Marvel Studios’ season 2 finale of Loki went out with a blast attracting 11.2M global views over three-days, which is +3% from the season 2 first episode 3-day draw of 10.9M. Loki’s sea…
It was underwhelming compared to season one, which upped the ante which each episode. It overly relies on a MacGuffin which is kind of boring. They certainly followed HWR’s words to the letter, “you can’t get to the end until you’ve been changed by the journey” and so on. Unfortunately, said journey was a lot less riveting than season one’s. It may be harsh but the five first episodes felt like filler to me.
The finale however, really picks up the pace and delivers a memorable and a worthy conclusion.
I feel like S2 episodes 2 and 3 were particularly bad. “Filler” definitely feels like the appropriate word, S2E3 in particular felt to me like it was heavily padded out. The finale really saved the season, no matter how you slice it.
Also, I’m disappointed that my personal fan theory didn’t pan out:
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Have Renslayer turn out to be a female Kang variant. Could’ve made for an interestingly parallel with Sylvie and Loki, and would explain why He Who Remains trusts her with so much. We didn’t actually see Renslayer die though, so maybe…
I thought that was right at the start of episode 4:
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Miss Minutes shows Renslayer a recording (which appears like a tiny live-action diorama, kind of a cool effect I thought) of He Who Remains (HWR) talking to Renslayer, except she’s in a hunter uniform instead of a judge’s uniform. The recording shows that Renslayer used to be at the right hand of HWR. After Renslayer heads back to the TVA, HWR has Miss Minutes activate “Protocol 42” to erase the memories of everyone working at the TVA, including Renslayer.
It was underwhelming compared to season one, which upped the ante which each episode. It overly relies on a MacGuffin which is kind of boring. They certainly followed HWR’s words to the letter, “you can’t get to the end until you’ve been changed by the journey” and so on. Unfortunately, said journey was a lot less riveting than season one’s. It may be harsh but the five first episodes felt like filler to me.
The finale however, really picks up the pace and delivers a memorable and a worthy conclusion.
I feel like S2 episodes 2 and 3 were particularly bad. “Filler” definitely feels like the appropriate word, S2E3 in particular felt to me like it was heavily padded out. The finale really saved the season, no matter how you slice it.
Also, I’m disappointed that my personal fan theory didn’t pan out:
spoiler
Have Renslayer turn out to be a female Kang variant. Could’ve made for an interestingly parallel with Sylvie and Loki, and would explain why He Who Remains trusts her with so much. We didn’t actually see Renslayer die though, so maybe…
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I thought that was right at the start of episode 4:
spoiler
Miss Minutes shows Renslayer a recording (which appears like a tiny live-action diorama, kind of a cool effect I thought) of He Who Remains (HWR) talking to Renslayer, except she’s in a hunter uniform instead of a judge’s uniform. The recording shows that Renslayer used to be at the right hand of HWR. After Renslayer heads back to the TVA, HWR has Miss Minutes activate “Protocol 42” to erase the memories of everyone working at the TVA, including Renslayer.
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