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Monday Media Musings - 7/19/21
Most of the media I've been consuming have been of the binge rewatch (in the case of Leverage original flavor) and replay (in the case of the entire Ace Attorney series) variety, and I haven't been really feeling like posting about those as I go. I did, however, recently finish watching a show as it aired, and that show was
Loki: I enjoy Tom Hiddleston's take on Loki as much as anyone, but I didn't have the same fangirl anticipation for it as I'd had for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (a high bar, to be fair). Still, I was looking forward to it, especially after the trailers started coming out. And overall, I quite enjoyed it. Hiddleston plays Loki brilliantly in every incarnation (it's obvious how much he loves embodying the character), his chemistry with Owen Wilson is excellent, and I found his interactions with Sylvie compelling. I love the aesthetic, too, especially the design of the TVA as a 1970s era bureaucracy -- it reminded me of Brazil in many ways. It also probably has the best pacing of any MCU Disney+ show so far, in that I thought it worked well in the episodic format, as opposed to Wandavision and especially TFatWS. I also felt like the build to the final reveal of He Who Remains was paced just right, doling out just enough information to keep the viewers invested, not so much that the casual viewer would immediately guess what was going on, and it all held together for me in the end. It seems that Kang -- and He Who Remains is unquestionably Kang, even though his name was never mentioned; if nothing else, the actor has been cast as Kang the Conqueror in the next Ant-Man movie -- is being set up as the overarching Big Bad for this next round of MCU films, and if Jonathan Majors's performance here is anything to go by, we're in for a good time (I suspect I'm going to find him much more compelling in that role than Thanos ever was). We're unquestionably in the multiverse now, and I'm looking forward to seeing where it goes.
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