The Ringer-Verse - 'Loki' Season 2, Episode 6 Easter Eggs | Splash Page [VIDEO]

Episode Date: November 12, 2023

This is Jessica Clemons of The Ringer, and she has been burdened with glorious purpose! ‘Splash Page’ is back to break down everything in the 'Loki' Season 2 finale: "Glorious Purpose." Jess goes over Loki's trip through time (1:16), his conversation with He Who Remains (3:35), and where all our main characters end up (8:18). Host: Jessica Clemons Producers: Aleya Zenieris, Erika Cervantes, and Isaiah Blakely Additional Production Supervision: Arjuna Ramgopal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I'm Jessica Clemens, and this is Splash Page on the Ring Reverse. We're breaking down Loki Season 2, Episode 6, giving you Easter eggs, theories, and more on our favorite god of mischief. Let's get into it. For adults with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis symptoms, every choice matters. Tramphia offers self-injection or intravenous infusion from the start. Trimphia is administered as injections under the skin or infusions through a vein every four weeks, followed by injections under the skin every four or eight weeks. If your doctor decides that you can self-inject Tramphia, proper training is required.

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the God of Mischief, and the Introduction to Loki, the God of Stories. And I love, love, love this finale more than anything in my life. It opens with different Loki clips. The first is Loki from the first Avengers movie, then Loki in Season 1, Episode 1, and a series of different flashbacks from this season and the first one. Also, I don't remember he who remains saying Reincarnation, baby. Reincarnation, baby. I knew this finale would be tremendous, but starting the episode with the Marvel Studios logo, like nothing new, then playing the intro music in the Marvel logo in reverse? That's just brilliant. It reinforces that Loki now with the control over the time slipping and we'll jump back and forth through time.

We pick up right where we left off in episode five. We know Loki has time slipped into this position, but we're about to watch timely die again, just like he did at the end of episode four season two. During the last breakdown, I predicted maybe Obie had a better suit for the radiation, but they simply just took too long. So they need to speed up the process over and over and over again while getting down to Walter Murphy's a fifth of Beethoven, and it's funky as hell. I need this soundtrack. Loki goes back to when Miss Minutes and Ravona interrogated Victor Timely, Loki even sympathized with her heartbreak before ripping Timely away.

Each time, over and over again, they fail. It also feels like the same sequence in the first Doctor Strange movie where Dermamu kills Stephen repeatedly, this time it's just Victor dying. Loki recognizes he isn't going far back enough, so he jumps to the point where Obie and Victor meet for the first time. We even get Timely's little squeaky did at their first encounter. Loki and his rush to save all the branches reveals Obie's loom and quickly explains the plan. Even pulling Timely's multiplier out of his bag and answering everyone's silly questions they had the first time around.

Also, I forgot that Timely thinks Loki is a wizard and refers to him as such throughout this episode. Wizard? This. You're a wizard, Harry. Obie tells Loki it'll take time, something he doesn't have, to adapt the multiplier to the loom. To speed up that process, seeing as Loki can now jump time and use his own learnings, he spends a few centuries learning physics to return with a plan that works. During Loki explaining the plans, he tells timely precisely what not to do. He tells him to adjust the faceplate so his skin won't peel

off, the trip hazard at the first step, and do not set the multiplier down or it will roll off the gangway. These warnings happen in one of the many failed attempts that we saw earlier. When it feels like all went according to plan, it's revealed that it didn't actually work. The loom is overloaded. Victor deduces that the branches are expanding at an infinite rate, and since you can't scale for infinite, the loom breaking was unavoidable. The loom will always fail. As soon as the timeline started branching, it was bound to happen. As everyone prepares for the spaghettiification, Loki dips to the point in time I theorize in my last breakdown.

Will Loki go back further into the past to cut the chase between Sylvie, Robona, and Miss Minutes during the World's Fair, or will he return as far back as he who remains at the finale to stop Sylvie. It all comes back to Sylvie killing He Who Remains. Loki time slips to season one, episode six, and tries to tell Sylvie about the death that awaits all the branches in the future, and, of course, Loki can't stop her. He fights her again and again and can't kill her before she kills He Who Remains. In the most bad-ass moment, though, He Who Remains finally stops time and confronts Loki

about literally everything. This scene hits even harder after hearing every final blow Sylvie makes and he says, see you soon. We thought that was a warning about his variance, but it could also be a shout-out to Loki's time slipping and seeing him again and again and again and again. And like I've been saying, I think we all called it, but I also have been saying it, he who remains has been paving the way the entire time. He paved the way for the time slipping. All of this was in his plan even still be killing him. So he who remains tells Loki the temporal loom is a fail-safe. When the loom is overloaded with branches, it deletes the ones that aren't supposed to be there. Everything except the sacred timeline. So when it destroys everything, including the TVA,

he who remains will simply rebuild it through reincarnation because he's still on the sacred timeline and it's not hard to restart it all, I guess. So according to that new divine timeline, When the Kings realized there were other worlds, they started the multiversal war. He Who Remains with Run Slayer won and created the TVA. He then had them prune variants and their timelines to prevent fracturing the multiverse, allowing kings to find them. He also built the loom that's only built to protect the sacred timeline and nothing else. If it hit capacity, it would overload and destroy everything to prevent the other kings from showing up. While that was happening, he who remains kept his little reincarnation loop ready for when shit really hit the fan.

Essentially, that's the new timeline. So he who remains tells Loki he can break the loom and lose everything or kill Sylvie and return to a way it sort of was. Loki time slips to the moment in season one, episode one, where he's interrogated by Mobius, a very trustworthy, more unbiased Mobius. So Loki asks him this. How do you choose who lives and who dies? This right here is a beautiful and emotional scene

where Mobius discusses the Black Sea deaths that killed 5,000 people and the variant was a young boy. Turns out the story was between Mobius and Renslayer and how Mobius couldn't prune a boy who got a lot of people killed. Mobia says this. Most purpose is more burden than glory. Living with that burden is like scar

tissue, but you can be Mobius in that moment and live with that burden or be like Run Slayer and Noah has to be done. In a kind of beautiful way, Loki finds value in both their outcomes. Loki time slips to the moment at AD Doug's lab from the last episode and pulls Sylvia and himself outside of time for a quick chat. He confronts Sylvia about having to

kill her to solve all the problems and rightfully she says that's a decision he'll have to make. She won't stop killing he who remains to give everyone on the freedom to choose their own fate. She tells him this. I grew up in Apocalypse as Loki. I've lived through enough of them to know that sometimes it's okay to destroy something.

With that, Loki time slips to the loom room and does the unthinkable. As he looks at his friends, he leaves saying this. I know what I want. I know what kind of God I need to be. For you. For all of us. He steps onto the gangway, his suit disappears with the radiation, and we see Loki and his horns,

though we haven't seen the suit before, are uncommonly Loki is in TVA garb or a suit now, so this is just out of the ordinary. This is all out of the ordinary. He then blows up the loom and all the branches whipped through space, dying and fading with no loom to keep them alive. Or so we think, because Loki begins grabbing every branch and using his enchantment, bringing them back to life. Recognizing his power can do this, he starts walking and grabbing the branches, bringing them all back to life. He opens a crack to the end of time where He Who Remains lives, and with his final steps, he enters a portal with the loose branches. The god of mischief has finally taken the position of

He Who Remains, but with great and honorable intentions. He's reaching his glorious purpose, on his own throne as a king. He becomes the new temporal loom. He's destroyed the loom and became an even better one. He can now regulate the different timelines at the end of time as the World Tree. In Norse mythology, the World Tree held the nine realms together, and now in the MCU it's holding the multiverse together. Thor told Jane this in the first movie.

My father explained it to me like this, that your world is one of the nine realms of the cosmos, linked to each other by the branches of Vigdracil, the world's tree. Now you see it every day without realizing. And it's just so wonderful to make that tree Loki now. Also, if the branches are always expanding, they form like tree branches, metaphors. This episode is honestly just full of metaphors for Loki, how he finally got his throne, how he's reached his glorious purpose,

and his biggest fear of being alone is now his greatest accomplishment. He's lost time and time and time again, the first Avengers movie, Thor two, Ragnarok every time he had to try and stop the loom from exploding, but now he's finally won but had to sacrifice himself. He is no longer a selfish god anymore. Then we jump a little later. Everyone's back to square one working. You can see the monitor on the new loom is the tree. Miss Minutes is seemingly back with no scary attitude. Oby doesn't only exist in the basement anymore. And Casey also seems to have a higher position. Possibly in the war room. Good for him. Eugene Cordero, we're looking out for you. Oh, you go, Glenn Coco.

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The latest one they have information on is Kang from Quantummania. The photo depicts the Multiversal Core Engine. Also, who took these photos? Let's think about it. Mobius has then left with what I assume is his case file and where to find himself on the sacred timeline. We're taken outside the war room with the Kang paintings and Mobius tells B-15 he's leaving, which is sad as hell, but it's nice to know the new Renslayer seems to be B-15. We glimps at B-15 entering the busy war room sitting down next to Judge Gamble.

A reminder, we don't see docs here because she's dead. We move forward so all that happened right before the loom is still set in. We don't know where Brad is, but if Loki has become an unselfish god, I could see him returning him back to the sacred timeline as an actor. Obie opens a box of the new TVA handbooks with what I assume has no Victor timely in it, since his timeline was never interrupted. Loki stopped the timeline from being in a closed loop where he who remains can return. Renslayer wakes up in the grass of, you guessed it, the Prune Valley.

What I finally learned is actually called The Void, but I like calling it the Prune Valley, and I will keep it that way. We see a pyramid and pieces of the TVA. In the first season of Loki, we saw a lot of historical pieces like the Santa Maria and red skull spinning rockets. So a lot of wreckage makes its way to the Prune Valley. But using a pyramid and seeing as though he who remains really made his life mission to stop his variants, this might be a call out to his variant Ramatut. The broken signage of the TVA indicates that the TVA was destroyed or dissembled at one point in the multiverse

and landed itself in the Prune Valley. We don't know if Renslayer actually dies. We can't also confirm that's Eliath. We do know Eliath gleams a faint purple, though. and there's a sort of growl and the wind blows past her face like Richard E. Grants did in Loki season one before he was eaten by Eliath in the Prune Valley. Ultimately, though, I think this is her demise. I think she's probably dead. But what I do love and respect about Rens Slayer is she doesn't run or hide. She sits strong. Like this is her glorious purpose. All that pain she put others through leads to this moment. It's more like karma, but still, there she goes. Mobius reached his original timeline. He watches himself playing with his sons and Sylvie joins him. It's such a beautiful shot.

I hate this moment because it makes me sad. They both figure they can go and do whatever they want, so Sylvie exits to only God knows where, and as for Mobius. I might just wait here for a little bit. Our last view is Loki at the center of the branches, holding them together, always watching with a slight smirk as we cut to the credits. And that's it for Splash Page on the finale episode of Loki Season 2. It's a beautiful finale that takes me back to Wanda Vision.

Both were heartbreaking and felt like it could be a conclusion to Vision or Loki, but it lingered with some tinge of pain or despair and optimism. It was beautifully shot and written, and it looks like it cost a lot of money. The Multiversal War is still happening. The Kangs are here, so is the TVA, hunting them down. We can't expect to see much from Loki as he's busy being the god of stories, but we can't expect the TVA. Subscribe to The Ring Reverse on Spotify or wherever you get your podcast.

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