For the first 10 minutes or so i couldn't stop laughing - the contrast beween Loki's absolute confusion ( and no one from the TVA picking up on it or caring about it) vs. the "another day at the office" TVA office workers was just so brilliant.
Yes! That was hysterical. Cultural shock in the most unexpected way!
So it's another Loki variant causing havoc - knowing Marvel this won't be the final answer and there'll be much more to it ( personal guess is that the Timekeepers are fishy somehow based on how slavishly the TVA reveres and follows them).
I've had that suspicion since learning about them in the trailers and they weren't around at all (again, I haven't read the comics with the TVA, so I'm learning about them here and now).
For a second I thought they might show Agent Coulson alive again as a bit of a F U to Loki.
Speaking of which, I meant to mention this in my review but when Mobius mentioned Coulson's death, I really wanted him to say "Actually he's not dead" and then provide no explanation to a shocked Loki. That would be a great reference to
Agents of SHIELD without trying to explain how the show fits in with continuity.
I suspect by the end of this series there won't be a TVA anymore (or it will never have been?) And thus the larger multiverse is again unleashed.
That would be an interesting twist and would certainly explain why the multiverse has become, ahem, mad in Doctor Strange's sequel.
On the other hand, I really like the idea of the TVA partially because, as I mentioned in the overall Marvel thread, it reminds me of the Commission in
The Umbrella Academy (even though I know the TVA was created in the comics first). I think it's a fascinating concept so I would like to se more of them in the future beyond this series.
Of course how the divergent timeline multiverse relates to the multiverse non-tangential multiverse already featured in the first Doctor Strange movie is still a bit of a question. Parallel vs. perpendicular perhaps? As in the branching timelines having a 4th dimensional causality in common (and THAT's what the TVA is minding), whereas places like the Dark Dimension and the Mirror Dimension are entirely separate, unrelated universes amidst the infinite infinities of the cosmic foam.
I imagine some of those questions will be explored in this series, although maybe not the Dark Dimension and Mirror Dimension.
Why is the picture so dark?
I thought maybe that was just me or my TV or the fact I watched it during a bout on insomnia in the middle of the night.
I didn't have any issues with it being dark. But then I never had any issues with the
Game of Thrones episodes people complained about being too dark. I guess the answer is watch on the computer like I do?
The Time Keepers are the real villains. They say they are protecting the sacred timeline but that is just the marketing brochure. The reality is that the Time Keepers won the early multiverse war by dominating all the other timelines by force and creating the TVA to enforce their will on the entire multiverse. They don't believe individuals have a right to free will. They believe the timeline should only be what they say it should be. So, the Time Keepers now use the TVA to prune any timelines that they don't like, that might threaten their dominance, because they only want a timeline where they rule supreme. Loki and Mobius will eventually realize this and team up to take down the Time Keepers. By the end of the series, the TVA will be erased which will lead to every nexus event sprouting into an alternate timeline, creating a huge multiverse. This will lead into the Dr Strange movie, "The Multiverse Madness" because the new multiverse will be out of control, ie madness.
Yup, all of that makes sense, especially considering how Loki kept questioning how the TVA knows what's suppose to happen and what's not (which would also address the
Endgame shenanigans and how they "knew" it would play out okay). But like I said to
Reverend, I really like the idea of the TVA and want to see more of them.
Oh BTW, for those that didn't get the D.B. Cooper reference; the bit where Loki hijacks a plane and parachutes out with the cash
is a real thing that actually happened.
You know where I first learned about D.B. Cooper?
NewsRadio of all places! Stephen Root's Jimmy James was suspected of being D.B. Cooper on several occasions and I had no idea that meant until I was able to look it up (this was in the early pre-Wiki Internet days!).
