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Yes, exactly. I'm perfectly happy to watch fun characters semi-competently flounder through time and space (I enjoyed Legends of Tomorrow), but I feel like there are other characters that would be more suited to that kind of thing. Sylvie especially should be in her element, she's supposed to be a major thorn in the TVA's side since she was a child, which should be a significant feat. But she doesn't really seem to know what she's doing any more than our Loki does, and that's already less than you'd think he should.
I'd almost forgotten about the building thing; when I first watched it I thought it might be a hint that the whole situation was an illusion — Loki was tricking Sylvie, or Sylvie was tricking Loki, or someone else was tricking them both, and that would explain all the oddness — but that wasn't at all the case in the end. I had all these theories about what at least one of the Lokis might be planning and they never paid off. It's almost as bad as when Evan Peters' Quicksilver turned out to just be a guy named Ralph Bohner.
Th...that would have been amazing. And it would have totally worked. I have been robbed 😭
Sylvie is more in control than he is, but that really isn't amounting to all that much. You could say Loki's intervention has thrown a wrench in every plan, but uncertainty is still her entire sphere. The one good thing to come out of it was watching them try and fail to trick each other. This was one of the things I most enjoyed and it really didn't go on as much or as long as it should have because the writers needed to ship them in a manner that didn't have to be as obvious as they wanted it.
Two Lokis feels like a definite case for a slow burn. Nothing so attractive as a whole season spent unable to outwit or outperform yourself, which would build more of a semi-respectful rivalry of the two, but they made it obvious 2-3 episodes in. It's not awful, but it's heavyhanded.
To be honest I still find their whole romantic situation a bit weird. Not just that they're variants of each other and so are probably genetically related, but also that I didn't think Loki really needed to get into a relationship in the first place.
It's almost hard to remember why I actually liked the show at this point. I do think Tom Hiddleston is a good actor who does a good job putting himself into the role, which is one of the most important things about a show for me; some of these shows you can tell the actors are phoning it in and it kills the vibe. But the more I think about the writing choices the more I find them... questionable.
I'm hoping that they'll learn from the reactions to the more recent shows and movies, and put less effort into setting up a Kang war or whatever and just have Loki do more Loki stuff.