If it was on Disney+ instead of ABC, it would have run for 5 seasons. 

Yeah. I really wish the Agent Carter show had gone on longer. She and Jarvis were delightful to watch. 

Anything that gives us more Peggy Carter is an objective good to the world and I can’t wait.

I mean, Sylvie is also Loki. Almost everyone we saw in this episode is Loki. Including the alligator.

The show is called Loki, not Tom Hiddleston’s Loki. Sylvie is also Loki. Most of the characters in this episode were Loki.

I’ve seen others complaining that Loki is a sidekick in his own show but that is the point. He is the viewpoint character but Sylvie is the hero - she has the drive, the purpose and the ideas how to achieve it. Loki is there to help her achieve it so she doesn’t do it alone. This is the whole point and the lesson…

I like “talky”? And this didn’t seem that much less “talky” than prior episodes. Do you buy comic books and just look at the pictures?  ‘Cause the writing is half the fun.

I think that was Frog Thor in the jar

I assume there were a lot more comic references than I (a non-comic reader) would ever get (like, what was with that tiny guy in a jar at one point?).

It’s a tricky discussion because there are multiple moving parts here. Underrepresentation, overzealous fandom, and pop culture’s propensity to struggle with platonic relationships in general are three issues that feed into eachother pretty badly, and there isn’t going to be a single magic bullet to address all of…

The problem is that, when you have inherited a media landscape where you don’t have explicit representations of queer love, subtext is all you have.

That’s never going to happen. Shipping is older than both of us, probably put together, and it’s going to outlive us both. Is it a perfect thing? No, because nothing is. But the answer to its problematic elements isn’t to abolish it - it’s to engage in it in a healthy fashion, and encourage others to do the same.

“Shipping can be fun if done with the base knowledge of “My assumptions are almost certainly wrong but it’s fun to pretend” that a lot of head-canon stuff should come with,”

Aye. Shipping can be fun if done with the base knowledge of “My assumptions are almost certainly wrong but it’s fun to pretend” that a lot of head-canon stuff should come with, but it is easy to go overboard with it.

Even talking to actors about the entertainment products they’re featured in is a mistake, though probably an unavoidable one. I was also irked by Colbert (?) asking Rita Moreno about colorism in In the Heights. An actor is a craftsman doing as they’re told. Only if they get to major star status and can be listed as…

Okay, point to me the MCU film or TV show that has an openly LGBTQIA character with a name.

I half agree with you. I think that fans shouldn’t NEED to read queer subtext in everything, but when there’s so little ACTUAL queer subtext (and heck, text) to read into, people will scrabble at scraps and pretend it’s a buffet. Maybe once we actually get to a point of parity, or at least a robust mix, between queer…

so long as they have a good variety of representation in other stories. currently Marvel and Disney as a whole are sorely behind in that regard (Disney TV is doing good work, Owlhouse in particular, but that is not enough when the cis demographic has over 100 years of stories for them.)

If they just had Mobius break down his power set for the audience it’d be clunky. But they way they did it makes the audience get a laugh, highlights the importance of the difference, makes it juuuust memorable enough to sit in the back of your mind, and puts us in a position where either Mobius or Loki making a…

Feels like this is also a way of delivering some important foreshadowing in the guise of a memorable joke.