‘Loki’ Season Two, Episode One: ‘Ouroboros’ - Recap
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From Tarek
Loki season two opens with a huge statue of Kang front and center as Loki runs from Mobious and other TVA agents. No one in this version of the TVA knows Loki. As he’s running he gets hit by a truck and thrown through a window and everyone looks at him like he’s crazy. He asks everyone in the room if they recognize him but they don’t know him. He’s finally realizing that he’s screwed. He’s looking for Mobious thinking he can help him somehow.
Hunter and Mobious are planning their next move in the main timeline. They’re talking about how everyone deserves to live their lives. He’s told that Loki was here and then he disappeared. X-5 asks if there are jet skis on the sacred timeline. He then tells him that he's to stand in front of the judge and answer for what’s going on in the war room.
Loki then zaps back and asks where Mobius is again. Mobius and Hunter are on their way to the hearing but we cut to Loki entering an empty war room. Mobius and Hunter enter the full war room. The council wants Mobius and Hunter to answer for the pruning of the timelines. In the empty war room, Loki plays a tape recording, it’s of Kang telling Renslayer “You made a difference in this war, thank you for being on my team.” The war room is questioning Hunter about Renslayer but they say Renslayer had a life, that everyone has a life on these various timelines. Hunter says the TVA has to change and stop pruning all the branches.
The head of the council says to stop pruning immediately and Loki zaps back into Mobius and Hunter’s timeline right away. He electrifies the wall to show the Kang emblem behind it, saying he’s the one destroying all our lives. The general tells X-5 to find Sylvia at the end of time. Loki tells Mobius that he made it to the end of time and he first thought he had to destroy the other timelines but that just complicated things. Loki’s upset that he couldn’t defeat Kang and wishes he had more time. As Loki’s talking he zaps out and back in. Mobius wants to call Miss Minutes but Loki doesn’t think she can be trusted. Mobius wants to find out why Loki keeps disappearing and they have some playful banter about how brutal it looks.
They board an elevator to a storage closet area called the R&A. Ouroboros played by the great Ke Huy Quan, makes his appearance. He and Mobius do a bit of catching up as it’s been 400 years since they’ve seen each other. OB watches Loki disappear and calls it timeslipping, Mobius asks if he can help and he says no and that it’s impossible to do it in the TVA. Loki's time slips to OB in the past and they have the same conversation that they have in the present day. It was a very funny sequence. OB says they need a Temporal Aura Extractor, it’s used to pull people out of a time stream. OB says it’s dangerous and can turn him into spaghetti.
They make their way down a hallway and hear something ominous behind a door. It opens and they see the temporal loom. They see how bad the branches have gotten, and OB and Loki call it a disaster. OB wants to prune the extra branches but Hunter stops him. As Lok is about to use the extractor stakes are high as he could die. He timeslips into the future, in the present time Mobius is in a ridiculous spacesuit. It’s cracked in the helmet and OB puts duct tape on it and sends him on his way. He’s tethered to a huge funnel down a ramp in space, as we cut to Loki running around looking for the timestick he needs to complete his extraction. He’s out of time as a telephone rings. OB tells Mobius to close the blast doors without Loki. OB presses the button to close the doors and says there’s nothing you can do for him and that he’s lost to time. At the last second Loki flies in and they make it past the blast doors. He says they need to find Sylvie. Hunter sees an abundance of troops rallied ready for a mission and she says she can’t believe all of that is to find Sylvie as the episode ends.
There’s a post-credit of Sylvie in Oklahoma in 1982. She enters a McDonald’s and asks how to do this. The clerk asks what she would like and she’s a fish out of water. She seems excited to try things other than squirrels or rats.
This was a solid first entry to season two. The action sequence at the end was exciting and visually stunning. Hiddleston and Owen Wilson had amazing banter. Ke Huy Quan was a fantastic addition to the cast and added even more laughs. He fit right in. This season seems to be all about finding Sylvie and we did get a couple of inches closer to her whereabouts.
New episodes of Loki premiere every Thursday on Disney+.
