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It’s the end of the world as Loki knows it — and he does not feel fine.
Actually, we’re not sure he feels much of anything, now that Episode 4 of the Disney+ series’ second season appears to have ended in Loki & Co. getting evaporated by an apocalyptic blast.
During Thursday’s installment, it seemed that Victor Timely — who looks identical to He Who Remains — would at last be able to use his likeness to stop the temporal loom from overloading and annihilating all of time and space. But the moment Victor donned that enormous, puffy spacesuit (the same one Mobius wore in the season premiere) and stepped outside the doors of the TVA to complete his crucial task, he was instantly spaghettified by the abnormally high levels of temporal radiation. Thus, with the temporal loom unable to keep up with all of the raw time flowing in, Loki, Mobius and the others were left to watch helplessly as a massive, bright blast headed their way and consumed them. Roll credits!
“This is a game we would always play in Season 1. If you have a really cool story element that you want to tell, but it happens in the third act or it happens two episodes later, what happens if you cut out that middle stuff and just move it up?” executive producer Kevin Wright tells TVLine of the decision to end Loki‘s world with two episodes remaining. “This was never something that was going to happen at the end of the show, but it feels like it naturally would… What happens if you put it earlier? Well, one, it’s going to be shocking, which is always fun and a great thing for a TV show. But two, it then gives you this whole back half where you get to really push the characters and have more time to explore.”
Indeed, Wright strongly hints that Loki, Sylvie, et al. will make it out of Episode 4’s catastrophic conclusion alive, even though there’s no mid-credits or post-credits scene to indicate anyone’s survival (as there was in Season 1, when Loki got pruned and sent to The Void).
“Everything has gone wrong, and now we have two episodes to push these characters to their absolute limits of who they are and how they’re going to overcome this,” Wright divulges. “It lets us go to some really profound and beautiful places. It gave us story kindling, and we knew it would be fun and shocking.”
And though Wright is expectedly tight-lipped about the specifics of Episodes 5 and 6, he reveals that they’ll include “a real exploration of what is holding reality together,” as well as a once-and-for-all answer to the show’s central question: “Can Loki become the best version of himself? What does that mean? What does that look like?”
Loki fans, did you see that Episode 4 ending coming? Give us your thoughts below!
I was quite shocked to se Victor die. But i did not expect all the timelines and the loom to implode. I truly have no idea how they’re gonna make their way out of this one… maybe escaping to the void?
Something told me when OB asked for an autograph that neither of them was going to make it. The shock for me was to see Dox and the minute men refuse Ravona’s offer because they remained righteous until the end…and you rarely see that on an antagonist. They went out with my admiration.
I have no idea why they did this, this is a dumb cliffhanger. Are they all dead, is the multiverse destroyed? No, obviously not, we know that. Smaller stakes make for better cliffhangers, if a couple is on the verge or breaking up or some risks losing their job for example are good cliffhangers because it creates tension and the audience genuinely doesn’t know how the story goes from there. If a nuke goes off in front of the main characters in the middle of the season nobody is worried because it’s a foregone conclusion that the show isn’t over and not everybody’s dead.
Basically nothing the TVA can do now can stop the multiverse being established into existence. They’re now bystanders for what’s to come. Remember the Kang variants from the end of Ant Man 3? He Who Remains also spoke of a multiversal war which happened and led to him establishing the TVA.
Because of that explosion, multiverse officially occurs and V.T. appears in different dimensions as Kang now, not dead. The whole gangs at TVA start to flip in the loop so they could save the timeline just like the movie, Endgame. Ransslayer and Loki were pruned again in this episode. I guess this is the spoiler.
It’s kind of getting stale how these marvel shows keep doing the 4th episode twist.
You sure this is not Doctor Who? All that running/walking along long corridors. Past and future Doctor/Loki appearing in the same timeline, one with jacket, one without, confusing their female companion/Sylvie 😆
Not sure whether Sylvi is with Loki anymore. B-15 has been more of a companion to Mobius or Cassey to OB than Sylvie and Loki this season. And for a story that deals with time, they hardly found any time to figure it out.
I thought the same thing for a sec. I love me some Doctor Who tho.