Reading roundup, Loki, and meme

[hamsterwoman]

31. Freya Marske, A Marvelous Light -- this debut novel will be out in November, but meanwhile I got to read it in an ARC through a series of fortuitous connections (<333 at the chain of said connections: THANK YOU!) It was fun, and well done, but in a way that had me thinking of it as fanfic pretty much the whole time -- not a criticism, per se,

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

Yeah, I would say 2, 3, and 5 were my top half of the episodes for Loki. I mean, 1 was a good way of setting everything up, but it was laying so much groundwork, it didn't have room to do much besides that.

and there was way too much talk and exposition

So much exposition! And, like, I feel like they spiced it up as much as possible with the miniature visuals and the amount of character He Who Remains was injecting into his account, which, good job with all that, but that was still WAY MORE exposition than I think belongs in a finale...

(I did not recognize the actor, but I'd heard earlier speculation about Kang potentially showing up because of Renslayer being connected to him and that image of the fortress at the end of episode 5, so when this new guy was there in episode 6 and clearly a big focus, I figured that had to be him.)

and I'm excited for what it means for the future of the MCU, but as an episode of television it just wasn't great.

That seems like the fairest takeaway! I'm intrigued to see what happens next, but it was not an episode that stood well on its own, which was disappointing.