Just a quick PSA this post contains spoilers so if you haven't seen the episodes yet please stop reading or continue reading at your own peril.
Disney this month released it's first major Marvel character spin off (ignoring winter solder and sparrow I'm not interested in watching it) Loki officially launched and oh my how Marvel has woven their magic in this one is fantastic, so where does it start?
If you watched Avengers End Game you'd be familiar with the moment that Loki ends up grabbing the Tesseract and disappears. This wasn't supposed to occur but did as the Avengers medled with the time lines to grab infinity stones to defeat Thanos. What we think might be another spin off is actually where our Loki T.V series starts.
Within moments of being transported out of New York Loki is captured by the Time Variant Authority who monitor all aspects of the main time line and ensure times stability. This already makes no sence as many have already mucked about with time. Although they do mention that the Avengers were supposed to but Loki not so much. After a bit of resistance and Loki being powerless where ever he is. He escapes and ends up in an admin room.
In the room Inifinity Stones are used as paper weights and there are many of them. They hold no power in time and are just colourful rocks. Loki quickly decides to help the TVA with a mission he was offered that would spare his life.
Played by Owen Wilson (Yes! I LOVE THIS GUY, GREAT ACTOR!) is TVA agent, Agent Mobius. Who explains to Loki that he is off searching for other variants which are people who break away from their original time lines and that they must be stopped before they destroy the main time line. Apparently they are always searching for Loki's although they take different forms with different abilities.
Loki accepts as he learns about his fate that hasn't happened to him yet but we are already aware of. He also learns he gets his mother killed in what he thought he was sending people to Thor but instead his mother.
After extensive research and gags along the way Loki finds out how this Loki has been avoiding detection and hiding in end of world events. As any alterations in an end of world event wouldn't cause changes to time lines because well, it's ending. From that information they find a possible hiding location and they're bang on the money.
Loki comes face to face with himself.. or an alternative version of himself which is a woman. But this Loki isn't just a Variant. She has a plan and is upto something. During this battle she ends up bombing the main timeline with time line erasers and flees. Loki follows her and they return to the TVA where she tries to access the time keepers.
In the third episode the battle continues but Loki transports himself and himself to Lamentis a planet that is about to be destroyed and unfortunately they have no way back which causes them to go on a journey to recharge their teleporting thingy which gets destroyed and then attempt to find an alternative way back.
The episode more or less follows our two Loki's as they bond and we are sure that Loki our Loki is upto something more sinister we just don't know yet. What we do know is that Loki is after a meeting with the time keepers as he has learned that time is the ultimate power.
With 3 episodes in Loki has already delivered wonderful ups and downs in the same tempermant that delivered us the original Marvel Universe.
It's a 6 part series with 3 episodes already out with another 3 to premier and another season already in the works. Only time will tell us how this Loki ends up 馃ぃ highly recommend watching.
