The fifth episode of LOKI has released on Disney
Plus and there are numerous things to break down, including the ending, hints towards
the potential TVA villain, the variant Lokis, easter eggs and much more.
In particular, I'm going to be giving you my breakdown of Loki Episode 5 entitled, "Journey
Into Mystery", 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 LOKI episode 5 and all of the show's latest events.
So after last week’s bombshell post-credits scene, episode 5 of the Marvel series Loki
on Disney Plus reveals where the God of Mischief has ended up after being pruned by the Time
Variance Authority.
Having been greeted by Classic Loki, Kid Loki, Boastful Loki and Alligator Loki, Loki learns
that everything that is pruned by the TVA ends up in the Void, including TVA agent Mobius.
Sylvie, who is still at the TVA, manages to extract this information from Ravonna Renslayer,
before pruning herself to be reunited with Loki and take down the TVA once and for all.
So the question that we still end on is who really is the person behind the curtain at
the TVA and who’s been pulling the strings all along?
But in episode four, we get a nice coming together of Loki and Mobius, following the
events of Mobius being pruned by Ravonna after deciding to help Loki in his mission to bring
down the TVA.
While it appeared that Mobius had been killed by his colleague, the mid-credits scene for
the episode revealed that Loki had survived, landing in a
wasteland and being greeted by several other Variant Lokis.
This means that Mobius would have also survived his pruning, a suspicion that proved accurate
in episode five when he saved Sylvie from being swallowed up by Alioth, turning up in
a battered car with a decorative pizza slice on top.
After learning the truth about the TVA, that all of the people who work there
are Variants and were stolen from their timelines by the organisation, Mobius tells Loki that
he plans on burning it to the ground, a cool reflection to Loki saying the same
thing in Episode 1.
Just before Mobius heads back at the end of this episode to the TVA using the TemPad brought
by Sylvie, he and Loki do share a nice hug, as the God of Mischief
says: ‘Thank you my friend.’
It's the emotion the episode needed with their chemistry being one of the standout elements
of the show, and if anything, I wish we had more
of that relationship.
But apart from a smaller focus on Loki and Mobius, we also get an introduction to other
variant Lokis that our Loki shares the Void with.
Last week, it was revealed that Richard E Grant was starring as another version
of Loki in the Marvel series, a role it had long been suspected he would be playing.
After taking Loki to their hideout with Kid Loki, Boastful Loki and Alligator Loki,
Richard’s Classic Loki explains that in his timeline, he didn’t try to kill Thanos
as Loki did in Avengers: Infinity War, instead conjuring an illusion before isolating himself
on a planet for years.
It's also cool to note that Marvel snuck in a Thanos Copter easter egg earlier on in the
episode, almost alluding to the mentioning of Thanos later
on by Classic Loki.
I must say that even though I found most of the variant lokis to be mainly fan service
in this episode, I did like that Classic Loki shared his story and gave us at least a reason
to care about his character helping them in the final events.
It still acted as mainly a nice reference but there was at least something to chew on
there in relation to the events and it acts as a different reflection on Loki's original
death in Infinity War.
Then comes a Loki mashup with the variant Lokis taking the original Loki to their safe
pad nourishing him with small info about how they ended up in the time void.
While Kid Loki is king because he killed Thor, Boastful
Loki quips how he defeated the Avengers, namedropping Iron Man and Captain America, and taking over
the Infinity Stones.
Which is of course all a lie.
After Loki fails to motivate the pessimistic Loki trio to fight Alioth, he attempts to
leave but is met with even more Lokis, with President Loki taking charge.
Loki is embarrassed by the other Lokis' actions as one tries to betray the other and at one
point, an agitated Alligator Loki bites off President Loki's hand,
reminiscent of when Loki cut off Thor's hand when he tried to yield the Mjolnir in Thor:
The Dark World.
As expected, an epic fight breaks out which sees Kid Loki and
Alligator Loki using Loki and Thor's fight tactic 'Get Help,' which featured in Thor:
Ragnarok.
Don't get me wrong it's a fun sequence and one that is much more entertaining
than ones seen in Episode 3, but I can't help but think of that episode, when there's so
much plot progression and character development to be made, only to replace it with Loki fan
service.
I still enjoyed the entertainment but it would have been nice for a penultimate episode to
focus more on the greater issues at hand.
If anything the Classic Loki story that Richard E Grant's
character goes into, is really the one thing that does stick as worthwhile.
Either way, we'll have to see if these characters pop up
again, otherwise, they were just vessels of entertainment in the way of the interesting
elements that I wanted more of.
But after some brief entertainment between the Lokis, we come to the main meat of the
episode, setting up where we could be going in the final episode next week.
When Loki and Sylvie embark on their mission to enchant Alioth, Classic Loki, Kid Loki
and Alligator Loki head off, preferring to survive rather than risk destruction.
However, just as it seems that Loki and Sylvie are on their own, struggling to enchant Alioth,
Classic Loki fulfils his glorious purpose, conjuring up an illusion by recreating the
kingdom of Asgard that temporarily distracts the monster.
It's a great moment with Ricard's Classic Loki demonstrating his monumental show of
power that ultimately leads to his demise by the monster.
But he succeeds enough for Sylvie to enchant the beast and give way to the entry that leads
to the secret TVA villain.
The mystery as to who is really behind the TVA remains the biggest unanswered question
in Loki, as the three Time-Keepers at the organisation’s headquarters were revealed
to be androids last week.
But after successfully enchanting Alioth, episode five ends with Loki and Sylvie walking
towards a castle that could be where the person in charge of the TVA is hiding.
While their identity is yet to be revealed, this final shot gives us more reason to believe
that the mysterious villain is in fact Kang The Conqueror.
The character who is being portrayed by Jonathan Majors in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania,
is a time-travelling entity closely linked with Ravonna Renslayer.
The Castle in the final shot very much looks like Castle
Limbo from the comics.
Kang’s city-base of Chronopolis was also depicted as existing outside of time and could
exist in a temporal limbo.
Alioth is further known for taking over Kang’s dimension, so it would make sense for it to
be stuck in limbo because of Alioth.
However, the main point that could suggest that the villain isn't Kang
resides in how the show is tackling Ravonna.
In the episode, we do get a scene between Ravonna and Hunter B-15, which suggests that
Ravonna doesn't know who the real person in charge is, so could this allude that it might
be someone else?
Overall, we don't really have much info on that but after also seeing more of Miss Minutes
this week, I think that whoever is in charge, could be using the mascot to communicate.
Miss Minutes might seem all cute and innocent, but she knows more about the TVA than perhaps
anyone else who works there, including Ravonna it would seem from the multiple sequences
we get with them in episode 5.
Hiding the Big Bad in plain sight would make for the kind of mischievous
reveal that Loki himself would be proud of and during a recent interview with The Hollywood
Reporter, voice actor Tara Strong teased that "there's much more to be
revealed" when it comes to her character.
So we'll have to see, but I do personally think that the final shot of the castle points
more to Kang making an entry, whether we see that fully formed in the final episode or
teased by the end of the show.
But that was my brief breakdown video on LOKI Episode 5.
Overall, I found this episode to be a mixture of the things I love and hate about the show.
The things I liked, such as the exploration of Lokis character, the
bonding between him and Mobius, and the mysteries behind the TVA were all there.
However, for a penultimate episode of a 6 episode
show, a lot of the episode felt like it was playing too much on the fan service elements
and entertainment factor that would have been better in smaller chunks.
There was too much of it and it reminded me of episode 3
in that regard.
I'm still excited for the finale of course, and episode 4 really did help to develop that
anticipation, but I just wish this episode would have been a bit stronger
in story progression.
The ideas, production and characters is all there to really delve into something special,
but at times the show does seem to lose its focus and rely
more on the MCU properties of fan service that we've seen used an awful too much.
We'll have to see where it goes and I am hoping for a great finale, one that answers
our questions and one that makes us intrigued about the character of LOKI going forward.
I'm giving episode 5 of LOKI a 7.25 out of 10.
I hope you guys enjoyed my breakdown, and overall, I'm interested to see what happens
next week in the new Marvel show, which I will be covering here on the channel.
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the comments section as well as listing your predictions for the final episode.
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