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S02E03 - Heart of the TVA Oct 26th, 2023 on Disney+ 51m None

Premise:

The TVA's Loom nears catastrophic failure but Loki, Mobius, and Sylvie have a He Who Remains variant.

Director(s):

Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead

Writer(s):

Eric Martin, Katharyn Blair, Michael Waldron
CAST
Tom Hiddleston Loki
Liz Carr Judge Gamble
Sophia Di Martino Sylvie
Gugu Mbatha-Raw Ravonna Renslayer
Tara Strong Miss Minutes (voice)
Owen Wilson Mobius
Ke Huy Quan O.B.
  • RBG
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    171 year ago

    And here I thought Timely is up to something when he volunteered so readily and then… spaghettification.

  • @Squorlple
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    171 year ago

    The Dox in box scene is probably the most gruesome moment in the main MCU (i. e. excepting the Netflix shows).

    Seeing Timely get spaghettified was great and a good use of a Chekhov’s gun. I appreciate seeing story arcs that build up to the heroes succeeding but despite their best efforts they still lose — very evocative of Infinity War or Empire Strikes Back. Anything is on the table now, and I hope the following episodes will lean into connecting with the storylines of other recent projects.

    Since Loki and Sylvie have telekinesis (and magic was unblocked in the TVA at the time), couldn’t they have just used magic to lift the device across the bridge and into the machine and activate it without anyone being exposed to the time radiation decay?

    • MHPengwingz
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      31 year ago

      I think the magic dampener was back on shortly after possessed Brad pruned Renslayer.

      • @Squorlple
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        111 year ago

        Maybe. I interpreted Brad breaking out of the trance as being due to Sylvie no longer putting her efforts toward enchanting him, or to her getting out of range for her powers to work.

    • @morphballganon
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      -31 year ago

      We didn’t even see the box bit. It was a 30s shot of Brad’s face.

      • @hansl
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        101 year ago

        And miss minute enjoyed every second of it.

        • @LemmySoloHer
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          81 year ago

          Miss Minutes grinning like a psychopath was so perfectly creepy. Her gleefulness at everyone dying, contrasted with Renslayer staring indiffrently and Brad’s horrified reluctance to even look, was a smart way to show each character had different motivations for participating in the massacre. Benson and Moorhead do a great job directing this kind of stuff!

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        The Scarface shower scene was often considered one of the most violent scenes in movies at the time, and you likewise see basically nothing.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    Well that was intense. For an episode so dialogue heavy, a lot happened, and more action than we’ve gotten in the last few episodes. Really felt like a season finale, and the last two episodes are wide open now. This is good MCU.

  • MHPengwingz
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    They just rebooted everything.

    I think I need some hot cocoa.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Now I wish I could meddle with time like the TVA so I could prevent my past self from using up the last bit of hot chocolate powder last night 😬

    • @GraniteM
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      31 year ago

      I was so thinking that Timely was going to throw scalding hot cocoa in that dude’s face and then scamper off into the depths of the TVA to cause problems somewhere.

  • @chase_what_matters
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    81 year ago

    They’re building a season that I can’t wait to rewatch with ✨knowledge✨

  • @ricdeh
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    71 year ago

    Another amazing episode, especially compared to the previous one! That ending really caught me off-guard haha, and the horror on their faces when the loom exploded… I am so excited for where this is going to go!

  • @kromem
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    71 year ago

    “We need someone to go out and do the thing really quickly in the even more dangerous multiverse time vortex conditions than before.”

    “Maybe one of the literal gods hanging out here? Especially now that we turned off the whole magic limiter thing?”

    “No. How about the human guy from the 1800s who is mystified by hot chocolate and who we’re concerned is going to end up literally spread across the multiverse?”

    “Great idea. What’s the worst that can happen? We inadvertently literally spread him across the multiverse?”

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    Really good episode with a few surprises. And that ending! I don’t know what to expect from the last two episodes at all. Can’t wait till next Friday!

  • @canthidiumOP
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    41 year ago

    I still can’t believe Brad is the same dude in Blindspotting. He needs to be in more stuff.

    • Piecemakers
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      01 year ago

      He created Blindspotting with his good friend, FYI.

  • Bappity
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    41 year ago

    the scene where Loki pruned himself and the MUSIC TO IT WAS AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE

  • @Astrealix
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    31 year ago

    The way the music at the end didn’t even reach a climax it jsut kept building and building and then nothingness… holy

  • @blahsay
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    -201 year ago

    After their hour long McDonald’s ad I’m out 🤷🏻

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      It’s weird – I think the McD’s theme in the last episode was right at the edge of being without taste. This show owes so much to its set/prop/costume design staff that it’s OK to show off how much their work was inspired by the aesthetics of those early-80’s McDonnalds restaurants. For an old like me, seeing those overhead menu boards again genuinely felt like a treat. Bloviating about how good the apple pies are was really pushing it, though.

      • Piecemakers
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        11 year ago

        They really aren’t, to be frank.

      • MisterFeeny
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        11 year ago

        I feel like that was the joke though. Before 92, the apple pies were deep fried, and they were waaaay better than the version they serve nowadays. Since they’re in the deep fried era, I kinda took it as a dig at current mcd’s.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      I took this as commentary not advertising.

      I thought Mobius’ enthusiasm for the hot apple pies was consistent with his adoring better-living-through-chemistry lime pie or machine made hot chocolate in the TVA.

      He’s been stuck in the limited palate options of the TVA, his memory of a richer, real-life stripped from him. Of course 80s McDonald’s is a taste sensation.