Loki, S1 finale - July 14

 Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Now what about ‘Loki’ S1 finale?

It works. It is clichéd, predictable, and what else have you, but it is delivered well enough, and yes, the final villain…

The final villain, He Who Remains, (or what else have you), is an original character; for once, MCU stopped giving pre-existing names to original characters, as they did in AoS and in ‘Runaways’, (especially the first two seasons); now, they are actually creating their own characters, and-

…And yes, the actor for this role has been a star of the ‘Lovecraft Country’, or whatever the show had been called, is playing – did play – the good ol’ He-Who. I confess that I was never a big fan of LC; Mr. Lovecraft himself had been a controversial person both in life and in death, while his literary creations are something else…and LC played fast and loose with them; for example, shaggoths of the Lovecraft mythos are not variant hellhounds, but are something much more formidable, regardless of what the show would have you believe.

The racial angle of LC…that was something else. There are people on the Internet, especially on YouTube, that accuse Disney, MCU, and etc. of being ‘woke’; LC had been much more so, and not in a good way. When done right, as in Tom Holland’s ‘Spider-Man’ films, progressive values can work, and without people even realizing that they’re there; when done wrong, as in the ‘Dark Phoenix-2019’ film, they can backfire spectacularly, and LC, it can be noted, was cancelled, with or without regrets. Cough. Where were we?

Ah yes, the S1 finale episode, FATA. Fata-morgana or the mirage. Sylvie loves Loki – the titular one – but sends him back to TVA…only it is a different TVA or something, so he has to start anew…or maybe it is the same TVA just with something different: when one messes with time and space, some things are just liable to be changed, for better or for worse, yes. What next?

A shout-out to the now finished TV series called ‘Primeval’, done by Impossible Pictures, which themselves were reabsorbed into BBC. Now that is a pity, but what I want to point out here, is that they too – I’m talking once more about ‘Primeval’ here – had a reality change between S1 and S2, a relatively small one, from Claudia to Jenny, but still. It did play a role. Here, in the ‘Loki’ S1 finale, we have something similar with Mobius and B-15. Interesting.

Oh, and judge RR, who is actually a Rebecca something that starts with a T, is not a villain, but has just left TVA for her own journey. How wonderful. A journey can be either a blessing or a curse, as the Flying Dutchman has demonstrated, (the actual legend, not the PoC element), and so did the Wandering Jew, (which is an even older story, and one that is probably not very appropriate for our times, nor is it very politically correct at all). My point here is that Loki – the titular Loki – might end up running all over the multiverse for a very long time, before he can reunite with Sylvie – or else he might lose her, and himself, for good. Only time will tell.

Moreover, yes, the multiverse is here at last. Officially too – huzzah, hooray! Disney & Marvel plan to celebrate it with ‘What If?’, it looks like, but we have already discussed this upcoming show before, and anything else would be nothing else but speculation. The S1 of ‘Loki’ in itself was a mixed bag, and not entirely all good, but it worked long enough for the season to reach its’ conclusion, (not that it had long to go, with just 6 episodes, and this is what it did.

…And yes, I am aware that the official reaction to that fact had been rather lackluster, at least for today, but that is a discussion for another time. For now, though, this is it, see you all soon!