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Loki episode 3 runtime8/24/2023 ![]() Like the constantly morphing letters of the show’s titles, Loki remains impossible to pin down – and is all the better for it. Take a journey into history with our recaps of Loki: episode 1 and Loki episode 2. We’ll have to wait until next week to find out if this episode is canon, or simply an expertly constructed figment of Sylvie’s imagination… Unless, of course, the whole jaunt to Lamentis is just an illusion created by Sylvie to extract some useful information from Loki’s mind. Considering the episode goes to such lengths to explain how Sylvie’s powers of enchantment work – including a flashback to Hunter C-20’s margarita-fuelled interrogation – it’s strange that we don’t see her demonstrating more mind control in the episode. With the “ark” that would have been their last route off Lamentis now destroyed, the episode ends on something of a downer, but things may not be quite as bad as they seem. Her motives remain ambiguous and, at this point, the jury’s out on whether taking down the “omniscient fascists” of the TVA is a good or a bad thing – especially as the Authority is seemingly conscripting its workforce from history. The question is, can they trust each other? Loki clearly wants to believe they’re allies, but it’s just as likely this is a marriage of convenience for Sylvie. The fact that Sylvie barely knew her mother could also be pivotal. Could it be that Loki’s life of privilege has softened him, his partying existence ensuring that he’s no longer a “serious man”? It seems reasonable to assume that a harder life could have sent her on a path where brute force is preferential to diplomacy. While ‘Lamentis’ only teases Sylvie’s past – Loki points out that he’s revealed much more about himself than vice versa – the hints at where their backstories have diverged are intriguing. They’re like a pair of squabbling siblings who just happen to have magical powers – for all their differences there’s no denying they work well together, their contrasting tactics complementing each other magnificently. ![]() ![]() Indeed, she’s anything but a “faded photocopy” of her more famous counterpart, even if they have rather more in common than they’d probably care to admit. She’s charismatic, funny and always ready with a withering put-down, but crucially she never tries to be a caricature of Tom Hiddleston. Sophia di Martino’s Sylvie has had less than an hour of screentime so far, yet she’s already starting to feel as integral to the Loki TV show as the (original) title character. If Marvel did intimate character pieces, they’d probably look something like this. Although it features epic moon-scapes, some beautifully choreographed fight scenes and a clock ticking towards an impending armageddon, all the fireworks come in the talkier scenes – Loki even conjures up some magical fireworks to illustrate the point. We’ve got used to MCU TV shows jumping between multiple character arcs, but this episode never loses focus on its two leads. The episode’s plot couldn’t be simpler, as the two Lokis realize they’ll have to overcome their trust issues and work together to reactivate the TVA TemPad that can transport them home – before the moon is destroyed in an apocalypse that, history claims, nobody escapes alive.
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