![]() Fundamentally, we need to care about them and their relationships with one another more than we care about The Fate Of The Universe. These can be TVA analysts like Mobius, or roguish demigods like Loki, or even sympathetic villains like Renslayer. What truly matters is telling great stories with characters we care deeply about. Sure, it was all about saving everything from total destruction, but that receded into the background as Loki fought to save something far more intimate and personal, and that is how you create a superhero story we care about.Īs another Disney hero once put it, this is the way. In the end, he made a sacrifice-and fulfilled his destiny-to save the ones he loved. He worked tirelessly, for centuries, to save the people he cared about. But the true magic of Loki’s end game, was making the stakes so personal. Whatever the case, while I’m certainly tired of the multiverse in general, when it’s handled as artfully and with as much care and craft as Loki somehow managed, I find myself enjoying it a great deal. This means that I wrote my anti-multiverse piece prior to finishing Loki, and that adds a curious wrinkle to my thesis that the multiverse is killing the superhero genre.įor one thing, Loki handled this mult-timeline stuff very, very well, and sets the stage for a compelling resolution to the multiverse (hopefully) with the Kang wars (though another wrinkle there, of course, is Jonathan Majors). ![]() I only just binged both seasons over the last week or so, and watched the finale last night. I was feeling quite burned out on Marvel after Falcon and the Winter Soldier and just never got back to the show. I only watched two episodes of Loki when it first aired. It is perhaps also no coincidence that the Time Stone is green. That Loki should become the Tree of the World, guardian of wisdom and fate, all these movies and shows later is really quite remarkable (and subtle, for most viewers will likely not remember). Indeed, he finds it by pressing the eye of a snake. In the first Captain America, Red Skull finds the Tesseract hidden behind a mural of Yggdrasil. Because the attention to detail here truly is remarkable. Of course, the trick is to follow where Loki is leading, and to craft the future of the MCU with the same care and attention to detail. It’s also a tremendous piece of storytelling that ties back to Captain America: The First Avenger and brings Loki’s story full circle in a way that is, without a doubt, one of the most impressive feats the MCU has achieved.įor the first time in a long time, I’m actually excited about the Marvel Cinematic Universe again, if only because they’ve proven that they haven’t lost that magical touch quite yet, even if overall the project has faltered and stumbled more than it’s succeeded in recent years, especially when it comes to the Disney+ shows. It’s a beautiful, surprisingly moving moment (following Mobius’s own poignant final scene). He has become Yggdrasil, the keeper of life and time over an infinite cosmology. His face is strained but there’s a look of pride and contentment there as well. “Pass the time,” he says, bittersweetly.Īs he stares longingly at a life he can’t have, we fade and cut back to Loki, sitting on his throne. She asks him what he’s going to do and he says he thinks he’ll wait here for a bit longer. The personal watercraft salesman and his boys. Later, we find Mobius standing on the street where one of his variants lives. We see them light up, green, as they form the Tree Of Life, Yggdrasil, though at its top the green is riddled with purple, perhaps indicating the multiversal war between the Kangs. He sits upon the throne, roping more and more timelines and then casts all his strength and power into them. He steps forward, walking up an invisible staircase, gathering ropes of time as he ascends toward a dais, upon which we see a throne. Reaching out, he grabs one and infuses it with his magic, then another. He destroys the loom, and all the timelines break off into space, their light extinguished. The wind tears his clothes to shreds and in their place, Loki’s dark green cloak appears. Then he walks out into the temporal storm. “I know what kind of God I need to be,” he tells Sylvie and Mobius through the glass. He goes back to the Loom, but this time instead of sending poor stuttering Victor Timely out, he goes himself.
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