Lots of TV Stuff
1) Saw Loki Episode 5. One thing that seemed obvious early on in the episode was that we were wasting time with visuals. The long entry to the Time Keepers' room, and then the long entry into the Void area -- that was a lot of CGI for no reason. Like Lamentis, it gave us some intriguing tidbits but was stretching out events.
What was unexplained though is how anyone living in the Void knows when somebody is coming through ahead of time. From the looks of the battleship dropping in, there's little advance warning. So how convenient that the Lokis met our Loki, and that Mobius showed up near Sylvie's arrival.
Ravonna sure seems to know a lot about how the pruning works. How many other supervisors are in her same level? Also, while it's convenient for the story that pruning doesn't actually kill anybody, you would think that we'd have seen a lot more people in the Void.
From a head canon point of view, I'm assuming that you can't destroy that much matter without creating instability, since it has to convert to something. And maybe that's an issue in a space out of time like the TVA, thus sending people into the Void. But then if Alioth consumes all of them, isn't the same thing happening?
Also, were the peacock chickens also variants?
I'm wondering why Loki didn't ask how another Loki ended up with Mjolnir, but I guess Kid Loki's reply was more dramatic. And I'm guessing Alligator Loki simply got stuck during a transformation?
I'm glad Classic Loki stated the obvious about what Loki should have done during Thanos' attack on their ship. A little shout out to the fans? Or you know, actually used the Tesseract he had on him?
Rather out of character that Loki would refer to his counterparts as monsters when all they were doing was seeing through his grandiosity.
Presumably Sylvie will keep that stolen TempPad safer -- despite being thrown around -- than our Loki was.
From the sound of it both Classic and Kid Loki's story lines seem taken from the comics. Is there one where Loki is a politician? I was amused by the screaming after the hand was lost.
How does a gasoline powered car still run after all this time? The deal that went sour was supposedly partly about supplies. I wouldn't think that many tend to come through, so I imagine people die for all sorts of reasons. Or maybe the cannibals get to them, which tends to support the idea of very few supplies.
The scene with Ravonna and B-15 was another time waster, as we learned nothing from it. However I do wonder if Miss Minutes will be at the end of all of this. The scene with Loki and Sylvie also seemed endless and uselessly awkward. The big issue to me was of being cold. It raised a question I've been having all along which is that aren't all of these Lokis Frost Giants? So how can any of them get cold?
Why are we having Sylvie give us yet another speech about what everybody's there for? Are we all supposed to have short-term memory loss? The bit where she had previously gotten a sense that she could enchant Alioth had been unclear, yet supposedly this is something that she really has to focus on. How could it happen by accident like that?
Well at least with Classic Loki's impressive recreation of Asgard we finally get a sort of explanation of why our Loki has been so depowered all of this time. (Loved the Ride of the Valkyries theme popping in then). It makes me suspect that what I guessed about the ending of all of this has been right.
2) I tried out a few episodes of See on Apple+ but despite the interesting premise I couldn't get into it. However I saw the movie The Bankers with Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson before our subscription ended and thought it was very good - and an undertold true story at that. I really liked that they didn't try to dumb down the topic for the audience.
Also watched the documentary Elephant Queen. Unlike some documentaries it didn't try to be upbeat about the devastation of drought and at one point a baby elephant dies. However sad, it was also really remarkable to see the family mourning the baby and later remembering a long-lost elephant. Not that the whole thing was a downer, just that it was a different because they didn't shrink from the grim. It made for an impressive story.
3) I watched The Simpsons short The Good The Bart and The Loki which must have just appeared, since it includes WandaVision and Loki series references.
There was a nice bit about Loki at the end trying to get us to save our own planet. But the best part was the courtroom scene with Ravonna in which the various crimes she accused him of included "crossing over into forbidden areas of Disney Plus, being more popular than all the heroes, having a British accent when you're actually supposed to be from Norway, making us sit through numerous mid-credit scenes in hopes that they advance the story."
4) I saw the National Theater's production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" yesterday. I had assumed it was largely about a family's problems -- which it was, but it turns out it was based on a scandal/legal investigation during WWII. It was quite well done and Sally Field was wonderful in it.
5) Kitty smooches
View poll: Kudos Footer-298
Comments at Dreamwidth
.
What was unexplained though is how anyone living in the Void knows when somebody is coming through ahead of time. From the looks of the battleship dropping in, there's little advance warning. So how convenient that the Lokis met our Loki, and that Mobius showed up near Sylvie's arrival.
Ravonna sure seems to know a lot about how the pruning works. How many other supervisors are in her same level? Also, while it's convenient for the story that pruning doesn't actually kill anybody, you would think that we'd have seen a lot more people in the Void.
From a head canon point of view, I'm assuming that you can't destroy that much matter without creating instability, since it has to convert to something. And maybe that's an issue in a space out of time like the TVA, thus sending people into the Void. But then if Alioth consumes all of them, isn't the same thing happening?
Also, were the peacock chickens also variants?
I'm wondering why Loki didn't ask how another Loki ended up with Mjolnir, but I guess Kid Loki's reply was more dramatic. And I'm guessing Alligator Loki simply got stuck during a transformation?
I'm glad Classic Loki stated the obvious about what Loki should have done during Thanos' attack on their ship. A little shout out to the fans? Or you know, actually used the Tesseract he had on him?
Rather out of character that Loki would refer to his counterparts as monsters when all they were doing was seeing through his grandiosity.
Presumably Sylvie will keep that stolen TempPad safer -- despite being thrown around -- than our Loki was.
From the sound of it both Classic and Kid Loki's story lines seem taken from the comics. Is there one where Loki is a politician? I was amused by the screaming after the hand was lost.
How does a gasoline powered car still run after all this time? The deal that went sour was supposedly partly about supplies. I wouldn't think that many tend to come through, so I imagine people die for all sorts of reasons. Or maybe the cannibals get to them, which tends to support the idea of very few supplies.
The scene with Ravonna and B-15 was another time waster, as we learned nothing from it. However I do wonder if Miss Minutes will be at the end of all of this. The scene with Loki and Sylvie also seemed endless and uselessly awkward. The big issue to me was of being cold. It raised a question I've been having all along which is that aren't all of these Lokis Frost Giants? So how can any of them get cold?
Why are we having Sylvie give us yet another speech about what everybody's there for? Are we all supposed to have short-term memory loss? The bit where she had previously gotten a sense that she could enchant Alioth had been unclear, yet supposedly this is something that she really has to focus on. How could it happen by accident like that?
Well at least with Classic Loki's impressive recreation of Asgard we finally get a sort of explanation of why our Loki has been so depowered all of this time. (Loved the Ride of the Valkyries theme popping in then). It makes me suspect that what I guessed about the ending of all of this has been right.
2) I tried out a few episodes of See on Apple+ but despite the interesting premise I couldn't get into it. However I saw the movie The Bankers with Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson before our subscription ended and thought it was very good - and an undertold true story at that. I really liked that they didn't try to dumb down the topic for the audience.
Also watched the documentary Elephant Queen. Unlike some documentaries it didn't try to be upbeat about the devastation of drought and at one point a baby elephant dies. However sad, it was also really remarkable to see the family mourning the baby and later remembering a long-lost elephant. Not that the whole thing was a downer, just that it was a different because they didn't shrink from the grim. It made for an impressive story.
3) I watched The Simpsons short The Good The Bart and The Loki which must have just appeared, since it includes WandaVision and Loki series references.
There was a nice bit about Loki at the end trying to get us to save our own planet. But the best part was the courtroom scene with Ravonna in which the various crimes she accused him of included "crossing over into forbidden areas of Disney Plus, being more popular than all the heroes, having a British accent when you're actually supposed to be from Norway, making us sit through numerous mid-credit scenes in hopes that they advance the story."
4) I saw the National Theater's production of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" yesterday. I had assumed it was largely about a family's problems -- which it was, but it turns out it was based on a scandal/legal investigation during WWII. It was quite well done and Sally Field was wonderful in it.
5) Kitty smooches
View poll: Kudos Footer-298
Comments at Dreamwidth
.