Loki episode 2 was almost a much different outing as it was originally going to focus on Sylvie's timeline adventures instead. Marvel Studios wrapped up its third Disney+ show after WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and many deem it to be the best among the selection thus far. Focusing on Tom Hiddleston's fan-favorite character, Loki follows the God of Mischief in a new adventure as he discovers the Time Variance Authority/TVA.

The events of Loki are kicked off by the anti-hero's escape in the botched New York leg of Avengers: Endgame's time heist. However, he isn't able to get very far as he's shortly arrested by the TVA, an organization that safeguards the Sacred Timeline in an effort to prevent another multiversal war. Instead of being punished by pruning, Agent Mobius M. Mobius (Owen Wilson) enlists his help in hunting down a female variant of himself, Sylvie (Sophia di Martino), who has been wreaking havoc in the timelines. Aside from several snippets of the cloaked the rogue variant going up against Minutemen and jumping through years, the series never really showed what she had been doing before she met Loki.

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Apparently, this was something that the Disney+ project was going to tackle early on in Loki. When asked on Twitter what significant mandate they got from the higher-ups at Marvel Studios, writer Eric Martin revealed that episode 2 was originally going to show Sylvie's timeline shenanigans. However, they were asked to focus on Hiddleston's version of the character instead. Check out his tweet below:

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Episode 2 is significant in setting up a lot of the subsequent plot lines in Loki, especially in terms of how the God of Mischief continued to doubt the legitimacy of the TVA and the powers of the Time-Keepers. Ultimately, some of his hunches turned out to be correct. However, arguably the most important story achievement for the outing was establishing the rapport between Loki and Mobius. Although they had already spent a significant amount of time with each other in the premiere, episode 2 showed them having proper conversations. The trickster challenged the analyst's understanding of his existence within the TVA which was instrumental in turning him later on after learning that he and the rest of the Minutemen are variants.

Martin's revelation also harkens back to criticisms online that while the Loki ending ultimately made sense, some didn't like that it sidelined Hiddleston's main variant. In episode 6, the Asgardian Prince takes a backseat, as he primarily followed Sylvie's lead. That's until their argument about what to do regarding He Who Remains' (Jonathan Majors) revelation about the reality regarding the TVA. In the end, Sylvie won and ended up killing Kang the Conqueror's variant, while Loki was forced into an alternate version of the TVA where there are no Time-Keepers. Instead, the time-traveling villain openly manages the organization.

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Source: Eric Martin

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