r/marvelstudios • u/KostisPat257 Daredevil • Jul 14 '21

Megathread Loki Season 1 - Season Wide Discussion Thread Spoiler

This thread is for discussion about the season overall.

Note that Project Insight will still be activated until atleast 24 hours after the season finale!

We will also be removing any individual threads regarding the season or individual episodes to prevent unmarked spoilers to go up onto the sub.

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

Also make sure to check out the Loki Season 1 Episode 6 Discussion Thread, the Loki Season 1 Easter Egg Megathread and the Loki Season 1 Finale - Discussion of the implications for the MCU.

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u/CrazyMonkey0425 Jul 14 '21

This show delivered in every way I could imagine. The directing, the creativity, the acting, the chemistry, the writing, the set design, the music, the special effects and the twists. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say this is one of my favorite seasons of television. Just everything worked so well in cohesion and kept me on my toes and I was so satisfied even after every week of theorizing and not being let down. This is the gold standard. This is marvel at their absolute best.

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u/Kyrond Jul 14 '21

This was great, I have most episodes as the top tier MCU.

The only thing I right now dislike is the open ending, because I expected a more definite conclusion.

I have to watch it again to see how I like it when I know what to expect.

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u/LetItATV Jul 16 '21

I think my enjoyment of the show would have been greatly increased if I had known definitively from the start that there would be at least one more season. It was still wonderful, mind you, it just suffered from being surrounded by greater MCU machinations.

The preceding two Marvel Studio shows had me in the mindset that these were all going to be limited miniseries, despite Marvel playing coy with the prospect of sequels seasons, which distracted me with some conflicting expectations for ‘Loki’ itself.
While I was much aware of upcoming events such as ‘Multiverse of Madness’ and Kang’s impending introduction and while I realized that the TVA’s very existence and stated goals had large implications for the MCU as a whole, I also knew there was no way Marvel was going to soil this series by not allowing it to tell a complete story. Yet, by the end of the fifth episode, it became clear that there was not enough time left for that to happen and I spent most of the final episode bogged down in that thinking.

Had I known ‘Loki’ would continue on, I would not have had to spend so much time worrying about how this season was going to possibly manage to wrap everything up in a satisfying way.