LOKI: Why OB Was ERASED from the TVA Memory Explained

welcome back to new rock stars I'm Eric Boss and Loki season 2's new breakout character is Ora Boris AKA OB played by KIU Quan the oneman crew of the repairs and advancement Department of the time variance Authority but in a TVA that we're now learning has had several past memory wipes and resets among its Workforce why do Mobius and the others have no memory of meeting OB but OB remembers all of them why was he exempt from all the memory wipes I'm going to explain why OB is simultaneously the most important employee of the TVA but also Al the one hidden from the others why OB is really the OG in fact that might be why Mobius had that nickname for him so season 2 episode one is actually titled Orab Boris which is appropriate because the term comes from the mythological figure of a snake eating its own tail and structurally this episode is exactly that Loki in a future time period trying to extract himself from time to cure his time slippage and miraculously managing to Circle back home upon himself but only after being pruned by some mystery figure and I didn't want to point this out but it it's going around enough and it is visible plainly in episode one but skip to this time if you don't want to know who might have pruned Loki until this season reveals it if you look behind Loki in that future version of the TVA in the shadows of the hallway behind him you do see a figure that I thought might be Ren Slayer but no if you do brighten it up it does look like a version of Loki that we've seen in trailers starting to wear that TVA jacket it looks like a future version of Loki is pruning his past self to close the loop but despite the structural logic of calling this episode Ora Boris the titular character is not revealed until 21 minutes in which I should point out is the exact midpoint of the episode's 42-minute runtime minus credits Mobius in this episode is bewildered to learn that there was ever a past era of the TVA believing that time passes differently in the TVA but clearly not understanding that there was some era before the understanding that the timekeepers were in charge on the way down to visit the RNA Department of the TVA Mobius says I have no memory of having my memory wiped I Lov it it's such a good joke but then they enter the RNA department and Mobius says it's been a while since I've been down here actually I'm not sure I've ever been down here this to me was such an odd line because Mobi seemed to have the muscle memory to know where to take Loki to get his time slipping checked out but upon entering this room suddenly realized he didn't actually know where he was like subconsciously his body must have known where to take him even if he consciously didn't remember where or why I mean hey people of a certain age can probably relate to this feeling and this is a common workplace Behavior among drones who have just worked at the same place for several years of their lives the series Ence explores this in a really fun way you're just kind of walking down a hallway and you don't really realize why you're walking down it until you're already there but this gets further explored as Mobius fails to remember Obi but Obi remembers him wow wa to see you again how long has it been could it be three or four 400 years remember you got off on the wrong floor and I told you it was the wrong floor wait that's right yes because then I stayed for a little bit he took me over he left immediately and Obie even attributes his nickname of OB to Mobi coming up with it he calls me OB yeah so again if the memories of all TVA Employees were wiped to make them forget about the previous era when he remains ruled openly which sounds like would have included an instance between Mobius and OB 400 years prior a very very brief exchange that would have included Mobius making a joke about shortening or Boris to OB why was Obi left out of that memory wipe so that he remembers Mobius well in general Obie does seem to be the Forgotten member of the TVA Workforce you could say perhaps he remains just forgotten was down there like his office is down a series of elevators and a part of the TVA rarely visited he gets zero visitors I pointed out how even the final elevator to his office has several pneumatic tubes right there so that people don't even have to take those final steps to send their work orders to him I compared him to Milton from Office Space after Lumberg relocates him to the basement and initech forgot that they had fired him but more than that I think Obie is something closer to olivander the wand maker from Harry Potter or the Half Blood Prince potions textbook Scribbler an overlooked but critically important Artisan who propels everything forward not the OB the OG new rockstars viewers have been hearing me mention raycon for years the wireless earbuds that start at half the price of other premium audio Brands but this is definitely the first time you've heard me say this happy birthday raycon you're turning six to 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everything I just ran diag tics every few hundred years it seems like he remains has automated as much of the TVA as he could with Miss minutes but needs one human worker I.E one with a soul or a temporal Aura no offense Miss minut some worker on the ground to check up on everything now that miss minut is offline and Sylvie broke the sacred timeline the temporal Loom became overwhelmed but it also tells you that he remains must have kept OB there for some other reason because if it was just to keep everything chugging along they wouldn't need Mis minutes or anything else to fix that Loom Obie says that he wrote the TVA guide book and a quick flash of it in the closing credits proves that the name gorab Boris is actually printed on the cover of the book this is a big deal Obie said that these are on every desk of the TVA this guide book you could say are like the sacred Jedi texts of the TVA they're the Bible and he remains is allowing someone else to retain visible authorship of that Bible like this TVA has been carefully designed to appear tightly controlled by the timekeepers of Miss minutes their authorship is on everything it's a pretty big deal for he remains to allow some other employee to retain visible authorship on anything this important because people would start asking around well who's this Ora Boris guy and why are we worshiping the timekeepers and not him like think about how pissed off Eduardo saern was when Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker removed his name from the Facebook maste head my name's on the Mast head you might want to check again now I am aware the social network is a fictionalized version of what actually went down in Facebook but I chose to believe this conversation was word for word transcript because it's awesome for he remains to allow any other worker at the TVA original authorship over something he and Miss minut put so much work into telling all TVA workers was actually the brainchild of some timekeepers suggests that he remains must respect and or fear or aoris now I won't go as far to say OB is a villain I don't think it's as simple as him just being the big bad like kiwi Kuan is not the guy you would cast for that I think he's more of a chaotic neutral tenur employee at the agency and I think what happened was in that brief conversation between Mobius and OB Mobius was actually doing a bit of joky word play that he was actually the OG and he said something like well since you're the OG you should really be OB and that OB is the true he who remains of the TVA someone the Kang variant version of he remains knows that he cannot do this without now I would actually sooner call Obie a God or a cosmic entity based on his descent from the heavens and the shot he was revealed in maybe even some human Avatar of eon the Marvel time deity whose statue we saw in Thor love and thunder or aoris is the snake eating its own tail a flat circle a mythological concept that is linked iny beliefs with yorman Gander the snake from Norse mythology that circles to Earth and eats its own tail either way OB with a name like Orab Boris truly has no beginning and no end so why does OB remember Mobius but no one remembers OB because either the Kang variant of he who remains doesn't want to wipe his memory or he who remains is physically unable to wipe his memory because OB is on a higher tier of power than he is now I don't know if this season of Loki will go as far to assign OB any proper noun identities from the pages of Marvel Comics because yeah I've been misto before and I've learned my lesson but I do think we're going to learn that OB is a kind of unkillable incorrupt forever person an angel you might say immune to he remains wrath or his charms and as long as there is an OB there will be a time variance Authority hey it's Loki season here at new rock stars with our in-depth Easter egg breakdowns coming every week after episodes drop and on Sundays a new sneak peek format follow me at eaos thanks for 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Length: 9min 38sec (578 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 09 2023