I'm curious as to what exactly stood out to you. A dude with nondescript clothing (sweater, jeans, sneakers) and to my eye, an old style French press. (I don't know if it's a true vintage one or not, but that orange plastic screams '70s to me.)
Spoilers Loki season 2-- spoilers and discussion
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Just looked more 21st Century casual than 1982 to me. (Granted, I know this is superficial and subjective, so not trying to die on this hill or anything and I've said it's not impossible or anything it just didn't read of the time to me). I don't ever remember seeing things like French Presses at records stores as a kid whereas I see them often these days.
A simple black pullover shirt is a timeless thing. I still have a couple of black turtlenecks I bought in 1985.
I think that people tend to remember what was exceptional or distinctive about a given decade's fashions and assume everything had to look like that. But there are usually things that are more ordinary, more consistent.
And it appears as though there were French presses made in the 1980s that resemble the one in the episode. https://www.etsy.com/market/1980s_french_press
I think that people tend to remember what was exceptional or distinctive about a given decade's fashions and assume everything had to look like that. But there are usually things that are more ordinary, more consistent.
And it appears as though there were French presses made in the 1980s that resemble the one in the episode. https://www.etsy.com/market/1980s_french_press
It's amazing when you compare the astonishing penultimate episode of Season 1 set in the Void with the penultimate episode of Season 2 which is mostly characters standing around nondescript sets doing nothing.
The show looks cheaper, which is surprising, considering Season 1 was filmed almost entirely in front of green screen/AR wall, while Season 2 has far more real sets.
I enjoyed episode 5 more than most of the rest of the season because at least it finally gave a bit of characterisation and motivation for Loki. Not as much as I would have liked, but it was something. In the first four episodes it was like they would play lip service to his supposed character by giving Mobius lines like "you're the God of Mischief!" but they'd actually show his Lokiness in action. Unless you count running around and sometimes shooting green sparks from his hands as Lokiness. At least by the end of five we got some sense of him as a character (even if he isn't using his unique Loki traits as much as I'd like.)
Yeah, this season, he hasn't been Loki so much as Low-Key.
Well, this was certainly stylish, but it left me feeling that the entire season was pointless. I mean, the big reveal in the finale was that everything the characters spent the previous five episodes struggling desperately to achieve was explicitly, in-story, a complete waste of time pursuing a totally pointless goal. And ultimately the whole season was nothing more than a relitigation of the finale of season 1. We ended up where we started, which I guess they warned us about by naming characters Mobius and Ouroboros, but which is still frustrating. The only thing at the end of season 2 that's significantly different from where things stood at the end of season 1 is that Loki is apparently the God of Time now, which is a random character development that doesn't feel like it grows out of any kind of journey he's been on, because Loki hasn't had any personality all season, he's just been reacting to the plot.
Also, what the hell? How are actual parallel universes somehow physical vines that Loki can grip in his hands? I mean, "timelines" as a convenient visual metaphor are one thing, but this was taking it way too literally.
Ultimately, it just doesn't feel like we needed this season. It's just an extended, wheel-spinning epilogue.
Also, what the hell? How are actual parallel universes somehow physical vines that Loki can grip in his hands? I mean, "timelines" as a convenient visual metaphor are one thing, but this was taking it way too literally.
Ultimately, it just doesn't feel like we needed this season. It's just an extended, wheel-spinning epilogue.
So, TVA Loki created Yggdrasil. Neat.
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And in the end, Loki became Yggdrasil, holding all of time together.
I know some will hate it. But I love it.
Not at all how I expected this show to conclude or how this variant of Loki's journey would end, but it's one I think that works very well.
Plus, I love how, along the way, Loki pulled a Twelfth Doctor, repeating a cycle of infinitesimals that lasted for centuries in order to accomplish the seemingly impossible (see: "Heaven Sent").
I'm sorry the show is over but I hope we'll at least see Sylvie, Ouroboros, and Mobius again in the future, in whatever form. They're such wonderful characters to be left behind. But if this is the end for them, I'm thrilled with what we got. I cannot wait to rewatch all twelve magnificent episodes again.
Lastly, I simply loved Ouroboros' shrug in response to Hunter B-15's query about Miss Minutes trying to kill them all again. Could go either way. We all saw that look on her face...
I know some will hate it. But I love it.
Not at all how I expected this show to conclude or how this variant of Loki's journey would end, but it's one I think that works very well.
Plus, I love how, along the way, Loki pulled a Twelfth Doctor, repeating a cycle of infinitesimals that lasted for centuries in order to accomplish the seemingly impossible (see: "Heaven Sent").
I'm sorry the show is over but I hope we'll at least see Sylvie, Ouroboros, and Mobius again in the future, in whatever form. They're such wonderful characters to be left behind. But if this is the end for them, I'm thrilled with what we got. I cannot wait to rewatch all twelve magnificent episodes again.
Lastly, I simply loved Ouroboros' shrug in response to Hunter B-15's query about Miss Minutes trying to kill them all again. Could go either way. We all saw that look on her face...
The little hoo-hoos whenever Sylvie got to HWR cracked me up.
IF that is all "Loki" we'll get, it was a damn fun ride and journey, characters-arc and story wise.
Unepexted, but well done.
Loved it.
What a fun and talented primary acting cast, gorgeous visuals, timeless set design, music and all.
BRAVO
Unepexted, but well done.
Loved it.
What a fun and talented primary acting cast, gorgeous visuals, timeless set design, music and all.
BRAVO
Once again, as with many of these series, they could have gotten here in half the time.
