Spoilers Loki season 2-- spoilers and discussion

[Christopher]

How is this any different from Guardians of the Galaxy?

Guardians 1 established in passing (I think it was in a graphic in the police lineup scene) that the characters are using universal translators to understand each other. Although it's weird the Guardians didn't use them on Counter-Earth in GOTG3, then.

 

[Rich Watson]

Why has most of this series been shot on the same handful of sets? Where's the $20M an episode going?

 

[JD]

The complex special effects?
So from the trailer it looks like

Spoiler: scenes from the trailer

everyone except Loki and OB must have been sent back to their original places on the timeline. Was all of the footage from the TVA from earlier episodes?

 

[MikHutch]

Why has most of this series been shot on the same handful of sets? Where's the $20M an episode going?

Those visuals in the back are probably expensive

 

[eschaton]

Why has most of this series been shot on the same handful of sets? Where's the $20M an episode going?

Again, it's a weird contrast from last season.

1. Season 1 was COVID-era production (except for the first six weeks or so), so there were lots of limitations when it came to how many people could be on the set at once and the like. There was lots of use of virtual sets, but it was generally great and imaginative.
2. Season 2 is clearly a "post-COVID" production with much more practical sets and less reliance on virtual sets/green screens. Like, most of the 19th-century Chicago sets from Episode 3 looked completely real (other than Miss Minutes). However, the actual setting of the show feels a lot more boring. There's nothing akin to the Void or Lamentis-1 - it's just Earth time travel and TVA HQ. Which means the show feels less imaginative in scope.

 

[Tuskin38]

Its being called the "midseason trailer" , even though there's only two episodes left. More like the 2/3 of the season trailer. it does contain a spoiler concerning Mobius.

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There's a show of Renslayer in what looks like the same place all pruned things go, so it still exists

 

[Set Harth]

YEAH VELVETS!!!

awesome

 

[JD]

That was great. I loved getting to see what everybody's lives were like on the timeline.
Don/Mobius's and OB's lives on the timeline weren't to much of a surprise, but Casey and B-15 were definitely not what I expected.
And of course Mobius sold ATVs and jet skis.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

That's one hell of a superpower Loki just developed. I can't imagine that going wrong. At. Alllll.....

Loved how Ouroboros' life in the original wasn't that far off from who he became in the TVA. Albeit with that fun sneak-his-own-books-into-stores-so-he-could-buy-them-for-reasons quirk.

I also loved seeing Loki discovering how much he has changed and how he needed his new TVA friends for a sense of being.

 

[Turtletrekker]

So, is Casey supposed to be Frank Morris?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt#Frank_Morris

 

[JD]

Looks like he could be, nice catch.

I also loved seeing Loki discovering how much he has changed and how he needed his new TVA friends for a sense of being.

Which also helps to explain why he suddenly cared so much saving the TVA, he didn't he just wants to save the people there.

 

[Guy Gardener]

So, is Casey supposed to be Frank Morris?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1962_Alcatraz_escape_attempt#Frank_Morris

Doesn't look a thing like Clint Eastwood.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Looks like he could be, nice catch.

Which also helps to explain why he suddenly cared so much saving the TVA, he didn't he just wants to save the people there.

I understand that they want a redemption arc...

But the Battle of New York was 3 weeks ago...

So he killed Phil Coulson three weeks ago...

So his redemption can suck it.

...

Immortals don't dwell.

They might even forget.

8 thousand years of perfect recall, and it's like scanners.

Pop.

 

[1987SpaceGuy]

fun episode, including the sneak peaks into their probably OG lives on their timelines.


at the music shop in the end, when Silvye was already listening to music and before the shop dude got spaghettified

• what/who walked into the shop? a normal timeline person or someone TVA/who remains story related?

also, what was that at the very end of the credits talk of :

• "insert a coin you died"?

 

[Nightowl1701]

I understand that they want a redemption arc...

But the Battle of New York was 3 weeks ago...

So he killed Phil Coulson three weeks ago...

So his redemption can suck it.

Oh be fair, it's been a long three weeks. A lot has gone down. Probably feels like ten years for him.

 

[Christopher]

also, what was that at the very end of the credits talk of :

• "insert a coin you died"?

I missed that -- I checked ahead in the thumbnails to see if there was a post-credits scene and didn't see one, so I stopped early. Thanks for letting me know.

A little research reveals that it's the Game Over audio from the arcade video game glimpsed earlier in the episode, based on Brad's Zaniac movie from his Sacred Timeline life. https://screenrant.com/loki-season-2-episode-5-post-credits-audio-explained/

 

[The Nth Doctor]

at the music shop in the end, when Silvye was already listening to music and before the shop dude got spaghettified

• what/who walked into the shop? a normal timeline person or someone TVA/who remains story related?

also, what was that at the very end of the credits talk of :

• "insert a coin you died"?

Yeah, I wondered about both of those things. I imagine the latter was just some weird moment to add to all of the wonderful weirdness of this show. But the former? I have no idea.

 

[Saul]

I was really bored by this story. It feels so dragged out. Just threading water.

 

[Set Harth]

Yeah, I wondered about both of those things. I imagine the latter was just some weird moment to add to all of the wonderful weirdness of this show. But the former? I have no idea.

At first I thought it was Loki.

 

[eschaton]

A good episode, with the exception that the whole setup of an ignorant Loki repeatedly trying to convince the "amnesiac" TVA employees was cringe, as the kids say. Not just cringe, but repetitive of the first episode of this season, albeit in a different context. That stuff just didn't work. Moebius's at least tied into what had been foreshadowed, but it still rang hollow to me, compared to what could have been done with it.

Also, I'm really starting to boggle at how much character drift Loki has had now. In Season 1 he still felt like an alternative version of the Loki from the movies, but now, he literally could be a random dude coincidentally played by Tom Hiddleston. He rarely uses his powers, and displays none of the personality traits associated with him.