I was kinda surprised when I heard that Kang would be the Phase 4 villain. Knowing how many plot holes there were with the Avengers movies that they would stick with the messing with time mechanic for an entire phase, I just can't wait for all the sweaty dudes to talk shit about how Marvel is so inaccurate with timelines. [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
Great call. Can’t wait until we see the evil variant Kang. Not sure if that person comes in the new Ant Man or Dr Strange movie
There’s also the possibility that he may be revealed in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
All I can say is that Phase 4 and 5 are going to be WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more ambitious than Phases 1-3.
Fantastic Four, all of the upcoming Marvel TV series, Shang-Chi, The Eternals, Secret Invasion-there is a lot on the horizon.
I think it's pretty clear that this is all leading up to Secret Wars much later this decade. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud:
There’s also the possibility that he may be revealed in Spider-Man: No Way Home.
All I can say is that Phase 4 and 5 are going to be WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY more ambitious than Phases 1-3.
Fantastic Four, all of the upcoming Marvel TV series, Shang-Chi, The Eternals, Secret Invasion-there is a lot on the horizon.
I think it's pretty clear that this is all leading up to Secret Wars much later this decade.
Spoiler!
That 45 minutes opened up so, so much going forward with Marvel. Just like Infinity War and Endgame wasn't a carbon copy of the Infinity Gauntlet run in the comics, I doubt if the MCU version of Secret Wars will mirror the 2015 comics. But, there is literally nothing they can't include now that we've seen what Immortus was holding back. Mutants, cosmic entities, Galactus, galactic empires, Doctor Doom.......every bit of it is on the table now. Outstanding, and I can't wait to see it all.
I’m thinking that once Dr Strange find out about this and that Loki did it, he’s going to want to permanently put Loki in that falling dimension he placed him in when Thor was looking for his father :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by RunKC:
I’m thinking that once Dr Strange find out about this and that Loki did it, he’s going to want to permanently put Loki in that falling dimension he placed him in when Thor was looking for his father :-)
That was really great foreshadowing and planning on the part of Kevin Feige and Marvel because Dr. Strange had a list of beings that could cause harm to the Earth and Loki was one of those beings.
I wonder if Dr. Strange somehow knew that Loki was a threat to the entire universe/multiverse? [Reply]
I don't know how I feel about that episode. I almost feel let down, in the sense that it felt like stopping in the middle of a season rather than at the end of one. [Reply]
Originally Posted by keg in kc:
I don't know how I feel about that episode. I almost feel let down, in the sense that it felt like stopping in the middle of a season rather than at the end of one.
I agree 100%.
I posted earlier that I didn't think that Kang would be the "Big Bad" because there wasn't enough time in the series to introduce him and have a satisfying conclusion to the series.
Well, clearly, they had another season planned, so it threw that theory right out the window. Most of the episode was spent on Immortus talking about himself and the multiverse. Personally, I found that weird because it was almost like a Voiceover, which generally speaking, is considered bad filmmaking. The story, actors and visuals should tell the story, not a defacto narrator.
Also, I wouldn't have stayed up so late had it been known that there's a Season 2, which hasn't even gone into production, which makes it all the stranger. If they knew that the series would need a second season, it should have been shot simultaneously with the first season, especially for budgeting reason.
I wouldn't say the episode was bad, per se, but it was certainly unexpected for me, and not in a good way. [Reply]
I didn't feel let down at all and thought it was a very effective finale. It opened up massive possibilities for this franchise, introduced us to the major villain of the next phase, and paved the way for further stories with these characters. Now, if they weren't planning a S2 with these characters I might feel differently (as they didn't fully provide closure for Loki/Sylvie/Mobius' character arcs). But they are planning that and presumably will do that down the road. [Reply]
Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
I didn't feel let down at all and thought it was a very effective finale. It opened up massive possibilities for this franchise, introduced us to the major villain of the next phase, and paved the way for further stories with these characters. Now, if they weren't planning a S2 with these characters I might feel differently (as they didn't fully provide closure for Loki/Sylvie/Mobius' character arcs). But they are planning that and presumably will do that down the road.
The season ended on a cliffhanger, which is lame, especially considering it's going to be quite a while before Kang's next appearance, whether that's in another season of Loki that could debut at the end of 2022 or in the next Ant-Man movie, which won't be released until 2023.