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I'm a bit surprised that there isn't already a thread here... mods, if there is, please close down this thread and point me in the right direction 
Overall I've found season 1 to be quite disappointing. I was entertained by it, sure, and I was increasingly enjoying it up to a certain point (particularly giving the Lokis a bit of character depth, what makes a guy like Loki tick), and then for me it suffered from what I'll call the Evangelion Effect and it went downhill from there.
What I call the Evangelion Effect: My wife had me watch Evangelion over ten years ago, and we were totally binge-watching it. For me, it was putting up interesting plot ideas and elements and I wanted to know the answers, but then these elements kept getting stacked on top of each other, and then... nothing. So many things left unexplained, and a line-up to a bullshit ending that made no sense.
In Loki season 1, for me this effect became noticeable right when Loki and Sylvie got caught. The logical conclusion to that plot line (as it looks at that point) is that they are executed in short order, which of course didn't happen instead we get "The Time Keepers want to meet them in an easily escapable situation before they're killed", there's literally no reason why that meeting would be desirable (in view of the rest of S1), surely instead they should have been transported to see He Who Remains, rather than filler, filler and more filler. Then there's the element that was thrown in whereby there were four figures, three which looked like Time Keepers and the fourth which was a broken column... for some reason. No explanation, because we need to move on to the next layer of crap being that the timeline is branching now for... reasons, and for some reason He Who Remains thinks it's feasible to put a couple of quite broken people with no experience of timeline management in charge of all existence in this universe to be pitted against all the other timelines, how it would have worked if he put them in charge I have no idea because he's apparently tired of this whole gig anyway and it's for the young to take the reins.
What's the judge's motivation in all of this? Is there really only one judge in an organisation that looks to be a civilisation in size? Was she solidly of the mind that any solution that involves her holding on to her power is desirable? Then she leaves because she's suddenly interested in free will despite spending however long digging up information about the beginning of the TVA (which is probably all bullshit; there's no reason why she would be given that information except directly from He Who Remains). Another interesting plot point was her interaction with Sylvie as a child, no explanation there either. If all the TVA are variants then was wasn't Sylvie hired instead of "killed"? Either the TVA is huge and surely fellow employees wouldn't start recognising old adversaries, or it's not huge at all and they'd start recognising each other.
Overall I've found season 1 to be quite disappointing. I was entertained by it, sure, and I was increasingly enjoying it up to a certain point (particularly giving the Lokis a bit of character depth, what makes a guy like Loki tick), and then for me it suffered from what I'll call the Evangelion Effect and it went downhill from there.
What I call the Evangelion Effect: My wife had me watch Evangelion over ten years ago, and we were totally binge-watching it. For me, it was putting up interesting plot ideas and elements and I wanted to know the answers, but then these elements kept getting stacked on top of each other, and then... nothing. So many things left unexplained, and a line-up to a bullshit ending that made no sense.
In Loki season 1, for me this effect became noticeable right when Loki and Sylvie got caught. The logical conclusion to that plot line (as it looks at that point) is that they are executed in short order, which of course didn't happen instead we get "The Time Keepers want to meet them in an easily escapable situation before they're killed", there's literally no reason why that meeting would be desirable (in view of the rest of S1), surely instead they should have been transported to see He Who Remains, rather than filler, filler and more filler. Then there's the element that was thrown in whereby there were four figures, three which looked like Time Keepers and the fourth which was a broken column... for some reason. No explanation, because we need to move on to the next layer of crap being that the timeline is branching now for... reasons, and for some reason He Who Remains thinks it's feasible to put a couple of quite broken people with no experience of timeline management in charge of all existence in this universe to be pitted against all the other timelines, how it would have worked if he put them in charge I have no idea because he's apparently tired of this whole gig anyway and it's for the young to take the reins.
What's the judge's motivation in all of this? Is there really only one judge in an organisation that looks to be a civilisation in size? Was she solidly of the mind that any solution that involves her holding on to her power is desirable? Then she leaves because she's suddenly interested in free will despite spending however long digging up information about the beginning of the TVA (which is probably all bullshit; there's no reason why she would be given that information except directly from He Who Remains). Another interesting plot point was her interaction with Sylvie as a child, no explanation there either. If all the TVA are variants then was wasn't Sylvie hired instead of "killed"? Either the TVA is huge and surely fellow employees wouldn't start recognising old adversaries, or it's not huge at all and they'd start recognising each other.
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