Loki wants to learn more about Sylvie’s powers, which she tries and fails to enchant him with, and while Sylvie is hardly explicit about her intentions, there remains a looming sense that her attempts to get Loki to open up are less about making a connection, and more about finding ways to invade his memories.Īfter a brief recap of Sylvie enacting her plan, the episode kicks off with an action scene back at the TVA. Along the way, they reveal things about themselves to one another, with each actor’s performance hinting at subdued vulnerabilities - but they’re also both tricksters with their own agendas. The episode follows Loki and Sylvie making their way across Lamentis-1, a planet on the verge of apocalypse. However, the key purpose served by this introduction is to colour what might otherwise be a bland series of character exposition. ![]() Maybe this was intentional, or maybe it was subpar compositing or StageCraft (several later scenes fall victim to shoddy VFX), but accidental eeriness is eeriness all the same. The scene itself feels slightly off kilter even before it skips through time, both thanks to Di Martino’s sly performance, and a backdrop that looks distinctly unreal. As Sylvie explains to Loki later in the episode, her mind-control illusion is a game of memory, in which she slips into a subject’s real recollections - in this case, C-20 sipping margaritas at her favourite restaurant - in order to extract information from them. Sylvie, extracted information about the Time Keepers’ whereabouts from Hunter C-20 (Sasha Lane), the TVA Minute Man she kidnapped last week. The opening scene doubles back to show us how Di Martino’s Variant, a.k.a. Tom Hiddleston continues to shine as a comedic lead, and while Owen Wilson’s Agent Mobius is sorely missed this week, newcomer Sophia Di Martino is an adequate straight-faced replacement, as a Variant Loki who may or may not be a Loki at all. It is, however, often hampered, and ends up in service of a story that jogs in place and concludes rather abruptly. “ Lamentis” - a shorter episode than the last two, at a mere 42 minutes with credits - hammers home just how much this series is the rare Marvel entry with any real visual panache. ![]() ![]() After a pair of funny but uneven episodes that served to propel the plot, Loki’s third chapter attempts to hunker down for some emotional reflection.
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