Before we get into this week's Touchbase, some news about some TV shows I've posted about here in this space.
In the wake of the Actor's Strike being resolved, shows that Andrea and I watch are going back into production.
- Night Court as of 11/15
- Abbott Elementary and Young Sheldon as of 11/27
- Ghosts as of 12/11.
CBS reports the new seasons of Young Sheldon and Ghosts will debut on February 15th.
And news came down that the 4th season of Superman & Lois will be the last.
Now on to this week's Touchbase.
Last week Andrea and I watched the season 2 finale of Loki.
Loki finally get his throne and fulfills his glorious purpose.
But not in any way like he ever anticipated.
OK, to make a long story short....
Yeah, there are a lot of moving parts but I will endeavor to relate what happened in season 2 of Loki.
The killing of He Who Remains causes the time line to splinter into a bunch of different directions.
This is bad.
Why is it bad? It just... is. (Look, there's a technobabble explanation if why splintering the time line is bad but don't aks me to repeat it. Just accept that it's bad. I'm trying to keep a long story short.)
TVA operative Renslayer and the holographic AI Miss Minutes have gone back in time to leave a copy of the TVA Manual with a child who 20 years later is an inventor/con man named Victor Timely who has built a Temporal Loom. Timely is the one who will become He Who Remains.
(Ouroboros wrote the TVA Manual based on the work of Victor Timely. Victor Timely's work is based on the TVA Manual written by Ouroboros. At one point, I exclaimed "Steven Moffat is EVIL!" even though this is NOT Doctor Who and Moffat didn't write this.)
Back in what we'll call "the present", the Temporal Loom that is at the heart of the TVA's operations is overloading trying to manage the growing number of time lines shooting off from the main "Sacred Timeline". Or something. It's bad. Move on!
Meanwhile, Loki is slipping back and forth through time, trying to help Ouroboros and Timely put a thing inside another thing that will fix the Loom and all of reality will not crack up. Or something. It's bad!
Loki jumps back and forth through time, living through centuries ("Moffat is EVIL!") to become smart enough to keep up with the technobabble to fix the Loom.
It doesn't work and everything is going to die! (I think. This confusion over what's going on feels more Chibnall than Moffat.)
Then Loki assumes his horned helmet god persona and grabs all the dying strands of the splintering time lines in his hands, goes to the end of time, assumes the throne once held by He Who Remains and fixes whatever the hell is wrong with his own friggin' awesomeness.
Or something. Longer story made even shorter: Loki sacrifices himself to save everything.
The guy who sicced evil aliens of death on the Earth in the first Avengers movie makes the ultimate play to save the Earth and world beyond.
Loki sits upon a throne and is filled with glorious purpose.
I didn't always follow all the intricacies of the plot lines for season 2 of Loki but I will say that season finale certainly sticks the landing for Loki's character arc over these 2 seasons.
The season's last line of dialogue is from Owen Wilson as Moebius takes a break from the TVA to take a look at his life on the Sacred Timeline, a single father of two named Dan who sells jet skis. Which explains Moebius' fascination with jet skis in season 1. Watching Dan playing with his sons, Moebius says "I'm just going to stand here a little while, let time pass." It's a beautiful but bittersweet moment.
The end of season 2 of Loki does seem to bring the story of Loki to a most definite conclusion in the MCU. But I can think of a half dozen ways to bring Loki back and besides, this is the same guy who Thanos killed back in Avengers: Infinity War. As we know from the comics on which these shows and movies are based, the end is not always the end.
Meanwhile, a couple of weeks ago Andrea and I finished our watch of The Librarians and we still kind of miss our nerd friends from the secret repository of all things magic.
TNT cancelled the show in 2018 after 4 seasons with no warning. Thankfully, the creators did NOT end season 4 on a cliffhanger and kind of ended things fairly squared away. Jenkins regains his immortality as he oversees the "wedding" of Librarian Flynn Carsen & Guardian Eve Baird. (It's a tethering ceremony to keep the Library from drifting off to some other dimension or something.)
Andrea and I became quite attached to the other 3 Librarians: Cassandra Cillian who used "super magic math" to solve mysteries; Jacob Stone, taciturn fighter with a near limitless knowledge of history and art; and Ezekiel Jones, a self absorbed ego driven "world's greatest thief" who could display surprising depths of knowledge and empathy when called upon.
The Librarians had a super cool Doctor Who like vibe, just swap out science fiction stuff with magic stuff.
We're gonna miss these guys!
A spinoff called The Librarians: The Next Chapter was announced to be picked up by The CW to premiere during the 2024–25 broadcast season. Knowing how notoriously cheap the CW is and the old cast is off doing other things, I doubt we will see our old familiar family from the Library again.
I'm now introducing Andrea to The Orville which I have seen but do not mind seeing again. 4 episodes in and she's seems to be taking well to her new weekly TV family. It's gonna bum her out when we hit the end of the series at season 3.
Next week, I catch up on Abbot Elementary and we'll talk about Ghosts. And Ghosts.
American AND British varieties.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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