So I'm not the typical comic book fan. I love comics. I bought comics growing up but I put them away when I started going to parties and bars and such.
Forgot about Superman and Batman - Then I found "Clerks," and fell in love with Kevin Smith and segued back into comics because the dude talks about comics all the time.
Then movies started coming out all the time based on comics so, being lazy, I'd get my comic fill that way. I'd always noticed that people were always drawn to the good guy.
Everyone wanted to be the good guy. Not me. Which leads me to Loki - the newest Disney+ episodic foray into the Land of Marvel Universe; and the act of holding us hostage with just one episode at a time.
Honestly, I kind of like that Disney+ doesn't give us everything at one time. It lets the story breath better, if you ask me.
And this story is going to be complex as hell, it seems. I won't get into a lot of spoilers. I'll just say this: I love the Loki character so much.
Tom Hiddleston's "Loki" is such a diverse character - he's the God of Mischief, and you can see that in his face, but if you look closer, underneath it all, he's filled with the torment and chaos of a man who knows exactly who he is and who he doesn't want to be.
His fears of the unwanted feelings are displayed in 4K, his past and what that past creates of his future in the most horrifying ways.
Loki finds out he's just a variant of himself - and the current variant is looking at being reset - what that means exactly, I'm not sure of just yet. But it doesn't sound all that great.
Maybe even painful.
I relate to Loki - not the killing or the magical powers, although, the things I do on a grill are magical, I'm torn inside like most flawed men (and women) - a constant battle of right or wrong dictating the futures and I know I've made many mistakes, too.
In episode one, Loki finds out that he is in fact NOT controlling his life, nor anyone else - that an operation called the Time Variance Authority (TVA) is. Loki dismisses this premise that someone else controls his time and destiny, but by the end of the first episode he admits that this entity is in fact formidable.
The acting is superb in the 51 minutes episode one - with a twist at the end I think everyone knew was coming. I really dig Owen Wilson's turn as Mobius M. Mobius - there's a just a safe charm about the character and the dude that plays him.