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The finale of Loki opens with OB and Timely getting ready to fix the Loom again. Loki time zaps back to tell Timely to not go through with the mission. Everything goes as it did a couple weeks ago. Timely dies because of the radiation. Loki asks OB what they could’ve done differently and he says they needed more time. We cut to a montage of Loki explaining the mission to Timely repeatedly just for the same results. 

Loki takes Timely back to when he first meets OB and they explain the mission again. Loki gets fed up and asks OB how long it would take to learn everything he knows about Physics. He says it would take him centuries. We cut to centuries later and we’re still doing the same mission. They say they have to move fast. Same song and dance. Loki gives Timely a little pep talk as he makes his way down the loom. He fires the shot and starts making his way back but he’s walking very gingerly eventually he does make it back. The loom starts putting the branches together and everything starts to stabilize. The readings start to come back and something’s off. The loom is overloading again. Timely tells them they can’t control the loom because the multiverse is constantly growing at a rapid rate. Loki looks exhausted and everyone feels defeated. 

Loki time slips to last season when Sylvie killed Kang. He stops her and fills her in and tells her she doesn’t want to do this. Now we start this repetitive montage. Loki keeps going back to the moment before Sylvie kills Kang and stops her but inevitably she does every time. Kang asks how many times they’ve been at this. He pauses the monotony of it all and asks Loki how much longer he’s gonna do this. Kang says that Loki loss is inevitable. He gets up from the table and says I know. Kang says every moment of peace you felt was because I was at the end of time keeping watch. He says he’s offering him mercy and Loki says for me or you? Loki refuses to give up. Kang proposes Loki kill Sylvie and see what happens. 

We cut to Mobius interrogating Loki from season one. Loki tells Mobius exactly what he’s going to do. He cuts to the chase and asks him for his help. Mobius doesn’t give him much and tells him older TVA stories. Loki shakes his hand and the environment evaporates into dust. Sylvie is about to evaporate but Loki pauses time. Loki tells her about everything he learned from Kang about the loom. She realizes that Loki has to kill her so she doesn’t kill Kang. 

Loki slips back to the mission with the loom and he opens the door with no suit on and says I know what god I need to be. He steps out with the radiation running rampant without a care in the world. He goes out wearing his traditional comic book costume and makes a hole in the loom which he walks towards. He begins putting individual branches back together on his own. They did a good job capturing the vastness of time here because it looked exhausting. Things get quiet and we fade to black. 

We cut to “after” and B-15 is walking the halls of the TVA. Miss Minutes is back and things seem pretty normal. Cubicles, people typing away Mobius is there delivering her a report. Mobius puts in his two weeks' notice at the TVA he just wants to go see what they’ve been protecting all this time. We see Renslayee lying in the grass and she gets up to look around. A purple beam shines in the sky but we cut away before seeing what it is. 

Mobius finally gets to see what his quiet life is like. He looks at his house with jet skis in the garage and kids roaming outside. Sylvie walks up to him and says it’s weird that Loki isn’t here and you can see how grateful he is for his sacrifice. Mobius says he’s going to stay there for a while and let time pass. We see Loki amongst the various branches of time and that’s how season two ends. 

What an amazing season of TV. Loki season two was thrilling from start to finish. This show did his character justice whereas in season one it was great to see him again but that didn’t feel up to the level of this. This show had stakes that you felt the weight of throughout. Honestly, it could be the best project from this phase. They didn’t waste a single moment. Props to everyone involved in putting together six enthralling episodes.

All episodes of Loki are now streaming on Disney+.

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