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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I disagree with nearly all of your post. Thought this kang was well played (Tired, old, ready to die... but aware of infinite realities and possibilities.) You're thinking too literally about time in a unidirectional sense. IMO the place where they were with Kang (really Immortus at this point) is not really in the future but outside of time, looking upon it (this is why we see the ring of time expanding in the sky in a circle around it). Immortus was using the TVA and Alioth to ensure all the other timelines (containing the other Kangs he fought) never came into existence. Without him guiding the TVA to do this from outside of time, a timeline will emerge where a different timeline Kang will beat the others and take the position that Immortus is currently in. Ostensibly this is exactly what occurred in the final scene as Loki gazed upon the TVA statue of the much more authoritarian looking Kang.
the kang we saw was not really the kang that is going to be the big bad for the other movies. It's a variant of the one we saw. Just like classic Loki, or this current loki is a variant of the one we saw killed in the original MCU. So you don't have to worry, the Kang that will be the big bad in the coming MCU phase will likely act very differently than the one we saw.
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I get that you can explain it away, but they didn't. I just found it impossible to care, and I get more annoyed by the whole thing the more I try to think about it. There's no tension to someone explaining some multiverse nonsense that doesn't actually mean anything outside of what the writers explicitly say "the choice" is, and that was so badly done because it was just so instantly obvious what's going to happen.
That last episode could have been completely replaced with Loki giving a deadpan explanation of the events after the fact. "Well there WAS someone less horrible in charge of TVA, but I killed him. I mean not me me, it was another me from another timeline who did the killing, and I did try to stop her. Yes it was a she me, or I guess a female me..? Look, I don't have time to go over the whole thing, but I assure you her decision did make sense at the time, she is no more evil than I am!" That's funnier than the whole episode, and also 100% of the events explained in about 15 seconds.
This, to me, was just pretty flat.
But as always I'm glad other people like it. (Genuinely.)