Launching the second season with the protagonist being responsible for the death of an innocent woman was certainly a risky start. As was the deus ex machina trope that got him into her vehicle in the first place.
The show has always been such a mix: gorgeous visuals, great actors, some of the best music in the MCU, betrayed by nonsensical narrative through-lines, inconsistent threats, and way too much spoon-feeding the audience while ignoring their most obvious questions.
This episode again excelled in visuals and music. But I got really annoyed every time Loki said "It's the past" or "It's the future," as if it weren't already 100% obvious.
I appreciated the opening shot wasting no time to pick up where we left off. Or at least I thought that was the case. The Season 1 finale left us wondering if we were in the same TVA and people's minds were just wiped (and the statue of HWR had always been there, but Loki simply didn't know who it was), or if Loki had entered a different timeline, or a different point on the same timeline. It was a great mystery. So why did this episode start with a closeup of a different statue? Why not use the same one? Later if you look in the background, you see there's more than one HWR statue, but it would have been far less confusing, and more dramatic, to start the episode with the same statue as where we left off.
Finally, fans of awkward humor will enjoy the drawn-out segments of purposely cringey, surface-level dialogue. But that's not I.
The show has always been such a mix: gorgeous visuals, great actors, some of the best music in the MCU, betrayed by nonsensical narrative through-lines, inconsistent threats, and way too much spoon-feeding the audience while ignoring their most obvious questions.
This episode again excelled in visuals and music. But I got really annoyed every time Loki said "It's the past" or "It's the future," as if it weren't already 100% obvious.
I appreciated the opening shot wasting no time to pick up where we left off. Or at least I thought that was the case. The Season 1 finale left us wondering if we were in the same TVA and people's minds were just wiped (and the statue of HWR had always been there, but Loki simply didn't know who it was), or if Loki had entered a different timeline, or a different point on the same timeline. It was a great mystery. So why did this episode start with a closeup of a different statue? Why not use the same one? Later if you look in the background, you see there's more than one HWR statue, but it would have been far less confusing, and more dramatic, to start the episode with the same statue as where we left off.
Finally, fans of awkward humor will enjoy the drawn-out segments of purposely cringey, surface-level dialogue. But that's not I.