She did also throw eggs at Simon Cowell on television. That shouldn’t have affected her career at all (because he thoroughly deserved it), but it did.

I think the Loom-guffin was a bit of an issue all season. “We need to do some mechanical repairs” isn’t the most exciting plotline to power an entire season. But more than that, they kept how it worked and why it needed to be fixed extremely vague - I think in an attempt to stop the audience nitpicking the technology…

A couple of things:

He’s bound by the entrails of his son as well. Norse mythology didn’t fuck around.

Yeah and a lot of the time he spent with them, they were using him or threatening to kill him.

*crux

One suspects they included that bit where He Who Remains says he’d plotted everything out in the “Previously Ons” this week for a reason

Someone on reddit pointed out that timeline Mobius is basically Odin. Two sons: an older responsible one and a younger mischievous one. The older one wants a puppy (Fenrir) and a snake (Jormungand). And his is Don, which is pretty close to Odin.

To be fair, he lives in an alternate universe. Maybe sci-fi is really unpopular there.

I didn’t mind Loki not having a motivation, it was clear to me that was the crus of the season, the issue for me is that for the first three episodes, the stakes weren’t really clear to the audience. We didn’t even know what the Time Loom did until last episode. Chasing after Brad would’ve been more meaningful if we…

Loki said to Sylvie during their scene in the dining hall that some timelines will decay and die without the Loom.

Avclub is doing clickbait slideshows now?

I really wish they’d explained the things explained this episode at the beginning of the season, so we knew what the stakes were and why Loki and Mobius were running around like headless chickens.

e.g. This is the first time anyone’s explained what the Loom actually does in a multiverse - without it refining time,…

My theory is that the “cute” ouroboros reference was actually there because what’s happening this season is an ouroboros. HWR planned all of this. For HWR to exist and rise to power, he has to die so that Timely can be created. Timely then gets spaghettified and seeds all the Kangs through the multiverse, one of whom…

It would be interesting if everyone in that room was not okay and we pick up with one of their variants instead. I don’t think they’ll do it but it would be fun.

Yeah it’s a jarring shift in quality from the first season.

Totally agree with you. It took me a while to even finish the episode - I got bored half way through and switched it off. I didn’t come back for four days. It’s a big contrast from season 1, where I re-watched them all several times. The pacing is so weird, and the stakes aren’t clear to me at all. What happens if the…

But why don’t any of them care the Loom is about to explode and take the entire multiverse with it? (If that’s actually the stakes - it’s really not clear what happens if the Loom fails).

I think more specifically it’s the plotting. It’s all over the place.

Old Loki was a variant. He was able to escape the TVA (for a while) by hiding out on a deserted planet. He did not affect the timeline there, therefore the TVA couldn’t trace him. The way they track people is when they make changes in the timeline.

It’s very similar to the way Sylvie hid for all those years. She would…