S1E1 | Glorious Purpose vs Free Will

Edyth 2021-11-25 08:01:31

[Wang bombing start spoiler warning]

While denying the free will of others, you are eager to establish and maintain your own freedom at the same time. Arrogance and cunning are two sides to you. If it's not for this, can you and Thanos work together to destroy half of the life in the universe? It's a superhuman philosophy along the way.

The temporal authority who knows everyone's past and future and the transcendental god who can decide everything seems to be in conflict with free will.

But in fact, they are super-temporal existence, so they can overview the entire timeline (just like grasping the low-dimensional space in a higher-dimensional space). They presuppose and determine the principles and formulas of the universe, and then adopt a mindful attitude, using uncertainty to create diversity, just as it is. This is similar to the process of "Tao" transforming into all things in the beginning, instead of predetermining the fate of all beings.

Loki even mentioned the problem of "evil" in the play...Why does TimeKeeper allow evil to exist?

The reason is the same-just as time and space are only the intuitive tools of the human species, and good and evil are also just human value judgments. Transcendental existence does not need to care about and intervene in secular right and wrong, but only needs to care about the entire universe process. Naturally or not , it is to get rid of the rebellious. The TVA in the play is the embodiment of this will. It is more like an executive agency of a natural god, rather than an agent of Jesus Christ with value and moral attributes. As in the setting of the variant in the play, its behavior endangers the safety of the entire universe, and it has no alternative but to let the TVA take action to maintain the necessary and minimum order. Trimming the existence of variants is not denying free will. Every existence still has infinite possibilities for survival, but when looking beyond the dimension of time, these infinitely possible superpositions converge into a completed time. Line (yes, Schrodinger’s timeline). It seems that many students’ understanding of this point seems to be a bit biased. Erasing a timeline will not directly destroy the character body on it, but only eliminate one of his states of existence. He himself is still the master of the sacred timeline. Living well in the universe, there is no need to think about this cleaning method too bloody.

The above is only the information shown in the first episode, but in view of the various signs-such as TVA's old conservative decoration style, the bureaucratic system that can't get rid of the tail, the agent who does not recognize the infinite gems, the poster of the big brother is painted on the wall, and even hints The name "Mobius" of circular theory and fatalism both points to the possibility of TVA blackening.


And first click on the specific and objective plot settings. What impressed me the most was that Rocky had the opportunity to look back and "forward" his life like watching a movie-when he saw how he died. I noticed that his expression was not confused or painful or regretful, but deep anger.

This anger stems from unwillingness, unwilling to die lightly, unwilling to be unwilling to die as light as a feather and cannot match with its lofty Glorious Purpose.

But then he seemed to see himself through all of a sudden, and he personally admitted that these tricks, hypocrisy, killing and cruelty, etc. were just his desperate play to satisfy his strong desire for control ("desperate play"). But at the same time, he thought he had to. It seemed that only in this way could he get rid of his humble identity as the widow of the Frost Giant and complete his self-identification and self-establishment.

You can pay attention to the positional relationship of the characters here: Loki is in the lowest position of the whole set and is forced to fall on all fours; and Mobius talks to Loki in a bird's-eye attitude for the first time. The change of position symbolizes the flow of power. Mobius represents TVA and TimeKeeper, the existence beyond time, and made a conclusive evaluation of Loki's life. Although it sounds very harsh, it is undeniable that this is true. The breaking of a strong self is inevitably accompanied by pain and struggle, not to mention a person like Rocky with such a strong self-consciousness. But Mobius has a sentence that I really can’t agree with, saying that Loki is a foil for real heroes. This obviously has a subjective color, and it reduces living people to a means of serving the purpose of others.


Rejected Glorious Purpose of TimeKeeper, and glorify his own will. The most extreme arrogance and selfishness are often rooted in the most difficult to get rid of deep inferiority complex, and this deep inferiority complex is often caused by the childhood experience that individuals cannot choose and change, which inevitably casts some fatalistic colors on this free world.

(Those philosophies that can be regarded as barely talented are simple, but it is quite rare to be able to interpret them through the drama so vividly and unconsciously.. I hope this drama will not have a good ending at the beginning!

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Extended Reading
  • Roselyn 2022-03-23 09:01:39

    Marvel You Listen to Loki Laufeyson Born To Be King

  • Geoffrey 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    Ep5 is Asgard "glorious purpose!"???

Loki quotes

  • [In a presidential suit]

    Loki: Oh, come on! What did you expect?

  • Loki: You're taking me somewhere to kill me?

    Mobius: No, I'm taking you some place to talk.

    Loki: Well, I don't like to talk.

    Mobius: But you do like to lie. Which you just did, 'cause we both know you love to talk.