Loki

[Drunk Monk]

E5 - the penultimate epic Ep.

It’s all about crocodile Loki for me. He needs his own series.

[Greg]

[Drunk Monk]

'Loki' Renewed for Season 2 at Disney+
The news was revealed in during the finale's mid-credits scene.

Loki is the first of Marvel’s Disney+ scripted originals to score a formal renewal.
The comic book powerhouse used the mid-credits scene from Loki’s season finale Wednesday to formally announce that the Tom Hiddleston starrer would be back for a second season. No additional details were included beyond the title card with the news.
Loki is the third of Marvel’s scripted TV series to debut on Disney+. The first, WandaVision, ended with an episode that was labeled as a series finale. The Elizabeth Olsen and Paul Bettany series also scored 23 Emmy nominations Tuesday — second overall, an impressive showing for Marvel’s first foray — in the limited series category. Olsen is set to next appear in Marvel’s upcoming Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (due in March).
Marvel’s second offering, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, is billed as an ongoing drama series (it collected five Emmy nominations in the category Tuesday). That series leads into the next Captain America movie as Marvel continues to move seamlessly between television and film as it connects the MCU to Disney+ originals.
That push continued Wednesday with the Loki finale. Without getting into spoilers (we’ll leave that to our Heat Vision colleagues), the Loki finale set the stage for Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Hiddleston’s Loki character is also expected to also appear in the next Dr. Strange. (Marvel has yet to confirm whether or not that’s happening.)
Marvel’s next Disney+ series will be the animated What If… (Aug. 11). Hawkeye is due in late 2021, with several other Marvel scripted originals (She-Hulk, Moon Knight, Iron Heart, Secret Invasion, [i]Wakanda [/i]to name a few) also in various stages of development. For its part, Black Widow — which is available to stream on Disney+ and in theaters — also set up Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova to appear in Hawkeye. 

[Greg]

Sadly, we will not be able to participate in Loki Wednesday. tQ heads to Santa Clara today as part of her job. She won't be back until Saturday. I will dodge spoilers until then.

[thatguy]

Hiddleston mentioned this 6min short in a Jimmy Fallon interview:



--tg

[Drunk Monk]

S1 finale - WTH?!?

Good cliffhanger.

Good swordfight.

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Hiddleston mentioned this 6min short in a Jimmy Fallon interview:



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Seen. Best quip - when the Springfield Avengers assemble, there’s a sign saying ‘this is what happens when Disney buys marvel and fox.’ 

It’s only 6 mins long and has some fine satire.

[thatguy]

Another Lovecraft Country alum makes an appearance. I found the cliffhanger irritating. I would have preferred a little more resolution for a season finale…but oh well. 

—tg

[Drunk Monk]

The fandom is going bonkers over it. I guess I'm not that conversant in the MCU to understand all of the ramifications. It plays into the next Ant Man I'm told. This is where the MCU loses me. 

But the swordfight was good.

[thatguy]

I don't think this has any spoilers, but read after watching the season 1 finale just in case...

https://www.engadget.com/disney-plus-lok...19038.html

'Loki’ shakes up the status quo of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

Jul 15, 2021 at 8:46 AM

In case you didn’t hear earlier, Loki will return for season two, and thank goodness: the finale didn’t resolve a whole lot, if it resolved anything. Well, we did find out who was pulling the strings behind the Time Variance Authority and why, but it really served as an introduction to a villain who’s scheduled to make his next appearance in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.

However, Loki never felt like an extended prequel to well… anything. It’s been a show that’s stood largely on its own, one which forged a unique identity apart from everything else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the Thor movies. After all, this isn’t the Loki we spent eight years watching on screen. This one was created in 2019 in the middle of Avengers: Endgame, a variant that so far is walking a path free of Asgard and all that pesky Avengers business.

And so Loki the show paved its own road as well, not really relying too much on knowledge of the films past the first and last Avengers movies. You could walk into the series knowing as much about Loki’s fate as the variant Loki and walk away after the first season knowing just as little. The finale was interesting because for the first time, I have no idea how a Marvel show fits into the greater scheme of things. And like He Who Remains, I find that a bit exciting.

One thing that has been true of all the Marvel shows has that we’ve always generally known where they’re supposed to slot into the bigger universe. Agents of SHIELD was originally intended to be a way for the side stories of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to thrive but for a while it was treated as a place to dump movie leftovers. Daredevil, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones and Iron Fist were originally aimed toward setting up The Defenders limited series. WandaVision was a prequel for Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, while The Falcon and the Winter Soldier did character work for the next Captain America film.

But Loki, aside from wrapping up a loose thread from Endgame, doesn’t actually tie into anything, especially any upcoming projects. They don’t even name the man behind the curtain, he’s just “He Who Remains.” And he’s killed by the end of the episode, which means any time we see him from this point forward, it’s technically a different person; another cosmic iteration of the same jerk. Fans of the comics know that he’s meant to be Kang the Conqueror, but that big reveal is yet to come — because the man we met is not a conqueror. He was a cosmic bureaucrat.

The conqueror, though hinted at in the Loki finale, will make his first full appearance in early 2023. He won’t remember the events shown in the Disney+ show since he wasn’t actually there, which means either the film will completely ignore all we learned here, or explain it to the audience anew. Prior knowledge of Loki shouldn’t and most likely won’t be necessary.

Which leaves season two of Loki free to do well, almost anything it wants. The man who seems to now be in charge of the TVA is unlikely to be even close to the same man that Scott Lang and Hope Pym will have to tangle with, since we are dealing with a multiverse of possibilities. It does throw the next Doctor Strange movie into a bit of uncertainty, since in our original non-COVID timeline that was supposed to have premiered back in May. Were we supposed to see the debut of the multiverse before we saw its origin? Or will there be some other cosmic wrench to mess things up further for the MCU? A lot of things that seemed inevitable when all these projects were originally announced have now been thrown into uncertainty.

But for now, the key takeaway from the Loki finale is that the series is not beholden to anything else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It didn’t have to load up a ton of character development or make sure everything is back in place plot wise before the next film. It’s free to take its small cast of characters and fully explore their possibilities, with no worries about how it will affect the other Marvel properties. What will happen to Loki, Sylvie, Mobius, Ravonna and the rest? We can focus on their individual stories instead of fussing over what can and can’t happen.

We can no longer make predictions based on future projects in the pipeline, or contractual obligations of actors. Theories can proliferate and almost nothing is off-limits. Every step Loki and the rest take just means another multiverse to explore in shows like What If?. The Sacred Timeline is dead, and so are the shackles of movie continuity.

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[Greg]

Seen it. Kind of liked it. Lots of sitting at the table and talking about what is coming. I think the guy at the end is King the Conqueror and is set up to be the next big bad. The upcoming Dr. Strange film is titled "The Multiverse of Madness" Lots of loose threads kicking around. So many questions. Which is good because it makes me want to see what is coming.

Miss Minutes is the DEVIL!

I kept waiting for them to mention that Möbius was a Loki.

[Drunk Monk]

Alligator Loki Infinity Comic (2022) #1


Published:
March 11, 2022
“Family Bonding.” Alligator Loki and Thor get to know one another at an Asgardian amusement park!

 

FTW!

[Greg]

Someone should go buy this and lend me their copy.

[Drunk Monk]

I might.

Ive started buying comics again, mostly out of guilt because I frequent HK’s old haunt Atlantis and never buy anything. I’ve never really been a comics guy - they’re so expensive and I don’t feel I get my money’s worth in how much entertainment they give me, plus I got enough stuff. I recently bought the first issue of Monkey Prince, even paid the extra buck for the better cover, only to be gifted the even better cover (foil commemorative) by the top editor of Den. 
 
I’ve been passing these to Tara and would do the same for this because she made me an alligator Loki hat as an odd Xmas gift. So even if I buy it, it’s a long way to the lunch pair.

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Lynch lair has been officially renamed by spelchuk

[Greg]

Did anybody know that Ke Huy Quan was going to be in Season 2 of Loki?

[Greg]

Loki Season Two October 6th.

So much Ke Huy Quan.