Loki: No spoilers initial review (based on episodes 1 and 2)

I have been watching and enjoying the Marvel show Loki. It's overall quite good, asides from the very unfortunate choice to make the two most significant black female characters humourless killjoys who want to murder the main character, while the white dudes get to be fun. Their characters aren't totally awful individually (like many people, they have reason to want to kill Loki!), but taken together...nng :/

But other than that it's a fun, weird little show about Loki getting tangled up with the secret organisation in charge of maintaining the timeline of the universe. As with Wandvision there's twists and turns that make it fun to watch week to week, Cam and I have fun watching together and then discussing it.

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Loki speculation (based on episodes 1 and 2)

So I have a theory.

Spoilers below for episodes one and two, though the basic idea had occurred to me by the end of episode one.

n.b. this icon choice is not intended to imply any spoilers about the show. Though being a show about alternate selves and time travel with an immortal protagonist inclined to fake his own death, Loki could have gone in that direction, and I guess still could!
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