#mcu!ravonna

[lokiinmediasideblog]

am I the only one who felt like Loki S2 felt like the abridged version of a story arc that was planned to be longer and with more storylines? There were so many setups to payoffs that never came about, like why did the camera linger on Dox's and Brad's forehead touch and B15's reaction if not to show there was something fishy going on only for it to turn out to be nothing? Why so many emphasis on Ravonna trying to uncover the truth if she was never getting an arc out of it? What caused HWR to decide to erase the TVA memories and create the Time Guardians as a cover for himself? What was even the point of Miss Minutes being horny for him? Everything felt so pointless.

I feel the same way and think had the series not been limited to the 6 episode format it would have been better. Why are series nowadays allergic to anything past 6 episodes? They didn't answer ANYTHING, only left more questions, disappointed us, and the little they did was so damn generic and like a stock photo. Why are they all USA-based in their regular lives? No aliens? D:

They didn't go into detail with Ravonna's past. How the fuck do you go from some school teacher seemingly in a near future or present day to fighting in some mysterious war alongside HWR? And they hardly showed Loki interacting with the friends he sacrificed himself for.

I also heard there was an episode that had to be rewritten on a weekend, and that the way the Disney series are managed is terrible and they don't have the usual/expected structure. There was some article somewhere about that. So executive meddling must have also been involved.

[lokiinmediasideblog]

It'd be its own thing, not some doormat for other Marvel properties to step on. Don't use it to set up a "Big Bad" that won't be used anymore. A Loki that was sick of dying so violently and their lot in life. Or trying to save Frigga could have been an interesting sympathetic villain. A Loki that repressed every bit of who they were thinking it'd somehow alter their destiny; trying to impose that on other Loki variants. I think it should have been about grief and self-hatred. Wouldn't that be fucking cool?

I personally think the TVA is an interesting concept, but it was used the WRONG way. The TVA would have been a good vehicle to parallel Loki's fight against pre-determinism from the comics very easily. I don't know if it'd have been my first choice. I certainly think it could have worked if handled properly and I do like it better than what I'd have come up with without any outside influence. If I had no knowledge of what the Loki series ended up being, I'd have probably have Loki survive somehow and reunite with his people and brother. Maybe with some Revengers shenanigans and Loki angst? I'd love Loki angst while he's pretending to be Odin, and nearly dying! I would've wanted Loki to have a huge scar on his chest! I don't think it's as refreshing as a Loki variant being apprehended for unfair reasons.

I love the idea of sinister food. So DRUGGED PIE. It'd also make the TVA agents more sympathetic in terms of complicity. And it'd make that sinister pie more marketable lmao.

I personally would have wanted some of the TVA cast to be people Loki killed during his rampage on Earth. The reveal of WHY Mobius is drawn to him would have been so compelling and heart-wrenching!

It should have been more overtly queer. Yes, it made Loki come out as bisexual, but it did nothing for their genderfluidity. Have Loki use different pronouns in different episodes! Even if not shapeshifting bc TVA represses magic! Hell, have a fem!Loki casting too!

I'd have personally killed for some exploration of Loki's villain queer-coding in some meta context. But I know that's never happening.

Better costumes. Alien TVA employees! And PLEASE give MCU!Loki black nails like their comics counterpart!!! They cheaped out on these poor characters! Why the fuck are they all from Earth and the USA especifically?! Why are most of the costumes office garb, a fucking green blanket, and McD's uniforms?

I'd have liked some Loki's gap year with Thanos whump/angst, and hell even Asgard angst (e.g. Loki being insecure about who he is and his interests! That's why people relate to MCU!Loki, FFS!).

I personally think SOME dumb discourse would have been prevented if Sylvie had been the MCU's Enchantress rather than an amalgam of a fem!Loki variant with very tiny hints of Amora/Sylvie Lushton (and TH had wanted for Amora to appear in the MCU since 2013. ). Not saying people wouldn't be awful to her in that case (I'd picture a lot of fans upset that her tits aren't out 24/7 like in the comics and that she isn't as traditionally feminine or played by someone in her 20s). BTW, I absolutely don't give a shit if people are into Sylki, and it's not my Loki OTP. I generally am indifferent towards it, and I've defended it because some people were being awful to the actress. I am a ship and let ship sort of person.

Don't relegate female characters to product placement or forget about them. I wanted to know WTF was up with Ravonna. She was the character I was most interested on after the blorbo I've had for over a decade in S1 (and she was frankly pretty Loki-like). Instead we got horny clock love triangle over a man. It was also insulting that they relegated Sylvie to product placement, and that B-15 still got very little exploration.

Actually flesh out characters and the relationships between them! Not even TVA!Loki is properly fleshed out, imho. Loki just suddenly cares SO MUCH about them despite not even having a conversation with them throughout the series!

If you yourself could’ve directed/wrote the Loki series, what would you have done differently? What would you have wanted to see in a series about Loki? What would you have focused on? Would the series take place somewhere other than the TVA? Which characters would you include? What would be the end goal? What aspects of his character would be explored?

[textsfromthetva]

Incorrect Loki Quotes [275/?]

[villainboygirl]

Not Mobius and Ravonna pointing out randomly and uselessly that they are single to their crushes they have just met:

[shambelle97]

GOD LOKI - TV SERIES / SEASON 2 | FAN ART | (2024)

💚 #Loki

Art by: @oladcnfthb

[mobius-m-mobius]

#just a couple of equally fierce battles 😅

[thund3randrain]

Come watch Loki season 2 we have:

Divorced middle aged dad and his god husband

girlboss gaslight gatekeep (in that order)

Autism polycule

Horny clock

Brad Pitt at home

[spider-manz]

[pedro-reed]

Gugu MBatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer LOKI SEASON 2 (2023), created by Michael Waldron

[sapphire600]

Like, this was so unnecessary.

[lokiinmediasideblog]

AS always, I was expecting a worse ending. And I should because, it's fucking Disney.

My worst expectation was that they'd have JUSTIFIED the destruction of Timelines in a "Thanos was right", "Pruning is a NECESSARY EVIL" kind of way. (kinda how TUA S4 did; I can't believe it ended worse than a fucking Marvel show).

I agree that I was SO glad they didn't make all Kang variants evil (especially with the TERRIBLE optics that would entail). Because I hate the "some people are inherently evil" message, and I've always had issues with it even in Silver Age comics.

The thing that annoyed me the most (after the most egregious product placement EVER) was that for some godforsaken reason they tried to portray Dox as "less evil" than Ravonna. I'm just like, "How?"

Also, super pissed they wasted time that could have gone to Ravonna's development/backstory on that horny clock. That clock wasted so much time that could have gone for character development. Ravonna apologism all the way. She reminds me of Thor 1 Loki in her modus operandi.

Debated making this, but oh well, here we are…

I rewatched the Loki series.

Going to add here quickly that I have been a fan of Loki since 2012/2013, and I personally relate to his character for a multitude of reasons.

Now, I enjoy the series, but I wish they made it more character focused than they had. I do feel like they prioritised story in terms of making it fit the next phase over exploring and expanding on Loki’s character to some degree (a lot of it was surface level).

For example, I would’ve loved to have seen:

Exploring Loki’s Jotun heritage, even if it was a variant of him in the void that embraced it, dropped his aesir form, a conversation between Loki and his Jotun variant as they explain why they chose to embrace it, giving a different view to maybe how our Loki sees himself/the Jotuns. If ‘What If’ could have a frost giant Loki variant, why couldn’t the show?

Expanding upon what happened to Loki during that year after his fall from the Bifrost. The reason for this is self explanatory really, it would add more lore/depth to his experiences/actions during the Avengers. Maybe address the trauma he has from it.

Loki fighting with his so-called ‘desire’ for a throne more. By this I mean, I felt he flipped pretty quickly from his plan to overthrow the time keepers to just following along with Sylvie - which is fine, but I kinda thought there would be more push back from him. I get it was a life or death situation and Loki’s whole thing is ‘survival’, but it would’ve added to their dynamic and the fact the writers clearly wanted to push how Sylvie was different to other Loki’s.

Exploring Sylvie’s backstory more. It really did feel like it was an afterthought, which is a shame. I suppose they left it ambiguous for certain reasons, but I think they should’ve had more flashback scenes of what Sylvie could remember. I think it would’ve helped people understand and relate to her more. (I do love her though).

Actually showed Loki’s gender fluidity & shapeshifting ability more. Again, self explanatory really & important to his character, plus the whole implied only ‘woman variant’ thing with Sylvie should’ve not been a thing, like at all.

They should’ve given Loki more time to process everything. This show really should’ve had 8 episodes each season, I get that’s not the writers fault, likely Disney/marvel’s doing. Perhaps then the shift in his character wouldn’t have felt so jarring, especially considering he’s 2012 Loki. I do agree they wrote him as if he was Ragnarok!Loki, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it just felt jarring considering the last we saw of this Loki was Avengers. But then I could also argue that maybe he thought ‘what’s the point of it’ because the TVA know everything about him, but I digress.

Used Sylvie more in S2. It did feel like they didn’t quite know what to do with her, her and Loki clearly just needed to sit and discuss the citadel fight, but the closest thing we got is in EP3 where Sylvie says ‘this is all rather familiar, isn’t it?’, referencing their different/opposing opinions on the TVA/He Who Remains. And also maybe the pie room scene, but it’s very vague/not directly addressed.

Explored the fact that Mobius is not a good guy more. Because, he isn’t. And that’s okay. To me, the whole point of the show is based on Loki’s quote of ‘no one good is ever truly good, and no one bad is ever truly bad’, and whilst they do reference Mobius’ own morally grey actions/traits, they don’t particularly make it clear and most just see him as this ‘happy go lucky old man who likes pie and loves Loki variants’. In fact, I actually really liked the scene where Sylvie confronts him - which is a very unpopular opinion to have it seems, lol.

Delved into the psychology of Loki further than surface level/what we already know about him. Yes, we know he’s the God of Mischief. Yes, we know he isn’t evil. Yes, we know he is redeemable. Yes, we know he’s cunning, manipulative and selfish. We get that he projects this ‘illusion’ of himself, but it was only really mentioned in S1 EP1, maybe slightly EP2, before it’s never really mentioned again. I suppose S2 does this to a degree with the bar scene and EP5 of S1 in the time cell with Sif - also I think they tried to take the narcissist angle from the pov that it’s because of his low self-esteem as to why he needs validation and it’s a defence mechanism, but they didn’t particularly make that clear and made it seem like he just thinks highly of himself.

I know it seems like I have a lot of issues with the show, and I do, but I still enjoyed it. It’s okay to be critical of a piece of media and still enjoy it.

I do prefer S2 to S1, mostly because I prefer the direction they took it in and whilst I, of course, wanted better for Loki, I can’t deny S2 EP6 is a stunning finale. I sobbed so hard during the ending and still feel the grief that I actually lost someone I knew personally. But I also have hope that this means Loki is now a main player in the next phase (am I delusional? Maybe).

I enjoyed the dynamics, the back and forth/chemistry, the story was interesting, the set & costume design, the acting, the directing/colour grading, the music (Natalie Holt, you are genius), the emotions, the fun, the characters…

So this is not a hate post by any means, I will once again state, I enjoyed the show. But, I do have issues with it, and that’s okay too.

Please, dni if you’re just going to be argumentative or confrontational. I also don’t want to hear that just because I enjoyed the show that I’m ‘not a real fan’ lmao. I’m sorry, but I’ve been a Loki stan for over a decade, and I will not have someone tell me I’m not a real fan because of a piece of fictional media. Also, please do not mention anything regarding ships on this post, I do not care for it because it always ends up in arguments and I am a multishipper so I don’t tend to fight for any side. Thank you! :) /gen

[textsfromthetva]

Loki + tumblr [236/?]

[villainboygirl]

Can we talk about how disappointed Ravonna and Mobius look while being ignored by their boyfriends?

[shambelle97]

LOKI SERIES - SEASON 2 / BLOOPERS REELS (2023)

While we're still mourning the loss of Loki after its big ending, that doesn't mean that it's completely over just yet. In fact, Loki, along with some of your other Disney faves, are getting some brand new new looks thanks to their upcoming home releases.

Cosmopolitan has an exclusive featurette from the new collector's edition steelbook of Loki season 2, which is set to be released on December 3. One of the best parts about owning a copy of your favorite TV show and movie is getting to watch some of the behind-the-scenes moments that you can't watch anywhere else. And while we got to see a bit of what went down in Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2 documentary, there's some parts that still didn't make it including the iconic gag reel that will definitely help heal your heart a bit after the show's emotional ending.

From Owen Wilson accidentally saying Mobius when referring to Loki to all the amazing dances that went down on set, we're actually insanely jealous that we weren't there to witness this all firsthand. At least we know that they had some fun while making the season.

Video by: Cosmopolitan

[ravonna-lexus-renslayer]

*in the kitchen Ravonna cleans the blood off her hands. she takes a few of the ingredients she brought earlier for him from the fridge and starts to prepare them for the soup*

*there's still blood staining her dress and face, on the bottom of her shoes but she doesn't focus on it as she cuts the ingredients*

*after a little while she gets her tempad and plays a recording of the song 'lovefool by the cardigans' live in concert, she hums along quietly to the tune*

*it starts to smell good in the kitchen*

@theyneedtobepunished @verygoodlawyer

[cleabellanov]

Loki season 2 premiered this day exactly 1 year ago.

We let time pass. It did.

We haven’t been the same ever since.