For many years, Marvel made me feel intelligent by connecting so many different stories and universes, whether in films where the hero worked alone or in a group, like the Avengers. Even though it grew in information and difficulty, it was easy to follow. Then came Loki, the popular and always elusive villain to mess up our bandstand. It’s just that Loki, Thor’s brother, used the Tseract to escape the Avengers, and ended up in a universe where after a lot of confusion he opened multiverses that messed up the line of time – and the understanding of mere mortals like me. The complexity of following the films, series, and news from this phase of Marvel heroes is clearly for those with a higher IQ than mine. But I try!

Getting those “details” out of the way, I’m celebrating Loki’s return. Alongside WandaVision, the series changed a lot of narratives, tied up deep themes in the universe of superheroes, and will always have our affection in such distressing times. We’ve barely said goodbye to Star Wars with Ahsoka, and Disney has us back on its platform, with new episodes every Thursday night. There are few, we will only arrive until the beginning of November, but it’s still great. The first episode of the second season came with a lot of information, twists, and turns and helped to remind us of the big moments.

The weight of Loki‘s success is generating even greater expectations after neither
the third Ant-Man film convinced critics and casual viewers or broke global box office records. Even better, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 also didn’t achieve what was expected. I loved Secret Invasion, but there are those who consider it one of the worst in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We haven’t yet talked about Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which was more of a sequel to WandaVision like Ant-Man is to Loki, but you get the idea. In just two years, from promising as a pilot for the MCU’s grand plan for the Multiverse Saga, the series now has to save the franchise (in part). Maybe you can!

To rescue, in the first season, one of the variants of Kang (Jonathan Majors) was killed at the hands of Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino), she was a variant of Loki. Before he died, “Kang” explained why he had to maintain a “Sacred Timeline” but did not convince Sylvie to spare him. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) was thrown into a time that he soon realizes is another line, as time was branched and created the “multiverse”. The timelines can interact with each other again and we will have a Multiversal War later on. In this second season, Loki wants to locate Sylvie, but no one knows him or believes him and it is very difficult to stop involuntarily jumping between the past and the present.

The ‘current’ present confuses us because there are new characters, there is a step back in history and there is a lot of rushing around. And yes, it moves us too. There are those who complain about so much explanation of the mechanics of things without advancing the story itself, but it is necessary. After all, when having to convince Mobius (Owen Wilson) of what is happening, Loki also translates the rules to us. The entry of Ouroboros (Ke Huy Quan), a chatty and cheerful worker, is one of the novelties of the story, without breaking Wilson and Hiddleston’s perfect chemistry.
The annoying part of Marvel’s current phase, which differentiates it from previous ones, is that to follow all the films, you have to watch the series and vice versa. So, the good news is that at least Loki is fun and has arrived at a good time to give us options on platforms. Let’s keep following!

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