Loki LOKI General Discussion Thread

[Kev4000]

the good thing of streaming: you can watch it, whenever you want.
no one forces you to watch the shows right away

Yeah, you can take as long a break as you want and then binge-watch to catch up when you are back in the mood. Or can skip series that you have no interest in.

I kind of disagree. Marvel series are not like just a low budget netflix show who get binged while you doing something else with nearly zero attention to it. Your friends talk about it, the whole internet talks about it and its part for the entertainment (at least for me) to talk about your interests and share your opinion, discuss, sharing theroies or exchange reviews... Plus, if you are in specific social bubbles, it get impossible to avoid spoilers like "Agatha all along" and the hate for John Walker. So if you want to enjoy it full, you have to go with the release date.

Overall, I support a little break for Loki so new hype can be build for it.

 

[Albright]

I wonder if we’ll get a new trailer before F&WS is over or one month before the release...

 

[DarthSkywalker]

 

[Albright]

I wonder if we’ll get a new trailer before F&WS is over or one month before the release...

I swear that trailer wasn’t released, when I wrote that post
If someone is watching this forum: I need a trailer for Eternals next

That trailer: glorious

 

[Web-Head]

What a trailer! I'm really looking forward to this one. Looks balls to the wall fun.

 

[Kev4000]

It didnt clicked for me the first time, Im prefering the 1st trailer of this. Maybe a 2nd or 3rd watch of that trailer will change my mind.

 

[terry78]

This along with Wandavision makes for quite the mind screw double feature.

 

[Flash525]

Pretty sure this Loki show is going to surpass both the WandaVision and Captain America v2.0 shows.

 

[Zarex]

I'm hoping this show settles the "What happened to Steve Rogers?" debate once and for all.

 

[DarkKnight88]

I'm kind of tired of bringing back dead characters.

This is not a knock so much on the show itself cause it's its own thing, but with Loki, Vision, Phil Coulson (lol), even Black Widow to some extent (yes, I know prequel and all that) it really does take away their deaths now in some ways to me. The MCU has kind of gone overboard with it.

 

[Broseph44]

Can’t wait for this one.

 

[The Caped Knight]

I suspect that the villain is a time variation of an Evil Loki hell bent on Revenge.

 

[metaphysician]

To which all I can say is: good. It is a *significant improvement* if the writers of these movies stop relying on the crutch of "the illusory permanence of death" as a way to set stakes. If the stakes only work if the audience mistakenly believes that death is permanent, then the stakes never actually worked in the first place. And yes, I do mean *mistaken* belief, because it absolutely is mistaken. These are fictional characters in fictional stories, death is *only* ever as permanent as the desire of a new writer ( or the same writer! ) to write more stories for them.

 

[SuperBatman]

I swear that trailer wasn’t released, when I wrote that post
If someone is watching this forum: I need a trailer for Eternals next

That trailer: glorious

We Need a Shang Chi Trailer 1st.

 

[Web-Head]

We finally found out who Gugu Mbatah-Raw is playing

Spoiler

Ravonna Renslayer

 

[Still Wynning]

I'm kind of tired of bringing back dead characters.

This is not a knock so much on the show itself cause it's its own thing, but with Loki, Vision, Phil Coulson (lol), even Black Widow to some extent (yes, I know prequel and all that) it really does take away their deaths now in some ways to me. The MCU has kind of gone overboard with it.

While I agree with you and James Gunn’s tweet, it’s a bit of a different case with Vision and Loki. These new versions of the characters are not the same versions of the characters we came to love over several films. They don’t have the same experiences of events and character progression that endeared us to them. And it’s not like the show is going to undo any of that. That stuff still happened in the original timeline we witnessed in the films. For all intents and purposes, those beloved characters are effectively dead and are never coming back.

Now, because of the nature of the characters and the actors who play them, have and will we come to love these new versions? Absolutely. If Wandavision is anything to go by, the actor can go a long way in making us like this new “variant” of the character, in a similar way that doesn’t take away from the original.

If different rules applied and this was the original Loki being the removed from his timeline to never experience those original events, effectively erasing all of that previous character experience and development, then I’d have problems. But, it’s not, so I’m not bothered by it.

 

[Albright]

this really needs to have Jonathan Majors in it

 

[Web-Head]

this really needs to have Jonathan Majors in it

Sounds like that'll be the case considering who Gugu is playing.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Thankfully this looks better then Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been. Like WandaVision, it feels like a lot of fun and like it is trying to do something. I am so ready for this and Hawkeye.

 

[Albright]

I really need a deep analysis for this. What is this kind of purple temple? Is Loki standing in an empty throne room in Asgard?
Hope New Rockstars will do an analysis tonight

 

[djsunyc]

i think there's a big cross section of fans that want stakes and deaths to stick and fans that want more comic accurate stories.

well in the comics almost everybody comes back from the dead so those two stances are not consistent in nature.

and technically, he is not back from the dead.

 

[djsunyc]

this totally looks like loki's redemption story.

we see all the new branches in timelines he caused...each one he closes off probably teaches him some sort of lesson.

i expect him to interact with frigga or odin much like thor did in endgame.

 

[HammerDown]

By far the marvel show that has me most excited and it looks like they deliver on the scope as well which is great. The character and it’s world deserves it.

Can’t wait to see some Thor and Asgard/asgardians related stuff. I think they can deliver some truly mind blowing stuff from both past, future and alternate realities.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I'm kind of tired of bringing back dead characters.

This is not a knock so much on the show itself cause it's its own thing, but with Loki, Vision, Phil Coulson (lol), even Black Widow to some extent (yes, I know prequel and all that) it really does take away their deaths now in some ways to me. The MCU has kind of gone overboard with it.

John Campea has referred to the MCU on his show as "the Marvel Cinematic Fake Death Universe" but has also said that White Vision isn't actual Vision from prior movies who has been revived.

 

[samsnee]

How many episodes is this?

And how soon can we expect the usual “Chris Hemsworth makes a surprise cameo?” scoops?