Science/Fiction | Loki S2 Ep 5 Reaction

[@jlo1195]

The beginning of this episode...."He Who Remains" built in a "fail safe" into the TVA in case of a total meltdown, every TVA agents are automatically resent back to their timeline...hence the "Thank you for your service" on the monitor when it's starting to spaghettify

[@GummyCalico]

Oh wow that makes so much sense

[@Manaphos]

Thank you for this info

[@sgcastle8389]

Here is something funny, the tva are resent to their og timelines, but Sylvie and Loki don't have one, so she should've been with him inside the TVA when it got destroyed, if she wasn’t there, that means that she saw the ligth coming to them and used the Tempad to run while the rest disseapered.

[@faithfulblase6731]

@@sgcastle8389 exactly, she's selfish as f**k, but I guess that's her character (been surviving alone for a long time), also I like the fact Loki wasn't really made to simp after her in this season, like he did in season 1 ending

[@tink6225]

shes a hypocrite lowkey @@faithfulblase6731

[@Ziaotic]

i think the reason why Loki didn't need Victor is because he was 1) Spaghettified. Erased from existence. 2) Not present when the timeline collsapsed.

[@vionzach.6096]

smart

[@Taimoshi88]

yea i think so too, Timely was unwoven before the big loom boom

[@jamesbrook9815]

@@Taimoshi88 why does loom boom sound so funny 😂😂

[@eduardobernardino1599]

I don't think he needed anyone basically, he just needed his friends to make him learn how to control the timeslipping, it's about WHO

[@xaviersmith957]

Very good observation

[@foxyazure4272]

They didn't need Timely because Timely was pastafied before the explosion. Loki isn't effected because he was pruned from time to stop the uncontrollable time skipping.

[@majidoujaa5592]

pastafied is an amazing word to use

[@unnamed6650]

It wasn’t that. Loki wasn’t looking for the specific moment but mainly the location, the TVA which just the main cast should have enough of a temporal aura signature to get there. Also when timely was around it was already too late

[@lumariadp]

@@unnamed6650 But in the end it wasn't about the auras at all, which is the real reason Victor was unnecessary.

[@edgarsantos9579]

Loki is carrying the mcu

[@joshuahackshaw7703]

Quite frankly yeah

[@haveagreatday8431]

And it's not close Loki is d best thing MCU has going

[@joshuahackshaw7703]

@@haveagreatday8431 true it’s one of the best things

[@PhonicHeart]

Fr

[@imthebeatplug_8319]

And it's not even close lmao

[@tannex4574]

Loki will be the best MCU show if they stick to landing on the final episode.

[@ilhamadigunawan5264]

This is the most excited I've been since endgame and the most scared if they screw up the finale.

[@iotatl]

I'm confident they will stick the season finale... Hope it's not a series finale.

[@salmankhan2739]

spoiler: they did stick the landing

[@scientia.veritas]

They exceeded Wanda Vision to officially become the best MCU show.

[@dacyberman0929]

@@scientia.veritasI agree but honestly that scene with Wanda creating the Hex and Vision to me is still Marvels top 5 moments, that’s scene alone has it as almost a tie for me.

[@zexonhairi7215]

Loki is now the god of stories, so he can focus on who he wants to see and warp through time to them. Meaning he wanted his friends, so he warped to those who knew him.

[@silverdemon1530]

Who he knew* would be better rephrasing imo

[@Alteronx]

How many good writers you want for Loki? Marvel: yes

[@joshuahackshaw7703]

Actually

[@intothefrayyo]

@@joshuahackshaw7703mhmm

[@siavm]

Also what is the budget for loki? Marvel: yes

[@ItsArcticVision]

Also how crap do you want the rest of the MCU to be as a sacrifice for Loki? Marvel: yes

[@Alteronx]

@@ItsArcticVision *Shehulk and others have entered chat*

[@urbnctrl]

Sylvi: "we're writing our own stories now, go write yours." Loki: BECOMES GOD OF STORIES

[@YaBoyRoshi]

Loki is OP

[@KØDAZ-base]

He just received a massive buff

[@joshuahackshaw7703]

Yeah

[@cbascomb]

I bet loki would go back before Khan at the end of time.

[@LeBlingKing]

The God of Stories cometh

[@julianr8544]

@@cbascomb He's gonna save the Kirk and the Enterprise, where Thor is Kirk's dad and Dr. Strange is Khan. Timelines be crazy.

[@J03J3rk0ff]

It didn’t have to do with the aura of everyone there. Loki controlled his time slipping and went back to the moment he was there with them. He’s going back in his own time, almost like dr. Manhattan, he can’t see all of time, only his own past, present, and future simultaneously.

[@jan3173]

Is he Eren? Lmao

[@Chichicoco417]

did he not just spend an entire episode slipping into dimensions of his friends that he has never been to before? lmaoo

[@trmbne]

​@@Chichicoco417got em lol

[@J03J3rk0ff]

Exactly. It was a “who” problem, not why, not science, something impossible which means it’s just as possible like OB said. That I think is more of the fiction side of things which I didn’t really enjoy.

[@princecheck11]

@@J03J3rk0ffwhy? everything can’t be explained with science

[@hawkeyes2814]

Man this is great writing, so the oroburus which is a snake eating its tail, is really Loki and OB. I thought it was Kang and OB. So Loki created the TVA and OB built it. Another great part is that the stories OB wrote were based on Thor and Loki, hence his book the sons of Yoren which is a knodd to the sons of Odin. So Loki is now the God of stories and he controls time. This is why Kang was trying to kill Loki variants because he knew one of his variants will become the God of stories. This is why on the sacred timeline Loki always dies at the hand of Thanos, because Kang alway wanted it that way. This is why Sylvie stated that what if being a loki is that we are destined the lose. This is correct on Kangs sacred timeline, but out side of Kangs manipulation Loki becomes the God of Stories and starts the TVA.

[@Rock12402]

Really love the quick write up on this! Damn this show is sooo good!

[@Kekkersboy]

The Temporal Aura thing was about trying to get a map for the TVA. Loki's time slipping was tied to his emotional connections to those people. He doesn't know Victor

[@ot7biasedmashups]

Exactly. The reading of temporal aura was a futile attempt at solving this thing with science but you need a fiction approach.

[@haveagreatday8431]

Loki is the best thing the mcu has going on now to be honest Loki is a GOATED show

[@RoddyRodbb]

"I sent a D-Mail" 😂 nice Lupa!

[@Chanksss]

This episode gave me infinity War Vibes. And the Goosebumps at the end when he controls his new powers. ✨

[@nmbk7609]

The only marvel series that is actually consistently good

[@agakane4421]

Dang...not even wandavision was consistently good?😭😭 but it was kinda boring from time to time so I get that

[@nmbk7609]

@@agakane4421 Till the 2nd Doctor Strange ruined the show making Wanda's motives inconsistent

[@Unionvsgokublack]

@@nmbk7609 no it didn't

[@PUNKISTCHUY]

Crazy how the guy who tried to destroy New York and the Avengers in 2012 is carrying the entirety of the MCU

[@marcuspearson2587]

Everybody gets stuck on this. But them being together and using the temporal aura stuff was just a McGuffin. Loki needed to discover how to control his power. That’s what got him back. Because seriously he already timeslipped back to the tva theater room earlier. He needed to be able to consciously do it on command.

[@FiresCollide]

THANK YOU. OB literally said it as he disappeared: "It WAS a fiction problem." It wasn't about the temporal aura process. Getting all his friends together in a room made Loki realize what he was fighting for, and who, and why. The "science problem" was the setup to get to the real story - the fiction.

[@agakane4421]

What I was thinking was OB was talking about when everyone got clapped at the SAME TIME in the SAME ROOM cuz Victor got clapped by himself when he went outside. Everyone else got clapped at once with each other in the same room at the same time. At least that's what I gathered from that part.

[@bebop-p9s]

Y'all, Sylvie already knew about the stuff disappearing around her. That's why she noticed it yet chose to leave it out from Loki. If you go back to the bar scene, you'll notice her look at the table the moment Loki's shot glass disappeared. Yet she chose not to mention it...again. She thought if could just ignore the little things, she could keep surviving. Cuz she's a survivor ever since she was young. It's only until things got intense where she saw someone disappear in front of her when she chose to disclose it to Loki and take it seriously. But she knew the whole time is what I'm saying. You guys should start asking yourselves introspective questions out loud so maybe the other reactors can chime in on what they think. Cuz I think y'all got close to figuring out why Sylvie stayed silent but dropped it.

[@intothefrayyo]

🫤

[@T97FlawlessX]

Nah I think she just had the reaction the rest of us would have to something misplaced and think it’s weird

[@seanyoung9014]

@@T97FlawlessX Bro the entire McDonalds bag was gone. She knew what the deal was as soon as Loki showed up.

[@Marukanitel]

We know, we've seen New Rockstars video lol 😂

[@ejogiaish2649]

​@@intothefrayyocan someone answer why sylvie turns into spaghetti even tho shes a variant of loki plus she remembers everything too like loki but still got spaghettied even tho loki didnt

[@NickEclipse]

Lmao Mobius is a ten times cooler name than “Don”🤣 I can’t knock his hustle, he was trying to sell to B-15 in the midst of the chaos. I love it

[@ethandkp1750]

Is there a problem with Don

[@coltonnowells6413]

😂😂😂😂

[@dan-crum]

That universe 6 super saiyan joke didn't go unmissed, Roshi

[@-libertyprimev1-902]

Same with that D-mail reference Lupa made

[@jeremiahpc5412]

This is like starting over in a video game with the same characters you spent hours playing because your file got corrupted but than you fine a way to recover your save file

[@SmoothC92]

7:45 Roshi talking about the lower back tingle made me spit my tea.

[@Kekkersboy]

I basically consider this episode to be the finale of the season. The core questions and emotional center of the season, and hell the series has been resolved here. Next episode is basically the Epilogue. And I see Loki taking control of the TVA

[@darthrevan5976]

i think the reason they didnt get timely is cause they needed all the people that were in the room when the TVA got destroyed and victor died a few moments before that

[@Marukanitel]

I mean, the plan didn't work anyway bc the tempad got spaghettified, so luckily Loki controlled his time slipping 😅

[@theAstarrr]

Or, Loki focused on that group of 7, including Timely. Why not save the dude's life, this man clearly isn't going to become one of the evil/chaotic variants of Kang.

[@ot7biasedmashups]

No, they didn't need him bc Loki didn't ACTUALLY need them. But it was fortunate as he only controlled the time slipping after the absolute despair of watching them disappear. If he hadn't collected them and f. e. had only seen OB disappear, that would have been sad but not enough. He didn't use them as coordinates, that's why OB said "It is a fiction problem". They treated it like a science problem at first but Loki just needed the right motivation.

[@stantwitter1016]

@@ot7biasedmashups this is the most make sense explanation, especially after seeing Mobius and Sylvie dies in front of him that was his last straw.

[@Oriaksoos]

They didn't need Victor because Victor, according to the logic of the episode, would have been needed if it were a "science" issue. However, as OB puts it before he fades away "it was a fiction problem", the answer to which Loki says was focusing on the "who".

[@judyhuurman1237]

Fact: One of the guys who actually escaped Alcatraz in 1962 was named Frank. They never found any of the 3 that escaped.

[@ShawnJustCrazy]

Me taking a dump: Loki walking through a time door: “this is gonna sound strange”

[@Nullbound]

From what I understand, the reason they didn't need Timley was because the whole reading temporal auras thing was if they wanted to try and use the tempad to go back. OB was saying that the collective aura could act as a sort of timestamp (or coordinate), for them to travel back to. However, Loki was able to control his timeslipping, making that whole thing unnecessary. However, I think that if they tried to travel with the tempad, they would've shown up after Timely was already dead, since they didn't collect a variant of him to bring to the group. So, since Loki timeslipped, he went back before Timely got swiss-cheesed and he will still be alive. From what they were saying in this episode, when Loki says "it was about who." I think he's basically saying that maybe bringing that group together allowed him to timeslip manually... so he basically got a canonical friends & family powerup 😂😂😂

[@DDemiGodd]

He only needed everyone's collective aura if he was using the tempad. Thats why OB was going to scan them before they realized it disappeared.

[@ShinjikanYT]

The part at the beginning where everything suddenly started going through spaghettification at the TVA, with no sounds beside the unnerving noise of reality unraveling, was both terrifying and amazing. I love Cosmic Horror.

[@roliandibagas244]

Maaaaan i wish Phase Five movies could've followed the weight of Loki storytelling as a foundation. The stakes in Loki verse is real.

[@arrgggod4656]

This show's production, cinematography and writing is on top! Best thing that happened to MCU. The fact that they didn't do any reshoots in this means that they planned this whole series out. SO SO GOOODD!

[@mdxzao]

not the MJ's little "yeah" in the back when Loki was trying to provoke his time slipping. lmao kudos to the editor, hsuahsua

[@jaymartinez5184]

Roshi brought up a good point that Timely not being there to jump back to that specific time. Maybe spaghetti aura doesn’t count lol

[@cjjackson2423]

11:28 My mans said yall not going back for victor timely 😭💀💀💀 13:54 I never thought about that, she ain't peep her food was gone 😂 15:08 Yall noticed the " Take me" 😂

[@jeffersonsamudio-hk6ku]

19:37 yes roshi you're right, but you gotta remember when the thing blew up victor timely is already dead, so technically they don't need him to bring them back in that moment in time

[@MC-zr6gc]

19:35, when the loom blew, Timely was already dead.

[@Ongargis]

I love how chill Loki is with timeslipping, but hates falling.

[@ot7biasedmashups]

Actually OB saying "It was a fiction problem" explains your confusion. They theorized that they could read their collective aura and use them as coordinates. But that way they treat it as a science problem. It isn't. It's a fiction problem bc Loki didn't LITERALLY need everyone in one space but bc they were all together he could experience the absolute despair of everyone disappearing which helped him control the time slipping. So that's why they didn't need Victor either, it's a fiction problem.

[@7thangelz]

i love them making 'casey' Frank Morris sophie remembers because she wasn't a part of the tva so the fail safe didn't work on her

[@jasonmarbach]

My favorite bit of this episode was them insinuating that Casey was actually Frank Morris, from the real life Alcatraz escape in 1962. Same character that Clint Eastwood played in the 1979 movie Escape From Alcatraz, based on the real story. I thought it was so fucking cool they did that.

[@strettoasino9006]

As a social worker the fact that LOKI an adopted child by a different race family and the inner conflict/doubt becomes anger with such a need too belong, Really...💔

[@jonmorris293]

2008: Sponsor Burger King. 2023: Sponsor McDonald's. The betrayal is real.

[@itzmehDevi]

4:30 uhh Is that not the time the og timeline Loki came to New York?

[@NoctilucaBloom]

20:25 THANK YOU!! Most people gloss over the fact that Loki's reason for wanting TVA back was because he wanted his friends back and as a possible way to fight off Kang if it came to that. Before Sylvie's timeline got destroyed, they didn't know that the loom exploding effected things outside of the tva.

[@jinzo637]

7:40 not the MJ sfx 🤣🤣🤣💀 props to ur editor 👏

[@23Dragon7]

Casey’s real name “frank” is FRANK MORRIS a guy who escaped Alcatraz with two other people in real life!

[@crazyainsley5829]

They didn’t need timely bc Loki could already time slip on command in the first place, he just needed to learn how to. Which he was explaining during the last part of this episode

[@OhyeahMrKrabz]

Loki is really saving the MCU

[@Ongargis]

This episode reminded me so much of the avengers getting together that im really worried for OB. He's giving me Coulson vibes.

[@opromlie2272]

Loki is really OP now! I read somewhere that he could be the most powerful being in the marvel multiverse right now, right under "The One Above All" because he is "The God of Stories" now (presumably) he can rewrite the story 🤯 It would make sense, could also be wrong 😂 cant wait for next week! 🤩 Great reaction you guys cheers from Austria✌

[@ghostlyreina2966]

19:44 I think them all being there didn’t matter anymore because that was the plan when they had the tempad. But since the tempad disappeared and Loki could control his time slipping, he could go back in time, regardless if everyone is there or not.

[@Jordashian93]

Loved this episode! Can’t wait for the finale this Thursday!

[@playfulcloud]

New Rockstars breakdown theory is that the "Fail Safe Mode" initiated in the TVA is to return the staff into their respective original branches/multiverse when something disastrous like that happens, like a reset. And Sylvie is using He Who Remains tempad, probably the most powerful kind.

[@l0ver03]

Loki finally becoming the god of stories!!! Can’t wait for thissss!!!

[@CalebGaming-lr3qr]

This episode made me realize that it’s probably the best show I’ve ever watched(my opinion)

[@CalebGaming-lr3qr]

Loki didn’t need anybody in that room to go back before the thing exploded, the tempad did, all Loki needed was to acknowledge that his care for his friends was the key to controlling it

[@chickenbiskit3620]

Loki is the one show that made me feel the same way I did when I was watching Dark (which is also a story with time-travel/timeline shenanigans).

[@princecheck11]

@@chickenbiskit3620DARK IS GOD SENT MAJOR W man

[@TheGeekofAllTrades8]

Roshi I get what you mean but Victor Timely technically was not present when the explosion happened.. he died before the loom actually exploded so he wouldn't need to be there based on OBs rule

[@mari_iscariot]

18:20 thank you lupa! thats literally what i thought initially when loki went back to his past self, that shit wild hahaha, steins; gate forever! tuturuuu!!

[@BreezeMoney]

Friends and family power up got it😂😂

[@xaviersmith957]

Loki is now officially overpowered. 😭 God of Storytelling Loki in the MCU was nowhere in hell on my bingo card in May capacity. I need MORE.

[@subwayrider4961]

Mobius's kids are kinda like Loki and Thor, one is bad guy and has a green bike, and the other one listens to his dad and looks after the younger one and has a red bike

[@justsomeguywithawhitebeard5639]

It wasn't about all of them being there it was just his surviving instincts and panic that made him realize his powers to controle it I think.

[@EdgarDiaz-pt4qx]

The temporal aura scan was for the tempad to take them back. Loki’s time slipping ability is separate from that need. But yeah without Victor there they would probably all end up there but only with seconds before it explodes lol

[@JIDcrit]

The fail safe of the tva was to send everybody (since they are all variants) back to where they were originally from. Victor was already deleted so they didnt need him.

[@unnamed6650]

Loki’s failed attempt for time slipping was the same way he tried to teleport with the blue infinity stone when he tried to teleport out the TVA on the very first ep

[@BradinSiouxCity]

Sylvie remembers because her brain was never wiped like the TVA employees

[@rai5169]

I think it's story teller Loki version, which will be OP power as he can create his own story now.

[@shaunbanks8237]

I believe they meant who was there after timely got spaghettified(that's why they most likely didn't need timely) when the temporal look blew up

[@shimotsukivinsmoke2069]

From mischief god to time god. Dude really levelled up.

[@carbonchannel]

Guys.. look at this.. when everything turns into speghetti, he was not effected.. the answer to their question was who.. Loki remained to rewrite the story. Loki is.... He who remains.

[@Suspishus]

🤯

[@maelpsng]

"He don't need a tempad no more" Loki: *i am the tempad*

[@superbobomario8849]

If we go with temporal aura thing, Victor was not in the room with them, he wasy downstairs preparing to go out. Now the other thing as Loki said its about the Who, could be when he saw Sylvie dissapear its when he got so desperate and wanted to save her.

[@afrodesiac8064]

Roshi asked why they didn't need the aura of Victor for Loki to return when he did. I would guess it's because with or without Victor, that was the only time all of them were in the same room at the same time. OB hasn't had a visitor in 400 years until recently.

[@michaelpusey9516]

Loki is beyond the power of the infinity stones. Considering they only work in their respective universes

[@dariusy12]

I don’t if y’all notice but at the end when Loki finally control his time skipping, it was about who, I guess Loki became he Who remains

[@nymetro20]

They were planning on using the tempad to do that but they ran out of time and Loki had to time slip back to before the loom blew

[@thedarkknight2221]

5:00I’m so happy I’m not the only person that watches this show and cheered like you guys at the sight of Owen Wilson finally on his jet ski! Also I’m loving every second of Loki’s personal evolution in this show. He went from wanting to being god-king of earth to wanting to save the earth so he could be with his friends!😭

[@cu9id]

It’s like Marvel just said f everything else we are going 100% into Loki

[@rezasedghiani9887]

On 12 June 1962, three men escaped from Alcatraz, never to be seen again. And guess what one of them one Frank Morris. So Cassey actually based of that person.

[@RookSdSTV]

Timely wouldn’t have been enough of a motivation for him to be able to control his time slipping. It was about the connections he made with the other characters.

[@akashadow6686]

Loki just became the god of stories

[@predatorxgaming3862]

9:12 in this scene there is a reference to Fenrir and Jormungandr

[@v.PANDA.v]

*Loki the God of Stories*

[@davewhitmore1958]

The end credits scene was audio only (a sound bite from the Zaniac video game)

[@JoshuaM1306]

You didn't get setup, I'm pretty sure the scene at the end is in episode 4. You're an episode too late

[@CC-nt4zi]

I miss watching Lupa stressed out. Think the last time I saw it was Re:Zero

[@LordFrobozz]

Not only do i love this show, i love the reactions (since Mandalorian) and i fkn love this intro. Where can i get this song?????

[@kevinjack1335]

👏🏾 Roshi Nah son, he can go back to the people that matter to him. People he considers friends, Victor was never his friend (he was actually scared of He who remains, who is literally Victor). He flying back to time points of certain people.

[@nah_its_rj]

Timely wasn’t in the room at the time he went back. He was either already dead or just in the other room beneath.

[@FiresCollide]

I don't think Loki was ever starting to question whether or not they were in danger, but questioning himself. Deep down, Loki still doesn't think he's a hero. It's why Sylvie's comment about him being selfish knocked him back so much. Of course he is. We're all selfish. It doesn't mean that we still can't do the right thing for the right reasons AND personal ones. Loki basically hit that point in therapy where you learn you haven't come as far as you think you have, hit a low point, then rebounded lol.

[@autumn7271]

Marvel is still so capable of creating masterpieces which is relieving to say the least

[@unknownghost8916]

No no y’all didn’t pay attention, reason why Loki wasn’t erased to begin was because HIS main verse hadn’t been erased yet(remember that they grabbed him after iron man’s mistake) then the reason why he could jump through time was because he was looking for them. The slip was tracking down their aura at the speed of thought, hence why when he sees someone he immediately thinks I need to find……. And the slip takes him there. This can be seen when he stays a little longer with sylvie. She was gonna explain something and he wanted to stay there. Then the theory that obi had was also right, he can theoretically want to go back to whenever as long as said person or target has their temporal aura locked there. Mf’ker just became op given that he can also slip right into the spot his past self is and not worry about the whole two versions of him fighting for existence thing

[@jayceegalvan7285]

So excited to see y’all’s reaction to the finale it was 🔥🔥🔥

[@PsychoSpiral]

It's like what happened to Dr. Strange (evil version) in the What If episode of the world just collapsing out of existence.

[@nellybell32]

He needed his frends, Timely wasn't his friend. And Timely was already spaghetti'ed before the loom blew up

[@DmonHiro]

They didn't need Victor because he was gone by the time the loom exploded. Only Loki, Sylvie, b35, OB, Mobius and Casey were hit by the loom.

[@forever.l.a59414]

I think y'all was getting confused with OB saying he needed everyone who was there for the tempad to work, not for loki to control his timeslipping. At least that least thats what i got from it.

[@g12ruiz92]

Victor was downstairs, so that means he wasn't at the same exact space or floor as the others