I think part of why the “fixing broken things is hard” theme of s2 falls flat for me personally is that it works fine when applied to people. like. working on yourself is hard. redemption is hard. hard and messy and takes a lot of patience and forgiveness. but try and apply this theme to the TVA, as an entity, as an organisation, and it just feels kinda weird. the TVA of season one wasn’t broken. it was doing exactly what it was meant to do and doing it splendidly, with the only real hiccup, being Sylvie, being actively monitored by the guy behind the curtain. the TVA of s1 wasn’t broken, it was fundamentally wrong. so, the TVA of s2, then. is that TVA broken? it’s trying something new, to protect, rather than destroy, which is making it physically broken, because it was never designed for this (hence the beloathed Loom plot), and Dox thinks its ideologically broken, because they’ve deviated so far from what they were founded to do, from what she still thinks they’re supposed to do, because she’s resistant to change, to new ways of doing this, to deviating from what she’s been told is the only way. She could have been an interesting foil to Loki and Mobius’s desire to reshape the TVA if she’d been utilised fully. anyway I digress. the TVA of season 2, to me, isn’t broken. Loki is certainly trying to “fix” it, trying to make it better, but how can you fix something that was fully designed this way? It’s like taking a sword, a weapon meant for ending lives, and saying, this is bad, what this is doing, it’s broken, I can fix it. it’s not broken. it’s doing exactly what it was made to do. I mean I guess theoretically you can take it and try and use it positively, to protect rather than destroy, but at the end of the day it’s still a sword. just because you’ve decided you’re going to use it to defend rather than destroy doesn’t stop it from being a sword. like. it’s still a sword. it’s not broken. the TVA is still a sword. they don’t destroy it like they said they were going to and they don’t ‘fix it’ because it’s not broken and they can’t use it without accepting its nature and its nature is that it undermines the very idea of free will. its still a sword. its just being used in a different way. it’s still a sword. does this make sense
