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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
  • IonAddis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I liked parts of this, but not the episode as a whole, I think.

    The execution of how they jumped in mid-scene at the start didn’t work for me. Like, I know what they were doing…but it didn’t land when I was watching. It felt like a genuinely skipped scene, like they were airing episodes out of order. I feel that was a directing problem, as the individual acting from everyone was great, and I especially liked Loki being reminded he’s a villain and mischief-maker. Hiddleston is wonderful as Loki.

    However, I didn’t feel the emotion I should have later on in the episode when the branches were being pruned. But that might have been a “me” thing, as I’ve noticed I don’t get as much enjoyment from things as I used to. So I will defer to others here, and whether it “hit” for them.

    I think over all, I liked a lot of little details, and I liked how it set up various things for later, and I liked the banter between Loki and Mobius, but the episode as a whole didn’t gel as a narrative whole. I almost wonder if it was intended to be shown as a two-parter with the first episode.

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      1 year ago

      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.