Sylki antis really be like "omg the character who was established to be a mean asshole thinks their relationship is weird, we won so much besties". Negative media literacy.
Brad looks like the coppiest cop and I bet his playlist is full of Five Finger Death Punch. Exactly the kind of person whose judgement you should accept without question *sarcasm*. (I associate that band with assholes that called me slurs, LOL).
Dude makes jabs at Loki about imprisoning again ("I'll get you a looser suit next time"), not having a rank there, being a villain, and his mother (berserk button).
In S1, when Mobius is calling Loki a cockroach and accuses him of being a degenerate, it sounds A LOT like right-wing rhetoric, especially directed towards a canonically queer character. Like I know they're talking about the fictitious concept of variants (And Sylvie and Loki look NOTHING alike, and I think it's impossible all variants share DNA with Tom Hiddleston's Loki), but it seems rather allegorical in that manner. This isn't surprising in a fascist organization.
I really am enjoying this season way more than the first. There's just more going on, and I like that.
I was pleasantly surprised that the pruning of timelines was not framed as a "necessary evil" as I expected it to be, and our protagonists tried to stop this or mourned it.
Also, I kinda love that there's a bunch of grey or somewhat scummy characters that are either similar or worse to Loki? I was expecting Loki to torture some guy that randomly grew a conscience for being a little shit, either in some copagandic move by Disney or "look at how evil Loki is" move. And lol, this will inspire a lot of Dark!Loki fic...
I mean, Loki DID get to be an evil little shit, after Brad brought up his mother (these people need to learn that's how you get on Loki's shit list). But Brad was just some self-serving guy that only cared about his own survival and fame, and would have let the rest of them die if his neck wasn't on the line as well. I will have to rewatch it because he either distracted them so Dox got to achieve her plans, or he was just self-serving and happy to let them all die as long as he was safe. Seemed pretty loyal to Dox until his neck was on the line.
I am STILL hoping the pie is drugged , and I am upset that it doesn't seem likely yet. The muscle memory of the TVA workers thing is very weird though, so it's not a discarded theory yet. Their bodies yearn for the pie. Hope it doesn't affect Loki too, as he had some as well.
I thought OB being like "figure it out yourselves; I've got to keep this place from collapsing" was so relatable, as someone in a technical field. Casey fanboying over OB was cute. And I liked how Sylvie has that cool punk aunt vibe towards the McDonald's kid, and she's shown be so traumatized to not be able to stomach the TVA, to the point of staying in a potentially pruned branch.
I liked how Mobius can't stomach the idea of having lost some good life.
I think my only complaint for now is that the dialogue in the reunion felt a little weird (and somewhat frustrating, but that might be intentional). Maybe my opinion will change after a rewatch.
I won't really complain over Loki claiming it's his feelings getting out of hand that caused the invasion. Loki has a tendency of being euphemistic regarding pain (e.g. time slipping being "not that bad"). And it still does not fuck up my head cannons (and a part of me would be scared the MCU will go the "Thanos was a good boss that gave everyone employee benefits" route because he's some writer's pet due to his whole eco-fascist schtick being framed as an "ethical dilemma", so I am scared of them touching that, like they did in "What If?" despite him canonically torturing children for the lulz).
I read an article sayi the mcu ruined brad's comic origin. But not really if we go with the "hes in a movie playing the character zaniac who kills jane foster"
The hilarity if loki and Mobius saw it tho lol xD
LOL. I find it interesting they picked a Silver Age comic storyline to adapt. Kinda wondering if they're going to do anything with the serial killer aspect of comics!Zaniac or comics!BradWolfe? Doesn't seem likely at this point though.
Speaking of Silver Age comic storylines I'd have loved seen adapted:
Loki escaping from being imprisoned as a tree for millennia by making a leaf fall on Heimdall's eye, and turning into a pigeon to escape Thor. Only to be caught because he failed to fly towards the peanuts Thor tossed, revealing the pigeon had more pressing concerns than peanuts.
Which is funnier. Thor beating brad's ass in the comics? Or loki beating brad's ass in episode 2 of loki season 2 lol
Odinsons don't like an asshole out-assholing them lol
They really don't. LOL. Silver Age comics are pretty silly and nonsensical (pigeon!Loki, my beloved). But Loki's way more of a cheeky bastard than Thor and threatened Brad with the possibility of killing him by accident because he was new to the device.
The parallels between Loki's conversation with Natasha as a prisoner in Avengers and Brad's conversation with Loki as a prisoner in 2.02 though
I was thinking this!
The "prisoner" has a lot of private information on the interrogator. Such as the file on Loki's entire life, and information from Clint. Then they bring out the interrogator's deepest fears, and tell them they can't make up for the atrocities thye've committed in the past.
Brad bringing up frigga was a dead man walking move. But do u think if he had included thor in his monologue then loki would've definitely thrown knives
Probably. I've seen it pointed out that Loki thinks Thor is dead, based oon what he knows of the Sacred Timeline.
