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Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Jason Concepcion and I'm Mersday Night,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to a bite sized episode of ectro Vision

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Speaker 1: of the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics,

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Speaker 1: and pop culture.

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Speaker 2: In today's episode, we're doing it Previously on We're catching

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Speaker 2: up on Loki season two as part of a series

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Speaker 2: revisiting all the things we missed while we were on

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Speaker 2: that far too long hiatus and what a way to

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Speaker 2: stop to the loom.

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Speaker 1: After the events of season one, Loki finds himself warping

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Speaker 1: uncontrollably through different eras of the TVA. TVA leadership, including

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Speaker 1: the militaristic General Docs mobilized to stop the timeline for

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Speaker 1: branching and threatening all reality. With the help of a

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Speaker 1: longtime TVA maintenance tech ob Ako. We love you our

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Speaker 1: favorite baby, Yeah Yeah, Loki and mobi Is try to

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Speaker 1: find a solution to Loki's uncontrollable time slips. One thing

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Speaker 1: leads to another. The TVA is nearly destroyed and moby

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Speaker 1: is in Loki head into the rivers of time to

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Speaker 1: find Sylvie. She's in Broxton, Oklahoma, and Man comics fans

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Speaker 1: will be like, Oh, Broxton, Oklahoma. This was the home

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Speaker 2: God was just floating above Broxton, Oklahoma for a while.

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Speaker 3: It was great, weird stuff. Love it.

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Speaker 1: So she's in Broxton in nineteen eighty two eating a

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Speaker 1: lot of fast food, which she's loving McDonald's. She loves McDonald's. Also. Previously,

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Speaker 1: Hunter X five, unhappy with his life as a nameless

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Speaker 1: as a famous actor in nineteen seventies swinging London. Baby.

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Speaker 1: Our heroes find him and they capture him. Max five

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Speaker 3: Just having a good life.

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Speaker 1: Having a good life turns out to be not a

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Speaker 1: great guy. But that's whatever, okay. X five reveals Sylvie's

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Speaker 1: location to them, and we discover that General Dox's big

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Speaker 1: brain plan is to stop the branching by bombing all

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Speaker 1: of these rogue timelines and killing every living thing in

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Speaker 1: all of those realities. Come on, we can't let.

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Speaker 3: That sounds bad. It's not good.

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Speaker 1: In Chicago in the year eighteen sixty eight, Ravona Renslayer

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Speaker 1: and Miss Minutes give a TVA handbook to a very

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Speaker 1: young Victor Time He's like nine or ten this stage,

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Speaker 1: and of course Victor Timely is a version of Kang

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Speaker 1: and who is also a version of He who remains.

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Speaker 1: Loki and Mobius arrive thirty years later in eighteen ninety three,

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Speaker 1: during the famous Cargo World's Fair.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic episode wonderful, Such a good they did, such a good.

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Speaker 3: Job with this.

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Speaker 1: Loki saves Timely from a bunch of different things that

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Speaker 1: another guy trying to enmesh him in a bad business

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Speaker 1: to you and return him to the and they return him.

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Speaker 1: Oh and Miss minnotes being in love with him.

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Speaker 2: I have to say, Look, I'm I'm gonna be a

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Speaker 2: miss Millet's apologistic.

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Speaker 1: I am. Also because Timely is not a good guy.

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Speaker 1: He's a good remains not a good guy.

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Speaker 2: And also she has literally been there the whole time

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Speaker 2: he is a he's a he's he's always doing a

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Speaker 2: And not only that, their little love kind of quotation

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Speaker 3: That he stole that he made all it TVA.

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Speaker 2: Like fucking you know motto while wiping Renslayer's mind and

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Speaker 1: And yeah, yes, you know what a move to like

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Speaker 1: It's a through put issue, so they sent Timely in

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Speaker 1: because Loki the time slipped right before the explosion. He

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Speaker 1: then travels through all these branches of time to find

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Speaker 2: We're going to take a quick break and we'll be

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Speaker 2: right back.

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Speaker 3: Way back.

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Speaker 1: Loki goes back to the TVA and again they try

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Speaker 2: It happens again and again and again and again and again.

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Speaker 2: I have to say, I feel like I would like

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Speaker 3: Like a punishment to the actor who.

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Speaker 2: They kind of fix the problem and then they're like,

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Speaker 2: and it just keeps getting spaghettified. Very cathartic to watch,

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Speaker 3: It's a really they have a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Playing with time and emotion of time in this season.

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Speaker 2: I love this season, I think, and I think this

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Speaker 2: stuff really showcases how good the EMCU can be when

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Speaker 1: I agree, there's a weirdness to Loki season two that

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Speaker 1: I really really love. Okay, so it never nothing ever

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Speaker 1: works the you know, Vicker's getting speak edified. The Loom

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Speaker 1: it can be saved. HWR says if Loki stops Sylvie

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Speaker 1: which Loki, of course he's never gonna do that. That's

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Speaker 1: never gonna come and what are you talking about. Instead,

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Speaker 1: Who knows how many time he goes in himself, struggles

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Speaker 2: Also, I will say, we see Victor timely not getting

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Speaker 3: So as Jason. They set up here.

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Speaker 3: I thought Local Season.

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Speaker 2: One was great, but this had this hard sci fi adventure.

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Speaker 3: I mean you get that.

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Speaker 2: You learn like Loki just wants to be with friends,

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Speaker 1: That's like heartbreaking, It is quite heartbreaking. And I will

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Speaker 1: how the various strands of the MC you could be

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Speaker 1: setting up secret wars which we know is coming. And

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Speaker 1: I think this Loki at the center of time sets

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Speaker 3: He's not always some good stuff.

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Speaker 3: If he came over? If we had him in our timeline.

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Speaker 2: We haven't really had a good villain yet, or it

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Speaker 2: And I think you kind of already answered it because

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Speaker 2: Is Loki Season two gonna shape what happens in the

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Speaker 1: And honestly, it has to be. They have to move

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Speaker 3: I agree.

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Speaker 1: We'll be right back after a quick brick and we're back.

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Speaker 1: Any favorite moments from season two?

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Speaker 2: I actually thought the esthetic production design of the McDonald's

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Speaker 1: Loki was next level good. It was like amazingly good

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Speaker 2: Fan every episode we like to close the show with

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Speaker 2: read this where we recommend comics to read if you

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Speaker 2: I will begin by shouting out one of my all

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Speaker 2: I think, if you like this and you want to

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Speaker 2: about annoying Thor, which is what we all love him for,

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Speaker 2: I would say read Frog Thor by Walt Simon, said.

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Speaker 2: Legendary four three sixty four to three sixty six. It's

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Speaker 1: I will go with why not Thor three seventy two,

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Speaker 1: the first appearance of the time variance authority and right

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Speaker 1: in line with Rosie's pick again with the uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: the incredible Walt Simonson as writer Salba this time hand

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's very I always forget how this issue

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Speaker 2: is very like Judge Dread, like that called like justice Peace,

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Speaker 1: In fact, the cover by Seal of this issue features

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's so two thousand and ad. I

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's such a great issue. Those are some great

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Speaker 2: places to start. And as always, you know, head to

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Speaker 2: the Discord if you want to know more about which

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Speaker 2: comics to read, because we're always in there and the

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Speaker 2: Discord crew always has a great recommendation.

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