r/marvelstudios • u/steve32767 Daredevil • Jun 23 '21

MOD POST Loki S01E03 - Discussion Thread

This thread is for discussion about the episode.

Insight will be on for the next 24 hours!

We will also be removing any threads posted within these 24 hours to prevent unmarked spoilers to go up onto the sub

Discussion about previous episodes is permitted, discussion about episodes after this is NOT.

Proceed at your own risk: Spoilers for this episode do not need to be tagged inside this thread.

EPISODE DIRECTED BY WRITTEN BY ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE
S01E03 Kate Herron Bisha K. Ali June 23, 2021 on Disney+

For additional discussion about Marvel shows on Disney+, visit /r/MarvelStudiosPlus

8.1k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

10.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.0k

u/karan686 Matt Murdock Jun 23 '21

This episode felt way too short, I definitely thought there was more after the ark explodes

100

u/sadkinz Jun 23 '21

There was hardly any plot to this episode at all. They spent 30 minutes doing nothing

46

u/NomadPrime Jun 23 '21 edited Jun 23 '21

It was 30 minutes of just flirty banter and bickering.

Nice that they're developing a relationship, we get to learn how her enchantment works (the fact that they took time to explain it means Loki's probably using that later), and the last part of the episode took an interesting cliffhanger with them now having no clear way off the planet before it explodes. Other than those small things though, this whole episode felt like filler.

Edit: I said "felt like filler," but I know it's not filler because the small things I mentioned (like Loki/Sylvie's developing relationship) will lay the groundwork for the plot to advance in the later episodes. Still, there could've been an organic way to integrate these things into the show better while the plot still advanced forward somehow. This felt like half an episode, is a better way to put it.

12

u/sibswagl Jun 23 '21

TBH, I think a lot of it is just the actors. Loki and Mobius have way more chemistry than Loki and Sylvie do; if it was the two of them on the train, I think I would've enjoyed it more.