Ryan Shoots First: Loki (S2 Ep2) “Breaking Bad”
Coming off a week where some distressing news came out about how Disney has managed its Marvel series it will be interesting to see how that frames the discussion around Loki. I wonder this because of all of the shows it feels like the most thought-out and well-written. I can see where Secret Invasion and some others seemed like low points but Loki seems to represent a higher level of quality. But still, websites love to hop on “Disney Bad” news bits and then use them to slam whatever has come out that week. When you’re the big dog everyone wants to take a dump in your yard. Seriously people think Ahsoka was boring??? Who are these people? I will fight them. Point them out to me.
Sorry lost my train of thought there for a second… Loki! It continues to be carried by its performers mainly Tom Hiddleston and Owen Wilson. I’m beating a dead horse variant at this point but they amplify every scene they are in. To the point that even the other actors there is a noticeable difference in the scenes they share with those two and the scenes they don’t. They represent the tone and chaos element of the show so well that you really can’t have them involved enough in every scene. This week we see them play some Good Time Cop, Bad Time Cop as they are on the heels of Sylvie trying to save the TVA and in turn, all of time. Loki has managed to fix his time-slipping issue from last week but that is only the beginning of their problems. This week also dives a little deeper into the idea that all of these agents had other lives, that they are variants themselves abducted from their timelines. The idea of how the various individuals would deal with that information. Some use it as a justification that nothing matters now and they have a blank check, some have accepted this is their life and they don’t even want to know what the alternative could have been. And some have used this revelation to either decide to save the billions of variants on those timelines or destroy them. It’s a fundamental question we all have internally, we think about significant crossroads in our lives and wonder what could have been if we had done option A instead of Option B. We do this often and can fabricate our variants imagining what could have been. This takes that basic human instinct and adds some Comic Book flair to it.
Loki continues to be an insightful thought experiment in its little pocket dimension and while I hope these recent changes at Marvel TV help to get shows a more cohesive vision I will continue to maintain Loki does a lot of things right on its own.
Observations
- Groovy
- I feel like I missed something
- Haha, that was a badass Loki walk
- Yep Loki still has some God powers
- Back to OB!
- I love the way they frame shots in conversations like this. A wider angle with the subject dead center
- Tom Hiddleston wears the shit out of that jacket
- Brad aint wrong that’s something coming from Loki.
- I love these two
- Haha Lokis little smirk when he called him the God of Mischief
- Well done Loki
- Haha Fanboy-ing out over the TVA manual
- Haha heck of a sentence
- I wonder if they had to digitally recreate that McDonald’s exterior
- I’ve heard those OG Apple Pies did hit hard
- Dang, that’s pretty heinous, is that the biggest kill count in the MCU?
