LOKI 2x06 BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

Welcome back to New Rockstars. I'm Erik. Voss, and this is a breakdown of Loki. season 2 episode 6, the season finale. and perhaps series finale episode titled. Glorious Purpose, which yes, was the. title of the first episode of the series. because we have come full circle with a. brilliant somber finale that finally. fulfills Loki's purpose. This was one of. the most beautifully written and. designed stories to ever come out of. Marvel Studios, and I'm going to break. it down piece by piece to illuminate the. hidden meaning, the details you missed, some questions you might still have, and.

to celebrate and appreciate this. glorious series. Breaking down each. episode of Loki has been so rewarding. for me, and I just really appreciate you. guys sticking with me week after week. Thank you. Although, I am super excited. for New Rockstars live show this. Thursday, November 16th at Brain Dead. Studios in Los Angeles. You got to be. there. Since my Loki theories and. Mephisto in WandaVision got debunked. this week, New Rockstars is forcing me. to go on a public apology tour. I'm not. kidding. Ticket info in the description. And yes, I am wearing our Obi-inspired. We're All Going to Die shirt, which is.

the best way to support us here at New. Rockstars. You can get it at. nerdriot.shop. Okay, in the previously. on section, the first clip we open with. is this. I am Loki. of Asgard, and I am burdened with. glorious purpose. This is the first time we heard Loki say. these words in the MCU, and man, look at. this guy. Just look at how far we have. come. As this episode forms a bookend. for the series, the opening Marvel. Studios title card reverses.

And I love the new impact we get from. this reversed MCU imagery, like. T'Challa's impact shockwave condenses. into him, the Avengers glide backward. through the quantum tunnels reversing. the time heist of Endgame. It's like all. of MCU history is capable of being. reversed. And yes, we here at New. Rockstars did reverse this back to the. normal direction so that we could try to. listen for any Paul is dead audio. secrets that they might have snuck in. there. Roll it. Paul girl. Oh my god. I'm just kidding. I just I.

just did that. It really is just music. reversed and I added the Mephisto stuff. Or did I? We begin in the glow of the. secret timeline seen from an angle we've. never seen before. Now, composer Natalie. Holt includes this chanting choir. I think this might be the Norse Poetic. Edda Lokasenna that Natalie Holt tweeted. about in recent weeks, which is an epic. poem in which Loki curses the other gods. for bringing about the Ragnarok. apocalypse with their vices. Loki in. this episode will avert Ragnarok for his. friends by creating an Yggdrasil world's.

tree of his own. We see the words for. all time always etched on the outside of. the door and we glide in through the. windows to find ourselves back at the. events at the end of episode 4. It's time to be brave. Loki has time slipped back into his. younger self. Now, this is significant. because every other time Loki has time. slipped, his body has been detached and. he sees a past version of himself set on. its own destined life path. Like he's. just kind of a witness to his own. history, but here, this time, Loki time. slips his consciousness back into his.

own body. It's consciousness. displacement, a distinct type of time. travel that I've identified in the past. It's the kind that Wolverine goes. through in X-Men Days of Future Past and. what Desmond goes through in Lost. This. means that Loki is now in control of his. destiny, or so we think. Loki says they. need to get timely out of there, but. Victor has already suited up, so Loki. for this loop just kind of has to. observe and judge how best to alter the. next loop. This time we see Victor run. out FROM THE SIDE. [screaming].

AND NOW THE STRAND is going to float. back through the door and I love that. that big vent just kind of goes slack to. let us know that he's dead. Loki asks. OB, What could we have done differently? We took too long. Yes, this needle drop is a Fifth of. Beethoven, Walter Murphy's 1976 disco. arrangement of Beethoven's Fifth. symphony famous from the Saturday Night. Fever soundtrack. Beethoven's fifth is. also known as the fate symphony. It's. opening notes historically considered to. be fate knocking at the door. This comes.

from Beethoven's secretary Anton. Schindler who wrote after Beethoven's. death the composer himself provided to. these tips when one day in this author's. presence he pointed to the beginning of. the first movement and expressed in. these words the fundamental idea of his. work thus fate knocks at the door. And. so this next sequence shows Loki. struggling to fight that faded knock at. the door. The delivers helping after. helping of spaghetti says Natalie Holt. obviously loves disco from her episode 2. 1977 disco rendition of the series. theme. We just get to watch John the. Majors die over and over to Walter.

Murphy's swanky disco beat. And I love. how the editing makes it seem like it is. Loki himself commanding the DJ to kick. up the tempo. Faster. Okay, okay. No time to argue. So in loop two Loki takes over for OB to. brief Victor and hurries him down the. steps. Now Victor passes through the. briefest purple light. Even this journey. we learn from He Who Remains later was. paved by the purple guy. Loop three Loki. tries to go even faster and discovers. that there's a microphone that he can. use to direct Victor but Victor dies. again. Now Loki says. No faster.

I said over. Earlier. So loop four Loki goes back to the war. room a few minutes earlier in episode. four's timeline. This would be a scene. that we didn't actually see in the. episode shortly before we cut back to. Victor showing Ravonna, Brad and Miss. Minutes how the throughput multiplier. worked when Brad was already sitting on. the table but here Victor says. This Ravonna after what happened in my. Miss Minutes. I think he was about to call out Miss. Minutes for trying to make a move on him. back in the workshop. Loki tells Miss. Minutes. I know right now you're hurt and you're. angry but we need your help in finishing. the throughput multiplier faster.

Yeah, the confused little blink sound. effect is just so great. Loki watches. Victor go again to his death and the. word skin is still traced in the dust by. Mobius from episode one. Loop five this. time he has Sylvie instead of Casey. dragging Victor back into the loom room. Maybe Sylvie be faster work of Renslayer. and Brad. Loop six we see the loom. explode and Loki just pounds on the. door. Loop seven, Victor spaghettifies. because he opened the door before he put. his helmet on or picked up the. multiplier. Loop eight, same deal. There's no headgear, he's not holding. the multiplier. And then loops nine. through 11, we see three deaths, two of.

them with no helmet, one with. So, loop. 12, Victor actually makes it out a few. steps, but then falls to his knees. And. look at this death. The skin peels off. of his skull and jawbone from the bottom. up. And it looks like the guy just. opened the Ark of the Covenant. So, the. next loop, Loki goes all the way back to. when Victor was first introduced to O.B. in the RNA department. Loki jumps. straight to that model of the loom that. O.B. had made. This model is not finished, okay? There's only one coat of paint on this. Only one coat of paint? I mean, jeez, how many times did you need to paint. this? Or paint it at all? But yeah, this. also builds on this scene's parallel to.

Doc Brown's model of Hill Valley town. square in Back to the Future, which he. told Marty McFly he didn't have time to. paint. Loki says the figurine looks like. Mobius, but it's actually Victor Timely, which is a great callback because in. episode four they argued over whether it. looked more like Mobius or Loki. And. Loki just has to win the argument now. Loki speedily walks through it. Going to take some doing? It's not going. to be easy. A lot of temporal radiation. Everybody following? Yes. Good. Yes, they all respond at the same time. This kind of comedic timing totally. reminds me of another Christopher Lloyd. classic from the '80s, Clue. make a long story short,

Too late. Loki asks O.B. how long it will take to. learn everything he knows about. mechanics, physics, and engineering. Decades. Centuries. And I love the little pneumatic tube. sound effect in the background to. underscore all of this sinking in for. Loki. And then, Ooh. Centuries? This is the most painful time. jump title screen since five years later. in Avengers: Endgame. Loki's dilemma. here is inspired, of course, by concepts.

like Groundhog Day. And for the movie. Groundhog Day, director Harold Ramis. said that Bill Murray's character, Phil. Connors, was stuck reliving that day for. 10,000 years. And like Loki on this. show, Phil Connors reached a similar. state of Nirvana. I'm a god. You're god. I'm a god. I'm not the god. I don't. think. Unlike Phil, Loki was already a god in. Asgardians and Frost Giants age over the. course of 5,000 years anyway. So, for. Loki, this is kind of like a couple. back-to-back COVID lockdowns. So, now. super confident, he walks timely through.

it. Now, it looks lethal. It is absolutely safe. Watch this. Okay. Go. Your turn. I'll take those. Thank you. Thank you. When you're ready. Ready. And go. Yes, he's so smoothly efficient. anticipating Victor's every response, saving every second of time. Mobius. starts to say, Better watch out, OB. Looks like. someone's. for your job. That's right. I'm a. coming. I'm a coming. Now, this finale doesn't answer it, but. if OB was the original builder of the.

TVA, then yeah, Loki does end up coming. for his job by building a his new kind. of loom. He types in the password super. fast. And Loki just knows the password, which I'm going to assume came from him. trying every permutation of password for. centuries until he got the right one. This time the camera swoops in the same. way on Victor that it did in episode 4, but instead of the radiation killing. him, it just bumps him a bit and he. keeps going. Loki keeps incredibly calm. What did I tell you? Do not put the multiplier down. It will. roll off. It's going away. That's right. Well done.

When the green button initially doesn't. work, the background behind Victor does. depict some purple-colored cracks, which. do look like the tears in reality in. Spider-Man: No Way Home and the reality. rift in The Marvels. And as we pointed. out, it was in the trailer. The. multiplier fires into the loom, and. while the music becomes victorious and. everyone cheers triumphantly, if you. look at the sacred timeline, it's not. actually condensing. When Victor makes. it back in, he says, Pumpkins. I have no idea why he says pumpkins. I. guess there is an old-timey phrase of. some pumpkins, which would refer to.

someone or something impressive, but he. just says pumpkins. Like, is he hungry? Does he think Miss Minutes is a pumpkin? Is this like another example of him. inventing words like shoddyocracy? But. despite their apparent success, the loom. begins overloading again, and Victor. realizes it's a scaling problem that you. cannot scale for infinite. It's like. trying to divide by zero. So, in mathematics, when you divide a. number by a smaller and smaller number, you approach infinity. Like 10 / 2 is 5, by 1 is 10, by 1/2 is 20, by 1/4 is 40,

and so on and so on. But we cannot say. 10 / 0 is infinity because zero has no. multiplicative inverse. That would be a. number when divided by itself would. equal one because one over zero times. zero is still zero. That's why it's kind. of a rule of mathematics that cannot be. broken. And there's various further. reasons why mathematicians can't even. like invent a way to bypass this. Loki. says, So, no matter how much. we increase the throughput,

it will never be enough. Enough. Never enough. The loom. will always fail. Yeah, before it was Loki who finished. everyone else's sentences, but now it's. Victor finishing his. Sylvie suggests. this all started with her decision, and. Loki reluctantly returns to the Citadel, the events of the season one finale. We. saw Sylvie in slow motion, the same shot. in that episode, so it makes for the. perfect moment for Loki to slip back to. It's like when we saw it in slow motion. before, the show was kind of hinting, "Hey, we might come back to this." This.

time he tries for a more convincing. speech. I've been where you are. I felt. what you feel. One major difference he may notice in. the Citadel is that now the fire in the. fireplace causes the room to glow much. brighter, whereas in the season one. finale, the room was much gloomier. I. think the difference reflects how Loki. is now seen his remains true self, though not at first. Sylvie says, You've been seduced by a throne. The last thing I want is a throne. Oof, and that is where he ends up. So,

we get another round of loops, each one. ending with Sylvie repelling Loki and. the sound of He Who Remains gasping and. saying his final words. See you soon. See you soon. See you soon. Now, the words feel kind of like a. mockery for Loki because He Who Remains. knows Loki is going to keep looping back. on this. Loki even loops back to the. elevator when He Who Remains was eating. an apple. Now, what were you expecting, hmm? A. gist. A man. Flesh and blood. Don't tell me. I'm a disappointment. Ah, they cleverly splice this together. with a shot from season 1 episode 6 and.

then edited it on Majors rubbing his. nose to give us this new angle from the. side with the actors back in the same. wardrobe. It's kind of like a Back to. the Future Part II when Zemeckis. re-staged much of the events of the. dance in 1955 to shoot it at new angles. as Marty loops back on that history. Normally here, after rubbing his nose, He Who Remains anticipates Sylvie. preparing to strike him from behind and. he taps his master tempad to hop around. the elevator. This time he doesn't even. reach for the tempad. So, he must. anticipate Loki this time grabbing her.

arm to stop her. He knows that Loki is. time slipping and I love this little. attention to detail to prove that. We. now do see Loki getting worn down and. dejected until he finally snaps at He. Who Remains to do something and He Who. Remains freezes time. Oh, come on. You're not telling me you. haven't learned how to pause. time. yet. [laughter]. Of course, as we learn later, Loki does. know how to pause time. His frustration. and comment to He Who Remains we realize. later was actually part of Loki's plan. to get He Who Remains to intervene so.

that they could talk. But, He Who. Remains does know that this isn't the. first time they've had this kind of. conversation. I know about the slipping. And who do. you think paved that road? He Who Remains brags that he never. planned to just sit back and let Sylvie. kill him. He knew that it would lead to. Loki slipping through time, putting Loki. in a position to think he could save the. TVA so that Loki would inevitably slip. back here so the men could talk. He Who. Remains suggested that he even include. Loki into this in their first meeting if. Loki was listening carefully. I told you, reincarnation.

Baby. But come on, He Remains He Remains said. reincarnation, baby, in a very different. context. You plunge your blade in my chest and. an infinite amount of me start another. multiversal war and I just end up right. back here anyways. Reincarnation. Baby. Yeah, but before he suggested it was. going to be another Kang who would end. up right back here. Now he's saying He. literally this variant would have never. left the chair and Loki's need to time. slip to loop back would in effect.

respawn him. But then we get to the most. important exchange in this scene. Loki. takes a moment and then tells He Remains. as if testing him. We die with the dying. but born with the dead. Uh-huh. Ooh, for the first time Loki has said. something that threw off He Remains. I don't think he knows this reference. This is a line from T.S. Eliot's poem. Little Gidding, which is the fourth part. of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. The. fuller passage is We die with the dying. See, they depart, we go with them. We. are born with the dead. See, they return.

and bring us with them. Little Gidding. is a town in England and the poem is. about a narrator who meets a ghost who's. a combination of various poets and. literary figures. T.S. Eliot is saying. that humanity can only avoid war by. learning the lessons of the past. It. says that we're only saved by. understanding the unity of the past, present, and future. You can see how. this applies to what Loki's going. through. You can only prevent. multiversal war by learning lessons from. the past. [music] In my deep dive of. Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, I. pointed out that one of the books that. Nolan handpicked for the all-important. bookshelf is Selected Poems by T.S.

Eliot. Christopher Nolan actually said. of these poems, quote, concepts of time. and space at their most complex are. sometimes best expressed through art. rather than science. Eliot's Four. Quartets are as thought-provoking about. time as any scientific text. And the. first of those Four Quartets is actually. T.S. Eliot's Burnt Norton, which opens. with time present and time past are both. perhaps present in time future and time. future contained in time past. A theme. that applies to the grandfather paradox. that gets presented in the Tesseract of. Interstellar, but also to the type of.

time travel that this season of Loki is. presenting. By the way, T.S. Eliot's. having a big weekend in Marvel. Andrew. Lloyd Webber's Cats was based on poems. by T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of. Practical Cats, and a number from that. show has a big moment in The Marvels. But by saying this, Loki is testing He. Who Remains. He's reciting this poetry. to hint to He Who Remains that he did. actually learn some lessons about the. past. But Loki recites the line in a way. that sounds like they just could be an. in-context morbid overture about their. doomed status or maybe the Ragnarok-y.

cyclical nature of death and rebirth. So. He Who Remains hears this and he's just. like, "I don't know where you're going with. that." And since he caught He Who. Remains off guard, Loki uses this moment. to show his cards. And what makes you think. this is the first time we've had this. conversation? Only now does He Who Remains drop the. and take Loki seriously. I was Victor. Timely. Yes, for all the criticism Majors got.

for his over-the-top performance as. Victor Timely, you got to appreciate him. doing an impression of himself here. It's not 100% Victor Timely, it's like. 55% Victor Timely. Actually now, Majors. completely drops all theatricality and. speaks plainly. Scaling problem, that's what he told. you. Victor told you it's a scaling. problem. Wow. No. No, there's no there's no problem. Compared to the impishness he played He. Who Remains with in season 1 episode 6, hopping on the desk and whatnot, this is. the first time we've seen a Kang just be. chill, which is important because we. really need to trust the guy when he.

finally explains the truth, that the. Temporal Loom is a fail-safe. It's only. designed to preserve the sacred timeline. and it automatically deletes branches. And if the TVA at that time gets. destroyed, no biggie, it's easy to. rebuild. So yes, we were right to that. the TVA has gone through several cycles. of destruction. Destruction is just part. of its cyclical protocol. Loki responds, "What a waste of time." Indeed, centuries. But, you know what? Not fully. wasted because those centuries primed. Loki for the important evolutionary. steps he takes this episode. He needs to.

be divorced from the flow of time. He. Who Remains says, And as you may or may not know, my variants are already out there. We'll find them. There's too many. I won't stop. Doesn't matter. Never stopped me before. I know, champ. Yes, this rapidly edited exchange is the. most heroic and Avenger-like Loki has. ever sounded. My theory for Secret Wars. is that the God of Stories Loki will. assemble one team of Marvel heroes to. fight against a team selected by Kang.

Prime. He Who Remains tells him that the. equation results in Loki losing, and. Loki says, "I know." Because he and. Sylvie previously realized, "Do you. think what makes a Loki a Loki is that. we're destined to lose?" But, then Loki. sees He Who Remains' equations on the. chalkboard. And says he's going to. change the equation by breaking the. Loom. He's basically doing what. mathematicians did with taking the. square root of -1 and calling it I to. open a whole new field of mathematics. He's doing that by basically putting one. over zero and calling it something new. And for the first time, He Who Remains. is on the defensive in this chess match.

He assumed Loki's attachment to his. friends and to Sylvie would make it. impossible for him to live without the. sacred timeline. That's why he's dealing. with Loki and not with Sylvie. But, after centuries, Loki now feels. confident that he can build a better. timeline management system than He Who. Remains' Loom is. But, Loki kind of. needs to get approval from his closest. friends. First, Mobius. So, he returned. to Time Theater number 25 with Loki back. in his prisoner jumpsuit and his collar. Mobius with a can of Josta from the very. first episode. Remember that was also. titled Glorious Purpose. Loki now.

predicts Mobius's whole plan. interrogation routine, and he gets to. the brass tacks. How do you choose who lives and who. dies? Yeah, Loki's just here to learn from. Mobius because he knows what he's going. to do. Mobius tells the story. A couple of hunters went out on a. mission somewhere near the Black Sea to. find a variant who's going to be. responsible for 5,000 deaths. They get. there and there's a little hiccup. The variant is an 8-year-old boy. So, the Black Sea is in Eastern Europe. surrounded by Bulgaria, Georgia,

Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Could this future murderous boy have. grown up to be Victor Von Doom? Latveria's precise location in Eastern. Europe has shifted around in Marvel. Comics and it's usually around Serbia or. Romania. So, it could be, but I don't. know. Victor isn't really known for. having a brother. Mobius says that the. hunter hesitated, but a couple hunters. died and his partner had to step in and. prune the kid. We learn that partner was. Renslayer. Remember she did something. similar with young Sylvie. And that. would mean that Mobius was the hunter. who hesitated. Why did he hesitate at. the sight of two brothers playing in the.

water? Well, maybe because somewhere. deep down he thought about his sons and. a jet-ski day. Mobius breaks down the. weight of I am burdened with glorious. purpose. Most purpose. is more burden than glory. What an amazing deconstruction of a lie. that has echoed through the MCU for over. 10 years. Loki shakes Mobius's hand to. thank him for explaining how to live. with the burden of being a constant. timeline monitor and Mobius in the room. spaghettify and it's just beautiful. But. it contrasts with a painful version of. that spaghettification as we return to. episode 5 right when Mobius split into.

strands and Loki pauses this so that he. can talk to Sylvie. What's happening? We're outside time. The sound design here is just really. cool. It kind of sounds like a rushing. river that we're submerging into. Sylvie. deduces that Loki would have to kill her. to save the sacred timeline, but she. reminds him that the sacred timeline. sucks and he shouldn't want to take away. free will if it's to protect that. She. goes on. I grew up in apocalypses, Loki. I've lived through enough of them to. know that sometimes. it's okay to destroy something.

But then Loki, who has been finishing. sentences throughout this episode, realizes there is more to this sentence. If [snorts]. If. there's a hope that you can replace that. thing. with something better. I love this line, and I love that it's. coming up in this series analog of a. writer's room with all of AD Doug's. posted notes on that board with the. story beats. This line from Loki is a. difficult choice every writer of fiction. has had to face. Sometimes you have to,

as they call it, kill your darlings to. toss out an entire storyline or a. character or a concept that you worked. so hard on, but you do it with the hope. that if you came up with that thing, you. can also come up with something better. Writers just have to know that it's not. that thing you created that you have the. faith in, it's the creator that still. exists inside yourself that was always. able to make something new. Eric Martin. actually said in an interview that there. was originally an entirely different. concept that they wrote for episode 5, that that was their favorite episode of. the season, but the Marvel Studios brain.

trust nuked it because it never would. have worked. And Eric Martin agreed with. that decision, but he had to spend a. whole weekend writing a new script for. episode 5, and we end up getting one. hell of an episode. And we're going to. dig into what that mystery nuked episode. was in the sneak peek on Sunday. Leaving. Sylvie, Loki inhales like he's taking a. plunge, and we are back in the loom room. right after Victor stuck his head in the. head scanner. This time, Loki concedes. to Mobius that the figurine wasn't. Mobius, it was Loki, and he makes the. walk himself, and he locks Sylvie and. Mobius out telling them, I know what I want.

I know what kind of god I need to be. for you. [sighs and gasps]. For all of us. So, first off, I love how they framed. Sylvie and Mobius in the same window, so. this way Loki could say it to both of. them. But, this line echoes the very. first Thor film right before Loki. dropped off the Bifrost bridge. I could have done it, Father. I COULD HAVE DONE IT. FOR YOU. For all of us. No, Loki. Back then, Loki wasn't being honest. He.

was just doing it for himself. But this. time, he truly is taking on this burden. for those he loves. Loki marches down. the gangway, his clothes tear away into. a new godly form, a green cloak and a. dramatic crown with tall horns. The. crown is actually made of the same. kintsugi cracked pattern that He Who. Remains' Citadel was made out of. As. Loki destroys the loom, his face seems. to grow older a little bit. It kind of. looks like that of Richard E. Grant as. Classic Loki when in season 1 episode 5, he shouted this episode's title.

Remember when Sylvie's record store. spaghettified last episode, she briefly. found herself in a dark green void with. these dead dark green vines. And that's. where Loki finds himself now. But he. realizes by grabbing these dead branches. and by not letting them go, he can bring. life into them. And by doing that, he. creates an opening to the Citadel. bedrock. When he steps off the broken. gangway, reminding us again of the. broken Bifrost bridge that he dropped. from in Thor, now like Indiana Jones. taking a leap of faith onto the. invisible bridge in The Last Crusade, there is now a path for Loki to walk on.

It's a journey into mystery. Now, I have. talked about this season how normally in. the MCU, when there is a huge effects. sequence, we're often looking at a big. wash of glowing energy that doesn't seem. to have any weight or texture. But in. Loki, with the loom, every shot of it. has been awe-inducing because we know. what it is. This sequence takes that a. step further. Without any words or any. real logical baseline to understand what. the hell is happening here, we just. follow the emotion and we go with it and. we get it. All we know is that Loki has.

transformed. And it kind of looks like a. beetle crawling through some dark. tangled dead roots of a tree that is. wearing some swanky slippers and that he. cannot, he will not let go because he is. determined to build something new. I. don't think we've ever seen visual. storytelling this impressionistic in the. MCU before. And production designer. Kasra Farahani, along with Natalie Holt, Eric Martin, Justin Benson and Aaron. Moorhead, all of them deserve awards for. this. Whereas He Who Remains created his. sacred timeline by using Alioth to. violently devour branches he didn't. like, Loki does the work and he does it.

by hand. He strains to grab every single. vine, no matter how heavy or how strong. that tensile strength is, because he. doesn't want any branch to die and he. heaves it along his upward climb. We're. reminded of Peter Parker holding his. arms out in a Christ pose trying to keep. the two halves of the ferry together or. his variant Toby Maguire Peter Parker. trying to keep the train from crashing. We feel the weight, the strain on his. arms. And actually, speaking of Christ. poses, with Loki's barbed crown, doesn't.

he kind of seem like Jesus carrying his. cross up the hill on a path to be. crucified, to die for our sins, to open. the gates of heaven? I don't know, if I. were to tell Loki this Christian. mythology, he'd be like, "Hey, I'm Loki, the god of stories from Asgard." But. notice how the gold in all the Kintsugi. cracks of that asteroid blow upward with. him, forming a path for him to follow, a. yellow brick road, you might say. Those. cracks were not there to show how the. timeline was destined to be broken, they. were there because it was broken without. the rightful god there to unify. everything. And now that he's here, the.

gold flows into a chair to form a throne. for him. But it's not a beautiful. Odin-style, well, perfectly molded. throne, it's just kind of a stumpy. throne with grooves on the back. Why? To. make it easy for the vines to jut upward. behind him. We see all this while the. architecture of He Who Remains' Citadel. crumbles away. Loki illuminates all of. the vines, becoming his own handheld. loom in the heart of the timeline. And. as the camera pulls back, it rotates 90. degrees and it gives us this magnificent. shot, a perfect depiction of the.

Yggdrasil world's tree from Asgardian. and Norse mythology. The roots below are. dead, but being woven by Loki in the. trunk into life. And above, they blossom. into the blue and purple ends that used. to be part of the broken multiverse. They remain though, now looking like. promising fruit, the fruit of his labor. Loki is finally a god of stories with a. glorious purpose or really a glorious. burden. He's committed himself to an. eternity of solitude. Remember, Agent. Coulson once told him that he lacked. conviction, but he has found that. conviction. He replaced He remains.

automated loom with an organic living. garden that he actively tills. Rather. than pruning branches, he strains to. weave every vine in. He has shown that a. multiverse can live in harmony, and that. multiverse is alive. It can grow, adapt, change, die, and reproduce. So, on. screen we see after period, which is. just hilarious. Who knows what that. means? We see a new poster in the TVA, "Let's grow together. Nurture our nature. for a stable future." with a depiction. of the aged still tree with workers.

growing it instead of pruning branches. like in the past TVA propaganda posters. Now, nature and nurture are commonly. seen as opposites, but here they are. used in the same sentence. You'll see on. the chrono monitor screen, the timeline. has now been reoriented 90°, so it's not. lateral anymore, but growing upward, and. there is room for plenty of branches. In. addition to analysts and hunters, there. is a new position in the TVA workforce, workers in these kind of white clothes. with these white hats. They kind of look. like medical workers or maybe botanists. of some kind. I just assume that they're. in charge of the health of a given.

branch, maybe tasked with finding ways. to help it grow sustainably. O.B. reboots Miss Minutes. She appears from. her original orange binary look to her. cartoon self. They still don't know if. that she's going to kill them all. Mobius hands B-15 a case file for. reports on the variants of He Who. Remains. Do any of them know that we. exist yet? Nope. I guess one of them caused a little bit. of a ruckus on 616 adjacent realm, but. they handled it, so we're all good for. now. Oh, baby. 616 adjacent realm is. referring to the quantum realm of. Universe 616, and this ruckus was Kang.

the Conqueror in the events of Ant-Man. and the Wasp: Quantumania. By saying. they handled it, he's referring to. Ant-Man, Wasp, Cassie Lang, Hank Pym, and Janet Van Dyne. Actually, those. photos in the file show Kang the. Conqueror holding out his two fists to. blast the freedom fighters when he. floated down on that disk from his. penthouse. And then the other photo, I. think that's Kang's time chair or the. ruins of it. Now, the risk report form. with all the text is kind of hard to. make out, but at the top is a variant. number, and then a name, and then a. location, and then by temporal aura. Beside that, I think we see the word.

Kang in quotes, and then beneath that, powers, and then related case files with. a bunch of other numbers listed. I think. these might be referencing some of the. other Kangs in Quantumania mid-credit. scene. The printed text shows something. about apprehended for the energy surge. I don't know, folks. I'm going to keep. trying to make out what this says, and. if anything big comes out of it, I'm. going to make a follow-up video. But, the case file that Mobius requests shows. that he is labeled variant number MFF. 353. M for Mobius, just like Loki's. variant number is L1130, but FF 353 is a.

reference to Fantastic Four 353 from the. year 1991. This was the issue in which. Mobius in Mobius was first introduced as. that name. Mobius tells B-15 to leave. the past murals up, both the Kang era. and the Time Keeper era, saying that. those who forget the past are doomed to, you know, which is really the theme T.S. Eliot was getting at in that poem. The. war room is now filled with all ranks of. the TVA, hunters, analysts, engineers. So, there is now another engineer beside. O.B. We see some judges with their. sashes. We see health workers. We see. Judge Gamble, as well as that sleepy.

judge from episode 1, and I think that. is the librarian from season 1 episode. 2. O.B. unboxes a TVA Handbook, second. edition, crediting both Ouroboros and. Victor Timely. We see young Victor. Timely back in 1868 Chicago continuing. to pour wax candles, and he turns around. to look at the open window, but nothing. comes through it this time. So, the kid. gets to live a good life, hopefully, as. a candle maker to bring some light into. the world. Renslayer wakes up in the. void. Behind her are the pyramids and. the sphinx that we saw in the void in. season 1 episode 5. Remember, we're.

pretty sure that sphinx has Jonathan. Majors' nose and face. Under the grass. is the same golden floor emblem that. Mobius had just brushed his shoe across, showing the TVA emblem and for all time. always. It is stained with bluish marks. Maybe it's some kind of oxidation. Either way, I think the implication here. is that the void was one of the past. heirs of the TVA that he remains allowed. to be destroyed when the loom got. overloaded. And he used that rubble as. Alioth's feeding ground. We see purple. light flashing on Renslayer's face, meaning Alioth is approaching and. Renslayer just stares it down not. flinching. Look, folks, I have a hard.

time accepting this as the end of. Renslayer. If it is, I just think her. arc this season was really. underdeveloped. Like, I still think he. remains must have needed her in order to. tame Alioth to begin with. And the. framing here just reminds me of the. moment John Locke on Lost stared down. the smoke monster, which is really the. beginning of his story. But, we have to. acknowledge that Eric Martin did tell. Cinema Blend, quote, "We approach this. as like two halves of a book. Season 1, first half. Season 2, we close the book. on Loki and the TVA." So, if we don't. get a season 3, I'm okay with that, but.

I would love to see Renslayer holding. the reins of Alioth in some Marvel title. in the future. Mobius watches as his. non-variant self plays with the kids. THEY'RE RUNNING THE ASYLUM. THEY'RE. RUNNING THE ASYLUM. OKAY. OKAY. PEACE. WITH THE TVA under its own control, the. former prisoners are running the asylum. Sylvie says, It's weird that Loki's not here, isn't. it? Yeah. Yeah, but he is there. Because notice. how the lens flare causes this frame to. be filled with green and golden hues. Mobius says he's just going to wait here.

for a little bit. Let time pass. I love it. Mobius has been in the TVA. for eons outside of time, just kind of. treading water in time. And now he's. going to let it actually pass and let. that current take him wherever it goes. But, you know he's got his eye on that. red ski-doo poking out of the garage. It's calling his name. But, Mobius's. words of let time pass echo through. Loki's timeline tree. Each vine you'll. notice is filled with different strands. of colors, each representing a whole. different universe, all allowed to. coexist in harmony. God of stories Loki. absolutely heard the words let time.

pass, and that is what he is doing. His. greatest fear that he told Sylvie about. last episode was being alone, but he has. overcome that fear by realizing he was. afraid of something else, that his. friends might not have the chance to be. alive and to be free. For someone who. has lived centuries of life, what could. be a more glorious purpose than that? The final casting director photo shows. Sylvie from the train in season 1. episode 3, B-15 from season 1 episode 2, Casey from the check-in desk from the. very first episode, OB from the first. episode this season, Mobius from the. very first episode, and Loki after he.

sat up in the desert back in the very. first scene of the series. This show has just meant so much to me. To be able to nerd out with all of you. every week has been such a privilege, and I promise I don't take that for. granted. So, thank you. Thank you for. supporting New Rockstars. I love you. guys, and we still have more videos we. want to make about Loki, so please. subscribe to New Rockstars and all the. channels in the New Rockstars network to. see me face public humiliation for my. silly silly theories about McDonald's. Jack or the TVA's toilet green pie. What.

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