it’s just mind-boggling...he is a cheater lecturing a non-cheating olympian on fairness in sports...it’s sad that a few non-shitty people wasted their time on this show and that AV Club decided we really needed to hear about it and feel worse about the world.

Wouldn’t a time trial require some sort of official present to make it, er, official? The sort of person whose signature would be required for the time to mean more than just saying “I did this faster than anyone else ever did, no I have no hard evidence take my word bro?”

I also thought it was Agatha (Kathryn Hahn), but IMDB tells me it was actually Kate Berlant. Which is kind of a bummer, that would have been a fantastic throwaway egg to toss in.

If anything B-15 will be more arrogant and anti-Loki now, since from the TVA’s point of view “our” Loki just took off on them.

As much as they allowed Loki to show he has some intelligence, they still haven’t shown him being the master manipulator or genius that he’s supposed to be.

I truly LOVE how Endgame not only sorts out a half-dozen character arcs (to mostly good effect), it also turns two of the most criticized Marvel movies (Dark World and Age of Ultron) into absolutely essential pieces of the larger story.

I wonder if Loki is outside the reprecussions of timeline resetting because he used an infinity stone to escape, thereby altering his timeline and reality. Thanos comes back to the future by using Nebula’s time tracker/wrist bracelet and then they get reset by the snap so other than Gamora maybe still existing it all…

It was a bit that he realized what a big deal the TVA is but also a little bit of how small he is? Something he has wrought death and destruction over is just a goddamn paperweight.

I’ve got a lot of casual MCU fans in my family, and they liked it. The whole “we’ve got tons of infinity stones, they’re no big deal” thing got the exact point across to them that the show wanted. The TVA really is super powerful, and they haven’t shown up before because even Thanos’ stuff was too small-time for them.

I liked the clips though because they had a dual purpose of recapping the movies and also showing Loki what his life would have been like. Hiddleston was really strong watching his own death.

Hiddleston’s reaction to that drawer was pretty top-notch. 

I think we need to start some other crazy theories just so we don’t have to keep hearing Mephisto bullshit.
My vote for crazy theory for Loki is that its all Balder the Brave. He’s attempting to rewrite the timeline so he’s in the damn movies instead of Thor getting most of his character traits.

Yep a great solid start. Loved the random drawer filled with Infinity Stones - makes total sense for the TVA and was a great way to hit Loki with ‘wait, yeah, maybe these people are as big a deal as they say’.

It's common knowledge that evil aliens have British accents.

It certainly doesn't bother me. I didn't even mind it when everyone used their own accents in Valkyrie. I think it's silly to complain about the accent of a creature whose species isn't real. Maybe everyone on his planet speaks like that. Maybe he learned english from watching Dukes of Hazard. It's fiction. You…

Absolutely he's the MacGuffin in my estimation.

The MCU is also a world where Thor is a part of the alien community, I sort of take it as our idea of space science doesn't apply at all in the greater cosmic Marvel universe and we should generally treat it more like a fantasy

Star Lord is a kid from the 80s whose favorite movie is star wars (because of COURSE it is), and spent his life trying to be a cool guy like Han solo once he's abducted by aliens.

I agree with pretty much everything you say, but particularly about Cosmo. For a brief moment in the stinger, I thought it was him talking, and was just mildly upset at the lack of accent. And then it wasn't.

Okay cards on the table; I actually like the DNA Guardians of the Galaxy. You might have noticed that my avatar is a subtle tribute to it. I preferred the DNA stuff when they were having grand cosmic adventures to the modern stuff where it should be renamed Guardians of the Earth.