[DISCUSSION] [SPOILERS] LOKI S02E02 - Breaking Brad
| EPISODE | RELEASE DATE | RUNNING TIME | CREDITS SCENE? |
|---|---|---|---|
| S02E02 - Breaking Brad | Oct 12th, 2023 on Disney+ | 51m | NONE |
Premise:
With the TVA on the verge of a temporal meltdown, Loki and Mobius will stop at nothing to find Sylvie.
Director(s):
Dan DeLeeuw
Writer(s):
Eric Martin, Michael Waldron
| CAST | ||
|---|---|---|
| Tom Hiddleston | ... | Loki |
| Liz Carr | ... | Judge Gamble |
| Sophia Di Martino | ... | Sylvie |
| Gugu Mbatha-Raw | ... | Ravonna Renslayer |
| Tara Strong | ... | Miss Minutes (voice) |
| Owen Wilson | ... | Mobius |
| Ke Huy Quan | ... | O.B. |
| Rafael Casal | ... | Brad Wolfe |
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That's the greenest key lime pie I've ever seen.
Also, "Everyone's gonna die! Oh hi, nice to meet you. Everyone's gonna die". OB continues to be gold in this show.
Hm, I think the second episode was a bit weaker than the first.
One thing I don't get, they pruned those extra branches. But aren't they just going to regrow again in time? I mean thats what happened when they killed He Who Remains, or not? He controlled the timeline by pruning, then he got killed, no pruning done, Multiverse comes back. What is different now?
Maybe because new timelines growing back would be different timelines than the ones pruned. It would create new people, not recreate the same people (even though they may look the same). In season 1, He Who Remains was having the TVA continuously prune those timelines to prevent those new people from being created at all.
There was a lot going on in this episode. Big ramifications. I felt they could have slowed down a but, given more details and explore more. Not a lot of setups. Big, quick jump from McD's to a fight to save billions. Look away for 2 seconds and you'd be very confused.
Yeah I didn't expect Dox's plan to be implemented that quickly. I thought they'd spend more time trying to find out what she was up to.
Very much agreed. They mentioned Brad's tempad at the beginning but it was so quick that it really felt like we skipped an episode. I enjoyed it overall but it did seem like a lot was going on and the plot was easy to miss if you weren't paying attention.
And yeah the branches getting pruned just didn't have the effect for me either. I don't know what they would have done to have more impact besides just showing people getting pruned all over but that probably wouldn't have much effect either.
It was really a "moments" episode for me. Cool set pieces and moments, but overall kind of messy.
I didn’t fully get the knock knock joke…
This is a bit of an old joke but the humour comes from two layers.
The first layer comes from the last two lines. Brad is a famous actor, so probably a household name. So the expectation is that nobody would ask who he was in the same way nobody would ask "Beyonce who?" But Hollywood is fickle and stars today can easily become forgotten tomorrow. Pretending not to know a celebrity is an insult that is associated with this nature of Hollywood. Hence the "That's show business line" where the jokester acts like they're reluctantly agreeing that the celebrity isn't famous anymore. This is extra hurtful since the famous person is the one tricked into saying "...(their own name) who?"
The second layer comes from the expectation of the structure of a regular knock knock joke. Since this joke doesn't follow that structure, it breaks expectations and creates humour.
Mainly it's the first part though.
I thought this one was real weak. Really, really infuriating how none of the youtube reviews I've heard so far (that convienently drop minutes after the episode) mention the product placement. McDonalds must have shelled tf out, paid all these people off because it ruined the new season already for me. Far too much of the runtime felt like a ad. Also Loki and Mobius should kiss.
I was going to argue with you about the product placement just because we've known about the McDonalds stuff for a while now, but then you said Loki and Mobius should kiss and you got me on your side.
Is it actually a product placement? Or maybe a plot point that was written anyways and Marvel said "pls McD pay us money or we'll make it into a Burger King"?
I really liked this episode. Did you guys notice how tense some of the scenes in the first half of the episode felt, how long the camera remained on a shot and didnt cut that much? Gave me the vibe of british TV shows.
Seeing Loki doing villainous mischiefery was awesome.
I get why people want to see more of Silvie, but her role at this point of the show clearly needs to be mysterious and not on-board with the rest of the main cast. I didnt get what she was doing there at the end of the episode, was she using magic?
The ending of Ep1 to the start of this definitely feels like they cut a whole episode or at least parts of it. The General's storyline of pruning branches - which was quite obvious from Ep1 that she would do this - already being through that soon surprised me.
"It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me"
I'm enjoying the show but just like most marvel story lines lately everything is going so quickly. While I dough General Dox plan is over the jump from getting Sylvie to storming General Sox base seemed like whiplash. I would like time to explore some of these situations more.
THE Ws WITH THIS SHOW NEVER END
Definitely not as good as the first episode, maybe a 6/10.
Brad had way too much screentime when it should have been Sylvie. The whole Dr Who time travel thing wasnt really expanded, they just dropped by the 80s for a few mins.
Seems like they were filling time again and so early in the season