In the midst of a 2023 to be forgotten, a couple of projects stood out for Marvel Studios. For cinemas, fans enjoyed the closing of the trilogy of Guardians of the Galaxy. On the television side, we had the second season of Lokiwhose ending explained in the words of its creative team not only satisfactorily closes what is perhaps the best MCU series to date, but also offers several exciting possibilities for the future in the Multiverse Saga.
“I think we knew [el final de Loki] in Season 1,” he commented. producer Kevin Wright to Entertainment Weekly. “The question was: How do you want that to feel to the audience? There is a triumphant and superheroic version, or a version in which there is a sinister twist. But it was always about the emotional journey we wanted people to go on. It was about building that journey to be as cathartic as possible and feel like a reward for six movies and 12 episodes over 12 years with [Loki]. It was always about building that arc to be as satisfying as possible”.
The ending explained Loki, season 2
How does the second season of Loki? Well, this variant of the Asgardian god, who was extracted after escaping with the Tesseract after the battle against the Avengers in New York, finally claimed the throne he had longed for his entire existence. But not in the way he wanted.
In the season finale, Loki takes full advantage of his control of the “time lag.” He spends centuries searching for the method to prevent the Temporal Loom and the Authority of Temporal Variation (AVT) from collapsing. After numerous failures, “He Who Remains” confirms that, no matter what he does, the AVT is destined to fall into that scenario. The temporal loom only acts as a failsafe for him to purge all timelines except the Sacred Timeline.
Loki now basically has two options: 1) let Sylvie kill “He Who Remains,” the Time Loom collapses, and start another multiversal war between the Kang variants, or 2) kill Sylvie and help “He Who Remains” keep the Sacred Timeline safe. Is it worth giving the free will Multiverse another chance? when the outcome seems predestined: “He who remains” reigning at the end of the conflict?
In that moment, Loki understands his “glorious purpose.” He replaces the temporal loom and breathes life into the very fabric of space-time: one reminiscent of the legendary Yggdrasil tree of Norse mythology. Willing to remain alone on that throne at the end of time for the rest of eternity, Loki sacrifices himself to give the Multiverse that chance to fight the Kang threat and their eventual war.
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No more God of Lies, Loki, the God of Stories, has been born. This is how he explained it Eric Martin, main writer of the series Loki, in interview with deadline:
“Going into season 2, I felt it was an opportunity to give seriousness to the series and level it up. Because we moved in a straight line and got to the man behind the curtain and the stakes were high at the end of the season. Let’s keep going up. Let’s keep building that,” he commented. “The idea was always that Loki would finally get his throne when it was the last thing he wanted. Like Atlas, he is charged with a purpose and his purpose is to hold all time together. He has replaced the loom. He has become so powerful that only he can keep time together.”.
The creative team behind Loki knows that to give so much power to this charismatic character, played by Tom Hiddleston, I had to earn it first. The more difficult the journey, the more satisfying the conclusion. No matter how painful it is in this case.
“If we are going to go up [a Loki] level to be this God with a capital D, you have to earn it. It has to be really plausible in the sense that he now has incredible knowledge and is incredibly powerful. Which Time gives us all wisdom. He is now incredibly wise. He has lived a lot. It felt absolutely necessary to subject him to all of that”.
For Kevin Wright, it is a “poetic” ending that is perfectly in line with who Loki is. These were his words in a separate interview for Marvel.com:
“Loki was looking for a family, he wanted a place to belong. He found his place on this island of misfit toys at the AVT. They’re all there from somewhere else [en el tiempo]. He is there from another place,” continues the producer. “[Loki] It has never fit. She’s always been the outside person, so she fits in. But to protect that and keep everyone else safe, he can’t be there anymore. I think he’s beautiful and tragic, and he’s so Loki”.
Loki’s future in the MCU
However, a greater criticism of the House of Ideas post-Avengers: Engame it’s how disconnected the projects feel from each other. Although most would seem like pieces of a larger puzzle, they rarely fit together. Entire plots and character stories are thrown out or contradicted from title to title. Is this great development of Loki in the same danger?
Certainly, the series would seem to leave it as a key piece to keep in mind in the future. Avengers: The Kang Dynasty either Avengers: Secret Wars. Will he remain solely the support that holds the Multiverse together or will he be more than a spectator in the coming conflict?
The good news? Wright, who is also a production and development manager at Marvel Studios, thinks the company will begin to reorganize so that there will be more conversations between producers about the development of projects in the MCU.
“I can’t tell you how other people [al interior de Marvel Studios] they will understand [el final de Loki]because we simply have not had those conversations,” he asserted to deadline. “[Pero] there will be a greater emphasis on trying to ensure that everyone is working on the same page, from the same script. I think that’s, in part, trying to get these writers on the side of Loki, who had been living in this world apart, maybe hopefully get involved in other projects so they can help out or just have better conversations between producers internally. We’ve told almost 12 hours of Loki’s story in the hopes that they would reach out to us a little bit and say, ‘Hey, does this line up with what you’ve been doing?’ “It will probably help us tremendously.”
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Having said that, is this the end of Loki? Is this a season finale or the series finale? Eric Martin previously stated to CinemaBlend who approached this task as two halves of a book: “First season, first half. Second season, we close the book on Loki and the TVA.” Wright simply replies to E.W.: “You can’t be the God of Stories if you’re not going to tell more stories.”
“I’m thinking about [Loki] like a kind of comic and this is the end of that comic,” said the producer. “Again, I speak for myself and not Marvel, but certainly I’m presenting ideas about where certain stories could go. I think there are a lot of stories you can tell with AVT, and we’re just scratching the surface on that. I would also love to see more stories with Lokiand I think Tom [Hiddleston] He would continue playing this character until he became Richard E. Grant’s classic Loki (laughs). But I don’t think that means you should have this story every year or every two years. It’s about doing it when we have a good story to tell.”
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Both seasons of Loki They are available on Disney Plus.