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- For all time. Always.
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By Simon Cardy
Updated: Jul 14, 2021 7:20 pm
Posted: Jul 14, 2021 10:59 am
This review contains spoilers for Marvel's Loki episode 6, 'For All Time. Always', now available to view on Disney+. To remind yourself of where we left off, check out our Loki episode 5 review.
Loki’s season finale has saved the best for last as it sticks its landing, setting big, universe-altering events on a small stage. It’s a culmination of themes, character bonds and promise that results in a thoroughly engaging yet unexpectedly understated 40 minutes. Fantastic writing and a standout debut performance combine to create an episode of television that should change a universe (or multiverse) forever.
After a brief nostalgia-soundtracked journey through space, the season finale of Loki puts us right where we want to be – the exact moment episode 5 ended. A stunning gothic castle under a pearlescent sky awaits Loki and Sylvie, who are as eager to find out who is behind all of this as much as the viewer at this point. Luckily, we don’t have to wait long to find out.
All of this leads up to one final scene for Hiddleston’s Loki and Sophia Di Martino’s Sylvie to clash, kiss, make up, then clash again. Again, the writing and direction is fantastic, leading to the manipulation of both variants, their true natures pitted against one another. The episode’s only action scene is a brief but exciting flurry of blades, which ends in a touching moment that all Sylki shippers out there I’m sure enjoyed greatly – even if genetic similarities of the situation does make me feel a little uncomfortable. Is this allowed between variants? I don’t know. Go for it, I guess.
Of course, this sweet moment for Loki turns bitter almost instantly as the Loki mantra comes back to haunt him. You just can’t trust one, and he really should know that better than anyone. Hiddleston and Di Martino unfortunately don’t have a whole lot to do during the episode when compared to Majors, but they hold their own and act effectively as an audience proxy throughout. Villain monologues full of exposition can often grind things to a creaking halt, but this just isn’t the case here due to the energetic back-and-forth from the trio on screen. Given that almost the entirety of the 40-minute runtime is spent sitting at one desk in an office, that’s no mean feat.
Villain monologues full of exposition can often grind things to a creaking halt, but this just isn’t the case here.
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It’s when the episode steps away from this desk that the less exciting aspects of Loki rear their head. Renslayer remains a cryptic character, but not in a particularly fun way. We still don’t know a whole lot about her and the fleeting moments we get with her here don’t do much to address that. The brief revelation of a Renslayer variant is more of a Season 2 set-up (which, of course, was confirmed in a mid-credits scene) than a true plot pay-off. Mobius returns, but Owen Wilson isn’t given his best material to work with, and it feels like a misstep after his emotional exit last week. While these characters can’t just be pushed to the side completely, I did just find myself wishing I was back at the end of time whenever visiting the TVA.
It’s at the end of time where Loki delivers its grandstand finish. Where WandaVision and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier stumbled across the finish line, showrunner Michael Waldron and director Kate Herron manage to cross it with aplomb. Sylvie’s decision is a visually spectacular one that causes literal ripples through time as the branches appear in the stars like cracks in ice. It’s a choice that not only makes complete sense for Sylvie’s character development, but also one that should change the MCU as we know it. For all time. Always.
The season finale of Loki achieves what it sets out to in wrapping up a season-long mystery, whilst setting up a whole new universe of possibilities. Though not all characters are served to the same extent, a towering performance from a new cast member drives the episode and has the audience, as well as Loki and Sylvie, in the palm of their hands. ...
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