the most disappointing thing about the Loki show is that they really had something good. this really could have been something! just imagine an episodic show in which Loki joins the TVA as an agent who slowly learns the ropes. we get a new story every episode where they repair a branch in the timeline, a bit like Doctor Who.

slowly, he starts to gain the trust of his coworkers untll on one mission something happens and Loki starts to question the methods. this introduces the mystery of Silvie, making her the mysterious antagonist of season one who pops in now and again until it is revealed in a dramatic scene who she is. first season ends with them capturing her. then they get her backstory and season 1 ends with Loki freeing himself (Silvie) cause he’d rather trust himself than anyone he has met at the TVA so far.

there would have been lots of room for fun and games and introspective character moments with some real, developing friendships but mostly Loki being clever and funny, outsmarting other variants who try to get away.

instead what we got was a bloated storyline that makes less and less sense the more you think about it and a story in which Loki got shoved to the side again, his powers and smarts being downplayed again just because the writers weren’t smart enough to make him the cunning and a sometimes evil antihero that he was set up as in Ragnarok. (I liked when he figured out the mystery in the beginning of hiding in apocalypses and his line about loving being right. that part was fun. it should have been that for the whole show!)

poor Tom. he really gave his all and you can tell. if only the people in charge actually cared. but, hey, this wasn’t our Loki anyway. our Loki was killed by lazy writing. how fitting that this version is being shoved down the same path.

this will not taint my love for Loki in any way. I’m just sad because of the wasted potential.