{Spoiler: Click to show}This show was remarkable. It was the least I was excited for, yet ended up being miles better than the other two for me. I was so afraid they were going to have another version of Loki sitting on the throne in the final episode. That would have been so typical/television budget BS. Turns out the initial trailer footage of him being in some golden armor was all a misdirect. Marvel is getting better with the bait and switch in just trailers alone. But Disney actually pulled the trigger and got Majors to appear as Immortus/Kang/Nathaniel Richards. I'm so excited to get one of the best Avengers villains period off the comic book page, and on screen. The time maestro is going to wreck havoc on the MCU, and he's going to definitely be in the public consciousness more like Thanos was after it's all said and done. A++ experience with this series. Even episode 3 won't be a drag on rewatch.

{Spoiler: Click to show}I didn't think they would go the Kang route and would do another Loki, but I am impressed.

It's insane how big in scope this show is compared to the movies. Makes Thanos seem like a small threat in comparison.

So do we think there are multiple TVAs and Loki got sent to a different one, or since the TVA is outside of time does it follow Back to the Future rules, and a different Kang changed stuff, so that is why the don't recognize him?

I think I am leaning toward different TVAs because otherwise it negates the subplot of Mobius and...I forget her designation but the other prominent agent waking folks up.

I am excited for season 2.

It NOT actually Kang, but that He Who Remains (who was in that Thor TVA story way back when) is actually who he is. That's clearly not what the hints are going for, but they didn't ACTUALLY call him Kang

1. Okay, so we see why "Kang" created the TVA, but why the false mythology of the three time-keepers, and why the wild 1960s aesthetic from a guy who is from the 32nd century? Don't tell me it's just the look/feel of the show, because that aesthetic doesn't follow to "Kang"'s office, nor to the place where the pruned are sent.

2. Are we never going to revisit the fact that the very crimes for which the TVA were hunting Sylvie aren't her m.o. at all? She has been running to ends of worlds, not showing up in ancient Earth to kill, pose as the devil, and give candy to frightened children. That really needed to be tidied up by the season finale. How hard would it have been for "Kang" to say, "Oh yeah, that was actually an alternate version of me that desperately needs to be stopped. Sorry you got dragged into this."

3. It also seemed extremely clear by the fifth episode that the TVA only went after Lokis who were successful in life/attained some level of contentment. That was a very provocative thing to put out there, only to utterly contradict it one episode later: Nope, it really is just about preventing alternate timelines. How very disappointing.

4. Why WHY can't a healthy romance exist in TV just once without writers having to strain it in order to introduce new conflict? Why can't these two be in love, be totally one, and still be fighting for their destinies and for the fate of the universe? Instead, the writers turn them on each other at the first opportunity.

5. The TVA is supposed to be a massive bureaucracy, so why does it seem like only eight people work for it? Loki shows up in an alternate TVA, and the first person he runs into is Morpheus, somehow.


As for what was revealed, meh. It wasn't particularly interesting to me, certainly not a worthwhile reward for six weeks of mystery. Heck, I actually nodded off a few times while the camera kept carefully moving in and out on "Kang", and Amber passed out completely. We'd both been rivetted to our seats to the point that we'd lost all awareness of time and of ourselves for the past four episodes.