# 10 Thoughts on Loki Episode 1

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/10-thoughts-on-loki-episode-1/
- Published: 2021-06-14T11:03:56-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

I just watched the first episode of [Loki](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9140554/)
for the second time and I feel like this will have [WandaVision](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9140560/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)
like questions after each episode. Here are 10 thoughts after the first episode.

 1.  If this show were nothing more then Agent Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Loki (Tom Hiddleston)
     talking, I’d watch every episode. The dynamic, which I was expecting, was amazing
     and lived up to my expectations.
 2.  Hiddleston is a good enough actor to pull off being the hero and villain of the
     show. At the same time, it’s kind of close to what they did in WandaVision with
     Wanda being the hero and the captor of the town. While we only have 1 episode,
     recency bias could impact the bottom line of the show.
 3.  So far, the limited supporting cast has been great. Hunter B-15 was a lot of fun
     as she captured Loki and pursued him throughout the episode. Casey was enjoyable
     comic relief.
 4.  The best part of the show for me was undoing Loki’s character arc after the Avengers,
     and rebuilding it with him seeing the flashbacks. It was huge fanservice to show
     Loki’s story in flashbacks, but it established how far he came and that his family
     didn’t give up on him when he was pretty shitty.
 5.  I think the “devil” nod was a shot at the WandaVision Mephisto speculation that
     popped up the whole show.
 6.  After a pretty straight forward show in [Falcon/Captain American and the Winter Soldier](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9208876/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0),
     I think we’ll be back to 6 weeks of speculation with this. There are a ton of 
     questions after week 1 and I’m expecting more after Wednesday. Will we see Kang
     the Conqueror or Immortus (more on this in a later post)? Does Dr. Strange pop
     up? How many variations of Loki do we see and where does the villain Loki come
     from? Could be we setting up Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars? We’ll be doing this
     for weeks.
 7.  After 10 years of building up the Infinity Stones, Loki knocks them down in less
     then an hour. While the stones might be the most powerful artifacts in the MCU,
     there are a lot of more powerful items in the comics. I think Marvel could be 
     setting up new weapons by making the Gauntlet just another weapon.
 8.  One of the fun things with a time travel show is playing with previous events.
     The Loki as D.B. Cooper gag was awesome, and it didn’t even happen as part of 
     him in the TVA. The question becomes was what the bet with Thor and why would 
     they need money from Earth, which would probably have no value on Asgard?
 9.  It was a tragedy losing Loki Infinity War; he’s one of the top 10 characters in
     the MCU and had progressed a long way. Is it possible that we get him back in 
     main timeline at the end of the show? Or will this be more of a Legends of Tomorrow,
     fix the timeline for multiple seasons type thing? I’d be fine either way.
 10. For those people that were hardcore Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. fans, there could be
     closure with this show. It would be very easy for them to confirm if the show 
     was part of the MCU or somewhere else in the Multiverse. They already touched 
     on Loki “killing” Agent Coulson, but there were a lot more ties to the MCU in 
     the show, including Asgardian Lady Sif showing up. They don’t have to devote much
     to it, but show a screen with “Earth 72” that shows Coulson, May, and Quake so
     can end the “is it canon or not” questions.

I’m sure we’ll touch on this on this weeks [PC Bombcast](https://www.pcbombcast.com/)
and I’ll be back next Monday with 10 more thoughts on the show.

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