But, when he realizes that there is no saving the loom, the anguish is clearly visible in his expressions. While he keeps returning to the moment the loom exploded, there is a pep in his step, and his comic timing is fun to watch. What strange timing that in the same weekend The Marvels opens in theaters, the newest and maybe last episode of Loki leaves me wanting more.Īll of Loki season 2 is streaming now on Disney Plus.This week’s episode gives Tom Hiddleston the opportunity to express all emotions. I cannot say that Loki in its totality is the best Marvel story ever, I can only say that it ended so well. As of now, it should not be a controversial statement that Loki is Marvel’s most evolved character originally a two-dimensional villain in a movie made of candy and fireworks, Loki’s subsequent fandom catapulted him into thematic spaces unimaginable until the streaming era. The Loki season 2 finale is the first time I’m looking forward to revisiting a Marvel thing not because I want to rewatch satisfying set-pieces for an empty dopamine hit, but because I want to better grasp its big picture ideas and absorb its majesty. It’s about making peace with the surroundings, to value the good things it gives you while still having the autonomy and will to reshape what doesn’t fit. But 'Glorious Purpose' isn’t about breaking free. All of its staff are basically prisoners to time, Loki most of all. It’s as though the TVA is not a cosmic satire of the workplace but actual purgatory. In concert with the show’s production design – which must be said here at the end is vastly underrated as a thing of beauty – the circular form means there’s always an enclosing feeling for these characters. The Sacred Timeline, which has spent all season in a state of dangerous flux, wraps around its characters on a grand scale as if constricting them. Of all that Loki possesses, I remain enamored by its metaphysical symbolism and how 'Glorious Purpose' finally thrusts the throughline. If nothing else, 'Glorious Purpose' proves what the show was meant to be all along: Tom Hiddleston getting to play in a rich, meaty role. The intended effect is not only that Loki has mastered the inner workings of the TVA, but that the show’s plentiful jargon is not meant to be serious. However, here there is an ace actor with Hiddleston, who early on in the episode comes to be a technical expert like Ouroborous and impressively dashes through lines containing minefield phrases like “ion decoupler” and “adaptive exponential computing system”. Loki’s scripts are laced with pulp sci-fi bushwa that inferior actors could never dream of selling properly. Though their verbiage sometimes gets too abstract to follow at times, the series makes a real case that the show is among Marvel’s all-time impeccably cast productions. Peppered throughout are pseudo-metaphysical conversations between Loki and his show’s biggest players: Mobius (Owen Wilson), He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors, which I reluctantly admit delivers another stellar performance), and Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino). This otherworldliness follows 'Glorious Purpose' to the end, culminating in a stunning, phantasmagorical climax. Thankfully, Loki organically shifts gears to a different plan, imbuing a uniquely ethereal feel to a most untethered-to-gravity episode. This week’s finale opens with a rousing rendition of time loop tales: whilst Groundhog Day is the most obvious inspiration, there’s also echoes of Edge of Tomorrow and, I’m serious, The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow with one of its own memorable episodes.īecause it is the finale, director duo Moorhead and Benson know better than to structure an entire episode around a Groundhog Day homage. Picking up immediately from last week’s episode, which received widespread praise from so many but me, 'Glorious Purpose' is to my eyes what everyone thought 'Science/Fiction' was, a playful and layered odyssey that prioritizes the inner turmoil of its central character.
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