hey what's going on to all my low-key mcu fans out there and welcome back to my channel movie
files ellie back again with a brand new tv review and ladies and gentlemen we are back
in the mcu we're talking about the first two episodes of loki which will be premiering his
first episode on disney plus on june 9th now i got the chance to check out the first two
episodes and i'm so excited to let you all know my thoughts this is a spoiler free review no spoilers
whatsoever but we're talking pros we're talking cons we're talking about why i think you should
be excited for the show and more importantly why i think this might be the most important
mcu show to date we're breaking it all down here in the spoiler-free review but before we
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talk loki ladies and gentlemen were you excited for the show were you nervous for the show
once you've seen the first episode what you think let's talk pros let's talk cons let's talk about
the tva and loki and the multiverse and are you excited for the weeks ahead let's talk
about it all in the comments below so a couple things i want to address up top number one
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low-key so let's get into it we're back ladies and gentlemen it's been six weeks roughly since we got
the last episode the falcon and winter soldier and here we are discussing the new show which is
a multiverse time travel sci-fi show starring one of the best villains in mcu in loki and here we
are discussing the first two episodes no spoilers whatsoever so first and foremost behind the scenes
we have some incredible content creators making this show for us number one we have the director
of all six episodes being kate hiroden who i'm a fan of her work she's done some things on netflix
like she's directed episodes of sex education she also directed an episode of daybreaker so
i like her sensibilities as a director and she will be directing all six episodes and then the
man behind each episode as far as the writing goes we have michael walden who is responsible
for rick and morty as well as he is the co-writer of doctor strange multiverse madness i think it's
a a weird coincidence that he's directing this show that deals with the multiverse and then
we have a movie about multiverse huh i love the symbiotic relationship they have with this guide
i'm really excited to see what he does especially after these two episodes so let's get into these
first two episodes again no spoilers whatsoever but listen with wanda the big thing was we need
to see wanda become scarlet witch and we got that with falcon winter soldier it was seeing this new
captain america and sam wilson we got that well ladies and gentlemen we've been talking about
multiverse and phase four and here we are we get the multiverse and we're introduced to this new
element of the mcu and that is the tva also known as the time variance authority which funny enough
their first appearance in the comics was in thor vol 1 issue 372 that came out in october of 1986
and one of the things that makes this show so fascinating to me and just so
interesting to me was if you take this kind of this time this tva this order of operation they
have their rules they have their guidelines to keep the timeline intact and then you mix in a
character like loki it's water and fire you have this structured organization mixed in with this
chaotic character who is this is a loki from 2012 this is in thor 2 loki ragnarok loki infinity war
loki this is the loki that was the bad guy that wanted to rule earth in the version in that
timeline 2012 and now we're seeing that version being brought into this equation to do some good
and fix the mistakes he's made in the timeline from taking the tesla rack after in-game so
that's so fascinating to me which kind of brings me into let's talk a little bit about the story
without diving into the spoilers one of my biggest hesitations with the show was i'm a big fan of
tom hiddleston i love owen wilson i love time travel and when done right in game time travel
was a little wonky but hey they might fix some things with this show but my biggest thing was
loki's dead and if he's dead now he's brought back to the equation now we can bring back tony
stark we can bring back other characters that have died where the stakes we can just bring him back
to life now right so that was my biggest thing and listen i come from the comic book background
growing up as a kid and one of the things in comics is no one ever stays dead right but
that's the comics that's a different medium this is tv this is movies we got to have stakes if we
can bring back people where are the stakes and i'll just say this when it comes to the first
two episodes i really think they did a good job of laying down the groundwork in regards to the 2012
version of loki a different low-key how he's going to be brought back into this equation and feeling
new feeling fresh feeling like a new character that we've seen before but given new missions and
i like how the show kind of establishes this new version of loki within these first two episodes
he's someone that might want to do good but also might want to do bad and that's what's
so fascinating about this version loki and how he ties into this phase four which brings me
to let's talk time travel more importantly let's talk multiverse and how the tva plays a big role
in the mcu moving forward without diving too deep into it the first two episodes definitely throws
a lot at you as far as explaining who the tva are what they do where have they been what do we know
about them and why are we meeting them at this point in the timeline i think that they do a good
job of giving us just enough to kind of understand where this show can head and how important the tva
is to the mcu and how important they have been to the mcu thus far but also leaving some breadcrumbs
to definitely explore more of the tva and more of the timekeepers in particularly and knowing how
powerful the cva is without diving to spoilers and i'll just say it does a really good job of
some backstory and establishing the groundwork of why we should be so excited for marvel for the
mcu in particularly the tva multi-verse it's a lot of stuff to dive into guys so with all
that being said as we meet to tva we get some main characters involved in tva starting off with owen
wilson who plays morbius we have google mabathura as ravana written slayer and we have women mushaku
as hunter b15 now i don't want to dive too deep into who they are and how they plan to the show
but just let let me tell you they're exciting characters they're interesting characters they're
complex characters and i'm excited to learn more about them and you guys will not be disappointed
by these incredible actors which speaking of incredible let's shine a brief a little light on a
character that i think will be a fan favorite for the weeks ahead and that is on wilson as morbius
this guy is so incredible he is i'm such a fan of owen wilson number one i think he has
great wit he has great charm he has incredible charisma and all those things i just said
is in this show in this character he is fantastic in these first two episodes i can't wait to spend
more time with them yes all pun intended there and this character is very important to the story
he is a one of uh of a duo that i think will be one of the best duos in the mcu and i can't
wait to see him share more scenes with the lead of the show ladies and gentlemen let's talk about in
transition to tom hiddleston as loki who that's his fifth time playing the character right and
this is a a different version of loki and all the different variations of this character that we've
seen from seeing him in the first store seeing him in you know avengers and thor 2 and ragnarok and
infinity war this is his fifth time playing the character and i think this is a mixture of some
of his greatest hits this isn't you know i know some people might be like oh i love the version
that he's evil he's the god of mischief i want him to stay in that lane you get that character
in these first two episodes but you also get a little bit of that mixture of what we got from
thor 2 thor ragnarok so it's a mixture like i said it's his greatest hits and i think tom hiddleston
knocked it out of the park in these first episodes and he is still the god of mischief he is still
someone that's always scheming and lying but he's also uh he's introduced to this new tba
he's introduced to a new world and you know him being the god and the ruler and the king of earth
was just small peanuts compared to what he can do with working with the tva and fixing the
timeline so i'm so excited for what we get with loki and morbius i think that their chemistry
their on-screen presence is fantastic and i think this has the potentiality of being the elite duos
in the mcu up there you know with the you know what we got with sam and bucky and bucky and cap
and what we get with all of the characters that we love as far as duos this might have the potential
of being those in that top tier after these first two episodes i'll just say that which kind of
brings me into talking a little bit about the the tone of the show the production of the show
this is yet again marvel showing us that this is not gonna be shortcut on the budget it's big
in scope and scale it might be one of the most biggest shows that we've seen so far as far as
we're going from different time places different times in the timeline it's a lot of uh traveling
in this show but one thing that i love about this kind of mixture so far it's kind of like men in
black meets time cops all within the mcu it's fun it's entertaining it has some very dark moments
at points and it has some really fascinating conversations without giving too much away but
we talk a little bit about the first two episodes your belief system we talk about free will
pre-determinations all things that i love and this show does a good job of kind of incorporating
all that stuff within the first two episodes it's sci-fi it has magic it has time travel
the production is huge like i said yet again this is marvel giving us the scope and scale
what we expect in the movies but on the small screen and it is no joke ladies and gentlemen
and last but not least this show and what it means to the mcu each episode by the way the first
episode was about 50 minutes or so which is great it gets me excited but after the first episode
we get a good idea of what loki and the tva are going to be into and who they're going to
be you know potentially teaming up with things that nature so the first episode really does a
great job of establishing okay who are the tva and what are we up against episode two
is extremely important for the future of the mcu and phase four and i can't wait to discuss
how episode two ends let's just say that again i think that this show will show you why this is one
of the most important projects of phase four so far because it really opens the door and kind of
re-establishes the mcu in a new way and i'll just say that so listen i'm hooked i'm intrigued i'm
invested it's time to talk low-key we i think that this show is going to have just as many if not
more theories and predictions that wanda vision had you know especially after the first episode
especially after the second episode there's gonna be a lot of fun discussions and we're gonna be
talking about it every single week here on this channel with my wednesday episode breakdowns and
our thursday live streams i hope you all can join me on this adventure talking about this show which
i think will be maybe the best show of the mcu so far and i'm so excited to be talking about it guys
so that's my thoughts on the first two episodes you should be excited for and i can't wait to talk
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