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This episode was weird to me. It just didn't feel...genuine? If that's the right word.

I think the biggest issue is that X-5 just isn't a character. I had to look him up to see who they were talking about. He was introduced the tiniest bit one episode ago as a hardline TVA loyalist and now he's just a completely different person. So when Mobius is talking about how he'll be so tough to crack and he goes for these deep cut rants to fuck with everyone's heads, it just felt performative to me. I very much felt like these were actors reading off a script.

I also didn't buy the whole thing with the torture machine. Brad obviously knew the TVA had it, he knew how it worked. He was supremely unconcerned the entire time, even when they were wheeling it in, so I don't know why he was freaking out so badly when Loki started "misusing" it.

I don't know why he was still bothering to keep Dox's plan a secret. He could have saved himself a whole lot of trouble by just immediately making a deal with them, telling them what Dox was doing, and showing them where Sylvie was. He could have just done that immediately instead of running off which uh...also didn't make sense now that I think about it. He liked his movie star life and Loki and Mobius can time travel. Where was he going to go?

And maybe it's sacrilegious to say it, but Owen Wilson kinda felt phoned in to me this episode. When he punched Brad, it didn't really come across as him losing his temper to me. And maybe it's intentional because he was faking it, but it didn't feel like he was trying when he was locked out of the prison cell.

That said, while we're on the subject of OB, wild idea: he's a Kang variant.