If fans found the time travel in Avengers: Endgame to be confusing, Loki will take things to a new level.
Loki head writer Michael Waldron spoke to Entertainment Tonight about crafting a new type of time travel for the MCU—all so the series and its lead could tear it apart. "I would not even sleep at night. There was nothing to spring up from! I was so stressed by the time travel," Waldron said. "That was certainly the biggest challenge of the show."
"Endgame was a movie about time travel but ultimately when that movie is over, you get to walk out and it made sense and all worked," Waldron continued. "But this is a TV show, and our time travel logic is going to have to sustain week by week, and that means a week of scrutiny by the fans between every episode. As they should! It's exactly what I would do if I was watching this. So, that meant that in the writers' room, we were drawing a lot of lines with other squiggly lines coming off of them on the whiteboard, because we had to essentially create a foundational knowledge of time travel in the writers' room that the TVA was going to work off of and invent the rules of time travel so they could then be broken. That was a fun but challenging part of the job."
As Waldron notes, the entire concept of the show is that Loki has broken the sacred timeline that the TVA protects. As such, there needed to be actual rules that could be disregarded by the titular trickster. Fans have attempted to make sense of Endgame's time travel, particularly the issue of Steve and Peggy getting together in the past. But with each episode being scrutinized by fans, Loki has a unique problem—especially if it wants to avoid more rampant Mephisto speculation. Whether or not the new approach works, fans will get their first taste of it tomorrow night.
Loki stars Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Owen Wilson as Mobius M. Mobius, Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Lexus Renslayer, Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15 and Sophia Di Martino, Richard E. Grant, Sasha Lane and Eugene Cordero in undisclosed roles. The series premieres June 9 on Disney+.
Source: Entertainment Tonight