Spoilers

“Science/Fiction”

I had no idea where Loki was heading after last episode. The entire TVA was apparently destroyed and all of our favorites were blasted away.

Come this episode and Loki is once again Timeslipping.

I should say that there was a midseason trailer out there for Loki and I avoided that thing like the plague. I really wanted to watch it. I saw that John Rocha had done a trailer reaction with it and the New Rockstars were breaking it down as they had a wont to do. But I refused to watch it, no matter how badly I wanted to because I wanted to go into these final two episode of this series with fresh eyes.

So as Loki was timeslipping around the time lines, seeing where the others had originally come from, it was fascinating to see where these variants were from. Casey as an escapee from Alcatraz? O.B. as a frustrated sci-fi writer? B-15 as a doctor? The only one that made sense was Mobius as a jet ski salesman.

Loki was desperate to save the TVA and he did everything he could think of to try and get the others to help.

When he approached Sylvie, I thought to myself, why would she be on this timeline? She was not a variant like the others were. And I was right. She remembered Loki immediately and it was clear that she was just living out her best life, working at McDonald’s and listening to records at a record shop.

She also helped Loki realize that he was not that desperate to save the TVA and the worlds, but that he wanted his friends back because he did not want to be alone. Once again, Loki’s arc takes precedent and showing how lonely and painful Loki’s life had always been and that he really wanted to have people who cared about him. It was a powerful moment.

Of course, it was not to stay since the other worlds started to spaghettify.

Looks like Loki has learned to control the timeslipping and that he wound up back before the loom exploded at the very end of the episode.

It was a solid episode that was never going to live up to episode four, which was one of the best episodes of Marvel television yet. Still, I think as a penultimate episode, it does a great job of setting the situation up for what’s to come.

If Loki saves the TVA, will he allow Mobius to go back to his real life, where we found out that he had two boys? Will all of the others want to return to their real lives too? Will Loki be the one who remains? Hm.

And…we had nothing with Renslayer, who was pruned last episode and must be at the Void and planning her return. We do not see her though. Clearly she’ll be back for the finale.

The finale next week has to be crazy.