Loki episode 6 review: Live reaction to the final episode

Oh and obviously, it's spoilers all the way...

Loki finale live blog review

08:42AM:
Anyway, that's also the end of Loki...or at least, the end of Loki season one.

Overall I'd say it was good fun - not quite as wild as it could have been some of the time but with great moments (Classic Loki! Alligator Loki! Sif!) that bode well for the second season. That'll be a long, difficult wait to see what happens...

Hopefully, I'll be back whenever the series is for more of these live reaction reviews - I hope you've enjoyed following along the action with me, it's been a lot of fun writing them.

Until the next one...for all time, always. Goodbye!

08:38AM:
I will say, that episode was a lot talkier than I was expecting – plenty of exposition from people sitting round a table. Reminded me of the days of Game of Thrones live blogging!

Not sure how people will take it overall. Were there enough twists? Not enough? Did it have enough action? Of course, knowing there's a season two means that there's always room for threads to be picked up even if they weren't fully answered this time around.

08:35AM:
Post-credits scene: "Loki will return in season two". That's a new one for these Marvel Disney Plus shows...

To be fair, there's quite a few threads to pick up on. Where did Renslayer go? Will the evil Kangs turn up to destroy everything? How will Loki get to know Mobius and co again? And what will Sylvie do now that she's fulfilled her life's purpose?

08:33AM:
A big old statue of Jonathan Majors in the middle there. Is that the new Kang that conquered everything? Or in this version was he just honest about what happened, that he ran the show?

Anyway, more grist for the Loki season two rumour mill. I genuinely was not expecting a cliffhanger.

08:32AM:
Oh damn...history has changed! Mobius doesn't recognise Loki! The TVA is different.

Wait, how is that the end? You can't do that to us! You monsters!

08:31AM:
Where are all those Minutemen running around to? They're out of a job!

08:30AM:
Aw, Loki is SAD. This has not been good for his emotional development.

08:28AM:
Sylvie kills Kang.

"See you soon," he chuckles. So I guess technically this isn't Kang after all? He's a variant of him, and the real one will come from another universe.

Outside, the Sacred Timeline is splintering and diverging. A crazy web of different universes. Time for Marvel's What-If, I guess.

08:26AM:
Love this Loki magic battle thing. Wish we'd had more of that in the series. Ended quickly, but still cool. Now Hiddles Loki tries to end it calmly.

"I've been where you are...I've felt what you feel. Don't ask me how I know. All I know, is I don't wanna hurt you. I don't want a throne. I just...I just want you to be OK."

Awww. Loki is sweet. Ugh, they kissed! Is that weird? It's very narcissistic.

"But I'm not you," she says, and throws him through a time door back into the TVA. End of the honeymoon.

08:24AM:
I mean, the TVA are doing exactly what they thought they were doing. Would they care if it was lizards or this guy?

Sylvie immediately tries to kill him, our Loki stops her. She thinks Kang's lying, but Hiddles Loki is worried about what would happen. Sylvie now believes he's betraying her, just wants the "throne" as ever.

"You can't trust...and I can't be trusted." Bit of a pickle, indeed. Magic battle!

08:22AM:
He fibbed! This is the point where he doesn't see the future any more. The Sacred Timeline is branching.

And now it's up to our Lokis! Multiversal war, where he ends up back in the chair anyway to sort it out in the next life...or they carry on his work. Which will it be?

08:20AM:
He says they're hypocrites to judge him - "we're all villains here." They've all done terrible, horrific things - but now they could do them for a good reason.

Uh-oh, something weird just happened...they just "crossed the threshold." What does that mean?

08:18AM:
He offers them a gig – run the whole thing themselves. Prune the awkward timelines and so on.

"Why would you give up control?"

"Buddy, I'm tired. And I'm older. Older than I look. This game is for the young. The hungry."

Either they kill him, or take his job.

What will they decide?

08:16AM:
He's lived a million lifetimes - every scenario. Says this is the only way. Stifling order over deadly chaos, essentially. "Or I'm a liar."

08:14AM:
That first variant found Alioth, made from the broken universe's energies. Weaponised Alioth, and ended the multiversal war. Then basically what we know - the "highly-efficient bureaucracy" of the TVA to prevent more branches and protect their isolated timeline.

Still a little confused.

"If you think I'm evil, just wait until you meet my variants."

08:13AM:
"My methods are deceptive, but the mission never was."

Kang says the TVA is necessary. And the danger is...him?

"I've been dubbed many names.." yeah just say "Kang the Conqueror". Aeons ago, a variant of him lived in the 31st century, and discovered multiple realities. All his alternate versions got along and it was great.

"However, not every version of me was so pure of heart." Just saw new worlds as "new lands to be conquered." All-out war between the realities, as they sought to protect their universe and end the others.

08:11AM:
Mobius and Renslayer are having it out – he thinks the TVA is done, she still thinks there's a need for it. He wants to build something better together, but she's not interested.

I mean, she definitely betrayed him more by KILLING HIM, right? As opposed to him not liking her boss' tactics?

Anyway now she's zapped off to "find free will." Which I guess means Kang.

08:09AM:
He also knows what's going to happen next...he says he had to let them do it, because that's how stories work, really. Need to be changed by the journey. And now he's trying to sow discord between the Lokis.

This is very Rick and Morty.

08:06AM:
Kang says that the pair of Lokis are fleas on the back of a dragon - and he can't be killed, because he knows everything! He has seen all of time, over and over again. That's how he knows how to dodge.

"Every step you took to get here, Lamentis, the Void...I paved the road. You just walked down it."

08:05AM:
Ravonna and Mobius face off in the TVA – and she apologises for pruning him. Cleverly, he and Hunter B-15 brought the Minutemen to the "real" Renslayer, aka the human she's a variant of. The TVA has turned against her! All down to a little pen.

08:03AM:
Sylvie tries to kill him, but he can zap around in time like those collars earlier in the series. He is a mischievous scamp!

Anyway now he's making them tea. I like the look of his castle, all those slashes on the walls and so on.

08:01AM:
Colour me intrigued! Oh damn, is it actually Kang the Conqueror? Because that IS Jonathan Majors.

He says it's "wild" to see two Lokis together, and casually eats an apple. Clearly, he's not quite what they were expecting. And now, he just said that.

08:00AM:
Back at the TVA, Renslayer sadly looks at a stain Morbius' drink left on her counter. And Miss Minutes gives her some files that might be useful...ooh-er.

07:59AM:
"It's fiction."

"We write our own destiny now."

They turned her down!

07:57AM:
Haha no way...is Miss Minutes the ultimate villain? Ah, she just works for "He Who Remains".

I knew she had more to do. Anyway her boss is offering them a deal - to return to the timeline, and Loki can win every time. Kill Thanos, defeat the Avengers, throne of Asgard, Infinity Gauntlet...all up for grabs.

07:55AM:
Fun fact: this asteroid was in the trailers. All the clues were there from the start...

Now the Lokis are nervously breaking their way in. Are we calling them the Lokis? Team Loki? Anyway, they spent so long talking about opening the door that it opened for them.

07:54AM:
Oh, a weird montage of Marvel hero quotes over the Marvel logo...and then zooming out to the whole universe. Sure there are some audio Easter Eggs for fans to track down here. And the visuals are very 2001...

Ah, looks like we're seeing the Sacred timeline in person, surrounding a kind of asteroid.

07:53AM:
Love a good recap. Now off to the castle at the end of time...

07:52AM:
New episode has dropped! Titled For All Time, Always.

Let's go!

07:50AM:
So yes, it could be Kang - but I think the smart money's on someone else. Personally, I'm gunning for another Loki variant – specifically one that beat the Avengers and conquered Asgard – to be behind the whole thing. It'd be in keeping with the series' theme for our Loki to meet the genuinely "supreme" Loki, and reject him – and there have been a couple of shots in the trailers of Tom Hiddleston in a throne room that could actually be this ruthless variant.

Of course, it could be that we're all wrong and Mephisto has finally turned up! Stranger things have happened...

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07:47AM:
So, who do we think is really behind the TVA?

Plenty of fans think that longtime Marvel comics baddie Kang is the man behind the curtain, and there's some evidence as to why – he's a character directly associated with time travel, the Alioth monster in episode five is usually associated with him, and Gugu Mbatha-Raw's Ravonna Renslayer is often his wife in comic-book depictions.

Plus, Lovecraft Country's Jonathan Majors (newly Emmy-nominated) has been cast as the character already for a reported appearance in the Fantastic Four movie. Who's to say this episode couldn't be his sneaky introduction?

07:45AM:

The beginning of the end
How has five weeks gone so quickly? Frankly, we'd say someone's done some damage to the Sacred Timeline to make the last few episodes of Loki arrive so quickly. We'd call in the TVA, but they seem a little busy lately...

Anyway, we've still got one final episode to savour, and over the course of the next hour or so I will once again be live-blogging my instant reactions, theories and thoughts about the new (and final! sob) episode of Loki. Will Loki and Sylvie track down the ultimate TVA puppetmaster? Will Mobius destroy the TVA? And could the next stop for our heroes be a second season of Loki, or should we be looking out for them in other Marvel projects instead?

Hopefully, over the next while we'll finally get some answers. In the meantime, on to our speciality – spurious theories. How we'll miss coming up with and stubbornly sticking to them, despite all opposing evidence.

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