![]() (And when I say “interest,” there’s a lot to unpack here. There, Ravonna and Miss Minutes explain their story to Timely and their keen interest in him as he becomes the powerful man known as He Who Remains. Thanks to an ill-timed standoff between Loki and Sylvie that parallels their fateful duel at the End of Time, as well as a ghostly distraction from Miss Minutes, Team Ravonna is able to pull Timely away from all the commotion and retreat to one of his discreet locations. With each party harboring its own reasons for reaching Timely, Loki and Mobius race against Ravonna and Miss Minutes, some random businessman who Timely ripped off, and Sylvie. But what begins as a search for Miss Minutes, who represents the TVA’s best chance to gain the access it requires to repair the Temporal Loom, soon becomes a wild scramble to get to Timely first. ![]() The duo arrives in a branched timeline, one that has diverged from the Sacred Timeline after Ravonna and Miss Minutes gave young Victor Timely a glimpse into his future. (Side note: “1893” director Farahani also doubles as the show’s production designer, and he’s largely responsible for shaping the wonderful, retro-futuristic world of the TVA that stands at the heart of the series.)Īfter General Dox’s attack on the branching timelines in “Breaking Brad,” an event that has been mostly set aside for now, Loki and Mobius trace Ravonna’s TemPad to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. (The opening Marvel Studios theme song kind of slaps in harpsichord, though, I must admit.) Even still, “1893” has its moments, and Loki continues to stand out from the rest of the MCU thanks in no small part to its excellent cinematography and the unique look and feel of each of its settings. There’s a one-off iris shot to transition between locations that feels out of place, and a pair of wacky chase scenes that reminded me of Scooby-Doo! (minus the doors to nowhere), set to a playful, old-timey score. ![]() Ironically, what Loki could really use is more time.īeyond its problems with pacing and character development, the third episode is a somewhat clumsy departure for the series in terms of its tone, which careens between Loki’s typical dramatic sincerity and a campy sensibility that pays homage to the episode’s central time period. appears only briefly to explain the TVA’s technical difficulties, as the team now needs a Throughput Multiplier to help the Temporal Loom handle the surplus of branching timelines. Meanwhile, poor Ke Huy Quan remains stuck in perpetual sci-fi-speak for the second episode in a row: O.B. While the narrowed focus on Loki and Mobius in “Breaking Brad” last week was one of the episode’s strongest features, Sylvie, for example, has quickly become an unsympathetic figure whose perspective has been lost almost entirely. With Timely, Ravonna, and Miss Minutes entering the picture, it’s become a greater challenge for the show to balance its screen time between progressing its story-which involves a lot of exposition to describe the confusing technological crisis that the TVA faces-and affording each character enough space to develop in meaningful ways. The arrival of this trio is a significant narrative development as Season 2 reaches its midpoint, but in other ways, the third installment sees Loki take a step backward after a strong start.ĭirected by Kasra Farahani, “1893” is more uneven than its predecessors, as Loki starts to struggle with the many moving parts of a fast-paced, six-episode season. “1893” centers on the introduction of Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors), a genius inventor from the 19th century who’s on a path to becoming the man who creates the Time Variance Authority thanks to the TVA guidebook, a gift from Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Miss Minutes (voiced by Tara Strong) that pushes him in the right direction. ![]() ![]() And yet the Master of Time has returned in another life, on a different timeline, just as he foretold. The main villain of Loki is still very much dead, his body decaying in the same chair that Sylvie stabbed him in at the end of the first season. ![]()
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