I don’t think Kang will appear in this show either, but unlike Mephisto in Wandavision, there are definite signs in this show (all but lit up in neon) pointing towards his general MCU existence. Renslayer, Alioth and Qeng Enterprises are all very Kang specific characters and things.

I am so glad someone over at Disney actually cast Richard E Grant and fucking used him. Of all the stupid terrible shit in Rise of Skywalker, the fact that Grant was cast as a nothing character was one of the worst. Meanwhile in less then 40 minutes on a TV show where they put him in a goofy ass costume, he manages to…

No, the implication was that all the other Lokis died. The Old!Loki was a variant because didn’t die, but the TVA didn’t notice him until the first interacted with something as that was the first time he affected the timeline.

I’m just gonna start posting on popular posts since nothing else works so...

No

Old Loki, why must you hurt me so?! That man really created an illusion of his home one last time and went out laughing. I already miss him. (Also makes me wonder if there is a Loki out there on an isolated planet who never came back to Asgard.)

Agreed. Sometimes the best answer is one left to the imagination. It’s like “Groundhog Day” removing the reason why Phil was trapped in a time loop.

“Surely the scene where Sylvie shows Hunter B-15 memories of her past life was meant to be a flashback montage, not just two women standing in a rainy parking lot.”

That scene worked for me. We didn’t need to see. In fact, I think the lack of flashback made it easier for viewers to put themselves in B-15's place.…

You are a buzzkill! AND a long winded gasbag. It’s a TV show about Loki. It’s a TV show!

The most interesting idea in “The Nexus Event” comes right at the beginning, as Loki tries to comfort Sylvie as asteroids hurtle towards them: The thing that makes a Loki a Loki isn’t a godly sense of entitlement or even a trickster’s mischievous, it’s that they always manage to survive, no matter how many times…

Loki loved Frigga, but he always sought Odin’s approval.

Oh come on, Loki usurping Odin’s day is totally on brand for him.

Erin Kellyman has a British mother and a Jamaican father. Which I suspect was a deliberate choice. The Flag Smashers were made of people who left their homelands for better lives after the Blip and were now refugees. It would have been odd if they did conform to national stereotypes. Also Karli was originally Karl in…

Yeah, Sam will keep helping Bucky, but it’ll take him longer to figure out who his is.

Walker’s no hero. No hero pauses as long as he did before doing the obviously right thing, and after making the hero’s choice he wasn’t permitted to actually be the hero (Sam got that).

The Flag-Smashers weren’t flying by the seat of their pants, it’s just that their obvious inexperience showed when the one set of plans they did make went awry when they faced really experienced adversaries they couldn’t physically overcome. They were successful with all their previous jobs because no one was capable…

I feel like the show made clear that letting go of Winter Soldier is a long process and he’s not there yet.

After seeing the whole thing, I’m now more convinced than ever that editing and reshooting around a plague storyline really kneecapped Karli’s character in a way she just couldn’t recover from. I feel like we lost half of her motivations and at least part of the heel turn. In context, blowing up the building was a…

I, too, was mostly satisfied with Centrist & The Disaster Bi. But hoo-boy is the apparent half-rehabilitation of Walker into Sam The Slightly Homicidal Eagle not going to play well. 

It’s honestly quite impressive how well the comics-accurate Sam Wilson Cap costume translates to the screen, though the half-cowl is a bit jarring since MCU Sam has never worn one.