To these cosmic beings, Infinity Stones are disposable trinkets. Once the central threat to the Avengers, Loki is a mere fly to the TVA, a routine pest one swats away without giving too much thought.
Loki talks up his own godhood and his plans for domination, but these office drones couldn’t care less.
As Loki is taken into custody and processed, the TVA’s mundane office workers dryly ask him questions that seem too enormous to comprehend, but are quite routine to the administrators - like getting him to sign a document confirming everything he’s ever said. The organization’s headquarters, designed as something of a cross between The Good Place and the ’60s segments of Men in Black III, exists out of time and seeks to preserve the established timeline as we’ve seen it unfold. His face flops around comedically, and for a moment, it’s unclear why - until B-15 strolls casually into frame at regular speed, revealing the incredible temporal power she wields as if it were a mundane, everyday task. The first TVA member we meet is the imposing Hunter B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku), who smacks Loki in the mouth with her nightstick, which sends the wannabe ruler of Midgard falling backward in slow-motion. That’s where the TVA - the Time Variance Authority - comes in. On the other, it looks forward to the future of the MCU, which hopes to shed its Infinity Stone baggage and petty planetary conquests in favour of a threat so enormous - listen closely and you’s hear the words “multiverse” and “madness” in close proximity - that the show has no choice but to deflate and cast aside the events of Phases 1 through 3. On one hand, it looks backward and reintroduces us to Loki minutes after the original Avengers film (or rather when it was revisited in Endgame), in which he tried (and failed) to take over the planet. The show’s first episode does a couple of key things. Loki, forever a villain or B-player, is finally ready for the spotlight, though glory won’t come easy for the Asgardian Prince. After the God of Mischief (Tom Hiddleston) exits Avengers: Endgame stage left, he finds himself in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia (though it’s unclear when he finds himself), and the shot reintroducing him, half-buried in sand, mirrors a shot of Tony Stark in the original Iron Man, after he too escapes captivity and crash-lands far away.
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Loki, the new Marvel series from Disney Plus, establishes its tone up front, in an episode with a number of laughs and fun concepts, albeit one where the drama doesn’t always neatly fit together.
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