#temporal loom

mobius wouldn't have let him go. he would have grabbed onto him like he always did – the way he always held onto loki for as long as he could, longer than anyone else would.

and he wouldn't have let loki go.

and in their final scene in the interrogation room we saw loki literally holding mobius' hand until the man dissolved in front of him.

loki wouldn't have let go either. that's why he needed to run out like that and shut the door on him. that's why he couldn't give him more of a goodbye. neither of them would have been able to let go.

i also think this is the same reason loki chooses not to freeze time in that final moment with his friends for a longer last look (because we know he's learned how to freeze time).

but he knows he may never unfreeze it if he does. and he has to do this before he can change his mind.

𝐋𝐎𝐊𝐈 - 𝐓𝐕 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 / 𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝟐 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑)

We let time pass. It did.

We haven’t been the same ever since.

S2 art book 2 yrs later(bout as annoying as the wait for S2 and then the disappointment that followed)?! 🤨 I will be forever miffed at how Loki S2 played out! They threw out what made S1 really great…the Loki/Sylvie(Sylki)relationship!! We coulda got pirate Sylvie and instead we got…

Ourobouros' comment on black holes and Loki being spaghettified if he wasn't rescued in time made me suspect that the TVA is located inside a black hole or in its vicinity.

There's a book on black holes and the end of the universe in the credits. That's what got me thinking about the possibility. Also, spaghettification is a phenomenon specific to the nature of black holes.

The effect of time and space dilation caused by a black hole would explain why no one ages at the TVA. It's related to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. One year in the orbit of a black hole corresponds to roughly 700 to a thousand years in normal space. This means that, if anything survives inside or near a black hole, that life form wouldn't age as fast as we do. 

Mobius would take 50,000 years to reach his 50s if he lived inside a black hole since he was born, for example

And if some technology created by Kang managed to isolate the effects of high gravity, then it would shield the agency and protect everyone from spaghettification, making it viable for the TVA to work from within or near the black hole, but making it impossible to escape its gravity and travel to other places.

Hence why the TemPads open portals to other points in time and space, and no one at the TVA goes anywhere using space crafts. Maybe not even Kang was able to create a vehicle capable of escaping the titanic gravity of a black hole. Not without risking spaghettification, at least. Hence the use of portals that instantly materialize you where you need to be.

With that said, Kang studied the relation between time, space and gravity and mastered it to the point where he created a device that could gather “raw time” and spin it into manufactured strands of time, bringing order - an artificial order, mind you - to what we presume is a chaotic universe, doomed to branch into a Multiverse and its own total annihilation.

One question remains, though. Loki and Sylvie traveled to the Citadel at the End of Time, but the TVA was nowhere to be seen. Shouldn’t it be located somewhere in the vicinity and be visible from Kang’s castle, since it’s also not located anywhere within the Sacred Timeline, rather existing outside of it? And where is the Temporal Loom located, exactly? In the very center of a black hole or in orbit around it, along with the TVA?

I’ve now watched the entire of season 2 of Loki and it did not disappoint…the wait was definitely worth it. While watching the second series, I managed to capture 24 great pictures as opposed to season one where I took exactly 20, and like my previous post, I’m sharing 10 of the best ones with you guys. Seeing Loki dress up in a 1980s tuxedo and an 1890s suit definitely made my night. When the moment finally came to watch the season finale, I should’ve been prepared, after waiting as long as I have but I really wasn’t…I actually stood in-front of the tellie and cried my eyes out so hard…maybe I care more about Loki than I realise when he said:

1. The multiverse was fine before HWR.

2. Then HWR erased everything but the sacred timeline that he held together.

3. The loom is a failsafe. If it breaks (from overloading for example, which happens when HWR is killed and doesn't keep the timeline together anymore), then it deletes every new branch automatically.

There's no way around it, the multiverse automatically gets set back to the sacred timeline.

Every single time.

That's what we saw in 2x05, but nobody could have known that, since HWR only reveals it in 2x06 (unless you paid attention to the tva monitor saying 'failsafe activated' when everything turned spaghetti around Loki at the beginning of 2x05.)

So Sylvie could not have known that either (for the haters 💚)

4. So when Loki breaks the loom, he has to manually (literally) 'override' the failsafe. He grabs the dying branches and stops the process of deleting, giving them life again.

So the multiverse can expand.

Loki unfortunatly obvi cannot 'take his fingers off the keys' so to speak.

5. So, in order to put the multiverse back in it's original state and let it expand with infinite branches, HWR had to die, the loom needed to break and the failsafe needed to be disabled.