I see TVA and think Tennessee Valley Authority/Agency ... but then it took me a while to not automatically think BLM was Bureau of Land Management. sigh ... bureaucracy ....
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Toddson - Jul 15, 2021 10:39:27 am PDT #3466 of 3942
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
-t - Jul 15, 2021 11:40:30 am PDT #3467 of 3942
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Me too, Toddson!
I honestly thought Loki (the series but also I guess the character) has been lacking in shenanigans and mischief all season, I don't know that I have *more* to complain about wrt to the finale it's just now I know there won't be shenanigans coming as I always kind of hoped previously?
Atropa - Jul 15, 2021 4:46:26 pm PDT #3468 of 3942
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I was meh on the final episode of Loki was a lot of exposition monologue. A LOT. I was glad that it wasn't non-stop CGI fighting, but if the big reveal is "Surprise! S2! Which means we're going to kinda-sorta wrap up one plot point but nothing else!" then it didn't do its job.
Yeah yeah I know, setting up a whole bunch of next wave MCU things. That's not a good enough reason.
Weirdly, Mr. Loomy really liked the final ep. But he is a huge fan of convoluted plot twists that keep going .
But if S2 is non-stop Loki having existential crisis and and "A crocodile?!" sorts of things, I would be happy. I don't particularly care about action omg timeline chaos the end of everything! I just want flummoxed and out of his depth Loki.
-t - Jul 15, 2021 4:55:09 pm PDT #3469 of 3942
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The one thing I keep thinking is that when Loki pops up at the TVA and tells Mobius and that hunter whose name I can't remember because it's just a letter and a number that the guy he saw at the end of time is terrifying my first thought was "he is?" I was also surprised back when Mobius called Loki a bad friend because I didn't think they were friends yet so maybe I am just not watching right or something
Steph L. - Jul 15, 2021 5:28:22 pm PDT #3470 of 3942
Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.
Here's an interesting article about the retro set design of the TVA: [link]
askye - Jul 15, 2021 7:13:26 pm PDT #3471 of 3942
Thrive to spite them
I want to get some sort of short film or piece about crocodile Loki. Or Crocodile Loki and Kid Loki.
Jessica - Jul 16, 2021 6:14:41 am PDT #3472 of 3942
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
t, I had those exact reactions as well. I felt like there were several emotional beats in this show that were just kind of skipped, and then referred to afterwards as if they had actually happened.
-t - Jul 16, 2021 6:31:16 am PDT #3473 of 3942
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, that’s a good way of putting it, Jess! And I’m glad it’s not just me
Jessica - Jul 16, 2021 6:53:11 am PDT #3474 of 3942
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Crocodile Loki and Kid Loki.
I would watch the hell out of a Croki and The Kid cartoon series.
Calli - Jul 17, 2021 5:51:17 am PDT #3475 of 3942
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I watch the Marvel stuff with a couple of friends, one of whom is seriously into the comics. She also reads up on future Marvel movie plans. She’s been saying, “Kang, Kang, totally Kang,” since episode one. Which isn’t to say that they couldn’t have foreshadowed it better for people who aren’t hardcore, multimodal fans. But apparently they didn’t pull the ending entirely out of their nether regions.
I’m willing to listen to Hiddles read my car’s maintenance handbook (who has phone books anymore?), so a finalé that was exposition-heavy was fine with me. The whole “We’re here to pimp S2 and set up the next Dr. Strange and Ant Man movies, ” (if the titles are anything to go by) is less fun, but I made my peace with that kind of shenanigans after Captain America 1.