The final episode of LOKI has finally released
and there is much to discuss, including the reveal of Kang The Conqueror, the beginning
of the Multiverse in the MCU, the ending, the season 2 post-credit scene and much more.
In particular, I'm going to be giving you my breakdown of Loki Episode 6 entitled, "For
All Time, Always", in the aim to help you guys understand the events and discover things
you missed.
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But without further ado, let's dive into the finale of LOKI.
So Loki episode 6, the finale of the latest MCU Disney Plus show, aims to tie up all of
the loose ends explored in the previous five instalments.
The show was left with a tough task, but the Loki finale puts in a big effort to bring
the mysteries surrounding the TVA, the person at the end of the Void, and Loki and Sylvie’s
relations to a decent conclusion.
It attempts to do this while also posing some new questions for future MCU movies and TV
shows to explore.
It wasn't a perfect ending and it goes about answering
some of its questions in ways that I've seen shows about time answer them before, but a
multiverse of spanners does create some interesting plot points to be explored in the
future MCU.
Having made it through the Void in episode 5, in the final episode, Loki and Sylvie make
their way to a mysterious citadel, where the person pulling the strings at the TVA is located.
Beyond the Void, and Alioth’s guard, Loki and Sylvie discover a portal to an asteroid
inhabited by an intense and desolate towering structure.
At its peak, the two spot an illuminated window indicating that someone is home.
Inside the dark atrium of the Citadel, Loki and Sylvie cautiously approach the dark and
looming centre, where materializing before them, and much to their surprise is Miss Minutes.
She congratulates them on their long journey and welcomes them to the Citadel at the End
of Time.
The pair have apparently impressed he who remains, who is the one that has created and
controlled everything.
The sentient time clock tells Sylvie and Loki that the man behind the curtain wants to offer
them a deal and after making a few creative adjustments, he who remains has made it possible
for both Loki variants to be reinserted on the Sacred Timeline, to exist on it together
without disrupting anything.
When they reach the Hall of Heroes, Loki questions if he who remains is even still alive as the
hall appears abandoned, in a state of disrepair and negligence.
However, the two are startled when they hear an elevator suddenly operate.
He who remains remarks on their long and painful journey to get to him and he says that he
has been known by many names in his time, including conqueror.
So everybody, say hello to the character that many of us have been predicting who be the
one in charge, and that is in fact, Kang the Conqueror played by Jonathan Majors.
But all is not as it seems from the perspective of the audience and our main characters, when
the variants are perplexed by his casual demeanour, nonplussed by the scenario at hand, which
involves him losing and them finding him.
In the Marvel comics, Kang the Conqueror is a villain who frequently goes up against the
Avengers.
Harnessing technology from the future, Kang – who is simply a human – has the ability
to travel through time, in addition to having the augmented strength to square up against
the mightiest heroes.
In Loki, Kang doesn’t actually introduce himself to Loki and
Sylvie by his actual name, preferring to maintain his elusive aura.
He explains to them that before he formed the TVA, he hailed from the 31st century,
where he encountered several of his own variants travelling through the multiverse.
While he and several of his variants worked alongside each other, others were hellbent
on conquering the universe, resulting in a multiversal war.
Kang, therefore, decided to form the TVA and preserve the sacred timeline to keep complete
and utter destruction at bay.
This is very comparable to what happens in Westworld Season 3, where
Serac controls everyone using an algorithm that predicts that the world will be thrown
into chaos without it.
I can't help but think of that having seen it last year, and to add
to that comparison, Kang even shows a tack of papers that detail all their current and
future dialogue.
This is something we also see pop up in Westworld and alongside the question of free will, it's
interesting to see the influence they gathered for this season of Loki.
But before Sylvie drives her dagger through Kang’s heart, he tells her and Loki that
if he is killed, infinite versions of himself who are far more evil may take his place.
Determined to convince the pair that they can’t kill him, he of course pulls out the
papers of dialogue, showing that he knows what is going to happen.
He tells Loki and Sylvie that there is only one outcome to this discussion.
Livid, Sylvie questions why they are even here, and he who remains reminds them, saying,
“You know you can’t get to the end until you’ve been changed by the journey.
This stuff, it needs to happen.”
To get them in the right mindset to finish the quest, he asks Sylvie if she can really
trust Loki, and is she even capable of trusting anyone at all?
Crossing the threshold in time, he who remains reveals that he had lied earlier.
While, yes, he did know how things were going to pan out, he only knew everything up to
a point, and that point has literally just passed.
In complete openness, he explains anything that happens now is all unknown time, and
as the person who spent eternity knowing everything, this appears pretty thrilling to him.
This results in the focus of the episode being shifted for a few moments back to Loki and
Sylvie, as they now have a decision to make.
In previous episodes of Loki, a romance between Loki and Sylvie was implied, but never officially
confirmed.
Several fans found the idea of Loki and Sylvie getting together peculiar, considering they
are different versions of the same character and a relationship between them would therefore
be awkward.
I share this opinion, and although the situation needs some emotion, I still find it
slightly uncomfortable that they were playing on this.
Nonetheless, it turns out that the connection between the pair was indeed of the romantic
nature, as Loki and Sylvie share a kiss after going at each other’s throats in a deadly
fight.
The duo go head-to-head after Sylvie expresses her wish to kill Kang, while Loki wishes to
explore the idea of taking up his offer of taking his place as the head of the TVA.
It ends with Sylvie banishing Loki back to the TVA before re-focussing herself, to kill
Kang.
But alongside the plotline of Loki, Sylvie and Kang, we also cut to a brief few moments
with Ravonna in this episode.
Ravonna is committed to continuing the work of the TVA,
even after Loki and Sylvie’s discovery that the three Time-Keepers were just androids.
In the Marvel comics, Ravonna has a close connection with Kang, therefore, prior to
the finale, it seemed likely that it would be revealed that she was with him the whole
time.
While the question of how much Ravonna knows is left unanswered, episode six sees her leave
the TVA through a TemPad portal, telling Mobius that she’s going in search of free will.
Before that, Hunter B-15 discovers that Ravonna had a past life on Earth, where she worked
as a teacher in Ohio in the year 2018.
So will Ravonna find Kang either in season two of Loki or even in the next Ant-Man film?
Well, it's left unanswered, but I'm guessing that because her character is very
close to Kang, it would make sense that they go this route in Ant-man or the second season
of Loki.
But coming to the end of Loki episode 6, we return to Sylvie who finally kills the Kang
we've been listening to.
With no one at the helm to keep the timeline stable, branches
begin to form, and while Kang dies, he tells Sylvie that he will “see her again soon.”
This is clearly a nod to the versions of himself that will now be let loose and expect to see
an evil version of he who remains in an upcoming MCU property.
So the villainous Kang the Conqueror looks set to be the next big bad.
But while all this goes down, we come back to Loki, who ends up at the TVA.
However, after Loki is transported back to the TVA by Sylvie, it’s revealed that neither
Mobius nor Hunter B-15 remembers who Loki is.
As Loki realises that Mobius doesn’t remember
their past interactions, he looks around the TVA to discover that the large statues of
the Time-Keepers have now been replaced with effigies of Kang.
So clearly, Loki has been sent to another timeline where a different version of the
TVA exists, but it’s unclear what this means for the character.
In other news, it turns out that the God of Mischief may have survived his Infinity War
death at the hands of Thanos.
And it leaves us wondering what kind of Kang is in control of the TVA
that Loki finds himself at, but I'm guessing it's the evil one that many fans know from
the comics.
And Marvel fans would be disappointed to know that Episode 6 of Loki does not have a traditional
post-credit scene.
While WandaVision and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier both had post-credits scenes with
actual new footage, Loki has turned out a little different.
Midway through the credits of the series finale, an extremely brief clip shows a close-up
of a case file for Loki.
A stamp on the report provides Loki fans with an important announcement that the Marvel
series is officially returning for season two.
Now while some may be disappointed not to have seen more footage from the show, the
fact that Loki season two has already been confirmed will no doubt be a massive source
of excitement.
With so many cliffhangers to address, Loki season two is surely going to be another interesting
ride through time.
But that was my brief breakdown video on LOKI Episode 6.
Overall, the Loki finale is heavy on the talking, which is necessary to fully explain the madness
of the previous five episodes.
There is a lot to consume here, but there’s also plenty of setup for where the show could
be going.
However, the highlight of Loki episode 6 was actor Jonathan Majors,
and though his presence was literally cut short, viewers were treated to the charismatic
good version of himself.
It’s exciting to think about what the evil version of Kang will be like and he will no
doubt appear as Kang the Conqueror in upcoming movies.
But when it comes to the weakest parts of this episode, the romance between Loki and
Sylvie, was probably one of the standout moments and I do think that the show had many pacing
and tonal problems throughout.
But one thing I like in comparison to Wandavision and Falcon and the Winter Soldier is that
Loki knew in the end what it wanted to be.
Wandavision started as a more artsy MCU property that then diverged into a typical one.
Falcon gave us interesting ideas but the execution was also hurt by the pushing of the MCU formula
as well.
But Loki for the most part indicated that it was going to be a bigger influence on the
universe and it delivered in that regard.
Again, the ideas in this episode have been done in other shows and probably a lot better,
but I was happy that they did succeed with all the multiverse and universe related openings.
I'm giving episode 6 of LOKI a 7.75 out of 10.
I hope you guys enjoyed my breakdown, and overall, I'm interested to see where LOKI
goes from here in the MCU and in season 2 of the Disney Plus show.
I'm also intrigued to hear all of your thoughts on episode 6, so let me know down below in
the comments section as well as listing your predictions on where the character and show
will be taken.
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