here's my initial reactions to loki season 2 episode 2
OHOHO STARTING OUT WITH THE SUITS I SEE
am i supposed to know who brad wolfe is or did they make this guy up? i’m gonna go with “they made him up”
oooohh it’s x-5? i bet he’s not gonna be undercover, i bet this is the original him
“i used to work with this guy!” HMM?? SACRED TIMELINE MOBIUS PERHAPS?
[watch as the asexual viewer desperately tries to figure out if x-5/brad is actually flirting with mobius while loki stands jealously off to the side or if xyr simply imagining it]
WOOO B-15
is this x-5 undercover or is he his original sacred timeline self?
OOOOOOOHHHH HERE COMES LOKI
OOOOOOOHHH HE UNBUTTONED HIS SUIT YOU’RE IN FOR IT X-5
happy stimming from me as the chase scene ensues
AAA HE HAD ONE OF THOSE TIME-DISPLACEMENT THINGYS
OOHHHHHHH THE GANG IS AN ILLUSION
LET’S GO LOKI MAGIC LET’S GO
INTRO TIIIIIME
b-15 is in a suit now!!
ouroboros!!
miss minutes is helping renslayer? not that surprising tbh
eyyyyy casey has read ouroboros’ guidebook
brad’s cell is Way Too Orange for my taste. also it reminds me of a swimming pool for some reason
brad shut up challenge
“it’s you. you’re the problem” i regret to inform you that the first thing that popped up in my mind after he said that was that song with the lyrics “i’m the problem, it’s me”
i said, BRAD SHUT UP CHALLENGE
okay brad now you just sound like a schoolyard bully
oh dear
mobius. what. that was a terrible joke
OHHH wait i am a silly i get the joke now. delayed reaction there
whenever they make actors say “i’m not an actor” it yeets me into the fourth wall
uh oh looks like brad can dish some of mobius’ tactics back at him
ooo it’s the slice of pie scene!
why. why is there a room exclusively for slices of pie
mm i kiiinda feel like that was an extreme oversimplification of the new york incident that leaves out a lot of key details, but i suppose i can stand it since it’s in the context of loki joking around with mobius and trying to cheer him up?
i do like that they’re expanding mobius’ character tho
ouroboros!!
“invalid temporal aura” says the computer. “what does that mean” says this confused viewer
hey brad watcha doing on that very uncomfortable-looking floor
that ominous machine reminds me of a cotton candy maker. not sure why
y’all left the cell door open
also i’m hoping this torture is a misdirect and it’s not actually gonna be torture bc uh glorifying torture is Not Good
hmm i’m thinking that loki closing the door without mobius is part of the plan. probably
hold on i just realized that the cell locks from the inside. that doesn’t seem very effective, prison-wise
ohhhh this is gonna be the cage thing that was in the trailer. hmm
CASEY IS GONNA MEET OUROBOROS!!
“hey nice to meet you! :D we’re all gonna die!”
AWWWWW THEY’RE SO CUTE TOGETHER
and now, the mcdonalds ad
damn sylvie killed 400 minutemen?
oh boy here comes the confrontation scene
where did sylvie get a car. sylvie is that your car
ah yes the obligatory “character confirms that mcdonalds food Does Indeed taste great”
“and then i freaked out and basically tortured you” um yeah are we gonna talk about that or
apparently not. apparently torture is normal and acceptable behavior in tva culture
aaaaand of course mcdonalds has to make sure that we know that we can order their food to-go
uh oh what’s about to happen
OH SHIT THEY’RE BOMBING IT ALL?
hold up hold up i thought branches couldn’t be pruned once they reach red line. did the writers forget that
that battle was a bit anticlimactic to me
all of the branches being pruned is a pretty big thing to happen in episode 2
no end credits scene this time
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https://gamerant.com/loki-season-2-mcdonalds-partnership-sylvie-details/
There's such an insanity in this. The fact they are taking this so seriously and expect the audience too as well. Like, people don't fondly look as product placement as something positive in movies and tv.
GotG works because stuff like 80 music and aesthetic is something that can be liked even if one doesn't have personal nostalgic attachment to it. And it is music, aesthetic and pop culture that people do form attachment to and keep in their lives.
For most McDonald is not some warm nostalgic experience people think of. It's thought of as cheap, unhealthy and more often than not poor quality food. No one attach is themselves to eat fast food chain like they attach themselves to their music. It doesn't inspire people like movies and tv can when writing their own stories.
Like, Wanda finding comfort in watching sitcoms is a thing people do. Sylvie finding comfort in working for a fast food chain is a joke and them taking it so seriously just makes even more of a joke
Yeah, it is kind of weird. You think maybe it's an American thing? Maybe they feel some kind of attachment to McDonald's for some reason, but I doubt the rest of the world gives a damn. It's just one of a million other fast-food joints that I particularly never go to. If I go fast-food, I'm buying pizza, baby.
I wasn't watching the MCU back then but did they make such a huge fuss about Stark eating a burger back in IM 2? It's like they're trying to convince the audience that this has a deeper meaning or something. Wanna give it an emotional angle? Do it in the script! The fact that they're trying to sell this so much and so repeatedly kind of makes me think they didn't do a good enough job of it in the episode and they're trying to cover their asses or something.
Anyway, Sylvie is not human. She could find those families with kids at a park or coming out of school, the McDonald's thing was done for marketing purposes and that's it.
I gotta say though, this part in that article is bothering me:
"The season 2 trailer indicated that he (Loki) is having an issue with time slippage, and there would be no individual better at understanding the problem than a person who spent her entire life hiding in the timelines."
Sylvie knows nothing about that. She didn't even know magic didn't work at the TVA. She's not some expert about timelines and time shenanigans, she was only at the TVA for a few minutes as a kid. Loki said in ep2 he had been watching videos regarding those aspects of timelines, etc so if anything... he knows a lot more than she does. But S2 is going to be more of the same, I'm afraid. Loki being clueless and Sylvie showing how much more than him she knows.
PS. Isn't this show supposed to be about him? Yet all articles I've seen talk about her. Why don't they change the title of the series? Oh right, it may not sell as well...
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i think that sylki will definitely be "explicitly" romantic in eps5-6, but even until then, loki obsessing over finding sylvie, her being the most "personal" dynamic he has in the series, and the tension being one of the angstiest we have seen in a long time in the media? i say sylkis should be celebrating already. because if sylvie was a man, everyone would love how male!sylvie tells off loki while loki is still pinning for her. isn't that what the shippers live for? like, isn't that a scenario in a lot of fics? one character is obsessively pursuing the other and the other character is really angry for some reason.
anyways, as for the endgame, i'm not sure. it depends on where the plotline leads. but there is one thing i disagree on with the majority of sylkis, i don't think sylki will end up somewhere having a calm, domestic life. to be honest, i don't even think sylvie wants that, deep down. i say this because she seemed doubtful and pondering in the end of ep2 and i doubt it's only because she wanted to be with loki. i think there still is a question of "what does sylvie want?" and if wanting a quiet normalcy was all she really wanted, there wouldn't be any space for her enchantress arc.
I try not to speculate about things as I am usually wrong and I hate being disappointed when a perfectly good storyline/plot twist/whatever just isn't the exact thing I'd invented in my head before it happened. I mean I still do, but I try not to.
my guess though is it'll be the two characters either staying at the TVA so they can appear in other parts of the MCU or disappearing off to some unspecified location for the same reason. the former lets us keep Mobius too! (SYLKIUS WINS!!!)
i feel like i'm missing something obvious given the fears/gloating (delete as applicable) over the current sylki tension, because it seems far too early to say this apparent breakup will become an actual breakup, reversing one of the main plot threads of the first season without any (yet) clear benefit storywise. though TBH pre-s2 i was vaguely worried they'd meet up again and sort everything out in five minutes and then there's no Unresolved Sexual Tension (one of THE ratings-winners-slash-money-spinners of series television!) and everyone gets on well with everyone else and my interest suddenly dies a death. (generally i am terrible with tension in ongoing stories and keep getting deliberately spoilered for older media so I don't have to deal with the anxiety of unexpected dramatic twists, but i can manage six weeks with relatively low stakes. probably.)
i tried to stay out of the last Sylvie Domesticity Drama but both sides had fair points, though what people write fic about cannot be taken as proof of what they want to see in their actual canons and this is often as true for the fluffy stuff as it is for the fucked up stuff.
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BOOKS:
》Percy Jackson
》Heroes of Olympus
》Mphfpc
》Magnus Chase
》The Darkest Minds
》The Maze Runner
》The Kane Chronicles
》Narnia
MOVIES:
《MCU
《ATSV
《Dead Poets Society
《Enola Holmes
《The Hunger Games
《Top Gun Maverick
《Narnia
《The Maze Runner
《Love and Monsters
《Damsel
《Totally Killer
《 Bottoms
《Anne of Green Gables Films
《Do Revenge
《Lisa Frankenstein
《Scream Films
《How to Date Billy Walsh
《The Other Zoey
《Descendants
《Little Women
《X-men
《Star Wars
《DC
《Avatar
SERIES:
》Percy Jackson series
》Arcane
》The Originals
》Legend of Korra
》Supernatural
》Doctor Who
》Blue Eye Samurai
》My Babysitter's A Vampire
》Wolfblood
》Teen Wolf
》The Vampire Diaries
》Lockwood & Co
》9-1-1 Fox/Abc
》One Piece (Live Action)
》Gilmore Girls
》Renegade Nell
》The Mandalorian
》The Artful Dodger
》Wednesday
》Stranger Things
》Heartstopper
》Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
》Outer Banks
》Julie & The Phantoms
》Avatar The Last Airbender
》House of the Dragon
》School Spirits
》Cobra Kai
》Wandavision
》 Moon Knight
》TFATWS
》Daisy Jones & The Six
》Shadow & Bone
》DC Titans
》The Summer I Turned Pretty
》Willow
》Warrior Nun
》Derry Girls
》Gotham
》Loki Series
》Legacies
》Hawkeye Series
》Peaky Blinders
》Billy the Kid
》The Witcher
》Deadly Class
》The Queen's Gambit
》Bridgerton
》Yellowjackets
》The Last of Us
》Queen Charlotte
》XO, Kitty
》The Bear
》The Flash
》The Umbrella Academy
》Shadowhunters
MUSIC:
《Taylor Swift
《Sabrina Carpenter
《Maisie Peters
《Olivia Rodrigo
《Chappell Roan
《Reneé Rapp
《Dylan
《R5
《New Hope Club
《The Vamps
《One Direction
《Harry Styles
《Why Don't We
《5SOS
《Billie Eilish
《Kelsea Ballerini
《Dodie
CURRENTLY WATCHING:
》What We Do in The Shadows
》Supernatural re-watch
HAVE NOT FINISHED WATCHING (YET):
《Criminal Minds - S12
《Daredevil - S2
《The 100 - S5
《Anne With An E - S1 Ep7
《Riverdale - S5
《The Gifted - S2 Ep2
《Voltron - S3
《Merlin - S1
《Lucifer - S6
《Yellowjackets - S2
《Buffy the Vampire Slayer S1 Ep3
TOO READ:
》Trials of Apollo
》Magnus Chase
》Shadow & Bone
》Six of Crows
》The Cruel Prince
》Maze Runner: The Kill Order
》Maze Runner: The Fever Code
》Lockwood & Co
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