![]() ![]() The sequence inside the doomed Alabama big box store (owned by nefarious Marvel mega-corporation Roxxon) feels more sluggish than tense at times. (*) Depending on how the next couple of decades go, this could either play very funny in hindsight, or every Disney+ server will long since be underwater. Part of Your Streaming World: 'The Little Mermaid' Finally Arrives on Disney+ It’s a clever inversion of one of the franchise’s most beloved films, and one that gives Loki the idea that eventually leads him to his female counterpart. He’s not hearing Led Zeppelin or snappy Hulk-Thor patter as he learns about these events, and he’s genuinely broken up by them. (The film doesn’t treat these tragedies lightly they’re just not the point of the exercise.) As much as he resented Thor and his friends, and schemed against his adopted father’s kingdom, a part of Loki resents still feels deeply connected to Asgard. The movie is mostly played for comedy, so the destruction of Asgard, and the deaths of heroes like Fandral and Volstagg, don’t hit us with the force with which they land on Loki as he reads the file. Back at TVA headquarters, he keeps trying to find out more about the Time-Keepers, and in the process reads the file on the events of Thor: Ragnarok. (In the credits, she’s referred to as “The Variant,” but that’s less fun.)īut Loki is likely the god of loopholes along with lies, chaos, etc. But for the purposes of clarity, let’s go with a nickname that fandom has used over the years to refer to Loki’s various comic-book stints as a woman. (*) She is, of course, just Loki from another timeline. But both quickly turn out to be right to be skeptical, and the ren fair visit is cut short when it becomes obvious that our Loki (more or less) is just jerking them around to try to get access to the Time-Keepers. And the chemistry among the leads, plus the understandable and entertaining skepticism from characters like Ravonna and Hunter B-15, would probably be enough to sustain that storytelling model. So you can understand why Michael Waldron and company (this ep was written by Elissa Karasik, and again directed by Kate Herron) might have leaned into such a reliable format, even if it seems like aiming low for the all-powerful combination of Loki and the TVA(*).įor a few minutes, it seems as if we will, in fact, be settling into a case-of-the-week structure set largely in and around the 1985 renaissance fair where Lady Loki(*) attacks several TVA agents and abducts Hunter C-20 as part of whatever her scheme is. Lucifer has many fans, as did Sleepy Hollow (where Ichabod Crane worked with law enforcement) and others before it. Heck, there are going to be six seasons of Lucifer himself helping out the LAPD, in a show that has almost no resemblance to the comics on which it’s based. Not only was Mobius basically introduced as a time detective, but television’s default is often to turn any piece of intellectual property it can into a cop show - particularly when said property is complicated and doesn’t necessarily lend itself to episodic storytelling. But there’s not nearly as much of that as in the premiere, which gives the hour time to settle into the show that Loki on Disney+ actually might be, which is… The Loki series premiere at times felt like a challenge: How much could the fundamental charms of the show’s two leading men overcome ream after ream of exposition about Loki’s past and how the Time Variance Authority works? “The Variant” still has some TVA info-dumping to do, plus more of this version of Loki catching up on MCU events he missed. ![]() A review of this week’s Loki, “The Variant,” coming up just as soon as your salad is Asgard… ![]()
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