WEBVTT - TIme Capsule: Loki Season 2

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

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<v Speaker 1>and welcome to a bite sized episode of ectro Vision

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

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<v Speaker 1>and pop culture.

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

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<v Speaker 2>up on Loki season two as part of a series

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<v Speaker 2>revisiting all the things we missed while we were on

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<v Speaker 2>that far too long hiatus and what a way to

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<v Speaker 2>stop to the loom.

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<v Speaker 1>After the events of season one, Loki finds himself warping

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<v Speaker 1>uncontrollably through different eras of the TVA. TVA leadership, including

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<v Speaker 1>the militaristic General Docs mobilized to stop the timeline for

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<v Speaker 1>branching and threatening all reality. With the help of a

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<v Speaker 1>longtime TVA maintenance tech ob Ako. We love you our

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<v Speaker 1>favorite baby, Yeah Yeah, Loki and mobi Is try to

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<v Speaker 1>find a solution to Loki's uncontrollable time slips. One thing

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<v Speaker 1>leads to another. The TVA is nearly destroyed and moby

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<v Speaker 1>is in Loki head into the rivers of time to

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

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<v Speaker 1>will be like, Oh, Broxton, Oklahoma. This was the home

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<v Speaker 1>of Asgard for Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>God was just floating above Broxton, Oklahoma for a while.

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<v Speaker 3>It was great, weird stuff. Love it.

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<v Speaker 1>So she's in Broxton in nineteen eighty two eating a

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

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<v Speaker 1>Hunter X five, unhappy with his life as a nameless

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<v Speaker 1>TVA drone, slips into the timestream himself to live life

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<v Speaker 1>as a famous actor in nineteen seventies swinging London. Baby.

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<v Speaker 1>Our heroes find him and they capture him. Max five

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<v Speaker 1>then it very mean because he was enjoying himself.

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<v Speaker 3>Just having a good life.

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<v Speaker 1>Having a good life turns out to be not a

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

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<v Speaker 1>location to them, and we discover that General Dox's big

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<v Speaker 1>brain plan is to stop the branching by bombing all

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<v Speaker 1>of these rogue timelines and killing every living thing in

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<v Speaker 1>all of those realities. Come on, we can't let.

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<v Speaker 3>That sounds bad. It's not good.

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<v Speaker 1>In Chicago in the year eighteen sixty eight, Ravona Renslayer

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<v Speaker 1>and Miss Minutes give a TVA handbook to a very

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<v Speaker 1>young Victor Time He's like nine or ten this stage,

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<v Speaker 1>and of course Victor Timely is a version of Kang

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<v Speaker 1>and who is also a version of He who remains.

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<v Speaker 1>Loki and Mobius arrive thirty years later in eighteen ninety three,

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<v Speaker 1>during the famous Cargo World's Fair.

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<v Speaker 2>Fantastic episode wonderful, Such a good they did, such a good.

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<v Speaker 3>Job with this.

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<v Speaker 1>Loki saves Timely from a bunch of different things that

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<v Speaker 1>are going on, including Sylvie trying to kill him and

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<v Speaker 1>another guy trying to enmesh him in a bad business

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<v Speaker 1>to you and return him to the and they return him.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh and Miss minnotes being in love with him.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well I'm s with him.

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<v Speaker 2>I have to say, Look, I'm I'm gonna be a

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<v Speaker 2>miss Millet's apologistic.

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<v Speaker 1>I am. Also because Timely is not a good guy.

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<v Speaker 1>He's a good remains not a good guy.

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<v Speaker 2>And also she has literally been there the whole time

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<v Speaker 2>with him, helping him build the TVA, helping him, so

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<v Speaker 2>she is she can't help it, you know. And Timely

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<v Speaker 2>he is a he's a he's he's always doing a

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<v Speaker 2>little a little heel time like he'll always just be.

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<v Speaker 1>A bad yes, he's guy bre on that in a bit.

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<v Speaker 1>So Yeah, Loki rescues timely from all that stuff and

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<v Speaker 1>returns into the TVA. We then learn that he w

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<v Speaker 1>Remains to your point about the heel turns h w R,

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<v Speaker 1>he w Remains and Renslayer were partners, or at least

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<v Speaker 1>mister Remains said that, Hey, we're gonna be partners in

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<v Speaker 1>this TVA project. Yeah you're gonna go a piece of

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<v Speaker 1>this fifty to fifty down the middle. It's yeah great.

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<v Speaker 2>And not only that, their little love kind of quotation

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<v Speaker 2>they would say to each other for all time, and

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<v Speaker 2>then the other one would say, oh, boys.

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<v Speaker 3>That he stole that he made all it TVA.

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<v Speaker 2>Like fucking you know motto while wiping Renslayer's mind and

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<v Speaker 2>kind of wiping her out of the history.

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<v Speaker 3>Which, you know, if you listen to us.

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<v Speaker 2>Talk about the last season of Loki and stuff, you

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<v Speaker 2>will know that that is very comics accurate, that him

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<v Speaker 2>and Renslayer have this on again, off again love affair

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<v Speaker 2>and they're always kind of betraying each other and saving

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<v Speaker 2>each other.

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<v Speaker 1>And yeah, yes, you know what a move to like

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<v Speaker 1>turn someone from like a fifty to fifty or sixty

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<v Speaker 1>forty partner in something to a salaried employee and wiping

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<v Speaker 1>their mind, so they have no idea that that happened

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<v Speaker 1>to me. Pretty fucked up. Obi then pinpoints the issue

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<v Speaker 1>that's going on with the temporal Loom, which the malfunctioning

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<v Speaker 1>of the Loom is the big problem throughout the season.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a through put issue, so they sent Timely in

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<v Speaker 1>there to fix it, but he immediately gets spaghettified and

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<v Speaker 1>the Loom goes critical, blows up, and everything is destroyed,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's the end of the story. No, it's not,

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<v Speaker 1>because Loki the time slipped right before the explosion. He

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<v Speaker 1>then travels through all these branches of time to find

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<v Speaker 1>his TVA friends who are living their regular, pre memory

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<v Speaker 1>wipe lives, and he gathers them all together to get

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<v Speaker 1>his team together, except for Sylvie, who remembers everything doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>want to go back, and then gets Loki to admit

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<v Speaker 1>that actually he's getting all his friends together because he

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<v Speaker 1>is terrified of being alone. He just can't be alone.

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<v Speaker 1>He needs he can't be alone. He can't be alone

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<v Speaker 1>with his own thoughts and his own emotions. He needs

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<v Speaker 1>to get people and gather them around him to just

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<v Speaker 1>keep him preoccupied thinking about anything but his own affairs

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<v Speaker 1>his own loans.

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<v Speaker 2>We're going to take a quick break and we'll be

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<v Speaker 2>right back.

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<v Speaker 3>Way back.

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<v Speaker 1>Loki goes back to the TVA and again they try

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<v Speaker 1>to fix the loom sending timely in to be keeps

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<v Speaker 1>getting spaghettified.

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<v Speaker 2>It happens again and again and again and again and again.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I just run faster. That's the big idea for

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<v Speaker 1>a little while.

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<v Speaker 2>I have to say, I feel like I would like

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<v Speaker 2>to know if this was like a reshoots situation, because

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<v Speaker 2>it feels.

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<v Speaker 3>Like a punishment to the actor who.

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<v Speaker 2>Play Place Place. You're interesting because at the end of

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<v Speaker 2>episode four, I think was a big like when you

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<v Speaker 2>get spaghettified the first time, you kind of go okay,

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<v Speaker 2>well Kang's not going to be that main villain anymore.

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<v Speaker 2>They kind of fix the problem and then they're like,

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<v Speaker 2>well what if we just killed him like twenty times

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<v Speaker 2>and it just keeps getting spaghettified. Very cathartic to watch,

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<v Speaker 2>but I love that. I love the episode. I love

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<v Speaker 2>that episode where they're just doing the fixes over and

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<v Speaker 2>over again and trying all the different things.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a really they have a lot of fun.

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<v Speaker 2>Playing with time and emotion of time in this season.

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<v Speaker 2>I love this season, I think, and I think this

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<v Speaker 2>stuff really showcases how good the EMCU can be when

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<v Speaker 2>you don't really follow a three x structure and you

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<v Speaker 2>kind of go outside of what we understand films to be.

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<v Speaker 1>I agree, there's a weirdness to Loki season two that

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<v Speaker 1>I really really love. Okay, so it never nothing ever

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

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<v Speaker 1>keeps exploding, but eventually Loki figures out that by concentrating

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<v Speaker 1>on a person in this case, ob caking time slip

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<v Speaker 1>at will. So Loki, using this ability to now loop time,

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<v Speaker 1>loops the Loom mission, trying various fixes, researching advanced science

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<v Speaker 1>and physics, all of which takes like centuries literally time

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<v Speaker 1>just loop again and again. None of it works. He's

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<v Speaker 1>getting frustrated, so finally he slips back to the Citadel

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<v Speaker 1>at the end of time at the end of you

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<v Speaker 1>Will Remember at the end of Loki season one, to

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<v Speaker 1>stop Sylvie from killing Victor Hwr remains. He who remains

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<v Speaker 1>aka Kang hw Remains pauses time and they have a

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<v Speaker 1>conversation and he reveals the true nature of the Loom. Actually,

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<v Speaker 1>the Loom is a failsafe that automatically prunes rogue timelines

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<v Speaker 1>to keep everything in balance, and this prevents the multiversal

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<v Speaker 1>war that will allow Kang the Conqueror to emerge. But

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<v Speaker 1>it can be saved. HWR says if Loki stops Sylvie

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<v Speaker 1>from killing him, which he can do by killing her,

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

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<v Speaker 1>never gonna come and what are you talking about. Instead,

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<v Speaker 1>Loki goes back to the Loom mission instead of sending

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<v Speaker 1>Timely in to get spaghettified for the billion millions up teams.

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<v Speaker 1>Who knows how many time he goes in himself, struggles

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<v Speaker 1>through the forces arrayed against him, goes to the center

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<v Speaker 1>of the timeline, grabs the strands of time, rearranges it

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<v Speaker 1>into a form much like the eaedricill, the tree that

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<v Speaker 1>forms the shape of all reality from Asgardian myth, committing

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<v Speaker 1>himself to sitting at the center of time, keeping everything

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<v Speaker 1>in balance basically forever, like he can't ever leave this,

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<v Speaker 1>and that is the wonderful end of our story. The

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<v Speaker 1>TV goes back to work tracking various hw R remains

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<v Speaker 1>varians across the timelines. Mobius is like, I've had enough

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<v Speaker 1>I quit, I'm going back to live a regular life,

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<v Speaker 1>and Ravona Renslayer wakes up at the feet of Ali

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<v Speaker 1>Off the Devourer. Wow.

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<v Speaker 3>Wow.

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<v Speaker 2>Also, I will say, we see Victor timely not getting

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<v Speaker 2>not getting the TVA book, which says that we could

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<v Speaker 2>be seeing a very different timeline because Ms Minutes and

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<v Speaker 2>Ravona navigave him that book, and obviously as well, I've

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<v Speaker 2>been a big proponent of this for a long time.

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<v Speaker 3>So as Jason. They set up here.

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<v Speaker 2>With you know, Ravona at the end being in kind

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<v Speaker 2>of the mouth of Alley Off and being near that

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<v Speaker 2>space that Ravona could become Kang, which is what happens

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<v Speaker 2>in the comics we've seen it. They're definitely saying that up. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I mean I loved this season. Like for me, I

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<v Speaker 2>know this controversial take, shocking coming from me, but I

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<v Speaker 2>actually preferred it to Loki Season one.

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<v Speaker 3>I thought Local Season.

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<v Speaker 2>One was great, but this had this hard sci fi adventure.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought they balanced the kind of the bright brilliance

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<v Speaker 2>of a character like Obi and with like this really

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<v Speaker 2>bittersweet ending.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean you get that.

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<v Speaker 2>You learn like Loki just wants to be with friends,

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<v Speaker 2>he wants his own Avengers he wants the people he

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<v Speaker 2>loves around him, and the end of the show is

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<v Speaker 2>he has to be alone forever for all eternity to

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<v Speaker 2>save people.

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<v Speaker 1>That's like heartbreaking, It is quite heartbreaking. And I will

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<v Speaker 1>say a thing that we love to talk about is

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<v Speaker 1>how the various strands of the MC you could be

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<v Speaker 1>setting up secret wars which we know is coming. And

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<v Speaker 1>I think this Loki at the center of time sets

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<v Speaker 1>it up pretty well.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean he could be doing some little shenanigans.

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<v Speaker 2>He could hear a little voice for you know, you

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<v Speaker 2>wanna remember he's the god of mischief.

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<v Speaker 3>He's not always some good stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>He's gonna he's gonna. Like that's the other thing, like

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<v Speaker 1>do we get where does he play his mischief? And when?

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<v Speaker 1>Will like it can't be Loki if there isn't some

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<v Speaker 1>keel turns, some small he'll turn coming at some point

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<v Speaker 1>and you have to feel that Lixen. I love Loki.

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<v Speaker 1>I think he's great. As he mentions himself over the

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<v Speaker 1>course of this season, Hey, remember when I sent an

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<v Speaker 1>alien force to invade New York. Remember when that happened,

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<v Speaker 1>and like lots of people got killed and I was

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<v Speaker 1>a really bad guy at that time, When will that

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<v Speaker 1>kind of thing emerge? I think Loki by himself for

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<v Speaker 1>all this time is a recipe for not good stuff

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<v Speaker 1>to happen at a certain point.

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<v Speaker 2>I also think that the classic Loki kind of thing

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<v Speaker 2>is if he gets bored, he causes mischief and he's

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<v Speaker 2>in the center of the timeline, he's incredibly bored. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>if he had that, maybe you know, doctor Doom was causing,

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<v Speaker 2>he'd be like, well, what.

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<v Speaker 3>If he came over? If we had him in our timeline.

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<v Speaker 2>We haven't really had a good villain yet, or it

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<v Speaker 2>might seem that way, but Loki knows that we need

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<v Speaker 2>Doom here to stop someone greater, like the Makup or

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<v Speaker 2>something like that. You know, there's I think there's a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of potential. So that leads to my big question.

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<v Speaker 2>And I think you kind of already answered it because

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<v Speaker 2>and I with you. But how much this is the

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<v Speaker 2>question that the fans are asking, This is the question

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<v Speaker 2>people are our discote asking. How much does this matter?

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<v Speaker 2>Is Loki Season two gonna shape what happens in the

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<v Speaker 2>MCU next, Like, do you feel like I feel like

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<v Speaker 2>it's one of those key shows that will.

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like they've given themselves, whether it's by reshoots

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<v Speaker 1>or however they've done it, they've given themselves a variety

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<v Speaker 1>of ways to go forward. And the key thing is

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<v Speaker 1>they are always to go forward without Kang. Yeah, they've

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<v Speaker 1>already created a timeline in which Young Victor timely does

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<v Speaker 1>not become Kang, does not get any kind of advanced knowledge.

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<v Speaker 1>It becomes just a very smart kid, but not a

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<v Speaker 1>interdimensional multiversal supervillain potentially so. And they've given themselves a

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<v Speaker 1>way to move forward with as you mentioned Ren Slayer

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<v Speaker 1>as that kind of Kang figure, and also as with

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<v Speaker 1>Loki as a potential return to like a chaos bringer

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<v Speaker 1>at this center of creation, they could do all of

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<v Speaker 1>that stuff, and Loki, they've given him a way to

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<v Speaker 1>go off the board but always be there. So I

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<v Speaker 1>think that this will set up and I think this

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<v Speaker 1>will influence a lot of the MC stuff going forward,

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<v Speaker 1>And honestly, it has to be. They have to move

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<v Speaker 1>forward in that way without Cama.

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<v Speaker 3>I agree.

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

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<v Speaker 1>Any favorite moments from season two?

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<v Speaker 3>Obi was my big favorite.

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<v Speaker 2>Moby was I also have to say, even though it

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<v Speaker 2>was obviously like to an extent a bit of a

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<v Speaker 2>cynical cash grab, as we saw with the tie ins.

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<v Speaker 2>I actually thought the esthetic production design of the McDonald's

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<v Speaker 2>set and Sylvie's kind of like Oklahoma aes vibe.

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<v Speaker 3>The vibes are just.

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<v Speaker 2>Really good there, and I really liked I really like

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<v Speaker 2>this kind of like maternal sisterly relationship she had with

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<v Speaker 2>like the sixteen year old manager of the McDonald's. I

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<v Speaker 2>thought they did a good job building out the personal

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<v Speaker 2>lives of everyone, obviously getting to see Mobias go back

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<v Speaker 2>and have the He's like, I've got kids, man, Like

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<v Speaker 2>I can't just leave my kids, and Loki's like, no,

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<v Speaker 2>this is made up, Like this is not your real life.

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<v Speaker 2>Your real life's in the TVA. But for Mobias, that

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<v Speaker 2>was his real life, you know. I felt like they

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<v Speaker 2>balanced the emotional, grounded nature of kind of human storytelling

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<v Speaker 2>with the really bombastic sci fi in a way that

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<v Speaker 2>for me really worked.

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<v Speaker 3>So those were definitely my highlights.

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<v Speaker 1>What about you. I want to shout out Natalie hol

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<v Speaker 1>who was the composer on Loki season one and two

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<v Speaker 1>and also Obi Wan Kenobi and various other film and

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<v Speaker 1>TV projects, because I thought the music I was so

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<v Speaker 1>Loki was next level good. It was like amazingly good

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<v Speaker 1>in fact, like the song that the musical piece that

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<v Speaker 1>carries you out as you're seeing kind of ye you know,

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<v Speaker 1>you're seeing Mobius return to his regular life, and you're

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<v Speaker 1>seeing Victor young, Victor not getting the TVA handbook. You're

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<v Speaker 1>seeing all those things. That piece of music in particular

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<v Speaker 1>was just gorgeous, like just incredible works.

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<v Speaker 3>Give her an Emmy. It was so good.

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<v Speaker 2>Fan every episode we like to close the show with

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<v Speaker 2>a verty of fast moving segments. Today it's like that

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<v Speaker 2>read this where we recommend comics to read if you

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<v Speaker 2>like the show or movie we're talking about. This week,

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<v Speaker 2>it is comics to read if you like Loki season two.

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<v Speaker 2>I will begin by shouting out one of my all

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<v Speaker 2>time favorite comics that I am very lucky enough to

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<v Speaker 2>have because there was a time when no one.

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<v Speaker 3>Cared about this stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>I think, if you like this and you want to

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<v Speaker 2>kind of get an inkling of that Loki who is

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<v Speaker 2>both antagonist and friend and brother but mostly cares most

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<v Speaker 2>about annoying Thor, which is what we all love him for,

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<v Speaker 2>I would say read Frog Thor by Walt Simon, said.

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<v Speaker 1>One of our.

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<v Speaker 2>Legendary four three sixty four to three sixty six. It's

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<v Speaker 2>the nineteen eighty six story and it's basically like leans

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<v Speaker 2>into the weirdness like this season did. It is Loki

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<v Speaker 2>has this prank filled plan to best his brother and

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<v Speaker 2>turns him into a frog while heading off to takeover Asgard.

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<v Speaker 2>But it goes awry, leaving frog Thor in a kind

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<v Speaker 2>of dangerous animal world that he has to go through

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<v Speaker 2>and introducing an impostor in the place of the true

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<v Speaker 2>air to Asgard, and it becomes this kind of wild

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<v Speaker 2>pet avengers adjacent animal fantasy, kind of like animals of

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<v Speaker 2>farthing Wood. But then you also get you know, buff

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<v Speaker 2>six foot four frog Thor, which I love, and there's

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<v Speaker 2>just lots of fun with kind of Kirby esque as

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<v Speaker 2>guardian intrigue and red wool animal fantasy that comes together

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<v Speaker 2>in like a very silly and fun finale that feels

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<v Speaker 2>very true to the the vibes of this season.

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<v Speaker 1>I will go with why not Thor three seventy two,

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<v Speaker 1>the first appearance of the time variance authority and right

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<v Speaker 1>in line with Rosie's pick again with the uh, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>the incredible Walt Simonson as writer Salba this time hand

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<v Speaker 1>legends non stop legends on this particular issue, and uh, folks,

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna get your intro into the time variance authority

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<v Speaker 1>and the visual of like endless desks upon desks upon

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<v Speaker 1>desks upon desks. Uh. And it's super super fun to

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<v Speaker 1>see where the idea for this entire thing starts.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and it's very I always forget how this issue

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<v Speaker 2>is very like Judge Dread, like that called like justice Peace,

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<v Speaker 2>Justice Mills like and I mean, like Jack the Ripper

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<v Speaker 2>is in this issue. Like it's so because Beary Bill

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<v Speaker 2>Sith Warriors three, like this is a thor Sma goes board.

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<v Speaker 1>In fact, the cover by Seal of this issue features

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<v Speaker 1>a TVA Hunter, who I mean is very clearly a

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<v Speaker 1>nod to Judge Dread.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean it's so two thousand and ad. I

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<v Speaker 3>love it.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's such a great issue. Those are some great

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<v Speaker 2>places to start. And as always, you know, head to

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<v Speaker 2>the Discord if you want to know more about which

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<v Speaker 2>comics to read, because we're always in there and the

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<v Speaker 2>Discord crew always has a great recommendation.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for listening, Thanks for listening, Bye see you next time.

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