It’s not the best destination they could have ended up in. We know that’s coming, thanks to the title of the Doctor Strange sequel perhaps this is how?Īt any rate, before our pair of leads can worry about that, they have to figure out how to get out of their current predicament as Loki interrupts Sylvie’s attack on the TVA, he’s forced to make a desperate play to save both of their lives he steals her TemPad and uses it, blindly teleporting them to the planet Lamentis 1. It seems more likely, though, that the big secret the TVA is covering up is the existence of a multiverse. It’s certainly possible Sylvie herself evaded the TVA for years. These are large changes that would take time to achieve. It’s a reinforcement of something hinted at last episode, when we saw the many divergent Lokis that the TVA has killed: Every one of them was different, and not just in small, superficial ways, but in body, mannerism, skill set. What’s fascinating about this isn’t what it reveals about her or Loki, but about the TVA: If these are all simply variants of the same Loki, then why are their stories so different? Surely, if there were only one sacred timeline, only one originating point, then both of these Lokis would have the same memories up until the first point that one of them diverged. She also doesn’t remember her mother much, she says. Later in the episode, the pair have a discussion about their childhoods, which is interesting Sylvie mentions that she had always known she was adopted, unlike Loki, from whom it was hidden. Sylvie, though, has a reason, even though she hasn’t yet said what it is. The TVA’s doing the same thing he wants to do, and he figures it’s probably easier for him to use that than to fight it. Of course, it’s not that Loki isn’t able to ask these questions it’s that he just doesn’t care. What makes this particular timeline sacred? Why that word, with its connotations of mysticism? It wouldn’t seem odd coming out of Loki’s mouth, but the organization is generally more technology-focused it leans into drabness and bureaucracy. Viewers (and Loki) only know what the TVA has told them, and the TVA has an interest in protecting itself. Sure, it gives a compelling argument regarding the safekeeping of the timeline, but even that’s suspect. The show’s first two episodes have walked us through the brutal, merciless tactics that the TVA uses to enforce its idea of order it ends entire, unique lives based on nothing more than a simple choice, or an accident of fate. It seems like a very standard villainous plot, but then that’s the thing about it. It also gives Sylvie a nice bit of agency that she lacked in her original incarnations instead of a girl in over her head with an Asgardian god, Sylvie is her own person, who’s made her own choices and has her own goals. It’s dressed up with ideas of continuity and timeline variations, sure, but at the heart of it, think of it in TV parlance as … going in a different direction. The solution here is elegant a different version of Loki himself. Of course, it took a lot of comics to get to that point originally, and a six-episode TV show doesn’t have that kind of time. There, she was a pawn in one of Loki’s many plots at the time, which led to her gaining magical powers and joining none other than the Young Avengers - the same team featuring Kamala Khan, Kate Bishop, and Wanda Maximoff’s twin sons, all of whom have made or are scheduled to make an appearance in Marvel’s Disney+ slate. In Marvel Comics, Sylvie Lushton is a teenager from the fictional Broxton, Oklahoma, where the entirety of Asgard resided (or, technically, floated a few feet above) for a time. Her name as given confirms last week’s suspicions: Sylvie is meant to be an incarnation of Amora, the Enchantress, just not the original. Loki’s ersatz self, who we’ll come to know in this episode as Sylvie, is on a mission to kill the Timekeepers and destroy the TVA as a whole. Lucky for him that he lands somewhere safe! Like … the headquarters of the very organization he just fled from. It’s a risky move, since he doesn’t know where she’s going, and when he jumps after her, he does so with Mr. At the end of the last episode, the titular god of mischief jumped through a time portal after his variant, in a bid to find out what she’s up to and see just how he can use it to his own ends.
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