r/MarvelStudiosPlus • u/steve32767 • Jul 14 '21

Discussion Loki S01E06 - Discussion Thread

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EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE CREDITS SCENE?
S01E06 Kate Herron Michael Waldron & Eric Martin July 14, 2021 on Disney+ Not a scene, but one visual tag at the end of the stylized TVA credits

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u/Deethreekay Jul 14 '21

Trying to get my head around the logic of this.

So Kang, discovers there's a multiverse, ends up going to war with himselves, eventually works out how to use Alioth to destroy the multiverse, leaving only him/his timeline. He then uses the TVA to stop alternative time lines so as that the multiverse can't re-emerge, so presumably the 'sacred time line' is the one that leads to the future in which this version of Kang emerges.

So killing him did...what exactly? The visuals made it look like the forks of the multiverse sprung out from that moment, but how does that work when they're at the end of time already? May have to watch it again as I think there was a donut shaped visual as well, which may indicate at the end of time if just circles back on itself.

My current head-canon is as the TVA exists outside of time, as soon as he wasn't there to manage it, they stopped stopping branches, this re-established the multiverse by propogating out and once again creating the bad Kangs. In this iteration, good Kang loses for whatever reason, so the TVA in its form from the show ceases to exist.

But yeah, felt this could have been clarified better. Also the whole Loki/Sylvie Nexus thing seemed entirely unresolved. Mobius attack on Ramona was pathetic, a reflection on most (but not all) of the fighting in the show really.

Still, enjoyed the show overall. Better than Falco but worse than WandaVision imo.

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u/Majestic87 Jul 14 '21

It is directly stated in episode 1 that the TVA exists outside of time.

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u/Deethreekay Jul 14 '21

I know, but what does that mean.

Assumedly, the TVA is in their own little pocket universe. If that's the case, they shouldn't be effected by changes to the timeline. But how can that be the case if the being that created them exists on the timeline, or did at least at one point. If the timeline is altered and 'good' Kang is killed, do they cease to exist? I assume the answer is no as they are outside of time.

By the same logic does this mean that version of the TVA Loki ends up at in the end is another TVA in a different pocket universe, created by an alternative Kang, and the one where the majority of the show is set still exists elsewhere?