Series · Disney+ · 2021
Pass it on
Loki
45Watch it awake.
A liar given a clock and a desk. The joke is better than the theology.
The review
A man whose whole talent is the exit is forced to stay in the building. That is a useful premise. Bureaucracy as the enemy of a life is also useful, up to the point where the show replaces it with another glowing MacGuffin and forgets the man.
Take the part where he tells the truth at a cost and leave the rest of the mythology on the table. A clever man is not a good man until the cleverness stops being the way he avoids a promise. This one almost gets there. Almost is not the same as a vow.
Journal
Keep Loki in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Ahsoka
58 instead of 45
Ahsoka is still a action show, and it scores 58 instead of 45. What you gain is piety: An order, a master, a way.
The eight
- 5Industry
He is finally given a job. He is still mostly performing it.
- 3Household
Variant selves are not a household. Affection shows up late and sideways.
- 2Piety
Gods are props. Reverence would end the bit.
- 6Courage
He does, eventually, choose a hard future over a clever exit.
- 5Republic
A secret office that edits history is the villain, which is the right instinct.
- 4Temperance
Charm is the appetite. The show feeds it.
- 6Truth
The plot only works if a liar becomes bored with lying.
- 5Stewardship
The question of what timeline we hand on is the best thing in it.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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