LOKI 2x05 BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

welcome back to new rock stars I'm Eric. Voss and this is a breakdown of Loki. season 2 episode 5 science fiction The. Season's penultimate episode that lets. go of the science and Embraces the. narrative fiction of giving your hero a. purpose to be a pen and a mug from Real. World alcatra has Mysteries to the. possibility that Loki could have. actually invented the TVA and B15. confirmed as Varity Willis let's break. down all the Easter eggs and amazing. attention to detail in this episode by. the way it means so much to me that you. watch these every week and you're.

getting as much out of the series as I. am you can tell from my bloodshot eyes I. am recording this late after watching. the episode but if it freaks you out. just like cover your eyes until an asset. covers me like uh see you can't see my. eyes at all anyway thank you thank you. thank you for watching oh by the way I. am wearing our OB inspired shirt we're. all going to die I think it's my. favorite shirt that we've ever released. and really it's the best way to support. us by grabbing one of these you can get. it at nerd rot. shop and if you're in. the LA area we are doing a live show on.

Thursday November 16th at brain dead. Studios come hang out with me with Tommy. with others from the new rock stars team. I'm going to have to face music for. thinking that mobus was McDonald's Jack. or theorizing that the TVA has got some. soilent green operation going on it's. going to be a lot of fun come hang out. with us okay we open the episode with. the Marvel Studios Fanfare with these. odd Sounds playing over. it now last week composer Natalie Holt. tweeted that for episode 4 she used.

Whispers And vocal chants from the old. Norse poetic Eda locaa the locaa. features Loki the mythological Loki. accusing the gods of moralistic sexual. impropriety sorcery and bias which he. believes will lead to the onset of. Ragnarok but at the start of this. episode it's Loki who finds himself on. the other side of an apocalyptic event. Left Behind alone at the TVA as if on. the other side of a Rapture episode 4. ended with Loki getting flooded in light. from the wall of the temporal radiation. rushing toward toward the loom.

observation deck but episode 5 opens in. the same moment with Loki's eyes opening. and Tom heston's blue eyes looking way. greener than usual while the temporal. Loom looks pretty messy on the left side. here it is not nearly as chaotic as it. was at the end of episode 4 remember. then the right side of the Loom was. completely unraveled but here the right. side looks pretty tightly braided to the. immediate right of the ring at least for. a bit until it starts to unravel further. down on the right side so we're not at. the exact moment of the Meltdown we are.

before it but where is everyone well. they call this TVA code 1229 fail safe. mode so when the loom fails and temporal. radiation swamps the TVA I think what. this means is the TVA automatically. reverts all employees back to their. Branch timelines and freezes this. facility in a moment just before the. Meltdown gets really bad as it undergo a. rebooting process which would require. everything to spaghettify I think this. is just part of the tva's programming. why does the TVA need to do this it's. kind of like the blue screen to death. you're fail safe mode on your your. computer you know it's done so at that.

point this is all so that the TV can get. rebooted and start over the variants are. reverted to their Branch timelines and. yes we see that each of those four are. on branched timelines allowed to exist. temporarily like external hard drives. waiting to be plugged back in to a. future iteration of the TVA but why was. Loki left behind here in this Rapture I. believe Loki as a variant to Sylvie. represents a kind of glitch in The. Matrix that is linked with sylv's. possession of he remains Master temp pad. Loki's time slipping I believe is.

connected to her having that object as. OB later says it's like you're a better. version of one of those Tamp hats a. better version of one of those temp pads. is what he remains had the end credits. of every episode is on that thing and I. think that's why when Sylvie shoved Loki. out of the Citadel in season 1 episode 6. Loki inadvertently time slipped to an. earlier era of the TVA when we started. in season 2 episode 1 and a big clue. from the writers later in this episode. points to that device being the key to. everything we get a few match cuts of.

Loki walking through the TVA kind of. lost and he's always Center frame on the. cut almost like a time slip that happens. without the slipping part of it it's. just on the cut and even though Loki is. headed in the opposite direction from. the automat we next cut to him walking. through the automat doors to find an. empty automat and all the cases that. used to be lit up with slices of keyme. pie are now all empty and dark I kind of. feel like we're watching Dany on the big. wheel going through the Overlook Hotel. he just kind of cuts from the kitchen. basement level to suddenly being in the. hallway with the Grady twins it's all. very very creepy L hears this.

announcement TVA code. 1229 fail safy initiated the weird thing. here is that it has this theramin music. playing underneath it recalling the. similar music playing under the Mis. minut welcome video like why would they. announce it at all if the whole point is. for people not to be in the TVA who is. this for I think it really is just part. of the programming and the TVA just kind. of runs on these weird pointless. courtesies so Loki Time Slips into a. Chrono monitor Bay and sees another. version of himself flipping through the. TVA handbook and then time slips again.

and we realize he's just back a few. minutes because he returns to the bay to. find himself now reading the handbook. and the version of himself that he just. was is now behind him so we are seeing a. little old bootstrap Paradox tie itself. into a knot here and I love it upon. hearing his past self call out hello. before disappearing our Loki still looks. around confused and is like hello it. just kind of shows how sad and lonely. this Loki is he just wants someone to be. in the room with him but it doesn't last. long because the whole Chron monitor Bay. spaghettify and actually listen close. the.

[Applause]. sound yeah maybe the reason The Shining. was in my head is that we hear these. weird screams mixed into the sounds that. sounds like the unnerving shrieks that. we hear over the opening titles of The. [Music]. Shining and since what is spaghetti fine. are these control panels the strands. take on a variety of colors to match the. wiring inside of those panels then the. TV monitor spaghett ifies cracking the.

screen as it switches to a depiction of. Miss minut saying thank you for your. service before it switches off again a. pointless courtesy who is this for now. the opening Loki title does something. different this week while the letters. flicker through different type faces the. L disappears and then the K disappears. and then the I and then leaves the O by. itself and then all four letters appear. again but it mirrors how Loki gets left. behind by his friends but then reunites. with them by the end of this episode but. on to my favorite reveal this week that. Casey originated as Frank Morris alcatra.

inmate AZ 1441 who famously escaped from. alcatra prison the island in San. Francisco Bay in June 1962 along with. Clarence England and John England using. papier-mâché dummy heads in their beds. the three climbed down ventilation ducks. that they carved into their cell walls. and went through an unused utility. quarter and then were able to get off. the island with an inflatable raft and. they were never found they were believed. to have drowned but there's been a lot. of public speculation that they got away.

so like the DB Cooper incident in season. 1 I love that loky season 2 brought up a. real life mystery and Justified it as an. extracted variant and maybe I'm just. obsessed with this because I live in San. Francisco I see alcatra every day and. just 6 weeks ago I visited alcatra. prison and I went on the audio tour. where they walk it through how Frank. Norris and how the angland broke out. Frank Morris had actually previously. escaped from the Louisiana State. Penitentiary and had an IQ of 133 so. that could explain why Casey is so into. the TVA guide book Frank Morris ended up.

in Alcatraz for theft it's just worth. noting that Casey had been keeping a. drawer full of treasures in the TVA. though he considered most of those. Treasures junk and paper weights. attention to detail on this Prison Break. is so great the paper mâche head in the. beds the tiny tiny cell the hole that. they carved into the walls ventilation. shaft the boat horn that you hear from. outside and the Golden Gate Bridge in. the distance and his conspirators. Clarence angland and John angland are. actually cameos by Aaron Morehead and. Justin Benson who directed this episode. and other episodes of Loki season 2 they.

and Eric Martin and kasarani are mostly. to thank for this season of content. being so good so Casey Frank tells them. let go hurry up if they catch us they're. going to cut us like fish ah it's a call. back to season 1 episode one when Loki. threatened Casey give me the Tesseract. or I'll G you like a fish Casey what's a. fish which at the time seems like a. reference to the movie Scream when the. killer told another character named. Casey you hang up on me again I'll gut. you like a fish understand but we see. that Loki has time slipped onto this.

beach and they ask if he's the boat guy. and ky/ Frank says that he's in the. wrong place they could be referring to. the fourth conspirator of the June 1962. alcat escape a guy named Alan West who. had failed to escape and remained on the. island or it could be that the way these. three escaped is that they could have. synced up with an actual boat from the. mainland who would have picked them up. from the raft and taken them to Angel. Island which is where they were. intending to go so from here Loki slips. to the McDonald's parking lot in. Brockton Oklahoma 1982 and then the. parking lot of a piran of power sports. or Mobius works and we later find out.

that's the year 2022 where we'll come. back to later but it might be just to a. coincidence but it is worth noting that. four of these characters have origin. years ending in two Casey's in 1962 sylv. in 1982 b15s in 2012 and Mobius is in. 2022 Obi kind of spoils it by being in. 1994 Loki then briefly Time Slips to. time theater 25 it's a large two small. five this episode is season 2 episode 5. so there's that but more importantly. this is the time theater where Mobius. first interrogated Loki in season 1 it's.

where Mobius showed Loki the film re of. his life on the sacred timeline where. Loki was sobered by seeing the deaths of. frigga and Odin and himself it's a. hugely important location for Loki on. his journey it's where Mobius gave him a. second chance to have a new glorious. purpose as Loki says later you saw. something in. me that I hadn't seen in myself and we. know from Trailer footage that some. emotional gut punch scene is going to. take place here in the finale episode so. next we see B1 15's origin as a Dr. Willis pediatrician in New York New York.

in 2012 and in the closing credits in. her file we see a photo copy of her ID. confirming her full name as Verity. Willis pediatrician and just to verify. that this isn't a random thing we also. see on that ID the name of her father. Roger Willis this is a huge confirmation. Varity Willis comes from the agent of. Asgard run of the Loki comics in 2014. bar Willis is part of a family that. includes her father Roger Willis that. was tasked with guarding the casket of. ancient Winters and the anvar not which.

is a magical ring that allows the wearer. to see through any lie but when Verity. was a baby she eats this ring it. dissolves in her stomach it gives her. powers and later as an adult she meets. Loki while speed dating and Verity is. really the only character who can put. Loki in his place so this is perfect for. B15 it would make sense why she's such a. damn good hunter and why that she knows. this girl with the cast is probably. going to keep climbing trees do I think. the character that WM masaku played in. The Sacred timeline dissolved in as ring. in her tummy no probably not but I think.

it is the spirit of the character that. they're trying to say is what B15 is now. again we're in New York City in 2012 in. the MCU uh don't you think it's. inevitable that we would hear explosions. or chitari yelling at each other. leviathans flying overhead this would be. Prime season for battle in New York. every other time we go to New York New. York in 2012 we're going to hear some. boom booms at some point we do not see. or hear the battle here but we are in a. branch timeline it could be a branch. where the battle never happened I think. it is though and we're going to end up. back in that battle and vity Willis is.

going to do something awesome to help. people during it it's just pretty funny. that B15 Verity Willis would have been. impacted by a city-wide crisis caused by. Loki and that after she got pruned she. was the arresting officer of Loki. variant l1130 immediately after he. escaped from The Avengers after that. battle and she got to smack him across. the face Dr Willis says do you remember. how bad it hurt when you came in that's. good too yeah she tells the girl that. pain can actually be a good thing. because it teaches you how to avoid. danger in the future it's something B15.

applies to Loki when she arrests him. slowing down that smack so that Loki. feels the pain every Nano second of it. but remember later in season 1 when. Sylvie meets with B15 in the rain. outside the rockard store and shows B15. her memories B15 cries and now we know. it's because she's a doctor and she's. probably thinking about all the kids she. wasn't around to care for p15d Willis. writes on the girls cast don't climb. trees and then she just realizes that's. not going to stop you is it the image of. climbing trees also showed up in TVA.

propaganda posters as a metaphor for. pruning branches of the Sacred timeline. so we cut to Mobius AKA Dawn finally on. a personal watercraft but just kind of. he's not Ry a jet ski it is a SEO. recalling his line to X5 that not all. personal watercraft are jet skis now it. is interesting how Mobius remembers jet. skis as a TV agent but Casey didn't. remember what a fish was despite. paddling out across the San Francisco. Bay so Mobius is in Cleveland Ohio 2022. Branch timeline 202 22 would be 4 years.

into the blip if the blip is part of. this Branch but you know what it sounds. like a great time for people to escape. their stressful life riding around on a. Seido on one of the many lakes rivers. and ponds in the state of Ohio I don't. know why people think they have to live. by an ocean to have a jet ski anywhere. where there's like a retention Pond of. water runoff from the rain you can have. a jet ski there's places in Nevada where. you can have a jet ski jet ski is an. American Dream my friend shut up now. this dirt bike Enthusiast who clearly. just wanted a free donut is played by. Isaac Bowman who's credited as the. cinematographer for loky season 2.

episodes 1 3 4 and this one five between. this Cameo and Benson and Morehead. playing the Alcatraz guys it seems like. they gave these speaking roles to crew. close to production maybe to avoid. actors being cast in these roles and. listing them on their IM DBS which could. spoil it ahead of the Season that does. often happen lookie Time Slips directly. in front of the balloon guy matching his. goofy arm waving you can find old set. video of when they shot this with Tom. hon and it's pretty funny lover boys. working for the weekend plays on the. radio and we learned that Don is a. single dad with two sons a single dad.

during the blip maybe his wife dusted in. the snap or maybe she fell off the back. of the SEO and he never turned around. cuz he was having too much fun but. remember Mobi got really defensive in. episode 2 When Brad brought up the. possibility that there were people. Mobius left behind on the sacred. timeline and even though he probably. didn't remember his kids maybe deep down. he had a fatherly Instinct and a kind of. guilt that had been haunting him so we. got to a bookstore in Pasadena in 1994. where a book titled the Zartan. contingent is on the shelf and it's. written by ad Doug PhD kqb.

self-publishing we have seen the Zartan. contingent in the closing credits of. every episode its name could be a. reference to gi. Joe where Zartan is a. villain and mercenary who serves as a. leader of the dread knocks and works for. Cobra Commander he's a shape shifter. capable of changing his skin to blend in. but also in Marvel there is an ancient. alien race of shape shifters called the. Zartan with an X other books visible on. the Shelf atlas of Forgotten places by. Travis eloro explore the places That. Time Forgot but the age of spectacle by.

Tom dof the ghost riter by Philip Roth a. story about a young woman with a vague. past who the main character comes to. believe is in in Frank Smiley People by. John lard that's a spy novel that's the. third in the series the first was Tinker. Taylor Soldier Spy the last Library by. Freya Samson Disclosure by Michael kryon. debt of Honor by Tom Clancy the big red. train ride by Eric newbie so Obie's. original name was ad Doug which. definitely seems like a nod to science. fiction writer Douglas Adams the author. of The Hitchhikers guy of the Galaxy who. cursed every reference to the number 42.

in media thereafter so we learned that. OB or ad Doug has been trying to buy his. books with cash from bookstores so that. later when the bookstores would try to. figure out where the book came from to. be able to pay the royalties to the. publisher they'd think oh maybe we have. to order more of this book from this ad. Doug guy and then ad Doug would finally. make some money from all this it's kind. of clever but yeah doesn't work sneaky. sneak now behind the checkout counter. you can see some more books Men Are from. Mars Women Are from Venus by John Gray. overload by Arthur Haley that's. concerning the electricity production. industry in California and the.

activities of the employees and others. involved with the Golden State Power and. Light which is a fictional California. Public Service Company insomnia by. Stephen King where the character can. perceive auras and other hidden things. Disclosure by Michael Kon and the windup. bird Chronicle by Haruki Mami thank you. to betterhelp for sponsoring this video. if you're spending hours at the gym. trying to get your body ready for the. stress of the holidays you might want to. think about putting the same work into. getting your mind ready for the stress. of the holidays and to do that you'll. want to get help from a licensed. therapist with better help starting. therapy can be hard the right therapist.

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this is the same exact room structure of. the RNA Department of the TVA it is the. same curved shelves the same overhead. pneumatic tube snaking down into a coil. like the Looms throughput multiplier so. what is going on did ad build the TVA up. around this Warehouse structure or when. he got taken into the TVA did he build. his Department to look like his old. workstation I think ad Doug was an. imaginative sci-fi writer and science. Professor who is in inspired by his own. book that was given to him by Loki and.

he built the TVA as we know it starting. with this lab the computers in the TVA. all have early 90s black backgrounds. because that's a tech 80 had in 1994 so. in effect Loki was the kind of Godfather. of the TVA Obie is the one who built it. and then the Kang variant he remains. took it over that's where my theory. brain is at this week we see this. close-up of a Post-It note board oh my. God so we've seen this in the credits of. every episode except there is one new. blue Post-it that's been added right to. the middle that is not there in the.

credits it's only in this scene and this. blue note reads right in the middle who. what where when why and the who is. circled it's already giving us the. answer that Loki later realized at the. end of this episode it's not about where. when. or. why it's about who now Brandon baric was. a huge help and identifying these. Post-it notes he made a helpful grid. with all 112 visible Post-it notes. labeled a lot of them are repeated on. other notes but I honestly think these.

might have been story beats used by. headwriter Eric Martin while they were. writing this season of Loki and it was. repurposed as a prop with names and. other details swapped out so here's what. it says we can see Brothers duel it has. the upper hand L returns then crossing. the threshold then the thorn of. consequences then introduction of amulet. story Forks at this point so the amulet. could be their code word for he remains. Master Tad that could be the Nexus point.

that the finale Loops back to in the. Citadel next poster note flashbacks from. book one dead lake at the heart of. something then hex moment and this is. underlined in red around pm. a feline. creeping up in the shadows Whispers. rustling a buildup and then an arrow. pointing to Crescendo and that's. underlined next of the silent Mountain. Dash and T move forward one says wrong. unsettled next continuity of an. ancestral pilgrimage dark mountains.

Celestial alignment fated prophecy H has. an epiphany tests Bridge of Worlds the. broken Heron which could be not to Kate. Heron who directed the season one. episodes a curse passed down through. generations apprehensive double. underlined Dar leaves in the dead of. night monster Godlike Soul lineage. ancestors Trace back their Generations. expansiveness deceit double underline. Bridge of Worlds the broken Heron again. Ally in enemies death at amulets curse.

the cracking of water ice he knows a. re-echoed sound multiple reflections of. the same sound cracks appear in fabric. of grotesque unhinged Decoy for the. hijack could the hijack be the hijacking. of that flight by DB Cooper H finds out. about her parents captivity the ground. Falls from under her feet a Falls. parallel secret of the dark mountains. urine's betrayal capture kidnapped. parents what circumstances what if the.

golden scepter the third Moon T. Discovery changes everything which could. be a reference to lenes approach the. innermost cave fear Darkness kept in. dark and something crossed out a falls. behind loses te in the fog Forest nation. and something crossed out the broken. tree her inocence keeps her naive safe. unbeknownst to her his feet silent. creeping on the soft mosque covered. floor the who what where when why and.

who is circled flaxi and calendar lunar. mortality and Grandeur expansiveness and. amplitude victory in the wings the truth. what does the monster represent hex. moment Zartan hidden Fort of Zartan tea. story parallel with Zartan in book two. the ordeal Arc of the her is something. sensitive something he feels something. more then pool of deception Vapor traps. in lungs initiates dream state parallax. Arrangements having nearly the same.

energy dreams something feels wrong. unsettled urine unhinged fear Darkness. kept in the dark the reward parallactic. ellipse a parent ellipse as seen against. the background of Secret of the dark. Mountain the road back of Zartan at the. end of quest a quest Journey obstacles. hope sacrifice something must be given. up belladon space and Valley the boy. betrayed the tower keeper navigation. directional inter Jal something of. viewpoints switches flips perception.

seventh world of the serpentine system. book of the something resonance. reflection reverberation the Mist. follows pull a deception be feels like. he's sinking time is slipping friend is. facing away a was in space in Valley. apparitions darish falling quiet pensive. softly spoken Dawn at the end resonance. pool of deception ancestry key point I'm. sure this will all make sense after the.

finale so ad tells Loki of course I. believe you it's a dream come true one. of my characters has come to life and. needs my help this reminds me of what. happens in the sons of uran yes so uran. was a name mentioned on this board sons. of urine is apparently just another. fictional book that he wrote and maybe a. lot of these flat points are just made. up for whatever this story is. but for a second we suspect that. everything in the TVA might be taking. place in ad dg/ ob's imagination like. he's kind of like a Tommy Westfall. figure from the saint elsewhere finale. or this could be like the 2006 film.

Stranger Than Fiction starring Will. frell as a guy who realizes he's a. character in a novel being written by. Emma Thompson's author character really. I just think that ad Doug has written. countless stories about this kind of. subject matter so that when Loki finds. him he is exactly the kind of thinker. who would turn the TVA into a reality. now in the mess of 8s books by the. typewriter is the book on black holes. that we've seen in the closing credits. Obie says that since time traveling in a. place like the TVA which is supposed to. have time is still possible to Loki then.

traveling back to a place that doesn't. exist anymore is equally possible. doesn't sound like science no but it. does sound like fiction science SL. fiction is the title of the episode but. the punctuation doesn't merge the two. words together like the literary genre. of Science Fiction but it puts a slasher. between them making it an either or an. or a choice between looking at things. from a scientific perspective or from a. fictional perspective OB says with. science it's all what and. how but with Fiction it's why so Loki's.

why at least at this point in the. episode is to preserve the TVA to. prevent what's coming he says but that's. not his real selfish why he can't yet. admit that it's not about the why it's. about the who for him it's about his. loneliness he needs to time slip for. someone in order to move when they. approach a chalkboard hanging on the. Shelf to the right is a 1922 New York. Giants baseball hat it's the same one. worn by kiway Quan a Short Round in. Indiana Jones at the Temple of Doom it's. such a sweet Easter egg and something. that you can celebrate with another.

shirt on nerd rot. shop our Indie I love. you design the prod that ad zaps Loki. with looks like another piece of. technology that could have inspired. Victor timely's design for the time. stick ad Doug deduces that to reunite. all the people Loki cares about he would. need the knowledge to build a temp Pad. but Loki luckily has that TVA handbook. in his coat pocket so like Riner giving. Victor timely the book Loki gives ad. Doug slob the book and sets into motion. the origin of the original pre Kang TVA. Loki flips outside the home of dawnus.

Don has twin Sons Kevin and Shawn played. by twins Caleb Johnston Miller and Blake. Johnston Miller there's a rope made of. tied bed sheets hanging from one of the. upstairs Windows I'm assuming it's. Kevin's and that Kevin had snuck out Don. notices an action figure that is burnt. and I'm pretty sure that is a TVA minute. man or a figure meant to look like one. it seems like Don's sons are a bit of a. Goofus and gas situation Goofus being. Kevin who gave you the matches I stole. them Kevin is total Sid from Toy Story. energy I'm going to assume he's actually. named after Kevin feige or Kevin the. robot because both of them are kind of.

toy Masters who love to play with their. toys and then destroy their toys but I. think we can also see these boys as the. sons of Odin two rambunctious boys you. got a longer- haired Thor who just. breaks everything but then you also have. a calmer more responsible son who loves. snakes and Loki loves snakes if you keep. them from burning down the house I'll. get you a puppy and a snake Mobius tries. to sell Loki a watercraft again and Loki. recalls a beautiful Union of Form and. Function this is how mobus described jet. skis in season 1 episode 2 there was a.

beautiful Union of Form and Function. which we call the jet ski if we are. learning that Loki truly did Inspire the. TVA now I'm wondering if this phrase. right now was first put into Mobius his. head from this conversation and. surprisingly fast OB appears through a. glitchy time door with a large prototype. temp pad actually you can see that he. wrote on this device temporal access. device he says that it took him 18. months well actually 19 months I had to. take a break and move out when I lost my. job and my wife left me oh no this.

speaks to what it takes to be a Kang. level inventor you have to sacrifice all. your personal relationships Loki tells. Don to come with him your boys won't. even know you're gone yeah but I will. all of existence is in grave danger I. don't care Loki's pretty much learning. the lesson he needs to learn this. episode it is about the who without our. loved ones we are lost so lucky. reconnects with B15 drver Willis and. then with Casey Frank Morris who looks. like he's just watching up to Angel. Island in San Francisco Bay judging from.

the angle of the Golden Gate Bridge. behind them that apparently was the. destination of these Scapes according to. investigators but then back at the. McDonald's and Brockton sy's take out. bags spaghettify as the camera passes it. and you can see in the side view mirror. of her truck that the process completes. and it is right in front of her face but. it doesn't really phase Sylvie I think. she knows little bits and pieces of her. reality are fading like this but she's. okay with it because she's got the. amulet she's got the master tin pad and. I think she thinks she can continue. staying a step ahead of this apocalyptic.

event that's what she's been doing her. entire life after all this could also. explain why Sylvie unlike the others. remembers Loki I think her use of that. device and her connection to Loki have. made them sort of immune from the. effects that affect the others at this. bar there is a zaniac arcade game zaniac. grave blood yeah this is actually the. voice of Brad of Raphael cassol remember. his status as a BigTime actor from the. zaniac film series in the' 70s was on. the sacred timeline and if you stick s. around in this episode all the way to. the end of the credits you can hear his.

voice again you died insert your coin. loser which kind of feels like a meta. nod to us like we're dead after watching. this episode he's calling us losers Loki. and Sylvie debate whether restoring the. TVA is ethical you would be ripping. people from their lives showing them. something that they cannot. unsee what kind of choice is that and. finally Sylvie gets what Loki really. wants out of this I want to save. everything all of it is it really that. hard come on keep trying I want to save. the TVA why I want the TVA back and what.

do you want I want my friends back yeah. it takes the bartender whose name is. Eric and I wonder if he was named after. headwriter Eric Martin because it would. take the head Storyteller here to break. through to Loki to ask him what he wants. finally for Loki to give an honest. answer that answer is he doesn't want to. be alone Loki asks that without his. friends where does he belong and Sylvie. responds we're writing our own stories. now it's the deeper theme of this. episode The Power of story controlling. one's own narrative Loki begins this. episode poo pooing the idea of being a.

writer but to truly run the TVA you have. to be a playright you have to learn the. elements of story and transition from. the god of Mischief into the god of. stories and the god of stories is what. Loki becomes when he returns to Varity. Willis in the agent of Asgard run behind. the scenes photos in the season 1. writers room showed that Michael Waldren. used Dan Harmon's Story Circle to. structure each episode and that follows. the Joseph Campbell monomyth cycle with. eight story beats you need go search. find take return change this episode. forced Loki to go back to steps one and.

two of that cycle you and need who is. Loki and what does he need and this. scene ends with what seems like a gag. Sylvia had ordered two shots of bourbon. and drinks hers but when she leaves and. Loki reaches for his it's gone for a. second he thinks wait did she just drink. both of these no no no the reality is. it's spaghettified away and if you look. at sylv's eyeline she looks down she saw. it happen but she doesn't care this also. recalls the last time these two got a. drink on that train to sheru in season 1. episode 3 the whole love is a dagger.

speech where the object disappeared out. of their hands in the record store. Sylvie visits there's a little monkey. toy now this is a vintage Japanese toy. that normally wears a little green. sombrero and strums the guitar and Taps. his little orange shoes so just another. example of green and orange green and. orange everywhere even in This Record. Store as the camera passes this monkey. on the left is an Edith PF record Edith. PF best known for the. song or no I regret nothing which is how. Sylvie feels now as much as I love Love. The Velvet Underground imagine the scene.

hearing maybe it'd be too Inception I. guess now the shopkeeps coffee mug reads. take me and depicts an alien abduction. and from his orange coffee press the mug. the couch pillows sylv's green coat lot. of orange and green he recommends The. Velvet undergrounds loaded and Sylvie. plays the song oh sweet nothing which we. should note it's not the first song on. this album it is the last song and the. GU take me mug did disappear like an. alien abducted it it just spaghettified. along with the pat his spilling coffee. and everything in the shop and it looks.

awesome like the song talking about. having nothing at all that is all that. is left after this all spaghetti pies. but Sylvie is not that worried she just. kind of swipes the temp pad amulet and. this orange time door opens and notice. how the strands are repelled from that. door so this technology which the. closing credits always end on really. seems to be the master technology that. is going to be the key to everything in. the finale it is the amulet maybe it's. even from ancient Egypt and that's why. she has those anky earrings I think that. Sylvie thought that wherever she was as.

long as she had this text she could save. off any spaghettification effects but. she was wrong and that Spooks her into. rejoining Loki but it's too late like. the ending of Avengers Infinity War they. all fade one by one with tragic final. lines but I still didn't take it it was. a fiction problem now I have to go back. to see my boys. [Applause]. this there's nowhere left to go. sh and these final words echo in Loki's.

head as he desperately tries to graph. the strands to cling to the pieces of. his friends but then he hears some lines. from even earlier from season 1 like. this you know where I go if I can go. anywhere this is what Mobius said right. before he got pruned in season 1 episode. 4 you know where I go if I could go. anywhere and then Loki here also hears. this do you think that what makes a Loki. a loky is the fact that we're destined. to lose syv said this to Loki on lenus. in that same episode do you think that.

what makes a Loki a. Loki is the fact that we're destined to. lose into this line Loki screams his. mouth going Curby wide and then he. figures it out I did. it I controlled it and Loki explains to. Obie it's not about where when. or. why it's about who he spins in the room. to look at his friends and he realizes. he knows how to rewrite the story and. smooth as silk he's back on the loom.

observation deck with ob the moment they. watched Victor timley head down to his. death so what happened here like Desmond. and Lost season 4 in the constant. episode the one thing that grounds. someone who lost in time is their loved. one they're constant for Desmond it was. pen for Cooper and Interstellar it was. his daughter murf and for Loki it's. Sylvie and his friends why doesn't this. include Victor timley this episode well. I think Loki feels a unique kinship with. variants who were violent ly extracted. from their histories and forced to work. for the TVA as variants a kind of.

chaotic confusion you only feel with. fellow grunts in the workplace so Loki. let's go with a science science that as. Guardians like Thor told Jane Foster is. just another word for magic and science. and Magic are two things that cannot be. controlled and Loki instead Embraces. something that can be controlled fiction. as a god of stories and every great. Story begins with the question who am I. now throughout the closing credits of. this episode notice how each name has. one letter drifting away the casting. director screen shows b15s confirmation.

as vity Willis Mobius on the SEO Loki. turning around to see himself OB in his. lab and the mug shot of John angland and. Clarence angland the directors of this. episode Justin Benson and Aaron Morehead. now if you enjoy my Approach the movie. and TV analysis we just released what I. think is YouTube's most in-depth. analysis of John Carpenters the thing. over on the Deep dive Channel Please. Subscribe and watch that video and again. best way to support us is by grabbing. one of these OB we're all going to die. shirts at nerd right . shop see you at. our live show on November 16th in Los.

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