Loki travels through time. Review of the first episodes of the second season with Tom Hiddleston

Despite the fact that from the beginning Marvel Cinematic UniverseThere’s still room for some new stuff: new episodes coming to Disney+ Loki represents a new product for the House of Ideas, which has never gone beyond the first season of any of its series. There will be new products in the future such as What if…? 2 and spin-off Hawkeye, Echobut this is the first time Marvel has picked up a series where it left off.

This is achieved by using one of three big names that have contributed to the move to the small screen: Tom Hiddleston (rest Elizabeth Olsen For WandaVision AND Jeremy Renner for the above series on Hawkeye). The British actor returns as the God of Deception, a role he has played for twelve years now. Thor with the main character Chris Hemsworth. The character’s narrative arc is particularly complex: the main villain Avengers

rose to conquer the ranks of anti-heroes in Thor: Ragnarokright before the sudden death at the beginning Avengers: Infinity War.

However, the limitless possibilities of the Multiverse made it possible to catch Loki. take the 2012 version and open another branch in the Marvel timeline. who will eventually be reunited with the main one in one way or another and who – recent news – will bring the two Asgardian half-brothers together again. In the first season Lokiwe saw him struggle TVA, the body that oversees the proper development of the Sacred Timeline.. Bureaucratic structure outside of space and time, controlled by He Who Remains is a variant of Kang the Conqueror. whose reign prevented the outbreak of a new war in the Multiverse.

Killing the Remainer Sylvie (Sofia Di Martino’s version of Loki) However, it has opened the door to events that, on paper, will peak in 2026. Avengers: Kahn Dynasty. In Season 2, Loki no longer attempts to destroy the TVA, but rather uses it to restore order to the Sacred Timeline and prevent a much-feared war. He’s here to help him again Agent Mobius M. Mobius, Owen Wilson and new additions such as Ke Hai Huang as Ouroboros (for obstetrician friends), a diligent TVA maintenance technician.

The first episodes of the series are in clear continuity with the first season: in essence, they are, because they pick up the threads of the story right from the moment Loki returns to TVA, but at a different point in time from the one in which he was. expected, but also in form. Sometimes even more complex The Loki series is science fiction that thrives on the strangeness of its setting.

, which requires more attention than usual for fans to understand all the highly bureaucratic mechanisms behind this out-of-this-world world. Aspects that are sometimes funny or absurd, but what the hell reflect the style of Marvel comics which, as we remember, often required a noticeable degree of disbelief even on the part of regular readers.

Like the previous season, these new episodes are also tailored to the main character: verbose, ambiguous and constantly balancing between fun and a hint of boredom due to overextension of the general view. However, it remains very dynamic in its detail and full of brilliant goals, helped by the addition of characters such as Oscar winner Ke Hui Huang, who is now a regular in the Multiverse after the recent Everything everywhere and at once.

Loki it’s a story that runs parallel to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (both in plot and form), but which is sure to reunite relationships when it ends up at some point further along the Sacred Line presented by Kevin Feige and company. At the moment Tom Hiddleston just travels through time

, laying the groundwork for events that will be fundamental to the continuation of the MCU. I’m still waiting to see what will come of it Jonathan Majorswhose eventual disappearance could easily be justified by a change of actor, a shrug of the shoulders and the now iconic assumption that “The multiverse is a concept we know alarmingly little about».

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