The third episode of LOKI has released on Disney Plus and there is much to breakdown,
including details on Lady Loki, the TVA, easter eggs and much more. In particular,
I'm going to be giving you my breakdown of Loki Episode 3 entitled, "Lamentis",
in the aim to help you guys understand the events and discover things you missed. This video will
also contain spoilers from LOKI Episode 3, so if you do happen to be someone who hasn't
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But without further ado, let's dive into LOKI episode 3 and all of the latest reveals.
So in LOKI Episode 3, we find out where the God of Mischief ended up after ditching the
Time Variance Authority and pursuing his female variant through a time portal. Lady
Loki played by Sophia Di Martino, bombed the Sacred Timeline with stolen TVA reset charges,
seemingly creating countless branches and undoing the timeline cops work.
She told her male counterpart that her plot wasn't about him, which probably intrigued
him enough to abandon his TVA pal Mobius by following her. Not that Mobius will have
much time to get bored as the agency went into high alert as a result of Lady Loki's attack.
And it might have taken 3 episodes, but we finally have a name for our murderous female Loki variant,
and this is revealed to be Sylvie. But this is, by far, the biggest revelation
in an episode that delves a bit deeper into Loki's psyche, using a post-apocalyptic dying planet as
its backdrop. What is mysterious is Sylvie. For all intents and purposes, she is effectively
a female Loki who is on an apparent crusade against the mysterious Time Keepers for an as-yet
unrevealed reason. Last episode, she bombarded the entire so-called Sacred Timeline, though the
ramifications of this are also yet unknown. Those of you familiar with the comic books will be aware
that Sylvie Lushton is also known as Enchantress, a mortal woman created by Lady Loki because she
was curious about what would happen if she made someone who believed they were an Asgardian.
Sylvie would go on to join The Avengers. However, as some suspected, it seems that this version is,
in fact, an amalgamation of characters. When the God of Mischief says he refuses
to refer to the Variant as Loki, she's pleased because she says, "that's not who I am anymore."
Instead, she's created an alias for herself, and this is Sylvie. As the episode progresses,
Sylvie really doesn't give much away about herself but does mention that her parents,
who we're assuming are Odin and Freya, told her that she was adopted early on. However,
after her mother died when Sylvie was young, she ended up teaching herself magic. It's entirely
possible that there's still more to be revealed about this mysterious new addition to the MCU,
but as of right now, we've been led to believe that she is indeed a Loki Variant
who has chosen to move on from that moniker and instead given herself the name Sylvie.
But in terms of the main recap of this episode, Loki follows the variant Loki
through a portal transporting them back to the TVA headquarters, where they continue to be chased
by the organisation’s Minutemen. To escape the TVA agents, including judge Ravonna Renslayer,
Loki takes them through another portal, this time landing on the planet of Lamentis-1 in the year
2077, when it is on the verge of being destroyed by a moon in an apocalypse. So what happens to
Loki and Sylvie, as the Loki variant is known? While on Lamentis-1 in search of a power source
that can recharge the TemPad they were using for teleportation, the Loki variant explains to
Loki that she doesn’t want to be called Loki, preferring to go by Sylvie instead. After she
reveals that her character is a merging of Lady Loki and Enchantress, both of the lokis get into
several magic-fuelled fights. Sylvie and Loki eventually decide to work together to get onto
the ark, an evacuation vessel that they can use to power the TemPad. To do this, they
first board a train which is when even more chaos ensues.
While on the train taking them to the ark, the pair take a moment to get to know each
other better, with Loki asking Sylvie whether she has someone waiting for her.
Sylvie tells Loki that she’s in a long-distance relationship with a postman,
before asking whether there are any would-be princesses or another prince on the horizon
for Loki. "A bit of both. I suspect the same as you", he replies. This marks the first time the
MCU has referenced Loki’s sexual orientation, who in Norse mythology is described as bisexual
and gender-fluid. They have an odd sort of melding of characters that's both natural
and rather strange at times, given that they're both essentially the same person. Despite that,
there are enough distinctions between the two that they can both stand on their own strengths,
though Sylvie does need a lot more development as to her reasons for her crusade against the TVA.
Having tricked their way onto the train, Loki and Sylvie are found out and promptly kicked
off the vehicle. They decide to head to the ark anyway, with the aim of helping it take off from
Lamentis-1 to escape the apocalypse. However, as they arrive, it is destroyed, spelling disaster
for them and everyone else left on the planet. Considering we’re only halfway through Loki,
it seems safe to say that they will somehow manage to escape. But how? We don't really find out,
but we do get some more clues surrounding other things before the cliffhanger ending.
They begin to devise a new plan and Loki and Sylvie begin the long walk to the Ark.
Loki wants to know how her enchantment works as he's told her so much but he doesn't know anything
about her. Sylvie terms it tactical advantage, but Loki protests that he wants to trust her. Pressed,
Sylvie finally explains what enchantment entails and it's really about how strong someone's mind
is, which leads to an accidental revelation. This regards my previous mention of the TVA,
as the episode has a remarkably potent and possibly world-altering revelation with regards to
them. It's probably one of the only plot reveals that I found interesting in this episode and I'm
sure we will learn more of it next week. When Loki first arrived at the TVA, he was informed that the
TVA agents, including Mobius, were created by the Timekeepers. However, having abducted an agent
during one of her attacks, Sylvie tells Loki that all of the agents are variants,
just like them. Are there agents at the TVA who are aware that they had lives prior to
their work at the TVA? Or could this new piece of information result in the TVA being brought
to its knees? I think the Timekeepers are in control of the TVA agents that are working there
and are trying to dictate and change the timeline for their own needs, but again
this is something that we don't really get too much info on. It's still interesting and I wish
this episode would have given us more on that, but we'll just have to wait for more reveals.
But the episode comes to an end as Loki and Sylvie get to the Ark with the spaceship about to take
off and Lamentis-1's annihilation being imminent. Loki and Sylvie try to get through the guards,
but it's all to no avail as the Ark is hit by planetary debris and destroyed in front of them.
Loki just stands there taken aback, while Sylvie walks away. Loki episode 3 leaves us
on a cliffhanger, as Bonnie Guitar's 'Dark Moon' plays over the credits, leaving us in a state of
hopelessness with the characters. I'm sure they'll find a way in the next episode, but for now, we
are left wondering over how they will escape and get back to the point in time that they were on.
But that was my brief breakdown video on LOKI Episode 3. Overall, while I enjoyed
all the action and the new setting, it left me slightly cold and wanting more information.
I think this sort of episode, which is almost a two-hander between the Lokis,
lives or dies on the strength of the performances and I didn't think they were all that great.
The fighting, bickering and reluctant allies was done so well with Loki and Mobius in
previous weeks, that I found this episode’s quicker version of that a little jarring.
I don’t think we’d spent enough time with Sylvie yet to have them emotionally looking back on old
times, and I wasn’t completely convinced by how her character related to the killer
we’d seen hooded in previous episodes. On top of this, episode 3 just felt like an
episode of hints rather than one which we learn something significant from. For a 6 episode show,
and one which was building on a great ending in episode 2, I felt like we could have had at least
a bigger piece of information surrounding lady Loki's character or something else.
It just felt like a filler episode trying to create chemistry between the two lokis, but even
that chemistry which I would normally be very intrigued by fell flat. Either way, I'm still
excited to see what happens in episode 4, as I really enjoyed the first two episodes,
so I guess we'll just have to see where they go from here. I'm giving episode 3 of LOKI
a 6.5 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
on the channel. I'm also intrigued to hear all of your thoughts on episode 3,
so let me know down below in the comments section as well as listing your predictions for Episode 4.
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