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Northlane posted...

Honestly this show makes no sense. What is the goal here? Are we preventing Kang? Why is the loom exploding? What are the stakes?

Yeah this is my problem with this season. Season 1 had a very obvious driving question: what is the TVA and who's really in charge? They had the side dish of "ooo Variants means new takes on existing characters! It's mostly Loki but that's still pretty cool!"

Season 2 starts with "uh oh time is exploding!" which is not something people can grasp so it's poor stakes.

And I thought we'd resolved that when Mobius went out there and I'm like "Okay now this season's plot can REALLY begin" and we're like "okay maybe this is Kang's origin, or just another variant? Eh, whatever, we have characters in slightly different circumstances so that's kind of nice I guess"

And then we're back to "uh oh time is exploding!" and I don't really care because any character interaction has become centered around this problem as opposed to learning about characters growing and changing with each other.

And then we're like "oh is this how Ravonna and Kang get together, referential to the comics?" and then one episode later "Nah, turns out she doesn't like him, she's pissed and now just wants to use him, and then it turns out their actual relationship was in the past with the He Who Remains variant and you think that does something but the Loki has X-5 just prune her bye".

Also I don't expect that pruning of Ravonna to stick. It's too abrupt. When they get their next shot at this, Ravonna will have something changed in her timeline.

My prediction is that all these episodes will be either cyclical or focused around breaking said cycle, but to get it one episode at a time is kind of poor structure because ultimately you have an episode where "not the entire thing" happens.

Ke Huy Quan keeps me coming back but even his adorability can only carry the show so far.