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I'm Johnny DC. And I'm his twin brother, Marvelous Joe. And in this episode, we are reviewing Season 2 of the Disney Plus series, Loki. It was only six episodes, but they were actually pretty good episodes. Yeah, for my money's worth, this season was actually the best season. that Marvel Studios has to offer on the Disney Plus platform. So stay tuned for that review later on in this episode. Before that, we have a ton of news to go over, considering that we didn't
break down any news from last week due to my business trip. But in this episode, we're going to be talking about how Superman Legacy has cast Lex Luthor, Jimmy Olsen, Eve Tesmacher, and the Engineer. We'll be talking about a bunch of trailers, including Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Madame Web, Justice League Crisis on Infinite Earths, and Marry Little Batman as well. Yeah, we're gonna have to speak in our chipmunk voices, just like speed through it
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video game characters. Stay tuned for a trailer of that upcoming show at the end of this podcast. Yeah, I can't wait for that one. Visit dynamicpodcasts.com or click the link in our show notes to listen to all of the shows in the Dynamike Podcast Network. Real quick, we wanna give a shout out to patrons Lizzie Dyer Arnie and the Kamacho Twins. All three of them had their birthdays this past week. Lizzie, if I could give you anything from Marvel, it would be the ability
to time slip, because getting older just sucks. And I think it would be cool to travel through time that way, just like Loki. And I would give you Wesley Dodd's dreaming power. That way you can tell the future and see if you want to travel there. And for the Kamacho twins, if I could give you anything from the world of Marvel, I'm trying to think of the most prominent twins in Marvel. Probably Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver. So one of you gets reality
warping powers. and one of you gets super speed. I'll let you guys pick which one gets which. And in honor of the Wonder Twins, I would give you, Scott, the power to turn into any animal and Gilly, you get the ability to turn into a bucket of water. Cause you like Marvel. The Marvel powers are just so much better. Happy birthday guys, thanks for being patrons. Happy birthday. But with that out of the way, quick to the no prize. The No Prize is an award Marvel
used to give out to fans. Our version, the Dynamic Duel No Prize, is a digital award that we post on Instagram and in our email newsletter for the person that we feel gave the best answer to our question of the week. So two weeks ago, we asked what other characters from the Sandman universe do you hope get their own series on Netflix? And this was a tie in to the first trailer that we got for the Dead Boy Detective's Netflix series, which itself is a supposed
tie in. to the Sandman universe that they've established on that streaming platform. You guys had two weeks to answer and we got two answers. That just means it wasn't a great question. I will say that one of the answers was unusable because whoever called it in whispered the entire time pretending to be Batman and it just could not be understood. But between the two answers that were understandable, one of them gets an honorable mention and the other
one gets no prize win. So our honorable mention goes to Lizzie Dyer Arnie. Who said? Hey, it's Lizzie. No contest here. If Sandman character gets her own spinoff, it's gotta be my boy Wesley Dodds, aka Sandman Mystery Theater. It's the greatest comic you've never read. I like to describe it as Batman meets SVU. It's set in the 1930s. I think it would attract fans of shows like Boardwalk Empire and the now canceled Perry Mason. You know, what's HBO's loss could
be Netflix's gain. Yeah. So Sandman Mystery Theater was a vertigo comic book. It was the same imprint that also published the Sandman comics, and it was established that Wesley Dodds, the original Golden Age Sandman, received dreams from Morpheus. The comic was very, very detective noir, and I think it would translate fantastically into a show, especially the way
Lizzie described it. Yeah, I always liked the JSA character of Sandman. A lot of people kind of maybe write him off as just a guy with a sleeping gas gun and a gas mask, but kind of similar to the question. there's a lot more going on there than first impressions may imply. I think he's a fascinating character. Yeah, he's a great like pulpy character, sort of like the green hornet or the shadow. I feel like there's a lot that they could do with
the character on screen that they just haven't done yet. Yeah, especially as a period piece as Lizzie described it. For sure. So great answer Lizzie, but the winner of this week's No Prize is Luke Tucker, who said, Hey guys, this is Luke. I think they should make a death spinoff series with the premise being based on the line that she tells Dream in the comics about how she'll put the chairs on the table, turn off the lights, and lock the door to the universe
once the last living thing dies. The series could follow her through time, witnessing the past, present, and the future, with the ending of the series being her witnessing the last living thing die and locking the door to the universe as everything passes on. Thanks, guys. So if you had the chance to listen to my guest spot, on the Mad Trivia podcast. You know that I love existential film. And this sounds like the most existential series that could ever
be made. Yeah, especially how Luke describes it where we witness her travel through time. You know, the episode that involved death in the Sandman Netflix series was one of my favorite episodes because we got to see Dream, like, you know, travel through time, through the centuries, and I just thought that was fascinating. Yeah, honestly, I don't even know if you need
to necessarily follow death. Like she's obviously like a recurring character, but I think it could be almost like an anthology series just telling stories about these people on their last days, you know, before they die. Sort of like the animated short that we got for death. It just told the last day of this artist. Yeah, of course she would show up at the end of every episode. Exactly. Yeah, that sounds perfect. So fantastic answer, Luke Tucker. You win this
week's No Prize. If listeners want a shot at winning their own No Prize, stay tuned to later on in this episode when we'll be asking another Question of the Week. And now that that's done... On to the news! Okay, so these past two weeks we've gotten a slew of casting news for Superman Legacy thanks to The Actor's Strike, which ended a few weeks earlier. We've been expecting this for quite a few films and I'm really excited to say that it looks like, according to Deadline, Nicholas
Holt has been cast as Lex Luthor for the movie. Of course, he was up for the role of Superman, but he lost out on that role to David Cornsweat. A lot of people were fan-casting him as a potential Lex Luthor because he has this great sort of like villainous look to him, I think. But I'm super excited about this news. Oh, it's fantastic casting. He's had some villainous turns in other movies, like the menu. He wasn't really a villain so much as a weirdo in that movie.
But yeah, he can play a fantastic Dastardly character and especially opposite David Cornsweat. I think this is brilliant. I really can't wait to see it. I think he'll be the best Lex Luthor we've gotten. since Gene Hackman. Oh yeah, I think he's gonna be the best Lex Luthor we've ever had. And I said the same thing for Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. The casting choices that they're making for this film are just absolutely perfect. Including the news that Skyler Gazzando
is playing Jimmy Olsen. He looks the role to a T. Holy crap. I saw him in the vacation reboot, sequel, recue. He was pretty good in that one. I could totally see him in this role. Great comedic actor, I hope they make Jamie Olsen a comedic character. And since it's a James Gunn film and he tends to be, you know, more comedic with his films like Guardians of the Galaxy, I bet that's what the role is going to be. And I bet Skyler is going to knock it
out of the park because he's great. We also got news that Sarah Sampayo is going to be Eve Tessmacher, who anyone who's seen the Superman film directed by Richard Donner in the 70s knows that she's Lex Luthor's girlfriend. I'm actually kind of surprised she's in this movie and I'm not quite sure what route they're gonna take with the character. Like, are they gonna make her like a badass, like Mercy Graves or something like that? Or are they gonna make
her more comedic, sort of like that first Superman movie? It's almost like the Superman legacy movie is going to pay homage to Superman, the movie from the 70s. Yeah, that is interesting. In our last bit of casting news, we also learned that Maria Gabriella de Feria, a Venezuelan actress, is going to play the role of the engineer. Now the Engineer is a character who is a member
of the Authority from the Wildstorm comics. She is a robotic type character. Her body is made up of nanobots and it's rumored that she's actually like a sub-villain for the larger threat that will be posed by Brainiac. Hopefully that's the case because I think a lot of people are rooting for Brainiac to be the villain of this movie considering he's like probably the biggest Superman villain that has yet to appear in a Superman live-action movie. early stories
and his origin and stuff like that, it seems almost like a no-brainer to go with him. Yeah, definitely low-hanging fruit there. I really hope Brainiac is in the movie. And that brings us to our question of the week. If Brainiac is the villain in Superman Legacy, who would you cast as the character, and why? Record your answer at dynamicduel.com by clicking on the red microphone button in the bottom
right hand corner of the screen, which will prompt you to leave us a voicemail. Your message could be up to 30 seconds long, and don't forget to leave your name in case we include you on the podcast. We'll pick our favorite answer, and award that person a Dynamic Duel No Prize that we'll post to Instagram and our email newsletter. Be sure to answer before- December 2nd. Again, great casting choices, perfect casting choices. In my opinion, I can't wait to see what James
Gunn is going to do with Superman Legacy, which comes out July 11th, 2025. Before that, we've got Aquaman coming out this December, for which tickets just went on sale and Warner Brothers has released a trailer to coincide with that. It's a short trailer. It's only a minute and 30 seconds long, but there's a lot of new footage that we haven't seen in prior trailers. It starts off with Aquaman talking to his infant son, who's communicating with Goldfish in a
tank. It's pretty adorable, honestly. But we learned through the course of this trailer that the key to Black Manta accessing this super powerful army to fight against Aquaman and Atlantis is the royal bloodline, of which Aquababy is the last member. Right, so it looks like Black Manta kidnaps Aquababy. from Aquaman's father's lighthouse and I think they can't be more blatant that this baby is gonna die. Which would be super tragic because it's a
cute baby. We know that James Wan doesn't really hold back when it comes to, you know, violence. Yeah, I mean the movie looks amazing. You know, everything from the Dead King to Black Manta to all the Underwater battles between Aquaman and Black Manta that we're gonna see. It looks breathtaking as usual. I'm not surprised there and I really can't wait to see the movie. December 22nd. I already have my tickets. Do you? No. Well, get them. It's the end of an era, people.
This is the last film in the DCEU. Allegedly. I don't know. According to Jason Momoa, it is. Yeah, the trailer's pretty good. It looks like it's gonna be a good movie. You know what it looks like is not gonna be a good movie and was a shitty trailer? Madame Webb? How do you like that transition? I liked it a lot. God, this... Sony does not know what the hell they're
doing. This past week, we got the first official trailer for Madame Web, and it looks about as bad as we were all thinking it would be. Dakota Johnson plays apparently Cassandra Webb. We thought she was playing Julia Carpenter, because her version of Madame Web looks exactly like the Julia Carpenter version from the comics. But Sydney Sweeney, one of the actresses in this movie, is actually playing Julia Carpenter, one of the Spider Women. So... Yeah, I think
Dakota Johnson is playing Cassandra Webb. She, of course, has the power of premonition like she does in the comics, but it plays out in the course of this trailer, like an iteration of the Final Destination franchise, where she sees all this horrible stuff happen and then she's able to prevent it from happening through her powers. It's like Final Destination with a little bit of crime talk day. Yeah, a little bit. We learned that Madam Webb was a paramedic
alongside Uncle Ben. who's played by Adam Scott in this movie. She has a near-death experience, which I guess ties her into the web of life and destiny, where she can see the future. And she basically witnesses this crazy guy with spider powers kill these three girls who also have spider powers. Now, the villain of this movie is going to be a character named Ezekiel, who was introduced in the J. Michael Straczynski run in the Spider-Man comics. He is basically
a guy with spider powers that he received in a ritual in the jungle. and he tells Peter Parker Spider-Man all about the spider totem and how every character that has an animal-based ability is tied into the animalistic totem and some totems feed on others and there's also this vampiric race of beings known as the Inheritors of which a character called Moralune is a part of that feeds off of these totems. It makes no sense for the character of Ezekiel to be
attacking these women as he is. It also makes no sense for him to dress up in this dark Spider-Man outfit. Uh, what the fuck is that? I mean, is that Ezekiel in the Spider-Man outfit? I don't know. Or is the black Spider-Man guy a version of Morlun, the inheritor? I don't know what's going on here, but it all looks really bad and a horrible way to introduce elements from the Spider-Man universe into a film. I mean, yeah, the movie looks bad, but also doesn't look
bad regarding the cinematography. I actually liked that. Well, you are the only one in that. Really? Sure. I mean, like the cinematography is fine. It looks like a movie, right? What what's special about the cinematography here, Jonathan? The women look good and well lit in their costumes. I actually thought the girls look a little bit silly in their costumes.
So we have here Julia Carpenter, who was a character called Spider Woman in the comics. She was actually the Spider Woman in the Secret Wars event, who eventually in the comics became. her own version of Madame Web after Cassandra Web died. She's played by Sydney Sweeney. We also have Anya Corazon here. She got her powers from the Spider Society, which was founded by Ezekiel as a- I didn't know she was in the movie, actually. I saw her and I was like,
what is Hawk Girl doing in this movie? That's right. Yeah. Because Isabella Mercer, it was also cast in Superman Legacy as Hawk Girl. So it looks like she is pulling double duty for both Marvel and DC. Yeah. And the third lady is Maddie Franklin. She's also Spider Woman and she has the spider legs that sprout from her back, just like in the comic books. It's
all very strange to see these essentially D-less characters in this film. I hope it doesn't really dilute the brand or confuse audiences as to what the hell is going on regarding the character of Spider-Man. This whole string of movies that plays within the Spider-Man universe without actually showing the character of Spider-Man is just getting ridiculous now. And I think seeing these Spider-Women characters within this trailer serves to highlight that. It's
weird having them without actually Spider-Man showing up. And especially when you have the villain dressing up like Spider-Man. That's so weird. Yeah, that was weird. But I mean, honestly, Spider-Man could show up in this movie. It's not out of the realm of possibility, but I bet you he's not gonna. At the very best you'll get like a cameo from Morbius or Venom or something like that. It's Morbin time. The trailer does show some of the action, which looks pretty
good. To me, it just looks very much like Final Destination where essentially we'll see an entire scene play out and then it turns out, oh, that entire thing that just happened was a premonition. This is how it's really going to play out. I recently saw the film Suspiria over Halloween. I was watching a bunch of scary movies and that was actually the first time I've ever seen Dakota Johnson in a role because I never saw. 50 Shades of Grey. Gosh, she's
not that great of an actress. If you thought her line delivery within this trailer was a little bit stiff, expect more, I'll say, when the movie actually comes out. Yeah, I mean, I'm not expecting any Oscars for this film, except for maybe costume design. I doubt that. But we'll find out when the movie comes out in February. Moving on to the animated trailers. We got the first Justice League Crisis on Infinite Earths trailer, which apparently is going to
kick off a trilogy of films that are coming out next year. Now, the trailer is titled the official trilogy trailer, so I'm not sure how much of the footage from it comes from just part one of the trilogy, or if it spans more than that. Crisis on Infinite Earths part one, of course, takes place immediately following the events of Justice League Warworld, which
we reviewed recently. and which was not great. Actually a lot of the recent movies set in the animated Tomorrow vs Universe, which this trilogy will take place, are not good I would say. So I can't say that I'm looking forward to it and I can't really say that this trailer did anything for me. Honestly, I'm probably looking forward to it even less because of
this trailer. Particularly because there was an issue we mentioned in Justice Society World War 2 that also appears to be happening in Barry Allen has no nose when he's in profile It just bothers me That's just nitpicking. I think really the reason why this trailer did nothing for you is because it doesn't give a clear idea Of what the story is actually we see a lot of shots of dramatic things happening such as worlds disappearing and stuff But without the
stories context, it feels like there's no real emotional stakes tied to any of this. Hopefully we get a true trailer for part one of this trilogy that'll shed some light on exactly what's going on here. Yeah, it does look like Barry Allen and Supergirl are going to be playing large roles in this trilogy, which makes sense considering, you know, they had major roles in the comic book version. We don't have a release date yet for any of the three films, though we do know
that all three will be coming out next year. And you know, we'll be reviewing them once they do come out. This past week we also got a trailer for What If Season 2 which features a very different style of animation. Some would say better and they would be correct. Especially when you watch the two trailers for DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths and What If Season 2, you can tell right off the bat that Disney's bringing their A-game when it comes to the animation.
Uh, okay. I loved this What If Season 2 trailer. I thought it looked really good. Visually at least, I don't know if the stories that it tells are going to be any better than season one But we're gonna get some pretty cool concepts here at the very least including a early version of the Avengers Which seems to include Captain Mar-Vell, the Winter Soldier, Ant-Man and T'Chaka, Black Panther's father That looks like it'll be pretty cool But we also get a scene of Hela
and the Asgardians going up against Wenwu and his ten rings We see strange Supreme make a return from season one as well as Captain Carter. They're gonna continue those stories, those being some of the better episodes from season one. But most importantly, and the thing I'm most excited to see, is that there appears to be an episode that focuses on a race on the planet of Sakaar that involves Iron Man in some kind of like Hulkbuster racing car, Gamora,
Valkyrie. It looks like something straight out of Mad Max, and it's gonna be an absolute blast, it seems. The action looks incredible. Yeah, that episode looks like it's gonna be pretty good, not gonna lie. It looks like some of the episodes rehash the events from Infinity War, and one of them is going to be about Happy Hogan in a die-hard Christmas-type situation, which
is gonna be a lot of fun. That episode is actually gonna drop on Christmas Day. What's really interesting is that, actually, the first episode of season two is gonna drop on December 22nd, and then we're gonna get one episode a day every day. until the end of the year, which is a new method of releasing episodes for Disney Plus, but I'm looking forward to it. I think it'll be a fun kind of holiday break where it's like we get to unwrap a new What If present
every day. Yeah, it's like a advent calendar in a way. Yeah. Of course, our review for What If Season Two isn't going to drop until early 2024. Yeah, in January, but What If Season Two will be incorporated into our 2023 Brothers Awards. It will be in consideration for those awards. As will... Merry Little Batman, which is an animated film that will be premiering
on Amazon Prime on December 8th. I wasn't sure if we were going to review this, but after seeing this trailer, I'm like, we got it, because this just looks like the cutest, most fun holiday Batman film ever. The thing that actually appeals to me the most is the animation style. Again, all three of these animated trailers that we're discussing have very different animation styles.
But Merry Little Batman is definitely the most unique and the most cartoony, and very much in keeping with the kind of lighthearted style of the story that is trying to tell it seems. Yeah, it's a kid's story that centers around Damien Wayne, who tries to take up the mantle of Batman while his father is away during Christmas. The fact that the Joker is trying to steal
Christmas in Gotham is fantastic. Like, I know they stole that from The Grinch. But I can't wait to see that play out on screen, because the Joker is, you know, pretty much a Grinch. It looks like the film is going to be filled with a ton of cute jokes. You know, whether they're talking about donut crumbs and Batman's beard, or the Joker asking who gave the little kid explosives. Honestly, I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie with my own children.
Yeah, it kind of looks like the Grinch meets Home Alone meets Batman. What? Sold. Cannot be more sold. Honestly I don't want to like this trailer because it's DC but every time I watch it puts a smile on my face so I think it'll be a great time this holiday season. If you guys have Amazon Prime definitely check it out and definitely check out a review of it after it drops December 8th.
But I think that does it for all the news for this episode. Holy cow, that was a lot. Now let's move on to the main event, where we review season two of the Marvel Studios television series, Loki. Okay, Loki Season 2 was directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead and stars Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Sofia DiMartino, and Jonathan Majors. The season immediately continues the story
of Loki Season 1, so right up top, I'm gonna give you guys your spoiler warning. Don't hurt yourself by listening to this review before watching Loki Season 2, which is incredible, I highly recommend it, and don't skip Loki Season 1 either. So spoiler warning for that season in this review as well. Yeah, if you haven't seen Loki season one, definitely do so. It's fantastic. This is coming from a DC guy. In my opinion, Loki is the best thing that Marvel's
put out on the Disney Plus platform. I don't disagree for sure. In season one, the Loki variant from Avengers Endgame was arrested by the Time Variance Authority whose job it is to eliminate branches to what they refer to as the Sacred Timeline. Along the way, he met another Loki variant named Sylvie, and the two worked together to uncover the mystery behind the TVA and the man who created it, a Kang variant named He Who Remains. Sylvie killed He Who
Remains, resulting in a branching Marvel multiverse, and sent Loki back to the TVA. That's the most basic of recaps for season 1. We rated it 4 stars on this podcast when it came out. Basically, I remember saying everything about that season was amazing, the only thing I didn't like was that I felt the character of Loki lost some of his agency to Sylvie, who it seemed really
took on the protagonist role. But the same could not be said of this season too, where Loki is front and center, supported by a strong cast of characters, including Sylvie and Mobius, and a great new addition named Ouroboros played by Kei-Hui Kuan. I really like this season. Even more than I liked the first season. And I agree, I think this is unequivocally Marvel
Studios best series to date. I'm not sure if I liked this season more than last season, but I think it's a worthy successor, I guess you could say, to season one, which I think is probably the most important thing that Marvel Studios has put out story-wise after Avengers Endgame. Yeah, for sure. It really kicked off the multiversal saga, at least like the reasoning behind the Marvel multiverse, right? Season one was great. this season, yeah, I think is
a worthy successor. I think it does a great job of picking up the pieces where the story left off. And plus the show is just an audio visual masterpiece, I think. Holy cow. The cinematography, the art direction and the production design is all top tier. It's phenomenal, just like it was in season one where everything is gorgeous and often even better looking than the theatrical films that Marvel Studios produces. No, I agree. Sometimes I think that the Marvel
films get a little too candy-coated in terms of the cinematography. Loki is something that definitely shines in terms of cinematography in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Yeah, if you describe the Marvel Studios theatrical films as being kind of candy-coated, like the Marvels, like Guardians of the Galaxy 3, like Ant-Man Quantumania, I would describe the Loki television series as being like antique bronze-coated. It just has that feel. Yeah, yeah, I can see
that. Or like a rich leather and mahogany finish. Yeah, it just looks different from everything else. They did a fantastic job of sticking to a very specific color palette throughout the show. And I just couldn't take my eyes off the screen the whole time. It was just gorgeous. The show sounds great, too, with one of the most unique and atmospheric scores out of any media, honestly, film or television series masterfully composed by Natalie Holt, who I kind of feel
like came out of nowhere, starting with Loki season one a few years ago. to become one of the most compelling artists in her craft currently. Oh yeah, I love the synthetic score that they have for Loki. It's so damn good. I think we mentioned in our review of season one that it just reminds me of something from, I don't know, like Clockwork Orange or something like that. Yeah. There's something dated, but it works really well with the tone of the show.
Yeah, it's atmospheric, it's slightly eerie, but above all things, it's interesting. So you have the audio, you have the visuals, and the direction by Benson and Moorhead. really well done here. They didn't work on the first season of Loki, but they did direct some of the episodes of Moon Knight, which is also one of Marvel Studios' most cinematic feeling shows. And I think they have a great command of the camera and storytelling sense to pull the most
emotion and shock and coolness from a scene. We know Matt Shackman is going to direct the Fantastic Four film for Marvel Studios. He was hired for that based on his work on the WandaVision television series. And I think Benson and Moorhead also deserve to be tapped for a full length feature film in the future, because if Moon Knight and Loki are anything to go by, they would do fantastic. Yeah, I mean, Destin Daniel Cretton is no longer going to direct Avengers
the Kang Dynasty. So why not tap these guys for that film? I would love that, honestly. I would love that. Especially since it's just continuing Kang's story. Right, exactly. And they did a great job with Victor Timely in this season. I could totally see that. With how great everything looks and feels with this show, I just wish Marvel would take a more artistic approach like this to their other projects. And if Vincent and Moorhead were tapped for
the King dynasty, I think they might bring that more artistic approach to the film. The story of the Loki series is such that I'm not really surprised wherever it goes because the nature of the TVA is that you can kind of take the story to any time or place imaginable. But in the first season, you know, we went to first century Pompeii, alien planets like Lomantis 1. We went to the void at the end of time. Whereas in season two, we went to such exciting places
like Oklahoma in the 80s, London in the 70s, and 19th century Chicago. Although I'll admit that Chicago was an impressive period setting. But the story really scales back from all the time hopping to focus more on the TVA and the ramifications that a multiverse has on that organization. It was kind of a bit more of a smaller scale story in that regard, but with
more focus on this primary group of characters. And I actually really enjoyed the time that we got to spend at the TVA with Ouroboros and the gang as they tried to solve the problem of the temporal loom. Yeah, I didn't mind the scaled back nature of the series. I thought six episodes was perfect. I thought they did enough interesting things with the story that it didn't really matter that it didn't have much action or set pieces or something like
that. I just enjoyed where the story took me. You mentioned that the show doesn't really surprise you. I was surprised so many times during this season, and I think that's one of the reasons I really enjoyed it. Yeah, there were several cliffhangers at the end of the episodes that just left me with my jaw open, you know, like really ready to just binge the next episode and see what the heck is going on. Did you binge the series or did you watch
it week to week? I watched the first two episodes. as they came out and then I watched the last four episodes. I binged them before I wrote the review. Okay, yeah, see this series, if I was watching it week to week, I feel like I would have just hated that. Cause I would have just been thinking like the whole week, like what the hell is happening? For sure, yeah, it could be infuriating, but also infuriating is, you know, getting spoiled ahead of time
on what's gonna happen on the show. So I was at least glad that even though I waited to binge the series, I wasn't really spoiled on anything major that happens at the end. Well, I was spoiled on a few things but I had no context for them, so it ended up not being too much of a spoiler. Yeah, I will say that watching the first two episodes as they came out, my
impression of the show was that it was fine, you know? I didn't think we really were getting into the meat of the story until I binged the last four and those last four episodes starting with Chicago and Victor Timely leading up into the- final two episodes, which I thought were absolutely fantastic in movie quality, there was like a vast difference in the quality of the show, where the first two episodes weren't bad, but the last two episodes were just sublime.
Oh man, yeah, the last two episodes took the show to a whole other level. I would agree that the first couple of episodes, I thought they were okay, I agree with you, but the last two episodes does things that I never thought Marvel Studios would ever do in terms of like artistic quality for a series based on a comic book. Yeah, or what Marvel Studios would do for the character of Loki. You know, where he goes in this story is such fascinating character
growth based on where he came from. Oh, yeah. And honestly, like, I still don't even fully understand what happened. All I know is that it was beautiful. Well, we'll dive into it in our character breakdown, starting with Loki played by Tom Hiddleston. Now, Tom Hiddleston's
portrayal of Loki. by this time has transcended his peers and become something more than a simple supervillain role, something that feels significant and mythic in a way that no singular Marvel role has before, something that only Hiddleston himself could inhabit as one of the very best actors of his generation. I think he outdid himself here, and while I can only hope we see this character again, the ending of this season would be one hell of a send
off for Loki. Oh yeah, I definitely agree. What they're doing with this character is so much better than what they're doing with his brother Thor in movies like Love and Thunder. It's like no comparison. Yeah, Thor should be ashamed. Like I hope Chris Hemsworth watches Loki season two and goes to Marvel Studios and says, I want to do something like that. I'm sick of the
dick and fart jokes and fucking bow the God of Dumplings. Let's do something real with the character of Thor and give him his proper send off if Chris Hemsworth returns to the role. which you probably will. Loki's arc this season had less to do with Sylvie, which I was happy with. Here, it was more about stopping He Who Remains, then about saving the TVA, and then saving time itself. All because, after being humbled by the TVA in season 1, he made
friends who he felt were worth saving. You know, he transformed over the course of all his on-screen appearances from the most selfish being ever. with simple aspirations of a throne to actually achieving a throne through the most selfless act of eternal sacrifice. It's a beautiful story. Oh man, yeah. To go from the first Avengers movie where he's saying that he's Loki and he's burdened with glorious purpose to learn in this show that purpose is more burden than
glory, the arc from one to the other is incredibly profound. Yeah, especially since he's doing it for his friends, you know, and his role is so lonely now perched atop that throne all by himself outside of time. But, you know, it's something he's willing to do to ensure the survival of those he loves, which is not something that you ever could have conceived of the character based on his actions in the first Avengers film. I liken his arc, particularly in this season,
to Bill Murray's arc in Groundhog Day. You know, they're very similar. He sort of attains enlightenment over the course of. living many lives as it were and again profound it's very interesting to see a character who was a villain become so unbelievably selfless yeah to see real change believable change is always thought-provoking it's cathartic yeah let's move on to mobius who's played by owen wilson i gotta say owen wilson is the most likable actor on the planet
Like, I love seeing him in this role. He's fantastic as Mobius, especially later on in the season when you got to see the TVA agents in their lives on the Timeline branches. And we got to see that Mobius was a jet ski dealer named Don, which kind of went full circle with Mobius's fascination with jet skis in the TVA. Yeah, I think his story really sold the notion of how tragic it was that these characters in the TVA lost lives that they could have lived on
Timeline branches. Yeah, what did you think of him retiring from the TVA at the end of the show? I mean, I'm really happy for him. I don't know quite how that's going to work out with a Deadpool movie because he's supposed to make a cameo in that or something like that. But I was happy to see the character kind of get what he always wanted. Yeah, it was kind of bittersweet watching him watch his variant take care of his kids. You know, we know that
he can actually resume his life since that other Don already exists. But I like to think that Mobius kind of spends his days out on the water on his jet ski or something. It was quite a touching moment though at the very end there. Yeah, absolutely. Let's move on to Ouroboros who is played by Keihei Kuan. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. But he was such a fantastic addition to the Loki cast. He fits so perfectly in with the show's atmosphere and sensibilities. It's
almost like he was always a part of the show from the beginning. You know, it was just incredible casting. And I hope that the actor blows up Hollywood. and shows up in everything because he's just so enjoyable to watch that it's impossible for him to be overexposed in my opinion. Haha, I would agree. I mean, this is the first we're seeing Kim after his Oscar win, I believe. I don't know, I haven't seen the new Indiana Jones movie. I think he's actually in that.
But it was great to see him again after, you know, watching everything everywhere all at once. And you're right, he fit in perfectly into this world, which itself is fairly quirky. Yeah, he could get a very quirky yet endearing type vibe as the technician behind the TVA, but I also thought it was kind of funny when he turned out to be this physics teacher and
failed science fiction writer. Yeah, that was a great choice. Much like Owen Wilson as Mobius, I think the casting director should be commended for getting actors that are just very enjoyable to watch, very endearing, and inhabit the roles and the world of Loki so well. Let's move on to Sylvie, who's played by Sofia DiMartino, reprising her role from season one. She did have a smaller role here, a more supporting character to Loki's main narrative, which I
thought was nice. She did have a worse haircut. I hated her haircut in this season. Like, I don't usually comment on characters' hair, but the fact that it was like a mullet just kind of threw me. I liked her hair last season, but no, I agree. It was a choice. wrong one. I like that the show completely ditched the whole awkward romantic subplot between the two Loki's because I think a lot of critics rightfully so felt that it was just kind of like incestuous
and creepy. Here Sylvie was mainly just someone who wanted everyone to have free will and the right to existence. So she's kind of like a freedom fighter in that regard. Less extreme than she was in season one but more likeable. I did find it interesting that like immediately after killing He Who Remains she decided to go live her life working at McDonald's. There was like a huge product placement for McDonald's. I was like, what the heck? Absolutely, I don't
know how I feel about that. But like you think about like one of the most mundane scenarios for her. I think that's what she wanted for herself. You know, she had spent her entire life living in apocalypses and living on the run that the ideal existence for her was the exact opposite. You know, routine, a lack of excitement, things like that. It made sense for the character and despite the fact that, you know, she killed He-He Remains and kind
of caused this whole mess, you still felt for her. True, yeah. And she ended up going right back to the very same spot at the end of the show. Which I thought was great. You know, she had already found where she wanted to end up. Her happy ending, as it were. Yeah, but considering Asgardians live for about 10,000 years, I wonder how long that'll stick. Before she's moving on beyond McDonald's and getting back into the action, as it were. Who knows?
But if this is the last we ever see of Sylvie, I thought it was fantastic. I think her whole character arc was quite brilliant as well. Honestly, I hope it's not the last we see of Sylvie. I definitely think there is potential for her to go on to become a mainstay in the MCU, whether it's as a hero or a villain. How would you feel about that? Well, I mean, honestly, I hope this isn't the last we see of any of the characters. I hope we get a Loki season three, you know,
so. Well, the showrunner said that that's not going to happen, I believe. Yeah, I heard that too, which is a shame. But I also heard rumors that Loki will appear in Secret Wars, but you know, rumors say that everybody's going to appear in Secret Wars, so who knows? Who the hell is it? I'm going to be in Secret Wars. Let's go ahead and move on to Victor Timely, played by Jonathan Majors. God, I hope Jonathan Majors didn't do that shit that they said he did to
his girlfriend. I hope he doesn't get convicted with criminal charges. And I hope Marvel Studios sticks with him, because if this season showed anything, it shows that he's a really talented guy, you know, is meek and stuttering Victor Timely. is so different from his cocky and eccentric he-who-remains, who is also so different from his angry and menacing king of the conqueror from quantumania. I was impressed with his performance here, especially at his ability to elicit sympathy
in the scene where Sylvie was gonna kill him. Oh yeah, totally. I mean, for an actor that people know is probably not so sympathetic in real life, to elicit sympathy on screen and still have the viewer experience that emotion is evidence that he's a fantastic actor. I
agree with you, I hope we get to see more of him. I know a lot of people are angry with him and want to cancel him, and maybe rightfully so, but people make mistakes and I think, you know, as long as you leave room for redemption, hopefully he takes that opportunity and maybe hopefully is able to come back. There were other major characters in the series including Hunter B-15, Casey, Ravonna Renslayer, and Miss Minutes, but there wasn't too much going on arc wise
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Thanks guys! Alright, episode 1 was titled Ouroboros. After Loki gets sent to the Time Variance Authority by Sylvie at the Citadel at the end of time, he begins slipping between the past and present. While trying to warn the TVA of the threat of he who remains and his variance, Loki and with help from the technician named Ouroboros, who deduces that the issue is the result of an
overloaded temporal loom, a device that refines raw time into physical timelines. Ouroboros constructs a temporal aura extractor device that pulls Loki from the time stream into the present TVA. General Dox, after receiving orders not to prune the new timelines from Judge Gamble, rallies a group of hunters to allegedly find Sylvie, who is in hiding at a McDonald's in 1982 Oklahoma. There was some good setup here that got pay off in later episodes such as
Loki pruning himself from the future into the past. I thought it was clever when they paid that off later in the season. Yeah, that was sort of a mystery that was running for a while. Like, who pruned him at that moment? Yeah, and why was Sylvie there and all that stuff? It was a good mystery. What was really interesting was the answer that we had at the end of Loki season one, which was... Where is Loki or when is Loki when he's talking to Mobius and Mobius
has no idea who he is and we see the statue of Kink. We theorized that maybe Loki was sent to an alternate version of the TVA, but as we learned here, there's only one version of the TVA no matter how many branching timelines there are, and Loki was merely sent into the distant past of the TVA. Which is actually pretty trippy knowing that time runs differently at the TVA. Right, there's a past, present, future, even though it technically exists outside of the
timelines, right? That's pretty interesting. But we saw him go back and forth in time at the TVA, from a point to where he remains was in charge of the organization, to later on where he kind of removed himself and put in those figureheads, as it were. The timekeepers. Exactly. Let's go to move on to episode two, which was called Breaking Brad. Trying to find Sylvie, Loki and Mobius track down X-5 in 1977 London. believing that this TVA hunter found
her due to his Tempad going dark. They discover that X-Five is hiding and living on the sacred timeline as a famous actor named Brad Wolf. They apprehend him and bring him back to the TVA where they learn through interrogation that X-Five learned of Sylvie's whereabouts before abandoning his mission. TVA clerk Casey deduces that former head judge Ravonna Renslayer received
a message from the artificial intelligence Miss Minutes before both disappeared. and Ouroboros warns that he cannot fix the temporal loom from meltdown without the temporal aura of He Who Remains to open the containment doors. Loki, Mobius, and X-Five travel to 1982 to meet with Sylvie, where X-Five reveals that General Dox and her group are secretly pruning the new timelines. They fight and capture her to prevent any further pruning. This was I think maybe
the most inconsequential episode of the season. I just wasn't really interested in the character of Brad Wolf or X-Five. that he was kind of an unnecessary addition to the cast of characters. Yeah, no, I agree. It took me a while to realize that Brad and X5 were the same person, even though they were saying that they were looking for X5. Like, I didn't I didn't quite catch who X5 even was until later on, considering the fact that Brad and X5 looked fairly different.
Like X5 had a beard. Brad didn't. It was confusing for a while. Yeah, the hair thing kind of threw me right. If this season had any missteps, I think the biggest one was probably around the character of Brad. Let's go ahead and move on to episode 3, which was called 1893. In 1868 Chicago, Miss Minutes has Ravonna Renslayer leave a copy of the TVA guidebook for young
Victor Timely, a variant of He Who Remains, to find. In the present, Ouroboros deduces that without He Who Remains temporal aura to open the blast doors, they could still use Miss Minutes to override the controls. Locine Mobius track her to 1893 Chicago where they find her and Renslayer observing Victor Timely who has built TVA prototypes as well as fake
inventions as scams for money. Sylvie interrupts in an attempt to kill Timely but he escapes with Renslayer and Miss Minnitz who want him to take He Who Remains Place running the TVA at the Citadel at the end of time alongside them. Miss Minnitz gets shut off after coming onto Timely and Sylvie appears. only to spare Victor and have Loki and Mobius take him to the TVA. She sends Renslayer to the Citadel at the end of time with Miss Minutes. I didn't
love what they did with Miss Minutes here. I thought it was really weird that she was in love with Victor Timely. Yeah, it kinda seemed unnecessary to me as well, especially considering that it didn't really go anywhere. But Miss Minutes was incredibly uncomfortable during this whole season, I thought. Like, especially in the later episode when they're killing all those TVA hunters and she's like smiling that creepy cartoon smile as they're all being crushed
to death. It was effectively creepy, but was it a necessary creep factor? I almost wish that they used Miss Minutes more perhaps as the main villain at the end. With how creepy she was, I think she deserved a better send-off than merely just being shut off by Ouroboros. I agree, I didn't love how Miss Minutes and Rentslayer's arcs were just kind of dropped
at the very end. There were a few things that kind of just became irrelevant as the show decided to kind of explore a little bit more of like Loki's psyche and what he's going through personally. Yeah, Ramona Renslayer was merely pruned and sent to the void at the end of time where she was I think devoured by Eliath. Although that being said, you know, Miss Minence and Renslayer weren't really in the season until this episode, so they were really merely side
plots. Yeah, absolutely. I really liked the setting of late 19th century Chicago. I thought they did really well. with the cinematography, with the costuming, with the set design. Yeah, that carnival seemed pretty interesting. What did you think of the idea of Victor Timely as a scam artist? That threw me. I didn't see that coming. That was a surprise. I thought he was a legit scientific inventor. And I didn't know if it was just because he was a variant
in this universe that he wasn't like the scientific genius or whatever. I guess he still was. He just didn't have the technology to create what he really wanted to. Exactly. Yeah, he was limited by the technology of his time. He was a genius, he was also running scams, so it was a little bit vague for a minute there as to whether or not he was just a loony variant or if he actually was smart. I'm glad it was the latter. Let's go ahead and move on to episode
4 which is called Heart of the TVA. Miss Minutes reveals to Renslayer that she was once a commander of He Who Remains Army and co-leader at the end of time before he had her memories erased. that will prevent the Temporal Loom from melting down and allow it to accommodate more timelines. Meanwhile, Renslayer and Miss Minutes attempt to overtake the TVA by recruiting General Docs and her group of hunters in custody. All but X5 reject Renslayer's offer and are killed.
X5 kidnaps Timely, forcing Goroboros to shut off Miss Minutes. Sylvie enchants X5, forcing him to prune Ribona. With Timely saved, he opens the containment doors with his Temporal Aura. and volunteers to activate the throughput multiplier. However, they're too late and the temporal radiation turns him into spaghetti as he approaches the temporal loom. I liked this episode. I thought there was like a lot of tension, you know, back and forth where you are riddled
with anxiety as the clock is ticking and Victor Timely is kidnapped. And then you're relieved when he's rescued. And then you're shocked when he is spaghettified in the temporal radiation. I thought there was a lot of great like emotion pulling in this episode. Yeah, that was pretty wild when he just straight up was like disintegrated like that, like spaghetti. Did not see that
coming. But also I kind of felt overall with this main conflict of the whole temporal loom overloading, it was a little vague as to what exactly the consequences were going to be until you saw Victor Tynely spaghettified. Yeah, and then as you saw the temporal loom explode and everybody's just standing there like, what the fuck do we do? That was the season's best cliffhanger, I think. Absolutely. Where you just saw Loki's face and then end credits. I'm like what the
heck is gonna happen now? Exactly. I was like is this the season finale? What's going on?
Let's go to move on to episode 5 which is called science fiction Loki escapes the meltdown by time-slipping to the branch timelines where his friends from the TVA are from Discovering that they were reset to their original lives He finds Ouroboros aka Doug who is a theoretical physics teacher and failed science fiction writer and enlists his help in building a Tempad to use to recruit the others to go back in time to the TVA and succeed where they had previously
failed. Loki convinces everyone but Sylvie, who gets him to admit that his true motivation is to keep from losing his friends, and concedes that their lives outside the TVA may be better for them. Nonetheless, as the Temporal Loom can't sustain the branches, everything spaghettifies anyway, forcing Loki to gain control of his time slipping. and allowing him to travel to
any point in time and space. The scene where Loki apparently abandons the mission for the betterment of his friends, and we see Sylvie visiting that record store and just listen to an album as everything starts going to shit was nightmare fuel. It was so surreal. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, it's terrifying. After seeing what happened to Victor Timely in the previous episode, and then seeing everything spaghettify, It turned out to be quite the horrifying effect.
Like every time it would happen, I actually felt this sense of dread. Especially as they're like running from it in slow motion and you know there's just like no escape. You just wait for it to hit you. Yeah, exactly, nightmare fuel. The effect itself kind of reminded me of string theory, which essentially states that particles are strings that move through time and space, and those were all just kind of like disappearing, those strings. Yeah, exactly.
Moving on to the final episode. episode 6 called Glorious Purpose. In it, Loki travels to before the loom's meltdown and fails repeatedly to get the throughput multiplier to work. After successfully activating it, he learns it's all pointless as the loom will never be able to accommodate infinitely growing branches. Loki then has to travel back to before Sylvie killed He Who Remains where he learns that the loom is a failsafe that will protect the sacred
timeline by deleting all the branches along with the TVA. and that destroying the loom would lead to infinite realities and the multiversal war. He Who Remains states the only way to save the loom is to kill Sylvie, which Loki rejects. Loki travels through time to confer with Mobius, who tells him that purpose is more about burden than glory, but the hard thing to do is the thing that has to be done. He then travels to visit Sylvie, who tells him, sometimes
it's okay to destroy something if there's hope you can replace it with something better. With that in mind, Loki travels to the time of the meltdown and destroys the loom, giving the multiverse a chance to exist by replacing the device and overseeing the timelines from a throne at the center of the timelines that become Yggdrasil, the world tree. Mobius retires from the TVA, who now tracks the variants of he who remains. Uh, brilliant episode, brilliant episode,
incredible. Wait, so Loki doesn't become a new loom, transferring chaotic time into solidified time? Yeah, he essentially replaces the loom. He becomes his own loom, preventing the multiversal war. Okay, that's what I thought. You know, the start of the episode is really about him
trying to get the throughput multiplier to work. And it's so tragic that he had to spend centuries learning everything he could from Ouroboros about theoretical physics, only for it to all be moot because the loom could never be upgraded enough to accommodate infinite branches, you know? That was tragic. And then the big reveal from He Who Remains stating that The loom is just a fail safe to protect the sacred timeline. That was a big jaw drop moment. Just so many
good scenes all leading up into the end, which felt so poignant. The final shot of Loki sitting on his throne, accepting his role was a brilliant bit of acting from Tom Hiddleston for one, but such a fascinating way to end the series. It was a fantastic ending, such a good ending. I'm kind of glad there wasn't any kind of after credit scenes because it didn't need it. Like
just end with that mic drop. Boom, there you go. Yeah, you know, I definitely, of course, poured over the end credits looking for a scene, but when that ended up being it, you settle in with the closure of what you just saw. And on my part, I felt really pleased with the way the season had gone. Really pleased, but also really sad. It's a great mixture of emotions that I think just are a testament to how good this season was. For sure, yeah. Every time
you watch a good show that ends, doesn't that usually come with a bit of sadness? Because it's over? I mean, it depends on the show. Some shows have terrible endings like Game of Thrones, and some like this have very great endings where you're sad that you won't get to be with these characters again, but you're also happy with their lives the way they turned out and you don't really want to see any of that unravel. Yeah. But that does a further review for Loki
Season 2. God, it is a shame that it is over. And I feel like we'll have similar sentiments about Doom Patrol season four in our next episode when we review that. Just a great bit of long form television storytelling from Marvel and DC. That'll be bittersweet saying goodbye to this year. Yeah, with MCU, you know, kind of sending off Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, this
is another hit, I think to the fandom, but like in the best way. So kudos to Marvel Studios for getting something right, which I feel like they haven't done in a while, because I enjoyed it a lot. Yeah, absolutely. With gorgeous cinematography, extraordinary music score, and a matchless cast of characters, Loki season two to date offers the best that Marvel Studios television has to offer. I'm giving this season four and a half stars, a fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
And I think that makes sense, especially with how profound the season was in particular. It was very different from what I thought it was going to be. In a way, it defied my expectations for the better, just in how many shocks and surprises there ended up being, and how great the ending was. I agree. I actually also rated season one 4.5 stars. You disagreed with me because you said that Loki was out of character, but no, I've always been a fan of the show,
and you're just a fake fan. Shut up. No, go back and listen to our review of season one and I think you'll find that my gripes with that season still hold up. But no, season two was fantastic. I liked it more than season one. Four and a half stars. But that does it for this review. Let us know what you guys thought about the show by writing to us at dynamicduelpodcast.gmail.com or by visiting us on Instagram or X. You can find links to all of our accounts by checking
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