I know that many fans continue to theorize and follow the hints of Easter eggs in Loki, but I have officially given up on trying to connect the multiverses and will let myself go. The Marvel series that transformed an antagonist into one of the franchise’s most likable heroes continues to dominate as the best content since The Avengers, in two short seasons available only on the platform. A metaphor for what lives? Anyway, the fourth episode of the second season of the series continues to surprise us and of course, we haven’t even reached half of what’s still to come.

When screenwriters give us some tips it’s because they are relevant to follow the plot. Adult Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors) was not in the “sacred timeline”, so he is a “disposable” variant. May Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) not listen to me.

In an immediate follow-up to what we saw last week, the scary Miss Minutes (Tara Strong) makes amends for being rejected by Victor by showing Ravonna Renslayer (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) that she was betrayed by He Who Remains. The conversation they have is the same one that Loki (Tom Hiddleston) heard on the radio when he was in the past, which made me mistake that it was a conversation between him and Miss Minutes. Now that we know that before Ravonna’s memory was erased, she commanded the army in the war between the Kangs, their union against him sounds even more terrifying.

Victor, Loki, Mobius (Owen Wilson), and Sylvie arrive at TVA and deal with Victor’s surprise and the lack of time to avoid the worst. The mission is apparently suicidal, so there is a natural hesitation in deciding who will lead it, but O.B. (Ke Huy Quan) presses. Remembering that ‘everyone will die’, it is necessary to save not only this timeline but as much of it as possible.

Ravonna tries to recruit Brad, Dox, and others who are locked away, but only Brad is no longer so faithful to the cause and betrays his friends who die to defend the TVA. That’s right, the real fight is not to save variants but to define who is in charge of the time agency. And houses are not clean or clear. Miss Minutes controls the system, but when they ‘turn it off’, Sylvie and Loki manage to use magic to disrupt Brad and Ravonna. Before the reboot, however, Miss Minutes warns/threatens Victor, warning him that he is “not He Who Remains.” With the surprise of Victor’s implosion when he tries to help, we are now literally unsure – in this timeline – who is who or who is the danger.

The option to transform Ravonna into a possible villain, knowing that in the comics she has always been romantically involved over time with Kang, sometimes as a lover and sometimes as an enemy, with both betraying each other and reconciling, is not a meaningless invention. There is also an option if Jonathan Majors’ personal life gets in the way of his future in the MCU. So we are at the mercy of the creativity of the script, with the final twist leaving us hanging, after all, we have now “lost” Victor Timely and we had already eliminated Kang, the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. It looks like Ravonna will lead the war in the multiverses, including dismantling the Council of Kangs. Many bet that we will see Ravonna Terminatrix, taking control of all Kang variants.

Since we still have more life in Loki, the implosion of the TVA is something that will be resolved. Since we see Loki as the hero here, I have just one complaint. I miss him as the protagonist. Loki is in the character team phase, I like the duality of the God of Mischief more.

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