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[BSLChrisStoner]

The Ringer: ‘Loki’ Will Set Up the Rest of the MCU

[JeremyStrain]

Watched it his morning. It’s really interesting and you see a few ways it could go. Intentionally I’m sure, trying to swerve a bit cause part is too straightforward, but the relationship between Owen Wilson and Hiddleston I’d pay to watch over and over.

[Dupin]

It's really nice to see Owen Wilson in something good again.  It's been such a long time since Midnight in Paris.

[BobPhelan]

Loved it, especially Owen Wilson.

[Chris B]

Man this is gonna be great

[BSLChrisStoner]

The Ringer: Is the ‘Loki’ Variant Even a Loki?

[BSLChrisStoner]

The Ringer: The Six Biggest Questions Heading Into the Second Half of ‘Loki’

[Mashed Potatoes]

Episode 3 was a step down, pretty boring

[Dupin]

I thought it did a decent job giving some characterization/introduction for Sylvie.

[BobPhelan]

I fall in the middle of you two. My least favorite episode of the 3 but necessary character development, some cool action and funny moments, and the big reveal about the TVA.

[BSLChrisStoner]

The Ringer: What We Know About the Variants From the ‘Loki’ End-Credits Scene

[BobPhelan]

Loki is one of the best things the MCU has done. Phase 4/the next saga begins.

[The Epic]

Easily the best of the three series.

 

It seemed to be the only one of the three series that absolutely knew what it was from the beginning.

[JeremyStrain]

Easily the best of the three series.

It seemed to be the only one of the three series that absolutely knew what it was from the beginning.

Yep ended up doing what I thought it was. However I’m really surprised to see that they actually introduced that actor this last episode. He’s got a big debut coming in the new ant man. But the way they did it still works perfectly.

I’ll be really interested to see where season 2 goes.

[The Epic]

Yep ended up doing what I thought it was. However I’m really surprised to see that they actually introduced that actor this last episode. He’s got a big debut coming in the new ant man. But the way they did it still works perfectly.

I’ll be really interested to see where season 2 goes.

 

If you're going to introduce someone so significant on TELEVISION, it's absolutely necessary that he takes over any scene he's in.

 

He did that. That was amazingly done.

[JeremyStrain]

If you're going to introduce someone so significant on TELEVISION, it's absolutely necessary that he takes over any scene he's in.


True that. Now if I could just getting over Miss Minutes sounding like Applejack from My Little Pony I’d be ok.
He did that. That was amazingly done.

[BSLChrisStoner]

The Ringer: Seven Lingering Questions After the ‘Loki’ Finale

[Dupin]

The ending was good character stuff, but I felt like momentum wise it kinda ground things to a halt.  20-30 minutes of exposition is a hard sell for a season finale IMO.  I enjoyed it overall, but I think Falcon and the Winter Soldier was the most consistently entertaining for me.

[JeremyStrain]

The ending was good character stuff, but I felt like momentum wise it kinda ground things to a halt.  20-30 minutes of exposition is a hard sell for a season finale IMO.  I enjoyed it overall, but I think Falcon and the Winter Soldier was the most consistently entertaining for me.

It was tough because the REAL reveal was that who that exposition was from and what THAT really meant.

 

The guy they were sitting and talking with is the next big Avengers villain. Like Thanos level big (he actually tore Thanos a new one in the comics). But the way they introduced him made this whole show make sense, introduced time travel as more of a thing, introduced the multiverse which is about to be REALLY huge in the next few movies, and left him that ties it all together with how it comes back to HIS variants.

 

In the end it was really the start button for the next whole series (think of the first of each Marvel movie as an intro movie, but all the rest were all the Thanos story line), this event at the end of the episode is the start point for that next series.

It's like you are looking at this whole show as going somewhere and it's about Loki, but at the end it's really not, and Loki ends up being the vehicle used, not really a story about him.

[Mashed Potatoes]

I appreciated that the show had real consequences for the full MCU vs stories that felt like a mere opportunity to harvest capital from known IP. Really like Jonathan Majors and I'm excited to see him land such a big role moving forward.

My only complaint is that the fight scenes actually felt like an opportunity to tune out because they're not as expensively choreographed compared to the movies and they determine almost nothing.