We’ll have to wait and see if next week manages to pull off a satisfying ending, a feat WandaVision really struggled with. Not to mention, the series has featured several fantastic performances by charismatic actors. But the expansion of the MCU into a multiverse of infinite variants, each with their own ways of being themselves, is one of the most interesting plot twists Marvel has introduced thus far. The weaknesses and strengths of Loki are on full display in this episode - it often feels like the characters are floating through a smudgy CGI background that they cannot interact with, exchanging corny one-liners and fast-forwarding through emotional growth. Grant, delivering a scene-stealing performance, manages to conjure one final, epic illusion, giving Loki and Sylvie the chance to enchant Alioth (Loki, you see, has enchantment abilities now, because of the power of love, or whatever). And this grand deception must surely be orchestrated by some version of Loki - we haven’t seen the God of Mischief play a single trick, otherwise.
Loki’s real enemy, after all, is his worst self.Īs Old Loki points out, Lokis are only snapped up by the TVA the moment they try to improve themselves perhaps that's a clue to the real motivation of whoever is pulling the strings at the TVA. While fans are speculating that Kang the Conqueror is waiting around the corner, it would be foolish of Marvel to introduce a villain so far removed from Loki’s struggle. Who is the man behind the curtain, the wizard of this Oz? Thematically, it must be another variant of Loki, probably the most power-hungry version that has ever existed. But hey, at least there’s a compelling mystery driving the plot forward. The crazy story that the excellent first episode of Loki pitched seems to have wobbled a little in the telling, although the room filled with Lokis does live up to that initial promise of multiverse madness.īut everything seems to have happened so fast - just like that, the buddy comedy between Loki and Mobius is over, and the love between him and Sylvie has blossomed, while Kid Loki and Old Loki decide to forgo self-preservation, in favor of sacrificing themselves to a greater good. And that dramatic character evolution doesn’t quite feel earned Loki has far more chemistry with Mobius than he does with Sylvie.
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