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It will be super difficult to keep up the quality through Endgame, and I have my doubts about Eternals, but I think these D+ shows have been outstanding. There will be a drop off at some point but I’m looking forward to Dr Strange 2. Im hopeful that they don’t sink too far into the multiverses as I think it will drive more casual people away, and I’ve mentioned before that generally I don’t like time travel.
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The multiverse is the best direction they could go here. It allows them to recast major characters whose actors drop out and have an in-universe excuse. It also allows them to bring in Fantastic Four and X-Men from a different universe that I will dub “20th Century Fox”
Personally I hope Loki and the TVA prune all the remaining Fantastic Four universes.
This I didn’t get. I thought they were basic elemental/cosmic powers. Space gods can’t handle them but somehow now they are just paperweights?
Mobius told Loki that his powers wouldn’t work in the TVA. The Tesseract also didn’t work when Loki tried them. I just assumed that all magic was broken there which is why the stones were just glowing paperweights.
The comics established that infinity stones derive power from the reality from which they were formed, therefore when they leave that reality their powers are cut off and they are inert. The TVA is outside of all realities.
Plus the timeline they came from gets destroyed (pruned?) and further detaches them from any reality, rendering them powerless.
I only had an inkling because of the folks here.Not a comic dork.
pretty clueless as why that was a great ending.
This is right. The reason why Endgame worked was because the Avengers went back in time in their own timeline, so the stones still worked because they were from the same universe. Once a stone goes out of its universe, it is a paperweight.
Once you open the time travel thing you can't put the genie back in the bottle and that's where a lot of movies/shows suck. Hey here's this super cool show about a plane crash and an island and these interesting characters and these mysterious "others" snaking around and whats that noise wait is that a fricken polar bear and magic numbers they have to type into a computer or everyone dies and what there are houses on the island and oh its time travel ah #### I quit.
I guess this is possible but seems like wishful thinking to me. They need to hire and pay better writers to pull something like this off. Wanda vas very clever, good writing IMO, especially the first half. They did a few things that didn’t make sense, but overall very good television. Falcon/soldier and Loki were big disappointments for me, mostly due to what I view as weak, lazy writing.
Movies/TV feature character arcs all the time, they would be boring if a character had to stay the same as they were first introduced. Anakin Skywalker was a good guy, who turned into the worst guy, and then was redeemed in the end. I love the Loki character, I loved his transition in the MCU (Thor and Loki hugging it out), and I loved his character here. When he was arrested by the TVA, he was the same Loki we first saw in the MCU, who had not started his redemption arc. When Loki met all the other Lokis, OG Loki said "We are broken, and when we try to fix ourselves they prune us" (or something like that). In this show we see Loki absolutely broken, fearing being alone, and finally caring for someone else (even if it was him/herself). To me it was a great character arc of growth. The twist at the end where Sylvie's hunger for revenge won out over happiness with Loki was a real dagger.
Loki has always been devious but in the movies he's never been powerful or strong on his own. He sought out the tesseract to become strong. He allied with Thanos to become strong. But he lost almost every fight he was in. Iron man shot him, black widow tricked him, Hulk mopped the floor with him, he was afraid of Jeff goldblum, thor put a zapper thingy on him... even when he had every bit of help he could ask for he generally lost. Then they took away his powers and told him what he was and showed him his whole life's timeline all the way to his death and it seemed to change him. His delusions of glorious purpose were proven to be bull####. So the deviousness and ruthlessness weren't quite the same but the cunning was still there which is how he found lokette. We didn't get to see him use all his capabilities but he wasn't in situations where they would have helped much except maybe the train fight which was dumb I'll agree on that.
Spoilers from the show only I am not a comic book guy and don't know anything about future marvel movies/shows
I think the Spider Man and Dr. Strange movies slated to come out in this phase have multi-verse elements.
As a deeply flawed individual myself I've loved the story. Loki reminds me a lot of myself. Greedy, overly ambitious, powerful but not the strongest, self centered ahole where the ends always justified the means. Fortunately (?) through tragedy I had the equivalent of an Acme safe dropped on my head to make me see life through a different lens. So I have more of a connection to the character.
Super weird. I get that they were going for a "the only person he could ever love was himself" and also had him literally fight with himself as a way of showing how conflicted he was... but it came off as "what are you doing, step-me?"
Maybe they can do Thanos next, where he teams up with Loki and they harness the power of the infinity stones to save the whales, but are repeatedly thwarted by normal human cops beating them up.
Definitely gave me a Cersi/Jaime Lannister vibe. My teenage daughter blurted out WTF (but didn't abbreviate) and I was laughing for ten minutes.
Yes yet another mcu character who easily crushed the super powerful Loki and how could I forget the one who literally killed him. Did Loki win a single fight in the mcu movies? Did he even fight someone hand to hand? He used the scepter thing in the first avengers movie to make other people fight for him, he used the tesseract to bring bad guys to NYC, he used magic to pop up behind coulson and stab him in the back but that didn't even kill him... he was always a ####ty fighter
He fought Thor in the first Thor movie and in the Avengers hand to hand. Lost in both of course.
