The anecdotes about Frigga are heartwarming and humanizing for someone who constantly boasts about being a God. That curiosity leads him to offer up intimate details about his life to see if he can trust Sylvie and get information from her.
This Loki is from The Avengers, but he’s so much better because he’s not a domineering dictator, but a curious trickster. Loki (Tom Hiddleston) in Marvel Studios’ LOKI exclusively on Disney+. However, there’s a scene just before that one that is so good there are literal fireworks. Yes, Loki drunkenly sings on a train, which is a must-see moment. Tom Hiddleston is a top-tier actor who brings so much to Loki at every opportunity, but it’s fun to watch those emotional beats come through more during this episode. “Lamentis” lets us sit with all of that information with Loki and Sylvie, but it’s also the time we need to catch our breath and latch onto this new (and improved) version of 2012 Loki. It’s also relevant because so much of Episode 1, “Glorious Purpose,” and Episode 2, “The Variant,” are world-building episodes to tee up the actual journey. Likewise, nothing that’s coming would hold nearly as much weight if we didn’t get what “Lamentis” gives us. The reveal that Loki and Sylvie exhausted all of their resources to get off Lamentis and still can’t leave the moon wouldn’t matter if we didn’t care about these characters. It matters that Loki takes the time in an already fast-paced, time-twisting journey to sit with these characters longer than we will likely ever be able to again before the finale. It’s the character development that makes this episode a standout amongst the three episodes of Loki so far. (L-R): Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Sophia Di Martino in Marvel Studios’ LOKI exclusively on Disney+. All of the events and revelations in this episode don’t have to cater to the overarching plot for it to be a meaningful episode of TV. Those life or death circumstances bring out new sides of both characters that make them more appealing heading into the second half of the season. This episode sticks the titular character and Sylvie on a planet that’s doomed to crumble and them with it. Loki uses this to its advantage as a marker for halfway through its season. It lets us experience characters’ perspectives more intimately than we may get to outside of this environment. Bottle episodes can make you root for a character you never thought you would have sided with before. It’s these episodes that trap characters with themselves or others. That assumption is too generalizing for a commonly used tool that pushes characters to a particular conclusion. Some end up handling the issue better than others, and Loki is in the former category with “Lamentis.”įrequently, people brush bottle episodes to the side as filler episodes that don’t contribute to the larger story at hand. The Marvel Studios shows on Disney+ keep coming up against time constraints on such massive stories. But it turns out, Lamentis has come up before in the Marvel Comics.Loki 1×03 “Lamentis,” is a prime example of a great bottle episode and how useful it can be in a shorter season. Since they're too busy trying to escape impending doom, the two don't have much time to mull over the history of the planet, and any possible connections it has to other Marvel characters of the past. At the end of the episode, though, Loki and Sylvie intend to overtake the ark and force it to take off-but then they see the meteor destroy it right in front of their own eyes. But after an on-board fight, the TemPad is crushed, and they really need to escape. In the meantime, Loki and Sylvie board a train heading for the ark, intending to escape the impending doom the ark may have failed to leave the planet before, but it's never had the two of them aboard before. In their timeline, their TemPad-allowing them to travel through the TimeDoors-is out of battery and needs to be charged. However, this ark never takes off, and a meteor strikes it down. In the original timeline, the moon's population heads to an ark intending to escape from impending doom-a planet crashing into it. Īfter an fight early on in the episode, Loki and Sylvie teleport through a TimeDoor to a moon on the verge of apocalypse in 2077 dubbed Lamentis-1.
Episode 3 of Loki, titled "Lamentis," revealed even more information about the variant Sylvie, and brought viewers to a brand new MCU location. Looks like we're not in the Time Variance Authority anymore.
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