people's name in the End Credits, so for example Owen Wilson is listed as 'Don,' not as Moebius.
This was a delightful self-examination and literal literary deconstruction of a work of fiction.
And the vibe?!
So. Cool.
_I love this damn show!_
For a second in the end i was like "mr stark i don't feel so well"
I love the time overlap thing, when Loki was looking at himself reading the book he picked up because he saw himself reading it
Sylvie's variant timeline was pruned when she was a little girl, because the sacred timeline dictates that Loki should be a "male" and "evil/bad", so there was no variant timeline for her to be returned to (not to mention the fact that her aging as an Asgardian might mean her real timeline might have been pruned a thousand or more years ago). The closest thing was her "McDonald's" timeline, where she was trying to establish a "life", so she was returned to that one.
Her memories might be a little trickier, since she has no lifetime established there, to be restored. Possessing He Who Remains TemPad might also be keeping her full memory intact, since He Who Remains would probably have some sort of built-in protection that allowed him to always remember how things are "supposed" to happen, which would be one of the reasons why his was different from the normal TVA ones.
Sylvie's nexus event wasn't being female. If that had been the case, she'd have been pruned at birth. It's most likely that she began showing inclinations to being good that got her pruned. Any Loki in the sacred timeline must be mischievous, must fail at taking over New York, must die to Thanos. It doesn't matter whether they're male, female, or alligator, as long as they follow the script for being a Loki, they'll be fine
I listened to the credits music all the way till the end and was surprised to hear Brad speak in the Zaniac arcade game just before the Marvel logo. I have no idea what it means as usual.
He said something about "game over, loser." which concerns me becuz I think the cliffhanger may have Kang having the upper hand somehow
Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz in 1962 with two other inmates. They fooled the guards by leaving behind paper mache dummies in their beds that fooled the night guards, crept through an unguarded access hallway behind the wall of their cells and up to the roof, and got off the island with an improvised raft. Bits and pieces of the raft and their improvised life-vests washed up on the shore the next morning. It's generally believed that the three men drowned.
Casey is a variant of an actual historical figure!
I thought it was a nice to nod to the D.B. Cooper reveal in S1E1 (both are unsolved/unresolved)
It actually makes sense. He can’t travel to something that doesn’t exist… and yet he does. This establishes that our ‘knowns’ don’t take that reality into account and therefore it may be possible beyond our knowns..
Loki, God of Stories, lets go!!!
Also, wouldnt all these be branched timelines? Since the sacred timeline imploded on itself?
Also Loki was ripped from time when Mobius extracted him in episode 1, which IMO makes him outside of time.
Yes. That's what I believe too. I think becuz he & Sylvie were in the void, it left them immune to mind erasure. I also think Loki is travelling backwards to times before the timelines were falling apart. That's why Sylvie & O.B.'s timelines spaghetti-fied
AD Doug = Douglas ADams, the man who wrote that book about trying to figure out the answer to the universe?
Apparently in the comics, Loki goes from being the God of Mischief to being the God of Stories. Feels like they're leaning into that shift in the MCU now.
I work nights and have been waiting all night for your reaction. I'm surprised it took so long lol. I guess normal people sleep at night. In real life, three men escaped Alcatraz in 1962. One of the three was named Frank Morris. That's who Casey is. All three men were never heard from again. Frank Morris was declared dead in 2008. I think it's cool that Casey plays Frank because rather than being dead Frank aka Casey went to the TVA, that's why he was never heard from again.
Casey as Frank Woods, played by Clint Eastwood in Escape from Alcatraz its gorgeous
Was A.D zapping Loki a reference to the first Avengers when Tony zapped Bruce to see if that'd make him Hulk out?
just found your channel, really like that you give a lot thoughts to what is happening
I feel so much personality in the direction and production of this show, it's kinda like James Gunn's guardians especially with that Sylvie record store scene. The muted music getting louder as the world around her is breaking down was amazing!
Casey is Frank from the real escape of Alcatraz never found
I suppose that Loki timeslipped after handing over the manual because that "task" was done and he had to go to the next "goal" of the "plan" - the question for the last episode will be "whose plan" though.
Now Loki is The god of stories like in comics. He can now control the out come of everything and everyone like the comics amazing I wasn't expecting the MCU bringing back LOKI THE GOD OF STORIES
When O.B. is telling Loki that he already did something impossible, so therefore doing another identically impossible thing should be possible...what he means is that they're two infinities cancelling each other out.
It's...like with your noise-cancelling headphones. They operate through something called wave interference. Throw two waves of the same type, at the same modulation, but exactly opposite frequencies, directly at each other...and they basically shut each other down. That generally only works with waves propagating through a medium like a gas, solid, liquid, plasma, or other form of material. With things like light, radio waves, and other phenomena, it doesn't really apply.
But, since this is all bullshit anyway, the implication here is that two identical collapsing waveforms (quantum mechanics terminology for "any given thing that happens") in direct opposition to one another...should cancel out. Meaning that something that should've been impossible, is possible.
It's super fast and loose here, and an extreme oversimplification...because nothing anywhere in this show is how anything works at all...ever. But, for the story, it's internally consistent, and the plot overall and the characters are worth a little bullshit tolerance.
I really appreciate your informative comment!
The God of Stories has entered the MCU.
I get the feeling that somehow this is all part of he who remains’s plan to get Loki and Sylvie to run the TVA
Would probably explain why Loki was given the ability to time slip in the first place.
100%
Be careful if don’t want to know how things really end. Funko, as usual, couldn’t plug their leaky ship and essentially spoiled the ending.
God of stories
Imo Loki is the best marvel series out of everything, even better than avengers overload shenanigans. This episode was such a mind tease.
My favorite bit of this episode was them insinuating that Casey was actually Frank Morris, from the real life Alcatraz escape in 1962. Same character that Clint Eastwood played in the 1979 movie Escape From Alcatraz, based on the real story. I thought it was so fucking cool they did that.
Yeah that was great! When Frank/Casey removed the fake ventilation grid that was... 😮🤯
Just like Loki having been DB Cooper. Or the reference to the USS Eldridge in season 1. So awesome
Right? I got so excited the second I saw the fake head laying in the bed!
When present Loki pruned past Loki....present Loki inherits the "time slipping" curse/gift from the past Loki.....quantum entanglement.
And now we know where the TVA members came from. Loki picked them.
🤯
Incorrect.. literally at the end of this episode he time travelled back to before he recruited the small amount of people he recruited (aka the future?past? they didn't really state where loki brought the team).....point is, that branch was seconds away from being wiped out and he left it, so ye.... still haven't got the answer to how they all got there :/
Loki trying to time slip reminded me of Jim Carey in the Mask where he tries to get the mask to work.
I just realised that it is a Loki mask 😆
Don’s sons are acting out.
He owns two jet skis.
He lives in 2022.
The Battle of Earth happens in 2023.
*His wife got snapped.*
😢 I missed that
All through the episode Loki's collar is flipped up. Possibly a reference to the Time Lords in Doctor Who, whose formal dress featured prominently arching back-collars.
Or it just looks cool.
Feel like the pie can at least partially be a reference to pi and hitting whole back to the beginning, circular story telling thing they have been doing throughout the season.
1:10 😂😂😂 the spaghetti puns are too much 🤣🤣🤣
A.D. Doug was great, he reminds me of well me. Like him I had use interest in science but shiften towards fiction. And how he made the distinction between science and fiction is exactly how I talk about it. I felt almost uncanny, as if the writers of the show had read my mind. Also, I the girl with the cast was also me as a teenager, I loved climbing tree. This was a weirdly person episode for me. And I love it for that!
Frank Morris is the name of one of the guys who escaped alcatraz in 62. And was presumed drowned, although he was never found. Alive or dead.
That whole bar scene was so heart breaking. It's like a crazy metaphor for life and change. How we don't like when time changes our lives and nothing lasts forever. That and the fact that deep down we dont like to feel alone.
I can't quite explain why but I think this why my favorite episode of the season. I was sitting on the edge of my seat the whole time. And yes Ke Huy Quan is so fantastic.
A D Doug could be Douglas Adams?
Loki is really OP now! I read somewhere that he could be the most powerful being in the marvel multiverse right now, right under "The One Above All" because he is "The God of Stories" now (presumably) he can rewrite the story 🤯
It would make sense, could also be wrong 😂 cant wait for next week! 🤩
Great reaction cheers from Austria✌
He is the God of stories like in comics .the Who is Loki.....he is in control
Great reaction video :)
Remember that everybody staffing the TVA are variants who were scooped up from Branched timelines before those timelines were erased by the Minutemen.
He's not going to stop Victor, he's gonna take this place fixing the loom.
I just love to re-watch things with you ❤
What a way to end indeed! WOO
Did you think he made that realization subconsciously when he talked with old Loki? He knows he can be feel lonely and it scares him?
As soon as I saw the year 1962 and the prison cell, I knew Casey was going to be Frank Morris ...kinda explains why he was / has never been found ...but also, I was born 3 years later and given that same name..!
But my main question is...will Casey ever get his copy of the TVA Handbook signed before the end of the season...? He's been blocked twice already...!
And as an afterthought...if B15 was in New York in 2012...what did she do during the Battle of New York to end up on a branched timeline..?
🤔😁
and Clint Eastwood wasn't available!
You felt like a meatball for not knowing about spaghettification? Now I want Italian for dinner.
At's-a spicy cliffhanger!
that episode was insane
God of stories time
Was I the only one who immediately thought of Lost as soon as Loki opened his eyes in the beginning sequence? ❤
Anyway, Lost should have been as good as Loki. 😂😂😂
its still rather terrifying each time Loki slipped
I don't think it's an origin story for the TVA, I think Loki was trying to get to his friends, subconsciously, and so he teleported to their original places on the timeline.
I think that’s the case. Hunter B15 was a doctor? Get her back to that life immediately.
Mobius having two sons, one mischievous and one who’s older who Mobius asks to to after the other son probably reminded Loki of his situation prior to the TVA.
Not to mention Mobius tells one son he's going to get him a puppy and a snake. Loki is the father of the world serpent Jormungandr, and the great wolf Fenrir.
@@qrowinggreat observation!
Like Ms Minutes said this is his plan He Who Remains planned all of this he even factored in Loki's time slipping to help him
My Daughter and i really liked this episode
Fun fact: Casey is actually a real life person in his timeline. Frank Morris an actual prisoner from Alcatraz
Ha! Just finished watching the episode, hopped over to UA-cam and see your reaction to it! 🤣
I don't think this is an origin story, but it stands to reason that these timelines would have lives similar to the ones the TVA versions of them came from, since we know that Loki was time slipping to people he knows (or close approximations of them).
Sylvi: " we're writing our own stories now, you should do the same."
Loki: BECOMES GOD OF STORIES
Remember the "new vs. old Doug" reference from Thor Ragnarok? I wonder if A. D. Doug is "old Doug"?
I hope they nail the ending cuz this story is just WTF?😳
Been wanting to comment for a while that I LOVE your title card music! It fits you so well!
I'm really hoping Loki's redemption ark plays through into the coming chaos where he can show up and shock the crap out of some heroes by being a good guy. I think that would be awesome.
Yeah, I was thinking he could actually lead the Avengers during events in The Kang Dynasty, since he knows the most about what's going on.
20:44 Whatever happened with the loom is somehow causing the fabric of reality to unravel.
I assume it means A.D. as in Anno Domini, "In the year of our lord".
Great episode 🔥🔥🔥
You complete me!! ❤😊😊
All of them must say: "-You son of a bitch - i am in.😂😂😂!!!
I suspect A D Doug is a nod to sci-fi author Douglas Adams.
this episode (and the last) messed with my head and my heart... idk why but that time splintering spaghetti effect gives me a really uneasy feeling... GG to the art/fx team lol
overall S2 has been great so far 😄
It’s jarring! Definitely meant to make you feel when you watch it
19:35 Since the original sacred timeline Loki died in 2018 Infinity War, he could go to ''present-day'' New Asguard, where at least he knows people. Brunnhilde (Valkerie), maybe Thor. With all the years that passed since Ragnarok and IW, it wouldn't really disrupt anything. It might be a bit awkward to explain, but him dying and coming isn't unprecedented.
Except, Loki might not know these things since he was only shown "his life story" in the start of Season 1, which ended with his death to Thanos in Infinity War.
If you want more great Tom Hiddleston acting then you should check out the movie Crimson Peak. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro it's a beautifully shot movie and Tom Hiddleston is great in it.
He Who Remains wanted Loki in charge
14:32 "Let's see it."
Excuse me? That's a rather personal request...
I may have missed this in the discussion, but what did folks think about Loki's "I'll gut you like a fish Casey" line from ep.1/season 1 & the line from Casey/Frank's escape: "if they catch us theyre going to gut us like fish"?
Not a coincidence, right?
Another idea. What if he “rewrites the story” back to being on the Asgardian ship before Thanos attacks, or even wilder, back to the point where he uses the Tesseract to escape the Avengers, and then becomes a good guy. Resets the entire MCU?? 🤔
Loki will be in charge of TVA and rounding up all Avengers in the Kang Wars
The next & final episode drops the same day The Marvels does. And I am beginning to think this was intentional and not just a fluke of scheduling. I think the events of this season will tie directly into the Incursions rumored to be happening in The Marvels.
It's a shame about jonathan majors. He made a very good Kang. Hopefully his replacement will be just as good.
That toy looked like TVA agent
I'm guessing there's a Kang variant manipulating things in the background. Loki was time-slipping to specific places and times, wasn't just a glitching thing. There was a purpose. Does he save Victor Timely and Timely becomes Kang?
What do we want? Time Travel. When do we want it? It doesn't matter
Casey collets things in the tva ie: Infinity stones etc. Makes sense he's a thief
There is a fan theory that Mobius (Don) is a Variant of Odin and his sons are Loki & Thor.
Hopefully he doesn’t have a daughter Hela somewhere. That just made me think that Sylvie could be his daughter.
@@funnylilgalreacts Well Don (Mobius/Odin) did say his wife was "long gone." Maybe SHE has custody of Hela.
Theory so AD Doug-->Adam Douglas
Morbius raised
scamp before he found Loki
Time skipping looks very much like lokis frustration of why. Food for thought
Remember that Casey has a drawer (and then a cart) full of assorted items and we see Frank presenting consistently with kleptomania.
Did you know there is some controversy and this is the last time we might see Johnathan Majors in Marvel?
Lol I was just thinking about season one and this is the new one. The idea of a mobius strip,ouroboros, the concept of imagination (science and fantasy). In the first season Sylvia was making/reviving the threads or reconstruct things. The timeline itself is isolated and in a constant repeated flux kinda like those fun toys you pull apart and expand, then retract and it shrinks. That’s maybe how that timeline is always isolated from the other versions/dimensions/timelines.
When does "The Watcher" show up?
This was easily the best episode this season. There are still a buttload of problems with it but this felt like what the plot should have been from ep 2. B-15 still is given next to nothing to do in any scene except look concerned or confused. I still feel Slyive doesn't take enough accountability for her actions. She literally started the countdown to the end of reality, acted like it wasn't her fault, hid in a McDonalds and called Loki an asshole for trying to prevent it. Like i get she wants to be free to live a normal life but she doomed reality and acts like she didn't. I have read people say that she doesn't think she caused it and that's why. But the problem there is the writing because Loki never clearly laid out the fact that reality is ending because of her actions so we never got a chance for her to deny or accept that. I dunno it bugs me. And yeah, called it with the reset button. I'm worried Marvel is falling into the classic sci-fi trap of time-travel fixes. Endgame went to such great lengths to stress you couldn't just go back and undo mistakes because the writers for that knew that the second you introduce that all narrative stakes are gone. And that's what has happened here. Because of the reset button that is Loki's time-slipping who cares if Victor Timely got vapourized? Just go back to when he didn't. Who cares if reality ends? Just go back before it does and stop it. No death is permanent, no issue is unsolvable if you have infinite time to fix it. One left then i think i'm going to take a break from Marvel for a while.
Glad you are still having a good time with it though, best reactions on youtube as always :)
God of stories changes the science fiction of MCU….Loki not destined to win. All the Pruned got what they desired…. They were destined to win!
Another reactor--sorry, I'm seeing other reactors (we never agreed we were exclusive, okay?)--noted that Casey makes sense because in the TVA is kinda klepto, like he has all those infinity stones in his desk for no real reason. And I think we've seen him take things somewhere else, too.
Did you subconsciously choose Sharon for B15's real name because she reminds you of Dr. Sharon Fieldstone from Ted Lasso?😊
Omg probably 🤣 they look like sisters
I saw some leak that said this episode is going to be a filler. Ain't no way in hell is this a filler lmaoo
Yeah read that too. Even before E5 aired, people who read that were saying how can an episode giving us all this character development be considered as just filler. Then after it aired, many, if not most, we're calling it a banger. I like that people appreciate the various character arcs. Plus there was so much growth and awareness for Loki AND he got a new ability. The suspense factor shot way up at the end. These Loki seasons need to be 8 - 10 episodes long, not 6.