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“#’Loki’ & ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ a Time Travel<\/a> Double Feature<\/strong>”
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Welcome to our weekly column<\/i><\/b> Can\u2019t Miss Episode of the Week<\/b><\/a>! Every Saturday we\u2019ll be spotlighting a different episode of television from that week that we thought was exceptional and a must-see. Check back to see if your favorite show got the nod \u2014 or to learn about a new one!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

What\u2019s better than one wacky, mischievous, completely bonkers time-travel show? Two of them! Luckily for viewers, both DC\u2019s Legends of Tomorrow<\/em> on the CW and Marvel\u2019s Loki<\/em> on Disney+ effectively employed that sci-fi story trope this week to produce their best episodes so far this season. Legends, <\/em>now in its sixth season, has broken out of the rut it\u2019s been in since it misguidedly sidelined fan-favorite Captain Sara Lance (Caity Lotz<\/a>), and Loki<\/em>, seems to have finally hit its stride in the third episode of this first season\u2019s six-episode run. So enjoy a time travel double feature!<\/p>\n

Interestingly with Loki<\/em>, this episode\u2019s break from the show\u2019s setup with the TVA (Time Variance Authority) is what makes it so successful. While we love watching Tom Hiddleston<\/a>, who plays the Asgardian trickster god, banter with Owen Wilson<\/a>\u2019s sly Agent Mobius, their exposition-heavy dialogue in those scenes have been a drag on the show. Not this time. Here, Loki escapes with the dangerous variant he and the TVA have been hunting \u2013 the one audiences have been calling Lady Loki, who we now know prefers to go by the alias Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino<\/a>). The two wind up stranded on an alien moon soon doomed to be destroyed \u2014 as Sylvie points out, the worst of the possible apocalypses Loki could have transported them to.<\/p>\n

This leads to what Lokis do best: come up with various hair-brained schemes to get what they want, which right now is just to survive. With the TVA keeping Loki on a short leash, this is definitely the element that the series<\/a> has been missing: the idea that anything can happ<\/a>en because we never know what Loki is going to do next. Half the fun is he and Sylvie butting heads over exactly what the plan should be, but we also get genuinely touching moments as the variants share their pasts, and what drives them. There\u2019s still much we need to learn about Sylvie, but she\u2019s clearly not the monster the TVA made her out to be. And this episode truly swings for the fences: Loki reveals that he\u2019s bisexual, making him the first openly queer named character in the MCU.<\/p>\n

As usual, in spite of his brilliance, Loki\u2019s arrogance dooms him. The episode has a rather gutsy ending with nothing resolved. Loki and Sylvie run out of ideas, and face the fact that they\u2019re likely going to die on this moon. It\u2019s hard to see what can possibly save them now (unless Agent Mobius comes to the rescue), but not knowing is thrilling.<\/p>\n

While Loki <\/em>thrives by going in a different direction this week, Legends of Tomorrow<\/em>, one of the most wonderfully weird shows on television (this is the show that once pulled off a Jane Austen-Bollywood mashup episode after all), re-finds its rhythm by returning to what makes the show a real success. As previously mentioned, Sara, one of two original series regulars left, got separated from the team in last season\u2019s finale when she was abducted by aliens. Sara (also bisexual, by the way) has spent the first six episodes of the season trying to get back to the Waverider so she could propose to girlfriend and co-captain Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan<\/a>). While we\u2019ve been following her efforts, Sara is at her best when she has the rest of the team to command and riff off of, and the Legends are at their best when they have her to ground them.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, this episode gets the gang back together and is a total rollercoaster as the Legends try to save Sara by committing a time-don\u2019t and going back in time to stop her from ever being abducted in the first place, in an homage to one of the greatest time travel films of all time, Back to the Future Part II <\/em>(1989) \u2014 the episode is actually called \u201cBack to the Finale: Part II.\u201d Unlike Marty McFly, their plan utterly fails, but it\u2019s okay because Mick (Dominic Purcell<\/a>) succeeds in bringing home the current Sara (in her new clone\/alien body). To fully stick the landing on this homecoming, Sara finally gets engaged to Ava in a truly heartfelt scene.<\/p>\n

These episodes are both wildly fun and<\/em> rich in emotion and character development. When Loki and Sylvie aren\u2019t using magic to board a train or making a mad dash through a doomed city in a last ditch effort to board an arc spaceship, they\u2019re connecting with each other and with us. The Legends, meanwhile, break all the rules to try to get their friend back, and that\u2019s what we love about them.<\/p>\n

Other observations that we thought made these episodes standout:<\/strong><\/p>\n