Loki (1×06) For All Time. Always Review

For our review of the last episode of Loki, click here.

So it wasn’t Wanda who would spawn the multiverse after all. For what has been an inconsistent season, this season finale did a great job at giving viewers answers while creating even more questions, aforementioned reveal aside. By the time most will get to this, they will have learned that Loki has indeed been renewed for a second season, the first Disney+ series to be renewed for another season. Setting the stage for that second season and the MCU film entries to come, this finale arguably delivers the biggest impact both emotionally and figuratively. Perhaps not as big and showy, the performances and writing across the board did more than enough to deliver all the theatrics in what was an exciting episode that fired on almost all cylinders.

Before all of that, For All Time. Always (the motto of the TVA of course) started with the reveal of the infamous sacred timeline as Loki and Sylvie marched towards the compound in the void at the end of time, A momentous moment in each of their journeys, they approached what they were about to do with caution. Upon entering, they were soon greeted by Miss Minutes who offered them a deal on behalf of her master and the person who was truly behind it all, appealing to their former selves. They could each go back in their timelines but they refused. From there, they found a man known as He Who Remains (Jonathan Majors), the man at the middle of everything. He was waiting for them and was ready or so he wanted us to believe as a means to assert some sense of superiority over them. This was all a show to him and whether or not he was telling the truth remained to be seen. The theatrics were nevertheless entertaining as Majors was having a blast.

He Who Remains tried to pin Loki and Sylvie against each other. He also explained who he was and his role in it all as a scientist, including how the multiverse came to be and his part in ending the war between variants of him in each of these universes (he wasn’t Kang but one or more of his much more evil variants definitely is). The TVA were responsible in keeping that harmony in order. Removing him would mean the sacred timeline being exposed and something worse would take his place. Instead he wanted Loki and Sylvie to take his place although the situation went beyond his knowledge as they crossed into unchartered territory and branches formed within the sacred timeline. It was inevitable but Loki and Sylvie had different thoughts about what to do about their situation. Hiddleston and Di Martino shined as they tried to settle their issues. In the end, Sylvie was going to finish her mission as she stuck her blade into He Who Remains right after kicking Loki into a portal back to the TVA.

At the TVA, Renslayer, who was exposed as a variant, was getting ready to leave until she was interrupted by Mobius who had a plan of his own. Regardless of the truth, she believed that all of it was for a reason and that reason did not include free will. However, she appeared to show some free will in not pruning Mobius again. Meanwhile as Loki returned, he was greeted by a TVA who no longer recognized him. Following Sylvie’s actions and the subsequent branching of the sacred timeline, the TVA had become a much different place with statues of He Who Remains replacing that of the Time Keepers.

The season ended as the TVA were left reeling from the destruction of the sacred timeline and Loki stuck amongst it all.

Now THAT is sticking the landing.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.