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Loki director Kate Herron discusses the various background details used to foreshadow the show’s major twist.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the third and fourth episodes of Loki, “Lamentis” and “The Nexus Event,” streaming now on Disney+.
The true backstories of Loki‘s Time Variance Authority members were hidden in plain sight the whole time, according to show director Kate Herron.
In an interview with Thrillist about Loki‘s third episode, “Lamentis,” Herron was asked her how she managed to covertly establish the big twist before the Variant Sylvie revealed it to Loki. “I wouldn’t want to spoil anything, but I would say that yeah, as she said, everything is not what it seems and even in our design, people have picked up on certain things,” Herron responded. “Like the way that they dress, or the posters and that there’s something a bit more going on there.”
Herron also broke down how she formatted the Marvel series’ first half so that each episode plays into Variant Loki’s character arc following his capture by the TVA. “I always think of the first episode like a prologue, and then the second one is this new adventure and you’re like, ‘Oh, it’s going to be this detective story.’ Then, I love that he meets Sylvie and, it’s cheesy, but she completely opens up his world,” she said. “I think that’s the fun thing of it: The story takes this tangent and it’s actually what you think is not the truth. And I think that is something that echoes across our whole show, the idea of good and evil, and also echoes back to Loki himself.”
Initially, Loki presented the TVA’s countless employees, analysts and Minutemen as entities physically created by the Time-Keepers to uphold the Sacred Timeline. However, as Sylvie revealed from her interrogation of Hunter C-20, these workers are actually repurposed Variants, as she could only create enchantments from an individual’s past memories rather than implant new ones. Episode four, “The Nexus Event,” also revealed that Judge Ravonna Renslayer seems aware of this detail and killed C-20 to preserve the Time-Keepers’ secret. However, the episode ended with Loki and Sylvie discovering that the Time Keepers were little more than androids, with the identity of their controller currently remaining unknown.
Loki stars Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Sophia Di Martino, Richard E. Grant, Sasha Lane and Eugene Cordero. New episodes air Wednesdays on Disney+.
Source: Thrillist
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