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highfantasy-soul · 11 months

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On the one hand, I love weekly drops for episodes because you get time to sit with each section of the story and really dig into it.

On the other hand, some people don't quite understand that characters can say/believe something at the beginning of the series and then - gasp - grow and change through the episodes so that by the end, they don't believe that thing anymore!

Also, what a character believes isn't necessarily the 'message' the writers are pushing - the character could have a flawed world view that turns out to be in need of change.

Anyways, apropos of nothing, Loki s2e4 was great, huh? Nice little debate about philosophy between two characters - neither of which has the 100% right idea at the moment and events might transpire to get one or both of them to alter their 'goals'.

Almost like media isn't there to be a guide to life you need to follow word for word but rather an exploration of fantastical problems and how flawed characters deal with it through their own, limited frame of reference

#loki season 2 #loki series #loki #seriously I strongly disagreed with a lot of the conclusions loki reached in his little monologue #but I don't think the writers were trying it say 'look loki is right and sylvie is wrong'#i think the scene was showing that loki still desires control but he thinks that now it's for 'the right reasons' so it's ok #he's finally found a community in the tva and he doesn't want to lose it #it's very common for people who don't have a support system to cling to whatever is the first group to give them a community #even if that's with a hate group or a cult #people want support and its hard to turn away from the only group who's given you that even if they're doing bad things #sylvie is 100% right that the tva (most of them) don't view the branches as real - they're just lines on a screen so it doesn't affect #them if some blink out of existence - she was right to call Mobius out #I think the next episode starts to address this and hopefully the finale will bring that message home #of course marvel might go the 'reform' rather than 'abolish' route - but I hope that whatever they do they do it with nuance

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