10 Best Moments & Biggest Reveals
Loki season 2, episode 3, “1893,” travels to the past and delivers important revelations about the nature of Kang and the TVA. Loki’s Season 2 premiere kicked off a story full of light-hearted questions and answers as Loki finds himself vacillating between the past, present, and future of the MCU’s TVA. Although his initial problem focuses on this change in time, it quickly becomes clear that the Time Loom – the overloaded device that operates every branch of the multiverse in a stable timeline – pose a greater threat. Additionally, Ouroboros discovers that the Loom’s blast door can only be opened by the temporary aura of the Remnant – the dead one. In an episode that brings three sets of Loki characters and their stories back together, Mobius, Loki, Sylvie Ravonna, and Miss Minutes together at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. There, they all want to find Kang variant Victor Timely for different reasons. The episodes almost-encompassing historical setting gives it a very different vibe than what came before, but the mysteries and apparent time loops make “1893” another classic episode of Loki.
Loki & Mobius Finally Find Out Where (and When) Ravonna Renslayer And Miss Minutes Are
Since Ravonna Renslayer took off in the Loki season 1 finale, her whereabouts have been unknown to Loki, Mobius, and the rest of the TVA. Loki season 2 episode 2 ended with a tease that Renslayer’s TemPad has finally been pinged, and “1893” has finally shown where she is. The episode opens with Ravonna and Miss Minutes making a brief pit stop in 1968 Chicago before jumping forward 25 years to 1983.
However, it doesn’t appear that this is where Ravonna jumped to immediately after Loki season 1. Her initial goal was to find “free will,” yet that seems to have changed a bit as she’s teamed up with Miss Minutes to carry out an important plan. It’s likely that time has passed the same for her as the rest of the Loki cast so far, though, so it’s not been long since her exit from the TVA.
Ravonna Renslayer And Miss Minutes Are Carrying Out Orders From He Who Remains
Though it’s initially unclear why Ravonna and Miss Minutes are in late 19th Century Chicago, it’s quickly revealed that they’re there to carry out a plan set in motion by He Who Remains himself. Though the episode doesn’t get into specifics of how or when these orders were conveyed beyond saying they came about as he knew his end was coming near, it seems as though He Who Remains had the foresight to try and protect the Sacred Timeline in his temporary absence.
He Who Remains Causes His Own Rise
It is quickly revealed that He Who Remains sent Ravonna back to 1868 to deliver the TVA manual to young Victor Timely. In keeping with the themes of the season so far, this creates a sort of paradox. Timely would never have created a TVA if it had not been provided with an organizational manual, but if it had not created a TVA it would have had no manual to provide. While it has not yet been confirmed that Timely is in fact a Remainer, it seems unlikely that the latter would be of any help to another variant due to his fear.
Loki And Mobius Find Victor Timely And The Quantumania Post-Credit Scene Finally Happens
Loki and Mobius travel to Chicago in 1983 to try to find Miss Minutes, who they believe can overcome the Temporal Loom’s explosive closure in the absence of He Who Remains. However, to Loki’s surprise, they found Victor TImely first. Of course, Loki is clearly shaken as time has passed since the death of the One Who Remains. The scene where Loki tells Mobius who Timely is was previously considered the post-credits scene of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.
Timely Is Building A Temporal Loom To Power The Earth
Loki season 2, episode 1 revealed the Temporal Loom, an absolutely massive device that harnesses every branch of the multiverse and stabilizes them into one unified thread. However, with the help of his anachronistic TVA handbook, Victor Timely has built a prototype for a much smaller one. Its goals are much more reasonable, too. By reversing the “temporal decay” of energy running through it, the Temporal Loom can create an unprecedented amount of power. When the device is perfected, Timely wants to use it to provide electricity to the whole world.
Sylvie Tries To Kill Victor Timely
As if it wasn’t difficult enough for the Loki/Mobius and Renslayer/Miss Minutes teams to all commit to the Timely company, Sylvie appears after leaving TVA in Loki season 2, episode 2. After spending her life fleeing the TVA and killing the Remainer, she vowed to kill any variant of it she encountered. Even though Loki could have stopped her, Sylvie still tried her best to keep this promise.
Miss Minutes Reveals Her Jealous Side
Throughout Loki Season 2, Episode 1, Miss Minutes seemed tormented by jealousy whenever Ravonna received too much credit from Timely. However, this reached new heights after Miss Minutes and Timely were alone. There, she revealed that the One Who Remained – presumably the future Victor Timely – had given her almost everything she had ever wanted, but had never thought of giving her a body so she could, according to her way of speaking, is “your daughter”. Moments before promptly disposing of her with the TemPad, Miss Minutes confesses that she loves him. It’s a creepy scene that highlights a side of Miss Minutes that had previously only been teased.
Sylvie Spares Victor Timely And Ravonna (Kind Of)
Towards the end of the episode, Sylvie suddenly appears again and is able to kill Victor in time for the sins of the One Who Stays. However, she seems to see a little bit of herself in him. Panicked, he explains that he is a good man and that he is hers alone, capable of making better decisions than other versions she has ever met. There are clear parallels with his own experiences, determining that everyone deserves to live their own lives, free from the chain of predestination. It allows him to travel with Loki and Mobius to TVA. Then, Sylvie is left face to face with Renslayer, another person she’s vowed to kill. However, realizing the damage of violent obsession, she spares her – though not in as forgiving a way as Timely. Sylvie pushes Ravonna through a Time Door, and she ends up with the dead body of He Who Remains in the crumbling Citadel at the End of Time.
Miss Minutes Knows A Big Secret About Ravonna Renslayer
The finale of Loki Season 2, Episode 1 left Ravonna and Miss Minutes trapped in the End Times Citadel, in the ruins and chaos following the death of the One Who Remains. Although the situation was already miserable, it was made worse by the sinister teasing from Miss Minutes. In her usually happier voice, the AI told Ravonna, “I know a very big [secret] about you. I could tell you, but… it would make you really angry.