#LOKI EPISODE 3 RECAP TV#
(If you shouted at your TV in this moment, know you were not alone.) It's then time for Loki and Sylvie to be dragged before the Timekeepers, once and for all, but just when the CGI lizard dudes get done posing order them to be deleted, Hunter B-15 shows up to unlock their control collars and toss Sylvie the sword that Ravonna had previously claimed for her trophy collection.Ī big fight ensues, with Loki, Sylvie, and B-15 taking out the Minutemen guards, with Sylvie delivering the death blow, so to speak, by decapitating one of the Timekeepers, revealing them to be androids. Unfortunately, before they get a chance to really cause some trouble, Mobius and Loki are stopped in the hallway by Ravonna, who's all too aware that Mobius swiped her device and has him pruned. So maybe being able to see the good in someone else who just happens to be a mirror of himself, and even coming to love that someone else, is a sign of positive and healthy growth. But even before Loki found out he was adopted, he was always made to feel inferior to Thor, and there's something striking about the memory in which he gets trapped for the purposes of torture: Someone who was an ally and friend, repeatedly calling him a "conniving craven pathetic worm." Consider RuPaul's iconic Drag Race sign-off, "If you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love someone else?" Loki is confident in his abilities, for sure, but there's a lot of self-loathing and a massive inferiority complex under the surface there. Is it fucked up that after 10 years of appearances in the MCU, the first time Loki has expressed any sort of romantic interest in another person is when he meets an alternate version of himself? Yeah, to a degree. So when he removes Loki from said time loop, he tries to get Loki to explain the Nexus Event, even managing to get Loki, in his own way, to admit that he has feelings for Sylvie. Good news: Sylvie and Loki are saved! Bad news: They're back in TVA custody, with Mobius locking Loki up in a jail cell that amounts to torture by time loop, specifically having to endure a memory of Lady Sif (Hi, Jaimie Alexander! Nice to see you making MCU cameos again!) berating Loki for cutting off her hair as "just a bit of fun." But before getting shoved into said torture loop, Loki tells Mobius that he's being lied to - confirming what Mobius seemed to sense, deep down. Ravonna tells him that C-20 is dead, thanks to her mind being badly scrambled by Sylvie's brainwashing, and Mobius can clearly smell the lie, but says nothing.īack on Lamentis, Sylvie and Loki use their time waiting for imminent death to bond a little bit, and something about their connection (which is in fact fraught with romantic and/or sexual tension, and yeah we'll get to that) triggers a Nexus Event that serves as a big ol' signal flare for the TVA, who open up portals for them both just in the nick of time.
Speaking of "the present" (again, however you might define it in this context), Ravonna goes to speak with the Timekeepers in their fancy mysterious chamber, and comes back to find Mobius waiting for her, wanting any news he can get on Hunter C-20 and the pursuit of Sylvie and Loki.
When the episode picks back up with Sylvie and Loki in however you might refer to "the present" in this show, Sylvie tells Loki about her abduction and subsequent childhood spent hiding in the shadows of apocalypses, but it's honestly not necessary thanks to this bit of flashback. Sylvie goes through the same processing we saw Loki experience in Episode 1, clearly terrified, but once she's brought before the judge she unleashes her inner mischievous scamp, stealing Ravonna's TemPad and leaping away into time and space.
Let's go back to the beginning of things, something "The Nexus Event" does literally by opening on a young Sylvie in Asgard, being apprehended by Ravonna during the Hunter phase of her career.
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