Current Events > Loki Season 2 Episode 6 Finale Topic *SPOILERS*

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masterpug53 posted...

Glad we finally got a good ending to a D+ MCU series. I was a bit skeptical during the climax ("oh, so what, Loki's just going to use his powers in some nonspecific way to make everything better?") but the Yggdrasil imagery at the end really made it click for me and tied everything together (pun intended).

I'm still kinda confused about him reviving the timelines like that. Is it just that anyone with magic can do it? My friend theorized only those with the time slip ability can revive them, but there is nothing in the show to confirm it

Prestoff posted...

I'm still kinda confused about him reviving the timelines like that. Is it just that anyone with magic can do it? My friend theorized only those with the time slip ability can revive them, but there is nothing in the show to confirm it

I also assumed it was time magic. That's been such a big focus and was really the only power up he got. I was assuming he was either reverting them back to when they were healthy(aka slipping them into a previous state like he did himself) or somehow inserting himself into the start of each timeline and reeding them either his own power or the temporal radiation to sustain them.

Yeah it's ill-defined. Which does bug me but I guess too much explanation takes away from the imagery. It has to be related to his mastery of the time slipping. So some combination of that and his magical abilities. Still not really sure why the timelines die without him though.

Prestoff posted...

I'm still kinda confused about him reviving the timelines like that. Is it just that anyone with magic can do it? My friend theorized only those with the time slip ability can revive them, but there is nothing in the show to confirm it

Loki becomes the God of Stories in that scene, but I don't know much about that version of him at all. I'll have to do some research on it at some point.

This was an absolutely excellent show and a great ending. Was worried that the D+ show ending curse was going to affect this one but it didn't. I'm so glad that my favorite MCU character (no joke) got such a good show and story arc culminating to this point.

Loki s2 kinda flipped the script on the normal D+ MCU trajectory in that the middle of the season was the nadir, and they ended up managing to put a nice ribbon on things with a good finale.

KogaSteelfang posted...

I also assumed it was time magic. That's been such a big focus and was really the only power up he got. I was assuming he was either reverting them back to when they were healthy(aka slipping them into a previous state like he did himself) or somehow inserting himself into the start of each timeline and reeding them either his own power or the temporal radiation to sustain them.

Yeah my friend said the same thing and I would be inclined to agree with that theory. It definitely just looks like a case of them handwaving the magic (MCU doesn't have any rules regarding how magic works in their universe), which I'm fine with since like Sir_Will said it was all for the imagery (which I thought the CGI team did a really good job at).

masterpug53 posted...

Loki s2 kinda flipped the script on the normal D+ MCU trajectory in that the middle of the season was the nadir, and they ended up managing to put a nice ribbon on things with a good finale.

Yeah, I almost got scared for the series since the middle episodes really do feel like it had no idea where it wanted to go or what it wanted to be.