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Itse · 07-15-2021, 09:07 AM

I have a pretty serious "MCU just jumped the shark" moment in the finale.

First of all, Kang was just the worst. Silly, uncharismatic, boring, not threatening or interesting at all. The casting choice looks terrrrible, and he's supposed to be the big bad of the whole phase or two? Not looking forward to that at all.

Also, that whole episode didn't really make a lick of sense. How does killing Kang at the end of time when he's already done everything he's done to create and uphold the TVA somehow reset everything? Not even a bit of handwavium to explain any of it?

I feel like the MCU multiverse shenaginans are going to be just as terrible as all the multiverse stuff is in the comics, which is 99% garbage. Multiverses and dimension travelling just generally doesn't make for good stories.

I mean, multiple Loki's was a nice joke for like 30 seconds, and then it lead to absolutely no character or real plot development to the point that the extra Loki's could have been cut out completely without affecting the plot at all. But hey, at least they stuffed in a ton of comics references! That didn't matter at all, but they WERE references!

Also, yeah, the multiverse +time traveling thing means that literally nothing matters anymore. Anything and everything can be undone with the flimsiest deus ex asspull -explanation. Death doesn't matter, and character consistency doesn't exist, and at least in Loki they pretty much started going with the worst way of doing this stuff; the multiverses exist when they need to in the way they need to so the writers can do wild stuff, not so they can do interesting stuff.

This was already an issue in this series, as the Loki in this series was in his behavior a continuation of the Ragnarök-loki... expect this Loki was supposed to be the much more grandiose version from Avengers 1.

As a Marvel fanboy I'll probably be watching everything, but really my expectations are not very high.

Multiverses just suck, and the MCU has so far done nothing to convince me otherwise.

07-15-2021, 09:07 AM	#186
Itse Franchise Player Join Date: May 2004 Location: Helsinki, Finland Exp:	I have a pretty serious "MCU just jumped the shark" moment in the finale. First of all, Kang was just the worst. Silly, uncharismatic, boring, not threatening or interesting at all. The casting choice looks terrrrible, and he's supposed to be the big bad of the whole phase or two? Not looking forward to that at all. Also, that whole episode didn't really make a lick of sense. How does killing Kang at the end of time when he's already done everything he's done to create and uphold the TVA somehow reset everything? Not even a bit of handwavium to explain any of it? I feel like the MCU multiverse shenaginans are going to be just as terrible as all the multiverse stuff is in the comics, which is 99% garbage. Multiverses and dimension travelling just generally doesn't make for good stories. I mean, multiple Loki's was a nice joke for like 30 seconds, and then it lead to absolutely no character or real plot development to the point that the extra Loki's could have been cut out completely without affecting the plot at all. But hey, at least they stuffed in a ton of comics references! That didn't matter at all, but they WERE references! Also, yeah, the multiverse +time traveling thing means that literally nothing matters anymore. Anything and everything can be undone with the flimsiest deus ex asspull -explanation. Death doesn't matter, and character consistency doesn't exist, and at least in Loki they pretty much started going with the worst way of doing this stuff; the multiverses exist when they need to in the way they need to so the writers can do wild stuff, not so they can do interesting stuff. This was already an issue in this series, as the Loki in this series was in his behavior a continuation of the Ragnarök-loki... expect this Loki was supposed to be the much more grandiose version from Avengers 1. As a Marvel fanboy I'll probably be watching everything, but really my expectations are not very high. Multiverses just suck, and the MCU has so far done nothing to convince me otherwise.