LOKI Season 2 WHEN EVERYTHING HAPPENS in the TVA

Loki Season 2 Episode 1 “Ouroborus” reveals that the TVA has its own internal history, and past historical eras that have undergone resets and memory wipes. Erik Voss breaks down the full timeline of the episode, WHEN everything happens, and how, exactly, time passes differently in the TVA!

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Written by: Erik Voss
Producers: Zach Huddleston & Brandon Barrick
Head of Production: John Costa
Post Production Supervisor: Riley Auskelis
Staff Editors: Drew Coombs, Joshua Steven Hurd
Editors: Georden West
Camera Operator: Dashiell Hamingson

[The_Surf]

This episode was so good! Love how it continued the energy of season 1’s finale and kept the ball rolling!

[ainhoamateos-carnalnavaro]

What shocks me the most is the fact that O.B remembers Mobius, and apparently everything that happens until they meet again, which would make him the only one on TVA who hasn't had his memories erased.

[asherstreets]

Erik, I think TVA employees are having their memories erased slowly (probably through the cafeteria/key lime pie), not as a solitary event. That's why Mobius can't remember having his memory erased, Casey says the floor has always been like that/always worked at that desk... I'll bet OB doesn't have pie often.

[regulusking]

Considering the 1st episode was named Ouroboros the snake eating it’s own tail. It’s basically an endless loop. So this reset loop in the TVA makes sense

[austinhale]

I wonder if OB is helping kang maintain and repair the loom and keep the cycle running. His name, ouroboros means infinity as it depicts a snake eating its own tail, just like how it seems kang kept resetting the tva by mind wiping them

[Vlltz_]

So far the new season feels like a lot like the vibe that the MCU used to have which is really refreshing compared to a lot of the other stuff they've put out recently

[Gersheyz]

I think Casey pruned Loki with his knowledge from the guidebook. He looked like he was puzzling it out. I can totally go for the hero move and then joining OB as an enlightened one without memory wipes.

[mkness]

For me, the glass rings left by Mobius in Renslayer’s office were the first indication that the TVA had been reset, and Renslayer knew it.

[allennixon]

Ke Huy Quan as ouroboros was amazing can’t wait to see more of him.

[TimDaco]

Awesome Video Erik!!! Thanks for explaining the Timeline of The TVA!
I Loved The First Episode SO Much and I'M EXCITED FOR THE NEXT

[Orashidimaru]

Loki carrying the entire MCM on its shoulder 🙌

[Simpanoster]

I think the recording with "He who remains" and Ravonna is what Ms minutes gave Ravonna in the finale of season 1.

[GreatBuckeyeGamer]

I think the whole TVA cycle thing makes sense because He Who Remains said that after he’s killed and everything falls apart, he’ll end up back where he is. “Reincarnation, baby” he said.

[Leoncroi]

10:38 - I mean, it makes sense based on their names. A mobius strip folds in on itself, so its constantly in a flux of switching sides, if you view it from one perspective; constantly being "reset." Ouroboros on the other hand, is constantly in a cycle. While the original concept is perpetually eating itself, it also signifies that the cycle has no beginning, but also no end. OB is kept as a constant, while Mobius, like everyone else, is on a pattern of being reset.

[dpduncan]

The fact that O.B. can remember Loki means that his mind has never been wiped.

[ethancoatney]

Prediction that just popped into my head because I'm stoned: He Who Remains separated a time branch (somehow cutting it off and looping it) and set the TVA up in that separated time branch. Because it loops, the memory-wipes could be automated. And differences (like OB wearing glasses, Casey getting promoted from custodian to front desk) could be accounted for by the system consolidating itself, like a system defrag.

[ericahughes]

Is literally no one going to talk about the fact that OB is likely the inventor of the three time keepers?

[luketmillar]

My assumption about why Mobius didn’t remember OB is because at some episode later on Mobius and Loki will go back in time and will end up visiting OB to ask for help. It’ll be OB’s first time meeting Mobius but Mobius’ second meeting OB.

[kaeking]

When he goes back and sees OB and has him build that machine that pops up in the future right in front of them... That's a billing Ted excellent adventure movie

[SoutarDG]

Time has always worked normally in the TVA, just that everyone gets their memory wiped every so often so they think it works differently.