After a long break, here is the newest MCU series on Disney+(Hotstar) which had lots of buzz created ever since we had that scene in Avengers Endgame where Loki escapes with the Tesseract during the "New York 2012 battle" time heist episode. Every one was wondering what a dangerous thing to happen. A dangerous villain taking control of the space stone(hidden inside the Tesseract) means that the move watchers were wondering how his timeline goes and what does loki do with it!
There were unlimited possibilities to think of and the one we see in the first episode not only sets up the upcoming episodes but also sets up the MCU multiverse pretty well and with lots of expectations.
Okay, so the plot goes like this:
Loki escapes from the present timeline by using Tesseract due to a combination of funny events, which we all know from Avengers Endgame. He lands in Gobi Desert, Mongolia, where the TVA(Time Variance Authority) arrests him. What happens and how it happens next was explained in a very funny and interesting way: the hallmark of Loki.
He gets a ticket to be tried for his crime of creating a new timeline and there he learns of the origins of this TVA.
Origins of TVA
When long time ago there was a huge multiversal war: battle between different timelines for supremacy. The ancient "timekeepers" were the one who created this organization called "TVA" which monitors the main timeline(called the sacred timeline in which all the MCU stories happened till now)
As the head of TVA(Mobius) tries to use Loki as a means to fight other variants, lots of twists start taking place, including a sequence where Loki sees his future, especially the crucial moments like his mother's death, his father uniting with the universe, joining hands with his brother Thor, the destruction of Asgard, him stealing the Tesseract, till his raw, real death at the hands of Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War. This does something to him. It makes him realize the things that he did in his life.
Powerless Loki and Powerless Stones
Loki is shown to be completely powerless in this TVA many times.
At one point of time, all the Infinity Stones were seen hidden in a table drawer and the TVA officer claims that they use them as paper weights. This scene itself shows the hilarious nature of this episode which makes us laugh, especially when we were told how powerful the infinity stones were in Avengers Infinity War and the power of Loki. He couldnt change his shape/identity, nor can he fight off with his power. But when he gets one of the gadgets that TVA officials use to control the variants like him, he looks like a kid in a toy shop, playing with it to see its abilities to the fullest.
Two years are mentioned in this episode where certain events take place:
1. aix en provence, france: 1549(At the beginning of this episode)
2. salina, oklahoma, 1858(Towards the end of the episode)
At the end, Mobius convinces Loki to fight another variant like him at the end of the episode, which is the not-to-be-revealed-yet-spoiler.
The excitement for the next episode will only get higher once viewers watch this one.
"Loki" is currently streaming on Disney+Hotstar and new episodes are released weekly every Wednesday.
