‘Loki’ Recap: ‘Journey Into Mystery’

Written by Shae Rufe

Okay, listen. We have one episode left. Am I okay? No. 100% maybe, though. I didn’t expect this episode to make me cry, but it did, so here we are. 
 
Spoilers ahead! You have been warned.
 
Alright, so there is a lot to unpack with everything this episode threw at us. First and foremost, I genuinely hate Rovanna… for now. I’m not saying she’s innocent, but she’s definitely not one of the good guys. As for Sylvie, she is my absolute second favorite character in the MCU now. I like her a lot. She’s gorgeous, confident, competent, and the only woman in the MCU to actually pull her hair back during a fight. Seriously, guys, whoever is consulting on these movies and shows, really needs to add that in there! Okay, Hope did it too and I really am not trying to discount her at all. I am just saying, Sylvie deserves some props for that. Also, watching her kick Rovanna’s ass was beyond well earned. Rovanna had it coming after how she’s treated Sylvie. 
 
Good news, though, because all Variants and Timelines get thrown into a void, the end of time, as it were, our Loki ends up there and is met with a whole bunch of other Loki’s. I was wrong in my last blog; I did say that the big Loki with a hammer was a Thor and I stand corrected. We don’t like him anyway because he does betray everyone relatively quickly. This episode also answered the most important question of the entire show; was that an Alligator Loki or a Crocodile Loki… and he is indeed an Alligator. Is he my most favorite thing ever? Also, yes. Alligator Loki not only communicated well, but he also took the hand of President Loki when he showed up with his Army of Loki’s to fight the other Loki’s and take over the hide out. 

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​That is… a lot of Loki-on-Loki violence. Classic Loki said it best, however, that’s all Loki’s do. Plot and deceive and betray. Realistically, this episode showed us just how much our Loki really has changed. He is loyal. We knew that from the end of Thor: Ragnarok, when Loki chose Thor over anything else… well… Thor and the Tesseract, which did get him killed. Classic Loki gave us a glimpse into what else Loki could be like. He faked his own death with Thanos so well that nobody noticed when he just left and retired on a deserted planet. He only got popped by the TVA because he wanted to see Thor again. Kid Loki actually succeeded in killing Thor… which…. wow. Alligator Loki… well, he’s just an Alligator, so obviously he is the superior Loki. All jokes aside, our Loki never wanted Glorious Purpose and to Rule. Deep down, he just wanted to be loved.
 
And that brings me to my next point. This show is about self-love. Alright, we may be getting some Loki/Sylvie action, but also, learning to love yourself is extremely important. It’s hard to accept all the flaws and past things that we’ve done or had done to us. Yet, those things also make us who we are. Nobody is perfect, and it stands to reason that true love is loving oneself truly. Sylvie is of course betrayed by Rovanna, and ends up zapping herself, not knowing where she’ll go or if she’ll live. All in the hopes of finding out who’s really behind the curtain and also finding Loki. She does find Mobius, and really that’s the next best thing.
 
I’ll say this until I’m blue in the face, the casting for this show is so perfect it hurts. Mobius is probably my third favorite character within the MCU. He literally is just amazing. He’s easily swayed to Sylvie and Loki’s cause, to the point that Classic Loki asks him why he’s turning on the TVA. Mobius’ answer is perfectly spot on. It’s never too late to do the right thing. I live by that motto now. The big fight of this episode is fighting the energy cloud monster of doom, and really… yeah, that seems about right. Sylvie can enchant it, right? She almost isn’t able to. Loki helps her, because they are stronger than they think. Sadly, watching Classic Loki sacrifice himself to help them broke me. It’s okay though, because Alligator Loki is okay. That is the most important part. Sylvie and Loki do enchant the beast and end up going past the end of time.
 
What lays beyond? Just a place that looks a lot like the Quantum Realm. There was no post credit, and we don’t know if Mobius stuck to his word about bringing down the TVA from the inside. We do know that Sylvie and Loki are a lot closer to finding out who created the TVA and the Time Keepers than Rovanna is. I suppose we only have one episode left… I’m not ready.

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Best. Loki. Ever.