Nope. The tiktok thing is the RESTRICT Act. A new bill being considered.

The SOPA act was in 2012. The tl;dr is that it is essentially the same policy (but I think the RESTRICT might be worse) and they were serious about passing it until EVERYONE on the internet spread awareness and protested against it. The only reason why it didn’t go through was because there was so much outrage.

What concerns me about this bill is nobody’s talking about it because they think it’s just banning tiktok which is an awful mindset to have on internet censorship imo.

I’ve seen Loki (and even Thor’s) hare-brained moments as less of an indicator of their intelligence and more a consequence of their arrogance and pride.

I know I always say “dumbass gods”/“bimbo gods” but if I were to actually think about their characters it’s a bit deeper than that. Loki has always been praised for his intelligence.

He knows he’s above average intelligence. That’s how his mastery of sorcery has come to be. So when he gets caught doing something stupid it’s not because he’s not clever. It’s because he couldn’t bother to cross his Ts and dot his Is. He is confident he knows what he’s doing and his miscalculations is what gets him in trouble.

Thor’s pride is sourced differently. He sees himself as superior in physical strength so he sees himself above human conventional standards. So when he winds up in funny gags, it’s not because he’s below average intelligence, it’s because he believes he knows better and it blows up in his face.

Hey! Sure thing!

I mentioned a bit on my Twitter but it's hard to express complete thoughts there.

Episode 6 played on a lot of the apple symbolism. We see He Who Remains eating the apple, toying around with it and setting it in clear view of the camera while he tempts Loki and Sylvie to be his next successors.

As we know the story of Adam and Eve begins where God tells Adam to not eat the apple from the tree of knowledge, and then soon enough Eve is told of this, but Eve meets the serpent (the devil) and the two are tempted into eating from it. Apples in the bible represent temptation.

The whole theme of the show really centered on temptation. Miss Minutes tempted the two into a life of paradise, when Loki and Sylvie refused He Who Remains arrived holding his apple (temptation) and tempted them with even greater power in exchange for keeping the status quo.

This is where the comparison of Adam and Eve can get a little complicated because I don’t think the show 100% parallels the bible story, but there is a lot of inspiration taken from it.

Narrative speaking, when we think of Adam and Eve, we can associate them as destiny. They are the beginning of all beginnings. The mother and father of life. They were brought into this world seemingly naive and pure, but still greedy for more. The tree of knowledge. The knowledge being seeing the world for what it truly is.

Loki and Sylvie’s entire journey was to seek knowledge. The truth of life and break from their garden to see the world for what it truly was. Some argue that Adam and Eve’s sin was knowledge and it cursed us to this complex life we live in. Sylvie learning the truth of the sacred timeline and breaking the multiverse could in some ways be our punishment for her (and Loki’s) sin.

As for becoming the devil. I picked up quickly that the show hinted heavily that Loki and Sylvie are devils. These two photos, are some examples.    

Loki, as in the Norse god, is theorized to parallel the Christian devil in some ways. There’s a lot to unpack with that statement but I don’t want to derail the conversation so all you need to know is they’re essentially characterized as mischievous, deceptive and self-serving. Three characteristics Mobius and several other characters like to say to Loki and Sylvie.

Honestly, I was unfazed with these plot points in the show because naturally, that’s who Loki is. But it wasn’t until recently when I realized He Who Remains compared himself and his variants to devils that it clicked.

He Who Remains in some ways could potentially see himself in Loki and Sylvie. But unlike his variants, he is unthreatened. Perhaps it’s because he knows Loki and Sylvie AREN’T Kang. But perhaps also because he could have shaped Loki and Sylvie to be exactly what he wanted. Similarly to how God shaped Adam and Eve in his image.

Like I said, it gets complicated. But while Loki and Sylvie could be the beginning of the beginning (Mother and Father of the Multiverse) they could also be the successors to the devil. And HWR was betting on them to take the apple and be his next of kin. Once “the threshold” was crossed, though, his power over them was lost. They were truly given freewill and had to choose for themselves. 

In the bible, Eve is believed to be the first to sin and the reason why we are where we are now. She unleashed a Pandora’s box of horrors to humanity much like Sylvie’s sin. But while Eve was the fist to sin, the blame is somewhat shared. And Loki, in the finale makes that very clear.

 “We made a mistake.” While Sylvie metaphorically unleashed knowledge, Loki takes guilt in failing to stop it.

Whether Loki and Sylvie were meant to represent the devil or Adam and Eve or both is not entirely important. It is what the symbols were meant to represent. To put in the back of our minds and associate the scenes with these familiar folktales. 

It’s too early to tell what HWR’s true intentions with Loki and Sylvie were. I think it could go either way, but ultimately in the end I think Loki and Sylvie will take their place as two devils serving the multiverse and keeping it in balance while offering a more liberated timeline for all. They could both then transform their power into the god(s) of stories. 

Me: Because i threatened to kill thor with the power stone that's why and i have a gun to his back

I have to disagree.

This little shit has lived at least 4 lives that we’re aware of. I’m convinced he’s like a tinkerbell and just dies because nobody’s paying attention to him. He’ll just drop to the ground and wait for someone to bury him again so he can pop out of his casket and see if his friends came to his funeral.

And those are all valid reasons to dislike the show. I think these fans are making excellent points! I just skimmed a critical post pointing out that Loki, at this point, has been a passive character. He hasn't done much to contribute to the story and most of the work has been done by Sylvie, and I totally get why that's a letdown.

I'm personally fine with where they're taking the story, I only wish they made Loki more active. Even if they were just small things in each episode or at least explain to us why Loki's essentially giving up at this point. Has the TVA broken him down in such a short time? Did Mobius's manipulation actually get to him? We're all assuming this but why isn't the show expressing this to us?

I'm still holding out for Loki to actually realize his true power has been suppressed by people who pretend to know him and when that does come to light that these people have been lying to him because they're afraid of what he's capable of only then will he not be afraid to hold back and give it his all. And IDK if that doesn't happen I won't really be mad about it. Just a wish list of mine. Those qualities in Loki I enjoy I know I can still find that rush of serotonin in fan fiction, so I don't really care if it doesn't happen. But that's just my opinion.

The way I see it, gods couldn’t possibly remain stoic and serious for so long. You live for so many generations and witness so many eras, you begin to see the patterns and predictability of it all. Making light of life would probably be the only way to make life more interesting.

I imagine young gods would take themselves too seriously while the older more experienced ones have a laissez-faire look on life.

Loki’s sudden nihilistic personality makes more sense when you remember he just witnessed the truth about time. That nothing about his life mattered. You see how quick from episode one to episode two he dropped his original character from The Avengers to someone with a more awakened perspective of his reality. And like an old god, he fails to see a point in taking it all seriously.