LOKI 2x03 BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

welcome back to New Rock starss I'm Eric Boss and this is a breakdown of Loki season 2 episode 3 I love this episode the historical period took us back to the stuttering Thomas Edison with Frederick dunas hair Victor timely ended up being and how horny Miss minuts turned out to be so let's break it down for all the Easter eggs the clever design choices and just everything you might have missed I'm so grateful to all of you for watching these breakdowns recommending them to your friends and just giving us your time because as we learned this episode time is everything okay the opening Marvel Studios title card includes a bag time version of Michael Gino's Marvel Fanfare music now we forget that it was Michael Gino who first composes he actually did it for 2016's Doctor Strange and Gino is having a big week right now as his directorial debut where wolf by night is having a re-release in color and that amazing production opened with a horror version of the Fanfare now Ragtime music was popularized by musicians like Scott Joplin and really hit its peak in the 1890s through the 1910s it was known for a syncopated or ragged Rhythm the kind of music you would hear accompanying old silent films but this episode is mostly set in the year 1893 but we actually begin in 1868 decades before Ira time was popular so the episode opens on a Weather Vein in Chicago the lower third tells us 1868 on the sacred timeline the sacred timeline tells us that we are in the main historical continuity of the MCU and in that continuity there existed a young black man in 1868 who grew up to look just like Jonathan majors and thus like all the other Kang variants we are not yet on a branch that is formed as a result of s actions we are in history as it always existed this kid being right here was always part of he remains scripted plan for the MCU now based on the geography of the scene we later get from the street level this Weather Vein is a top the house that young Victor timley is in these other structures are shanties topped with chimneys and nothing more but young Victor wants to know the vector of the wind 1868 Chicago is an interesting choice of time not as interesting as 1893 as we'll see later but it was 3 years before the Great Fire of 1871 that wiped out the city and then 3 years after the Civil War ended and after President Abraham Lincoln who was nominated for the Republican ticket at the contentious Convention held in this same city in 1860 was assassinated in 1865 so as a result of the 1848 opening of the Illinois and Michigan canal in the first rail line to Chicago open in the same year Chicago exploded in population during its point in history from 4,000 people in 1840 to 990,000 people in 1860 the largest city in the midwest the influx was primarily Irish Catholic and German immigrants but during the Reconstruction Era black Southerners migrated to Chicago and the black population from 1870 to 1890 went from 4,000 to 15,000 and it was all here really in the south side of Chicago actually in this opening shot you can see some factories billowing smoke into the sky assuming this would be the same part of Chicago that would later become the Colombian Exposition this would be Chicago's Southside near Jackson Park in the south side of Chicago is known for having a history of racial segregation why do I know all this why do I care about it well my wife's family has its history in the roots of the Southside Chicago and she and I actually got married on Chicago southside in the last year in this Muddy Street across from Victor's home is an anvil with the sign reading RB Ellis blacksmith wheelright horseshoeing wagon repairs and woodwork RB Ellis is the name of a Tulsa Bas writer but in Marvel Warren Ellis obviously is a huge name in Marvel Comics and the MCU former president Matthew Ellis is actually named after him so maybe RB Ellis could have been Matthew Ellis's ancestor it seems like RB is the the blacksmith who later stares at Ren Slayer when she arrives Ren Slayer steps into this mud presumably the steps she took directly upon leaving the TVA in season 1 episode 6 in search of free will after Miss minutes gave her some files but she didn't give her anything on the origins of the TVA saying at that time but I'm downloading the files you need now this isn't what I asked for I know but he thinks this will be more useful who happy raen so before Miss minutes tells Ren Slayer the important person she's going to meet she asks if Rin brought what she asked I'll bless your heart oh bless your heart as anyone who has read or watched sharp objects can tell you is kind of a passive aggressive Missouri way of saying oh you're so sweet but also thank you Miss minutes hence it's some directive she got from he who remains he told me that we need to put this package in that window this was the plan he made when he knew the end was near for him this proves that he remains knew that Sylvia was going to kill him and that her doing that was really part of his plan perhaps he wanted to clear a path for a different incarnation of himself to take over or he just knew that that was the destined end for himself and his mission now is to reset the cycle to set up a future he remains to reascended to the top of the TVA basically to close the loop now this young Victor timley is just one variant but who knows there could be countless other Jonathan major doppelgangers throughout history that also got books like this or would receive books like this had Victor timley not gotten it first it might have been he remains to cast a wide net just to see which Kang would survive to kind of cash all these little versions of himself throughout history throughout the sacred timeline Mis minutes decides to alter appearance to a more classic animation black and white cartoon they definitely didn't have that in 1868 either her round rounded shoes now have pointed ends and there are actual clock hands on her face she tells Ren Slayer when he's back where he belongs a top the TVA you and I will be right by his side so is this a sincere promise from Mis minut If there really is a love triangle among these three it's just not clear if M mins ever really wanted to share room at he remain side now Victor timely we see is at his home and he's doing what making candles he pours wax into these molds and we see candlesticks lining the room it's just interesting that as an adult he will be seeking ways to replace the Edison Light Bulb and as a boy he is crafting ways to bring light what altruistic Creations this boy might have grown up making had he not been cursed by this book dropping in his window now this book is of course just a mere TVA guide book authored by Ora Boris on every desk in the TVA like Bibles and prison cells but in the hands of an 1868 candlemaker it radiates a shade of orange unseen in the sepia tone neighborhood outside of a ghost clock hiding in a barn I'm just obsessed with the idea of young Victor being a candlemaker once reminded of the nursery rhyme Jack be nimble Jack be Quake Jack J over the Candlestick but the pop culture reference here with the book is the sports Almanac from the Back to the Future Trilogy the McGuffin in part two that Biff tannan gets to his younger self to get rich while knowledge is power a book in the wrong hands can be a very dangerous weapon heu remains an all waren Kang variants originated in the 31st Century let's not forget that that's what he remain said e Ono before the TVA a variant of myself lived on Earth in the 31st Century he was a scientist and he discovered that there were universes stack on top of the so how does this square with a Kang variant in the 1860s that is also part of the Sacred timeline I think the idea is that he remains set himself a contingency where infant versions of himself from alternate 31st centuries were taken and placed like little Moses's throughout history on the sacred timeline just waiting in their lives to be activated or not as part of he remains contingency plan but until they are activated no Branch forms they would just live on their lives as the normal history flows forward so onto the tva's loom room we actually stay in this state of emergency in a long take shot we don't edit for over 60 seconds OB tells them it's stable right now but the branches doc prune are growing back now we don't know if these same Branch timelines that formed are just resistant to Doc's pruning or if other branches of equal number are just growing in their place but either way dox's bombing didn't work it didn't help OB says that he needs to increase the diameter of the Loom to boost throughput and clear that knot of unrefined time for the time stream to be noted just makes you wonder what incursions could be happening on that side of the Loom Mobius suggests we can hack into the system having no idea what hacking means which reminds me of that joke in office space when Michael Bolton says oh we should just launder the money and he doesn't really know what laundering is so Mobius and Loki travel to 1868 to Victor timy's neighborhood mobus doesn't recognize 1868 as historically significant but he recalls 18 71 fire but Loki asks any major figure arises from here he asks this literally in front of the open window of Victor Tim Le's home the window that rnay tossed the book through we get this fun camera effect where we follow them through the time door on the other side of that time door was a dead end wooden wall in the alley but on the other side of that time door we now transition to 1893 25 years later in the Colombian exposition of the Chicago World's Fair the Midway pleasance Shields and flags representing several different countries line the Gateway the ferris wheel we see is actually the world's first ferris wheel unveiled at this event in history designed by George Washington Gail Ferris and the lower third text establishes this as 1893 branched timeline aha an important detail so when young Victor timley was just making candles that was a sacred timeline but Victor being given this handbook turned his life into a branch the plan for that branch is to lead to a new he remains to inherit the TVA one innocent uncorrupted Kang removed from the drama of the 31st Century dog pile and the multiversal war a success that he remains contrust to carry out his vision of the TVA Mobius recalls the Chicago History during this time the White City Edison HH Holmes yes hot air balloons so the World's Fair was actually a Battleground between Thomas Edison's direct current DC and Nikolai Tesla's alternating current the AC system to power the fair they called it the battle of the currents Tesla ended up winning and he partnered up with Westin house to provide fluorescent lighting and Dazzle all the attendees of the fair meanwhile he mentions HH Holmes who was was a notorious serial killer who prayed upon young people who moved to the city for the World's Fair he confessed to killing 27 people but we don't know if he was just lying because he loved his crazy reputation might have been way more than that it might have been less than that but he was most famous for a three-story Murder Castle that was hyperbolized in the newspaper and I love this horrifyingly the newspaper that they buy on the far right column is an ad for World's Fair hotel and it was put in by if you see at the bottom of that ad HH Holmes proprietor and then right beneath that hilariously it had for life insurance now the newspaper shows a sketching of Miss minutes and lists the date as Friday June 23rd 1893 this would actually be 2 weeks before the final correspondence of one of HH hes victims Nanny Williams which was July 5th 1893 she and her sister Minnie Williams were never seen alive again and Holmes would actually use Nanny Williams name in various scams I am willing to bet that one of these Mustachio attendees with a rounded bowler hat in the background is actually HH hes could it be this guy on the right or this guy on the right or this guy who passes in between movus and Loki here we are going to find him murderinos now notice how Loki in this episode wears a bright green tie with this interesting pin clipping it to his shirt it's just a little flash of gold to remind us of his horned Crown I suspect meanwhile the shirt I'm wearing is a Mobius design from our custom merch line inspired by Loki grab one of these is the best way to support us here at new rock stars get it at nerd rot. shop they pass a newsy liberty belt debut on 4th of July ghost clock continu the Midway Colombian Liberty Bell actually refers to the casting of a new Liberty Bell that was put on display in a replica of Independence Hall normally in Philadelphia but here they rebuilt it for the World's Fair and this new Liberty Bell contained like Metals melted down from like all kinds of famous historical relics Loki and Mobius shot by a crackerjack Pavilion in the visit of Norway building with the wooden statues of Odin and Thor and Boulder the Brave and why they include Boulder no one's even heard of him sure they have balder the brave amazing balder the brave is Thor's brother in North mythology and is a figure in Marvel Comics he was believed actually to have been a part of the cast of The Illuminati in 2022 Doctor Strange of the Multiverse of Madness played by Daniel Craig and we actually saw concept art of this from Daryl Warner and balder's helmet here looks like the helmet from that concept art in an interview with Josh Horwitz Daniel Craig played koi about this whole thing have you ever heard of the character balder the brave no there was a report Daniel that you were going to be in Doctor Strange don't you hide behind that mug Daniel I don't know what you're talking about Thor and Odin have the chest plates with the six circles as they do in the MCU so presumably there is a boulder in the MCU and we're going to meet him at some point the latest trailer footage for the Marvels actually includes a shot of the bifrost I called A Friend R PG13 now maybe this is just Thor or maybe balder's big debut is coming sooner than we think it's probably just Thor or like Valkyrie or something now as look looks at the Statue of Odin we hear this mournful violin theme [Music] again that toor but it gets cut off by Loki's jealousy of Thor then Loki turns to see this wield cage of prize winning black Alpine Hogs and this is actually the pen that he will later trap the tall brute inside of on a sign for the Hof prow beer hall presenting the program of enormous attractions showcasing tonight singer Ferdinand Lang with a German military band Ferdinand Lang you say perhaps an ancestor of Scot Lang enormous attractions you say then introducing his greatest invention Victor tinley's astounding temporal Marvels so Victor timley is one of the personas that Kang adopts when he decides he wants to dominate the 20th century starting at 1901 in timely Wisconsin this is when he would introduce robotics to American inventors which was really just a plot to encode all future robots including Sentinels with a back door so that he could take control over them in the future which would lead to the events of the Tang Dynasty storyline in the late '90s so this really just looks like a bunch of German music acts in a beer haul with a random inventure plugged in the middle my guess is that Victor took whatever he could get or maybe swindled someone out of their slot later in this beer hall the German band actually plays a cover of the Loki theme music it's kind of like the Disco rendition that we hear in the 1977 era back in season 2 episode 2 so they spot Ren Slayer and she's wearing 1893 attire actually Rin slayer's name according to her diploma in the season 1 finale was Rebecca tormin which is the Alias Ren Slayer uses in the comics when she joins Victor timley at the turn of the century so Victor takes the stage hi is everything it moves through each and every one of us yeah Jonathan Majors takes these long pauses as if really trying to demonstrate the weight of time to People by taking up as much of it as possible later we learn that Victor actually has a stutter though in this might be an elocution tactic to keep himself from stammering Victor carries a lantern with a candle a token from his past as a candlemaker and symbolizing his role as an Illuminator of ideas py later recharacterized being a con man as being a luminary ahead of his time we saw a version of the scene in the quantam Mania post-credit scene as Victor pledges but perhaps we can shape it and the front lights reveal his face and the apprehensive murmur followed by the baron calling him boy probably isn't lost on this man unlike Major's take on he remains Victor timley is a separate creation something between the con man Professor Marvel from The Wizard of Oz and the professorial Frederick Douglas with that hair you could see his expo here as retroactively a precursor to Howard Stark's Expo in Queens in 1943 50 years from now another display that we saw in that first C film was Dr Phineas Horton synthetic man a nod to the original Android form of the Human Torch in the early Marvel Comics Marvel used to be called timely Comics it's worth noting here and in Victor timely's Arc in that Marvel annual comic it's established that Victor mentored Phineas Horton now we don't know if Victor timely here would have been anything more than a candlemaker in the sacred timeline without getting that book but I just like the idea that Victor was a clever enough engineer who could have inspired 20th century inventors throughout MCU history including the Starks Victor says time is the future of energy so victor goes on to dismiss Cole or petroleum saying that the energy of the past present and future flows all around them so Victor saw the designs of the temporal loom in the book and used it as a machine to harness an electrical current out of the flow of time itself temporal radiation he says temporal Loom invert the temporal decay of the electricity flowing through it lowering its entropy and Gathering it into fine threads of power entropy refers to the concept in physics and thermodynamics in which is system will naturally move toward disorder entropy measures the degree of disorder or uncertainty within a system the degradation of matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity as the universe expands and expands and expands you could see parallel here with what the sacred timeline is just destined to do things are destined to go from order to chaos so his Tim related term for that is temporal Decay which would mean that the flow of time if it were untouched would lead to inefficiencies to friction to incursions and collapse but by threaten these he creates an energy source but while the energy source is what he's selling to these viewers here what he's more interested in is kind of the act of looming itself a chaos of particles is transformed into order now of course Victor's kind of talking out of his ass really he's just kind of building on Ora boris's notes that he can't really fully put into practice yet because technology hasn't caught up yet so really he's just framing all this in the terms of the latest technology of the era which would be the light bulb Victor dises Edison's wattage to light a bulb and Promises to light the whole city of Chicago and the entire planet actually if you think about it this is exactly what Tony Stark will later do with his Arc Reactor installing it to power Manhattan with clean energy in 2012 Z Avengers this device on the stage here could be based on Tesla's Warden Cliff Tower which was meant to use the Earth's native electrical charge to Power Machinery so maybe instead of Tesla winning the bid to like the World's Fair in this Branch timeline Victor is kind of making a case that he should win the bids to power cities but really for Victor this introduction it's kind of like like a reverse Manhattan Project the Manhattan Project started as a weapons program that later became a way to generate energy here Victor pitches a way to harness energy with the device that will really be used as a weapon of mass destruction by the TVA in the mcu's continuity the Eternal fastos helped Western scientists develop Atomic Vision that led to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki so an argument could be made that through Victor timley he remains is trying to bypass the 20 CIT nuclear brkm that fastos steered Humanity into Victor shouts if it can be dreamed it can be a chief it's worth remembering that according to multivers of Madness all dreams are us glimpsing into the lives of our multiversal selves so literally Victor's dreams were him seen Through The Eyes of his variants Through The Eyes of he who remains people who had invented this technology already he just needed some blueprints in his reality and the tools to physically construct it Victor's Loom ignites with bolts of indigo colored energy which is the same color of the Sacred timeline in the season 1 finale and the branches that broke off from it so Victor may not know it but we are still seeing his first steps toward weaving that AR architecture one of the fun things about having kids in your life is connecting with them but that's a lot easier said than done kiwi Co can help with that kiwo makes awesome crates that are perfect afternoon projects to do with the kids in your life each month kiwi Co delivers a crate to your door with fun Hands-On projects that are designed by experts and tested by kids promoting creativity and Innovation through Steam science technology engineering art and math activities there are nine different lines to choose from so there's something for every interest and age even newborn babies not that I'm completely preoccupied with that right now or anything if you're not ready to subscribe or just need a single crate kiwo also offers a variety of 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relationship as a transactional one in units of time which is so appropriate the robbert baron offers Victor a partnership I don't do partners and another man with a waxed mustache says I must have your loom and Victor says well it seems my presentation has pequ much interest yeah we saw the sweaty guy at the bar earlier drinking so he is Victor's Silent Partner plant kind of like snake oil salesman having a guy in the audience being like no we have never met before correct Victor uses this plant to upid the robber baron to raise the price when the Robert Baron gets to $11,000 Victor gives his partner a look to Signal him to back off and the baron called him a horn swagler which is an old timey term for a deceiver so he actually might even be wise to what's going on here but he just wants Victor's text so bad that he doesn't care from inside Rin slayer's purse Miss Bennett says it's not my plan it's his plan with our help he'll be all he's meant to become so we can assume that it is part of he remains plan for Victor timley to become something of a con man like he kind of needs a bit of deception in a variant to be able to do the job The Tall Man with a top hat credited as Behemoth starts a fight with Loki and then Loki turns him into a puff of smoke the amazing Loki everyone he'll be here all week but Loki really just teleported him to the hog wagon and later we hear that explosion outside yes my future a councilman comes up to Victor to complain about a pair of mechanical trousers that didn't make him taller you look all to me yeah Victor bends his knees and crouches to make himself kind of seem shorter to try to deceive this councilman these pants actually might remind you of stiltman from the comics or really could just be an OG Iron Man suit before Tony built one in a c with Bo the baron says that the loom is a fake holding up some shorted out circuits it looks like so yes really even though the loom was well intended and seemed to start to be able to do what Victor timely dreamt it could do in this case it was all just spoken mirrors so they chased him past this Egyptian temple he remains slth Kang variants do have a history with ancient Egypt with the Kang variant faroh ramut and he remains having the pyramids and the Sphinx in the void in our Season 1 recap series we actually spotted that that Sphinx in the void has a nose and it looks like the nose of Jonathan major which kind of reminds me of Crash manico 3 when the Egyptian tomb levels have a Spinx with the time traveling Dr neocortex's face on it behind the baron there is a figure with a gator head that kind of looks like Amit that's a deity who appeared in moonnight and one of these others could be pharoh ramet Hugo a Florida orange juice vendor tosses Victor an orange to throw at The Baron's man now there is a Hugo the great from the 2014 origin 2 Wolverine Dr Essex Comics who worked at a carnal but orange does kind of become the color of the TVA so this might just be the origin of Victor's favorite color later we see see his betet spread also is the color orange Victor skips the ferris wheel line passing some suffragettes they have sashes and leaflets reading give us ballots Victor gives the baron the slip by luring him into this crowded Carriage on the ferris wheel and then crawling back out as the gate closes trapping him on the ride this is essentially what he remains does to the people on the sacred timeline he evades Discovery from them and then traps them on this Loop where they never really go anywhere Casey and B15 War mobus at Sylvia is approaching and we hear sylv's violin music creeping in all right really good at getting away Rin Slayer and mobus wonder how she tracked them there but remember Sylvie has he remains Master tempat which would have a greater depth of omniscience of all TVA Employees than the other more limited TVA temp pads Sylvie promised to kill any he remains variants who would show up and she tries to make good on her promise here she charges if you in the TVA hadn't messed with him he'd have remained harmless I like how she says he'd have remained there but she's right presumably young Victor would have just stayed on the sacred timeline making candles had RN Slayer not intervened with the book looki says I didn't give him this book and he tosses the book over his shoulder but Victor doesn't catch it because he's you know levitated but it reminds us of when OB tossed this book over his shoulder and Tom hson definely caught it Victor isn't the original author of this book Loki has to break the levitation spell to toss Victor back to the carriage floor to rejoin with the book soie says this is all very familiar isn't it and Loki holds his hands out in a surrendering pose kind of like he did when they duel in season 1 episode 6 they never really got to resolve that conflict Sylvia and Loki conjure their green sorcery but sylv's must have been stronger because it's and Victor who are blown back with the robber baron approaching again rener unleashes miss [Music] minutes as she grows notice her clock turns into a little skirt making her look like a giant Pac-Man ghost as she Stomps toward the crowd dust forms around her steps and she tears down the flagline reminding us that she can interact with the physical world Mobius offers Loki to hop on a tandem bicycle Loki initially turns it down but later we see them writing it together amazing between this and Mobius is dream jet ski I really think Mobius is just a big fan of two-seaters let's keep an eye out for what kind of bike Brockton McDonald's Jack pedals home because I think he and Mobius might be the same person check out that video one also thinks of the bicycle build for two the song sung by the evil computer Hal and his dying moments in 2001 at Space Odyssey bring up because I think Miss minutes is shaping up to be the ultimate villain of the season Evil AI Victor takes Ren Slayer back to his home and we see storage and signs for a Chinese restaurant which might be for the fair he seats Ren Slayer in a refrigerator chair that's right beside the window that she through the book in through Victor says that the chair can go down to 40° and it's kind of another parallel to Tony Stark's inventions remember after the Iron Man mark 2 Armor had icing problems he installed heaters and all of his armor including Peter's suit and homecoming and in Iron Man 2 he customized his suit so that he could like get really drunk in it and pee in it Miss Bennett senses a flirty energy between Victor and R Slayer and gets jealous she redirects the attention back to herself so did you like my performance back thereo Bravo it was marvous he remains called Ren Slayer quite a Marvel on the recording so calling Miss B marvelis now you could see some jealousy forming there miss Min describes herself finally I am a fully conscious and sentient artificial intelligence entity yeah this episode finally begins to shed light on exactly how sentient Miss minuts is what she really is and from that description and her little curtsy here I assume she might have her own temporal aura or she could be based on someone's temporal aura or either way really really Longs for one Victor calls her singular and she says you're pretty singular your s at least you will be some clever word play there singular as in you will one day be remarkable but also literally one of a kind as once their plan is reached Victor timley will become he remains the one and only Kang variant who outlasts the others in the dynasty who have spawned as she talks Miss mines hour hand jumps around on her face from the 8:00 position to the fourth position the way this character kind of jumps around in time it kind of seems like she gets his way when she's nervous BR Slayer begins to explain a long time ago far from now a different time these are the words Miss minutes used to open her TVA orientation video long ago which was a similarly deceptive account but Ren slayer's realizing that these events didn't really unfold in the past or necessarily in the future really they're just all kind of happening at the same time since time is a flat circle Victor is overwhelmed by Ren slayer's explanation it's like the story of my of myself that I always imagined is is true again if it can be dreamed it can be achieved every night when this man dreamt he saw into he remains life when he was building and running the TVA Miss B scoffs when Rin Slayer promises to keep him safe even before the TVA or her you created me and we work together at the End of Time Miss minut dilates her eyes like pussing boots to make them huge and adorable so we learned that Miss minut predates Ren slayer at least according to her she could have been at least part of he remains downloaded Consciousness like where he stores his dark as Secrets Victor asks and you Ms m raona ah the side eye that miss m gives her not only does she pick up on Ren Slayer hinting that she's single I think miss m takes offense to Ren Slayer using the more modern Miz Ms to contrast Miss minutes Ms which is more Antiquated and also makes her name a self-contained pun as she could be the memories and moments that he remains has missed Victor calls Loki a wizard and MOB say Butler it's just interesting for Victor to consider Loki a wizard when he remains to Loki was The Wizard of Oz last season Victor takes them through a window saying that he does his sales in Chicago but his lab is across the lake in Wisconsin lower taxes so in the comics Victor timy's residence was the town of timely Wisconsin outside on the street there is a wagon marked honey and honeycomb oh no W Vision beekeeper not today ly runs after them through the alley and passes a cart JW Taylor's milk and cream they board this steamship the SS Heron which is a shout out to Kate Haron who directed the season one episodes and really gave this series a signature Quirk Victor asks for the usual accommodation ations and we see they Stow in a Lifeboat so Victor you know won't have to pay the fair Victor shows her the TVA guide book and how he has filled these pages with his own designs and notes R Slayer takes credit for being the Divine hand who dropped the book in his life and notice Miss minutes at this point starts to creep to the other side of the Lifeboat so that she can be closer to Victor and glare at Rin Slayer from behind him we see Ora boris's photo in the guide book and Victor says he respects this man I really do think OB was the OG the original he remains not necessarily A Kang variant but I just think he's some kind of Angelic entity who represents time Victor shows her his design for his throughput multiplier a term and design that we saw in the closing credits of each episode this seems to be kind of a fux capacitor Keystone piece to make all this technology work Ren Slayer says I have high hopes for this partnership wrong choice of words he pulls away because he doesn't do Partners so he in Miss minutes cut her loose timely's Wisconsin lab is filled with mannequins remember part of he remains tinkering included the construction of timekeeper Androids so we could be seeing the the early steps toward that the steel buttresses of this room have swirling spiral patterns that kind of look like the windows in the Citadel at the end of time his chalkboard is filled with equations and Designs I can make out the letters n r hey maybe a new Rockstar shout out if so thank you probably not but there is a dut shape which could be his early brainstorming to the sacred timeline I just like how above this board is a row of clocks which reminds me of Doc Brown's workshop and Back to the Future which was filled with clocks Victor lifts his through putut multiplier and we see that it's a series of gears and cogs linked together in a sphere K reminds me of the antia that's the mechanism attributed to Archimedes and the central McGuffin and Indiana Jones and the dial of destiny that came out earlier this year also had to do with time travel now the fat end of his Loom construction that's on the table beneath the windows kind of looks like an arc reactor which would make sense because Victor pitched this device as a clean energy generator the way Stark viewed his reactor to be Miss minut starts to make a move on Victor in her black and white form she turns orange but she blushes to begin the saturation and the gesture she makes with her hand is kind of like she's flirtily brushing her hair out of her eyes Miss minutes says that he remains created her before the war before the TVA just an AI to play chess with and then gave her autonomy to write her own programming actually John Carpenter's The Thing is the next video analysis we're doing on the Deep dive Channel and it opens with mccre playing chess against a female voice computer and it doesn't end well another parallel between he remains and Tony Stark as well Tony invented true AI with Ultron and that AI turned against him we learned that Miss minute's real interest in this reset version of he remains is the hope that he might actually Grant her a body if I had a body we could truly lead together why does Miss minutes want to be confined to a physical body if she's clearly more powerful as a ghost in the TVA machine it's clear that she just Longs for a physical touch and I think this tells us that she misses having a mortal shell that she might have once been a Caporal human that she could just be a floating temporal Aura either way she misses having the ability to measure her life in minutes Miss minutes he remains I think might have based her personality on some temporal Aura of someone maybe Rin Slayer or this could just be a detached temporal aura itself either way based on this episode and how Victor timely is mostly a harmless con man so far I think Miss minutes is being set up as a primary villain of the Season she's definitely been the most terrifying thing on the show in several occasions like right here when she projects her face on the head of a mannequin and just doing this causes her face to glitch so that when she flirtily Winks it's not that noticeable because it's buried in all these other involuntary Twitches MIT minutes bending her shape like this and trying to become human is just not good for her programming she leaps onto the table to stop him from minimizing her and it's scary but on her last I love you we see her hand clawing at his face and his glasses start to go up because remember Mis minutes can affect the physical world she clawed his face R Slayer fires up a weapon still a prototype quite unstable yeah this is an early pruning stick but since it's unstable we don't know what it will do to people like when she sticks the mannequin it doesn't exactly make the same rainbow colored slow prune that pruning sticks normally cause this is faster in ashier Mobius and Loki arrive while ravona or or vaugh as mobus adorably calls her holds this glowing orange threat to Victor ly holsters some glowing green energy from his palms so again there's that Orange versus green color scheme While most things in this nostalgic setting have been desaturated and sepat toned it's just interesting how the outside Wizardry whether it's through technology your sorcery is bright orange or bright green Ren Slayer says all that matters is order versus chaos I'm order right after this Sylvie blasts into the workshop as if to say and I'm chaos Victor begs I haven't done anything oh you will you'll do Terrible Things syvia finds herself in the kind of Baby Hitler dilemma killing someone to prevent what they'll do in the future like Sarah Connor going after miles Dyson and T2 cable attacking the kid in Deadpool 2 Bruce Willis targeting that kid and Looper and what Roy proposed to do to Thanos but this is also the justification TVA used to arrest Sylvie when she was a girl I think her realizing the Injustice of that is why Sylvie can't bring herself to kill him because it's not fair to judge someone by the actions of their variants you don't know the the heart the heart I I have beating in my chest I can make my own choices Sylvie tells Rin Slayer that if all she wants is a seat at the end of time be careful what you wish for because the once sitting in that seat is destined to rot in it Sylvie uses he remains Master temp pad to open the door back to the Citadel at the end of time which we see has crumbled into further ruin remember the concept of this building was for it to have cracked kugi patterns that the whole thing would be carved out of the rock of this asteroid but now we learn that these cracks trace a kind of fault line for these real fissures to follow like it was this place's Destiny to crumble he remains corpse remains seated there rotting and we see candles on two stands melted down like as every variant of he remains into candle making we see there's a triangular shape on the floor with a word in it this was actually part of the set in season 1 episode 6 it was just kind of hard to make out but here we see it is a Latin term episis reminding us of the Latin that translated to for all time always on the floor of the lobby so AB epistolas referred to the Chancellor's office in the Roman Empire responsible for the emperor's correspondence sending instructions to all the local Governors this is in a way the function of this particular chamber it's where he remains would write the script for the sacred timeline and send instructions to the TVA Ren Slayer brings back up Miss Ms love you oh Miss Mes was completing her sentence right when Victor timley switched her off but instead she accidentally professes a bit of sisterly love to Ren Slayer Miss Bennett says well it was foolish of him to make an enemy out of someone who knows all his Secrets ah Miss V says that she knows a dirty dark secret about Ren Slayer I assume that secret is going to be the recording that we heard back in the season 2 premiere that he remains had promised RN Slayer that they would be partners I think we're going to learn that RN Slayer might have been that fourth statue that was broken in the lobby and remember there is a barricaded region of the Citadel that I pointed out in my deep dive of season 1 and I actually just realized that it was designed into the blueprints of the set by karar Honey who directed this episode that could have been part part of the Citadel that was the love nest of he remains in the r Slayer when they were happy together okay a few updates to the closing credits we see Miss minutes is in cartoony black and white now when she was in color in previous in credit sequences we see the stage at the World's Fair beer hall that has Victor's Loom on it and then the casting photo show Ren Slayer with a prototype printing stick Victor timely as an adult Victor as a kid making candles Sylvie and Loki of the World's Fair and wait a minute who's that man on the right behind them is that HH Holmes we got them to me this episode had everything Chicago History balder the brave great music mind-breaking time travel logic and finally some details on Miss minutes I'm loving this season and thank you to all of you folks for watching these breakdowns and showing us so much love please support us by grabbing some of our exclusive low inspired merch at nerd r. shop subscribe to all three channels in the new rockstars Network thank you to Noah chin for helping me write this breakdown follow me at eaos and I'll see you next week bye [Music] everybody

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Length: 37min 6sec (2226 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 20 2023