| EPISODE | RELEASE DATE | RUNNING TIME | CREDITS SCENE? |
|---|---|---|---|
| S02E03 - Heart of the TVA | Oct 26th, 2023 on Disney+ | 51m | None |
Premise:
The TVA's Loom nears catastrophic failure but Loki, Mobius, and Sylvie have a He Who Remains variant.
Director(s):
Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Writer(s):
Eric Martin, Katharyn Blair, Michael Waldron
| CAST | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tom Hiddleston | … | Loki |
| Liz Carr | … | Judge Gamble |
| Sophia Di Martino | … | Sylvie |
| Gugu Mbatha-Raw | … | Ravonna Renslayer |
| Tara Strong | … | Miss Minutes (voice) |
| Owen Wilson | … | Mobius |
| Ke Huy Quan | … | O.B. |
The Dox in box scene is probably the most gruesome moment in the main MCU (i. e. excepting the Netflix shows).
Seeing Timely get spaghettified was great and a good use of a Chekhov’s gun. I appreciate seeing story arcs that build up to the heroes succeeding but despite their best efforts they still lose — very evocative of Infinity War or Empire Strikes Back. Anything is on the table now, and I hope the following episodes will lean into connecting with the storylines of other recent projects.
Since Loki and Sylvie have telekinesis (and magic was unblocked in the TVA at the time), couldn’t they have just used magic to lift the device across the bridge and into the machine and activate it without anyone being exposed to the time radiation decay?
I think the magic dampener was back on shortly after possessed Brad pruned Renslayer.
Maybe. I interpreted Brad breaking out of the trance as being due to Sylvie no longer putting her efforts toward enchanting him, or to her getting out of range for her powers to work.
We didn’t even see the box bit. It was a 30s shot of Brad’s face.
And miss minute enjoyed every second of it.
Miss Minutes grinning like a psychopath was so perfectly creepy. Her gleefulness at everyone dying, contrasted with Renslayer staring indiffrently and Brad’s horrified reluctance to even look, was a smart way to show each character had different motivations for participating in the massacre. Benson and Moorhead do a great job directing this kind of stuff!
The Scarface shower scene was often considered one of the most violent scenes in movies at the time, and you likewise see basically nothing.
And here I thought Timely is up to something when he volunteered so readily and then… spaghettification.
Those are not mutually exclusive.
Time(ly) will tell
Well that was intense. For an episode so dialogue heavy, a lot happened, and more action than we’ve gotten in the last few episodes. Really felt like a season finale, and the last two episodes are wide open now. This is good MCU.
They just rebooted everything.
I think I need some hot cocoa.
Now I wish I could meddle with time like the TVA so I could prevent my past self from using up the last bit of hot chocolate powder last night 😬
I was so thinking that Timely was going to throw scalding hot cocoa in that dude’s face and then scamper off into the depths of the TVA to cause problems somewhere.
They’re building a season that I can’t wait to rewatch with ✨knowledge✨
He Who Remains? More like He Who LoMein. Amirite?
Someone saw the Reddit discussion thread
Another amazing episode, especially compared to the previous one! That ending really caught me off-guard haha, and the horror on their faces when the loom exploded… I am so excited for where this is going to go!
“We need someone to go out and do the thing really quickly in the even more dangerous multiverse time vortex conditions than before.”
“Maybe one of the literal gods hanging out here? Especially now that we turned off the whole magic limiter thing?”
“No. How about the human guy from the 1800s who is mystified by hot chocolate and who we’re concerned is going to end up literally spread across the multiverse?”
“Great idea. What’s the worst that can happen? We inadvertently literally spread him across the multiverse?”
Really good episode with a few surprises. And that ending! I don’t know what to expect from the last two episodes at all. Can’t wait till next Friday!
I still can’t believe Brad is the same dude in Blindspotting. He needs to be in more stuff.
He created Blindspotting with his good friend, FYI.
the scene where Loki pruned himself and the MUSIC TO IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE
And Slyvie was like “okay, that just happened… so, shall we continue?”
The way the music at the end didn’t even reach a climax it jsut kept building and building and then nothingness… holy
After their hour long McDonald’s ad I’m out 🤷🏻
It’s weird – I think the McD’s theme in the last episode was right at the edge of being without taste. This show owes so much to its set/prop/costume design staff that it’s OK to show off how much their work was inspired by the aesthetics of those early-80’s McDonnalds restaurants. For an old like me, seeing those overhead menu boards again genuinely felt like a treat. Bloviating about how good the apple pies are was really pushing it, though.
I feel like that was the joke though. Before 92, the apple pies were deep fried, and they were waaaay better than the version they serve nowadays. Since they’re in the deep fried era, I kinda took it as a dig at current mcd’s.
They really aren’t, to be frank.
I took this as commentary not advertising.
I thought Mobius’ enthusiasm for the hot apple pies was consistent with his adoring better-living-through-chemistry lime pie or machine made hot chocolate in the TVA.
He’s been stuck in the limited palate options of the TVA, his memory of a richer, real-life stripped from him. Of course 80s McDonald’s is a taste sensation.
