In the Loki Season Finale, we get some much-awaited answers. From seeing the man behind the curtain to learning about the real creation of the TVA, we finally close the door on a handful of mysteries…while opening the door on some others.

Who is the one pulling the strings? He Who Remains of course. A man in purple robes who lives in his creepy house (sorry, ~The Citadel at the End of Time~), who’s a bit…eccentric. I think maybe he’s spent too much time alone because why are you so casual and smiling so much? Except he does have Miss. Minutes to keep him company. The little animation has been very much in the know this whole time.

But we also become in the know this episode. We learn the original dogma is essentially correct–there was a multiversal war that was stopped by containing universes within one timeline, and the TVA maintains it–but He Who Remains is the real mastermind, not the Time-Keepers he made up.

And why the need? Because all the variants of He Who Remains discovered multiple universes and instead of being cool about it, some wanted to preserve their universe and kill the others. Why is everyone so hellbent on destruction?

The guy found our cloud monster Alioth and weaponized it to end the Multiversal war. A good deed. Now he manages the timeline through the TVA. Another good deed?

This presents a tough question for Loki and Sylvie. Sure, you can kill this guy, but then infinite versions of him will appear–many a lot worse. All the universes will be plunged back into turmoil. It’s the old, “is free will worth the impending chaos?” conundrum.

Well, our two Loki’s have a divergence of thought on that one. While Sylvie is still very much ready to kill this guy, Loki has pumped the breaks a bit.

They’re offered the chance to live and take over for He Who Remains overseeing the timeline, thus maintaining peace. I think it’s a good offer!

Loki sees this as a real possibility. A necessity actually. That the fate of the universe is at least too important to rush the decision. And honestly? He was right. Like Sylvie, why couldn’t you just chill for 5 minutes? Let’s talk about this all very rationally.

But this girl has trust issues (I mean I know Loki’s are hard to trust, but you guys have bonded so much! Please just listen to him). She thinks Loki just wants to rule the universe/the TVA and sends him away, back the TVA. *sigh*

Except they did share a kiss before she tricked him! Again, I must point out the weirdness of them being together since they’re the same person. But who am I to get in the way of love?

So now that Loki is out of her way, she can finally kill the man who took her life away from her. Great, I’m sure it was very cathartic for her. BUT! HELLO! She sets everything off the rails!

The timeline is splitting open all over the place. Everything is chaos! Multiple universes taking form!

This perfectly sets up the movies we know Marvel has cooked up. Like Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Spiderman: No Way Home.

Every other question we have about the TVA and its people will probably be answered in…season 2! Yes, the mid-credits scene confirmed that we will be getting another season of these people. Which is good because they didn’t completely wrap everything up.

Like…Judge Renslayer? Hunter B-15 and Mobius led an awakening at the TVA, trying to free their colleagues from all the lies. B-15 leads Minutemen to 2018 Ohio where they meet Ravonna Renslayer before her memories were wiped and she became the judge.

Awesome, so now the Minutemen are beginning to see the light.

But at the TVA, indoctrinated Renslayer has been searching for her own answers. Mobius pops in, back from The Void, to talk about their friendship and all the betrayal, blah blah. Unfortunately, we have to wait to see how their story concludes because Renslayer opened a TemPad portal and peaced out. Where? That’s the question.

She seemed pretty determined so I’m thinking it’s some kind of fact-finding mission. That one is very devoted to the TVA still, so I’m sure it’ll be something to do with protecting the timeline. Which might be a good thing? Especially since we know all the universes are emerging.

No one knows this better than Loki.

Don’t exactly know how this happened, but the TVA Sylvie sent him back to was not the one they left. He’s in a TVA from another universe that has a Mobius and B-15 that don’t recognize him. Oh and a giant statue of the He Who Remains guy.

Is this one of the timelines where that guy is a very very bad man? Again, these are answers that we’ll have to wait for.

This episode just set off a whole bunch of new things to wonder about. What did everyone think of the finale? Will you be tuning in to the second season?

The latest episode of Loki has us following him into “The Void” as he searches for a way out. The TVA is a bit worse for wear, and everywhere we turn, the mysteries seem to be adding up. Everyone–including us– is just searching for answers.

After the ending of the previous episode, I was really looking forward to learning more about the TVA and who was behind it. Unfortunately, this show doesn’t want us to be happy.

Even though Sylvie had Judge Renslayer cornered, all we learn is that even she doesn’t know what’s going on. Are you telling me this woman has been blindly obeying those puppets her whole life? You do you, I guess.

But even when she’s aware she’s been listening to puppets, she STILL is completely devoted to the TVA and the lie of the Time-Keepers. With her, it’s all about maintaining order and the status quo.

She goes on her own mission to find out who actually founded the TVA, but only to protect them against Sylvie. Like girl! We need to get you a life and some better morals.

Fortunately, we did get to see exactly where Loki landed. All the Loki’s are in The Void; a magical, happy place where all the Loki’s get together and sing songs about how much they love each other…okay, obviously not.

It’s so dreary! I don’t think they could make that place more dreary if they tried. It’s basically a timeline garbage dump where pruned things are at the mercy of Alioth.

Now Alioth is pretty cool. Basically, a purple cloud monster that gobbles up all the variant trash. He’s also very, very, big. This is why I raised several eyebrows at their master plan for finding the truth about the TVA.

But before they came up with their questionable plan, we got to meet even more Loki’s.

The after-credits scene last week revealed four Loki’s, including…an alligator. Well, this week we got more! Not only was there Kid Loki, King of The Void (who was not afraid to constantly strike a pose), but an older and refined Classic Loki.

We also met some not so friendly Loki’s who wanted to take over The Void Kingdom. Again, this is a very dreary place–lawless even–so why are there kings? Honestly, what are you actually ruling over? But the effort is very Loki-like. He loves ruling over things.

So we get some conflict between our Loki’s, thanks to Boastful Loki who betrays our Loki and his companions. President Loki (again, are there any elections? I really don’t think so) and his army seek to take over Kid Loki’s throne, which leads to a very comedic fight scene.

Alligator Loki bites off a hand, Loki tries to delicately tiptoe around all the fighting, and anarchy unfolds as all the Loki variants turn against each other. But Loki’s are survivors, so of course, our Loki group escapes. Phew.

Except this episode wasn’t just about comedy. We’re all looking for answers–including Sylvie.

After Sylvie realizes Judge Renslayer doesn’t have the information she’s looking for, she decides to take matters into her own hands. Taking a very “the only way out is through” approach.

This lady self-prunes. A bold move that brings her to The Void, so I guess a risk worth taking. She does take Renslayer’s TemPad so at least she has an escape plan.

She almost gets gobbled up by Alioth but our friend Mobius arrives in a pizza delivery car to rescue her. Not the most glamourous getaway ride, but now we know Mobius is still alive.

Back to this very questionable and unadvisable master plan. The Loki’s meet-up with Sylvie and Mobius, and decide their best hope is to enchant this beast to get to whatever’s on the other side.

Now, I must admit that this is an upgrade from Loki’s original plan of killing the cloud monster, but not by much. Sure Sylvie saw a glimpse of something when she briefly enchanted the beast (back when she was running for her life) but…it still seemed unrealistic. Mobius seemed to have some sense and got out of there, using Sylvie’s TemPad to head back to the TVA.

But what do I know, because with the help of Classic Loki’s sacrifice, they do actually manage to enchant the monster and open a window to the other side.

It looked like a highly protected haunted house, so who knows what awaits us. We have to hold on for the last episode to finally find out who is behind the TVA.

Part of me thinks it might be a bit underwhelming. Like just some guy in his bathrobe, having some fun by manipulating the universe. Can you imagine? That might be fun though.

We’ll also see the conclusion of the Loki-Sylvie relationship. They’ve taken important strides in building trust, and it’s official: They’re friends! That’s what several near-death experiences can do.

It’s been great to see their relationship bloom and solidify, and now I genuinely don’t see them falling into the typical Loki habit of betrayal.

I do get an uneasy feeling that they both might not make it out of next week’s episode alive. Just the way they were suggesting some kind of life together moving forward. Can Marvel let Loki be happy? We’ll find out.

That and Loki’s bromance with Mobius will have to be wrapped up somehow. Let’s hope Mobius doesn’t get into too much trouble back at the TVA. Except what are they going to do? Prune him again?

The suspense is killing me, but next week’s finale will (fingers crossed) give us satisfying answers to all our questions.

What did you think? Any theories about who’s behind everything or do you have absolutely no idea? Meet you back here for the final wrap-up.

Loki Season 1 Episode 4 has arrived, and we cover a lot of ground. A lot of important ground. At the end of the last episode, we were left with Loki and Sylvie stranded in an apocalypse wondering how they were gonna pull off a final escape.

Well, now we know! They were rescued (captured?) by the Minutemen. Back in the clutches of the TVA.

And honestly, the TVA has seen better days because everywhere we look, there are cracks in the Time-Keepers carefully crafted lies. Apparently, Sylvie is too dangerous for Mobius to interrogate? B-15 remembers Sylvie’s enchantment from episode 2, and Loki plants the seed that the TVA is lying.

Not only is Hunter B-15 a convert, but Mobius also searches for the truth. When Mobius is getting suspicious, that’s when you know it’s real.

Thankfully, Mobius is finally asking some important questions. The absence of Hunter C-20 is raising red flags for him–as it should. As soon as Ravonna said she’s dead because she “could barely speak”, everyone knew that was fake right?

Along with his dwindling belief in the TVA, we also get to dive into Ravonna Renslayer. She really emerges as a definite villain. And what a great villain she is!

There’s something about bad guys who weaponize a sweet façade to distract from their villain-ness that I love. This episode really pulls out her darker side.

Not only does she lie about the circumstances involving C-20’s death, but she also prunes her “friend” Mobius. Again, not great, but I appreciate her evil energy.

Except she didn’t seem to have fun killing him. Did I sense some conflict in her? It will be interesting to finally get to the root of what’s driving her.

And could it be her desire to conceal the Time-Keepers and their absolute fakery?!

So. We finally get to see the three lizards (as Loki would call them) and they seem very important and high and mighty, yeah okay. A precisely aimed attack nicely pops off one of their heads and of course, they’re just androids. They’re giving a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic character vibe.

They were just so over the top with their clothes and features that they seemed unbelievable (nice mustache orange dude).

I was originally surprised that there actually were Time-Keepers, then surprised we were even getting to see them. I thought they might really draw out the reveal. Turns out I was right.

We’ll have to delve further into the mystery of the TVA next week. But I am actually confident we’ll get some answers (and not just because there are only 2 episodes left). It’s all looking up because Sylvie has Renslayer in her grasp! Perfect. Get her to talk!

But can we talk about Loki? Erm, the other Loki. He’s gone on quite the journey again.

So far his evolution in this show has been a fast track of his evolution in the movies, but this journey has gone a little further. It’s about love!

Okay, the two Lokis seem to have feelings for each other, which created a nexus event big enough to be detected by the TVA. Which is great, love that for him, but they’re the same person.

Like how are you gonna have a crush on yourself?! I know they’re a tad narcissistic, but I don’t know how I feel about this match-up of the God and Goddess of Mischief. At the same time, who else could put up with Loki besides…himself?

So he reflects about whether he deserves to be alone for the rest of his life, decides ‘hmmm maybe not’, recognizes his feelings for Sylvie, but just when he’s going to confess this love, the guy gets pruned. *sigh* We were so close.

Thankfully he’s not dead. In the series first after-credits scene Loki is in some other place with…well-costumed individuals. Seriously, what were they wearing? And why was that one guy holding a small alligator?

Of course, Mr. Alligator and his alligator friend, along with Mr. Yellow-and-Green-Spandex are rocking some golden horns customary to Loki’s. So my guess is that Loki went to a land of Loki’s with Loki’s aplenty.

Perhaps Mobius is there too? Or maybe people go different places when they’re pruned.

Hopefully, they meet back up since they really got to solidify their bromance in this episode. It’s been great seeing the ebb and flow of their relationship but c’mon fellas, you can only play the game for so long. Except now they’re friends and they know it!

Now, all we need is a full-scale uprising against the TVA, which I feel is coming. Between Sylvie, B-15, and Loki with his new friends? I think we can get it done.

Ok, I’ll meet you back here next week so we can dissect whatever they finally reveal about the Time-Keepers. Also, do we think that alligator is a Loki too? Can it talk or just bite? We need answers.