[SPOILERS] LOKI S02E01 - Ouroboros

Natalie Holt hitting it out of the park again with the music.

The one glaring flaw in the Marvel universe (even at its height) is that it doesn't have a significant musical presence. Like, here and there a scrap of music gets your ear, but it's not like Star Wars or Harry Potter where there's a nigh-universally-recognized theme. A lot of the music does the work of supporting whatever movie and show, but is otherwise forgettable.

...except on Loki. This show won the jackpot insofar as score goes.

I loved the warning notice in front of the temporal loom room.

"After this threshold risk of spaghettification increases 7000%”

Mobius has some great lines this episode:

"Look, Renslayer kicked me down some steps too"
"I can't keep looking, it looks horrible"
"It looks like your being born, or dying, or both at the same time"
"What's he quality of life with no skin?"
Writing "Skin?" in the dust.

I enjoyed it. Feels just like going back in the world that is Loki Season 1. I'm very curious what General Dox is actually up to. I feel like it's some backup plan she has if everything goes to shit. Looking forward to how this season plays out.

My only criticism is that it was disappointing that the cliffhanger from the end of last season tuned out to be kind of a fakeout.

"Ooooh, so now Loki's in a different timeline or something, and no one remembers him! Lots of possibilities here! Oh, wait, no, everything's back the way it was by the end of the episode, with almost no effort on his part."

Although, maybe there's still more to come for that plot point. I had a fair few plot complaints about Ahsoka early on, but they actually have all gotten addressed.

I WANT MOREEEEEEEEE THAT WAS AWESOME

So, obviously Loki got pulled out of the time stream to fix his immediate problems, but I can only imagine that's going to put him in a very interesting position in the bigger scheme of things.

Does this give him the ability to move around timelines without being affected by the usual TVA weapons? I imagine he can't be pruned twice...can he? Is he going to be invulnerable to some tricks Kang has up his sleeve?

It's also interesting that they probably can't repeat the process of this with others like Mobius and OB, because they had to close down access because the loom is too unstable.

Wild, just last week I saw a picture of McDonald's in the 80s compared to today, so I immediately recognized the place Sylvie entered because of that creepy tree.

OB was awesome!

Ironic how people kept shouting at Marvel that they ignored the world-changing events of the S1 finale, but now it appears that those actually have nothing to do with the events on the main MCU timeline.

When Sylvie finds Loki it looks like he is pruned from the back and we don't see Sylvie do the pruning. Is it possible someone else pruned him? Ravona?

Am mildly disappointed that it seems like Kang isn't going to be recast. On the other hand, good cinema so far, and I'm excited to see what comes next.

Has the domestic abuser been recasted?