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[DISCUSSION] [SPOILERS] LOKI S02E04 - Heart of the TVA (www.imdb.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by canthidium to c/marvelstudios
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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.
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[–] Squorlple 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] MHPengwingz 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the magic dampener was back on shortly after possessed Brad pruned Renslayer.

[–] Squorlple 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] morphballganon -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We didn't even see the box bit. It was a 30s shot of Brad's face.

[–] hansl 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And miss minute enjoyed every second of it.

[–] LemmySoloHer 8 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The Scarface shower scene was often considered one of the most violent scenes in movies at the time, and you likewise see basically nothing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And here I thought Timely is up to something when he volunteered so readily and then... spaghettification.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those are not mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Time(ly) will tell

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] MHPengwingz 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They just rebooted everything.

I think I need some hot cocoa.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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 😬

[–] GraniteM 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] chronicledmonocle 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He Who Remains? More like He Who LoMein. Amirite?

[–] canthidium 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone saw the Reddit discussion thread

[–] chase_what_matters 8 points 1 year ago

They’re building a season that I can’t wait to rewatch with ✨knowledge✨

[–] ricdeh 7 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] kromem 7 points 1 year ago

"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?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] bappity 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the scene where Loki pruned himself and the MUSIC TO IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And Slyvie was like “okay, that just happened… so, shall we continue?”

[–] canthidium 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still can't believe Brad is the same dude in Blindspotting. He needs to be in more stuff.

[–] Piecemakers3Dprints 0 points 1 year ago

He created Blindspotting with his good friend, FYI.

[–] Astrealix 3 points 1 year ago

The way the music at the end didn't even reach a climax it jsut kept building and building and then nothingness... holy