Other Wednesdays have arrived, and this week, we were looking at Loki’s third installment, which was released in the early hours. Without pampering anything, episode 3 has a different rhythm than the previous one, and it may seem slower and less attractive than what happened before. But it hardly happened. Episode 3 provides a number of massive revelations, including the key element of the plot that is easy to miss. Before we dig, I will remind you to watch episode 3, because many Loki spoilers follow.
The episode starts with a very unusual scene so we are immediately considered suspicious. Hunter C-20 (Sasha Lane) and Lady Loki / Sylvie (Sophia in Martino) sitting in a restaurant that speaks menu and the brain freezes. These are all tricks in the mind of C-20, because Sylvie digs information – we will call Lady Loki Sylvie because of whom he is now and therefore makes everything less confusing.
The C-20 thought occurred only a few minutes before TVa attacked the Sylvie base. That’s how Sylvie gets information about TVA from it. It seems strange that Sylvie comes with a complicated scheme to extract data from TVA operative.
This is only later in the episode that Loki and Sylvie discuss the last ability to access other people’s thoughts and control them. That’s when Sylvie dropped a bomb on Loki, told him that he took advantage of someone’s memory if they refused his magic. That’s what happened with C-20, and what we saw at the beginning of the episode was based on the memory of C-20 from other lives.
“The young soldier from TVA, his mind was chaotic. Everything was cloudy,” Sylvie told Loki, adding him to “Must pull the memory of hundreds of years before, before [hunter] even struggled for them.”
Revelation that C-20 is a human on earth before joining TVA Stuns Loki, who studied on TVa, which everyone worked there was created by time guards. That is the type of information that will make anyone question everything they learn from TVA. And Loki makes it clear before in the episode that he thinks you can’t beat TVA, so there’s no point in trying.
But Sylvie was not done with a great revelation. He tells him that all TVA employees are variants. Several early Loki’s theories suggested that all TVA personnel represent former variants that have been employed to work on TVa – well, forced more likely. This explains why Casey (Eugene Cordero) does not have fish memory, even though it works in the largest and most powerful organization in the universe. Or why Mobius (Owen Wilson) likes ski-jets for no apparent reason.
But the most amazing revelation is that C-20 is human on earth hundreds of years before joining TVA. This is a type of plot detail that you might not realize how important the story is.
As we saw in that memory that Sylvie was recreated, Hunter C-20 lived in what appeared to be a modern day. From the appearance of the restaurant, clothes, menus, frozen moments of the brain, we learn that he is on earth relatively close to dawn of Avengers.
Mobius did say in the Loki episode first passed differently on TVa. It explains how C-20 has worked there for hundreds of years, even though he must be contemporary with Avengers.
Mobius obsession with jet ski and the 90s showed it was probably the time when he became a variant. If he worked since then for TVA, he must be on duty for hundreds of years.
This took us to speculation yesterday that TVA might be located in the quantum realm. That’s where Scott Lang spends five hours while the whole world is five years old. But instead it might be true too. You may experience hundreds of years in the quantum realm, but it will all be a few years in the usual earth time.