History Recap / LokiEpisode3Lamentis

[[caption-width-right:350:''"...It's a weapon to be wielded far away or up close. You can see yourself in it. It's beautiful. Until it makes you bleed."'']

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** Bisha K. Ali, the writer of the episode, [[https://twitter.com/bishakali/status/1547911846190952449?s=61 revealed]] that she named the city Shuroo after the Urdu word “شروع” (“the start” or “to start”) to symbolize “the start of something new for Loki and Sylvie: a transformation.”

* BrainFreeze: Sylvie enchants C-20 by creating an illusion that they are in a bar enjoying cold drinks. During their interaction, C-20 experiences brain freeze. Sylvie then provides a ridiculous explanation for brain freeze and persuades C-20 to take another sip from her drink, presenting it as a “test” for her explanation. In truth, she tries to make C-20 reveal the location of the Time Keepers.

* WholePlotReference: The situation on Lamentis and what Loki and Sylvie deal with there is a mixture of ''Film/WhenWorldsCollide'' and ''Series/{{Snowpiercer}}''.

* IceCreamKoan: Loki attempts to use a dagger as a metaphor for love after his drunken performance for Sylvie. The latter is understandably confused and lampshades that it makes no sense.

** Bisha K. Ali, the writer of the episode, revealed that she named the city Shuroo after the Urdu word “شروع” (“the start” or “to start”) to symbolize “the start of something new for Loki and Sylvie: a transformation.”

** Bisha K. Ali, the writer of the episode, revealed that she named the city Shuroo after the Urdu word “شروع” (the start or to start) to symbolize “the start of something new for Loki and Sylvie: a transformation.”

Loki has followed Sylvie, the rogue Variant, through the Time Door into the TVA where she attempts to reach the Time Keepers' chambers. They are intercepted by Judge Renslayer, who tries to prune them, prompting Loki to open a Time Door to save them. Unfortunately, they become stranded in the year 2077 on Lamentis-1, a doomed moon colony about to collide with its planet, as Sylvie's [=TemPad=] runs out of power. Forced into an uneasy partnership, Loki and Sylvie search for a power source to recharge it. They learn about an "Ark" meant to evacuate wealthy citizens from the moon and decide to head to Shuroo to use it for recharging the TemPad.

During their journey on a train they tricked their way onto, Loki and Sylvie engage in a conversation that leads to discovering more about their similarities and differences, ultimately bringing them closer together. However, their deception is discovered, and Loki is thrown off the train while Sylvie follows, causing the TemPad to break. In need of a new plan, they decide to hijack the Ark before it's destroyed, ensuring that it takes off. Upon arriving in Shuroo, they are met with chaos as poor citizens riot, being denied boarding the Ark. Loki and Sylvie struggle through the crowd and just make it to the Ark’s gate before several meteors crash into it, destroying it and seemingly any chance for them to make it off the moon alive.

Loki and his rogue Variant, calling herself Sylvie, find themselves stranded in 2077 on the doomed moon colony of Lamentis-1, which is about to be destroyed in a collision with the planet it orbits, forcing them into an uneasy partnership in order to find a way off.

* HostageSituation: Sylvie tries to threaten Loki's life to make Judge Renslayer back off, but Renslayer has no problem letting her kill Loki.

* UmbrellaDrink: Sylvie and Hunter C-20' drinks in C-20's memory/fantasy have umbrellas in them.

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: Sylvie's plan to bomb the timeline was merely to draw off the majority of the TVA's agents so she could sneak inside and reach the Time-Keepers.

* BrainFreeze: Sylvie discusses this with C-20 while she enchants her and makes her believe that they're in a bar drinking cold drinks. She uses her explanation about brain freeze to make C-20 reveal the location of the Time Keepers.

* BrainFreeze: Sylvie discusses this with C-20 while she enchants her and makes her believe that they're in a bar drinking cold drinks.

** At one point, Loki denies being drunk, claiming instead that he's merely full. "Full" is actually the Norwegian word for "drunk", which Loki would know, being a Nordic god.
** The Asgardian song that Loki sings is in Norwegian.

* ApocalypseAnarchy: The poor of Lamentis-1 devolve into chaotic rioting as the imminent destruction of their world approaches, and they realize that the rich are barring them from the only means of survival.

* AmusinglyAwfulAim: Usually, Loki has ImprobableAimingSkills. However, after getting completely drunk on the train, he misses the guard attacking Sylvie by a wide margin and almost hits Sylvie's head instead. She calls him out on it:

* SerenadeYourLover: During Loki's DrunkenSong, there is a slow and gentle verse about a fair maiden during which Loki [[HeldGaze looks at Sylvie]], foreshadowing his growing feelings for her.

* ItsWhatIDo: Loki's explanation when Sylvie calls him out for getting drunk and having their cover blown:

'''Sylvie:''' Love is an imaginary dagger.\\

Loki and his rouge Variant, calling herself Sylvie, find themselves stranded in 2077 on the doomed moon colony of Lamentis-1, which is about to be destroyed in a collision with the planet it orbits, forcing them into an uneasy partnership in order to find a way off.

* AbsenteeActor: Mobius, Hunter B-15, Casey, and Miss Minutes do not appear in this episode. The latter, however, does appear on the [=TemPad=] as a "battery low" indicator.

* NatureVersusNurture: Loki and Sylvie learn that despite their common origins they had very different upbringings. Loki was raised as a royal and had a loving mother who taught him magic, so he is more cultured yet entitled and childish, and has a more diverse skill set. Sylvie had to take care about herself from a young age and has been on the run for too long, so she is a no-nonsense survivor and is a bit rough around the edges, and knows a single (but useful) magic skill that she taught herself. Moreover, Sylvie's parents in Asgard never hid that she was adopted, so she never had the shocking moment Loki did when he only found out as an adult (which was his StartOfDarkness). Both Loki and Sylvie are chaotic and snarky {{Knife Nut}}s.

* CallBack:
** After getting his daggers back from B-15's locker, there's a shot of Loki [[WeaponTwirling twirling them]], in a nod to the shot of him doing the same thing in a MissingTrailerScene[[invoked]] for ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.
** On the train, Loki downs his drink and throws it at the ground while shouting "Another!"-- much like [[Film/{{Thor}} his brother Thor]] and [[Film/ThorTheDarkWorld Volstagg]] were wont to.
** Loki tells Sylvie that he is not working for the TVA, but is instead merely a [[Film/IronMan2 consultant]].
** The exact angle/pose that Loki falls into after being chucked off the train is near-identical to how he fell out of the dimension that Doctor Strange threw him in during ''Film/ThorRagnarok''.
** Sylvie uses her spiked tiara as a weapon like Loki used his spiked helmet as one in ''Ragnarok''.

* ContinuityNod: Loki recalls how his mother would turn a flower into a frog to amuse him and promise him he'll learn to do it as well. In ''Film/ThorRagnarok,'' Loki-as-Odin recalls how he turned his brother Thor into a frog, so he did learn the spell.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Sylvie asserting her new preferred name and identity, and that she doesn't use the old one any more, is presented very similarly to a UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} person coming out. Her attitude toward her old name is also about as close to it being her deadname as you can get without actually calling it that.

* DuplicateDivergence: Sylvie and Loki are both Variants of "a Loki." However Loki grew up as an Asgardian prince with a loving mother who taught him magic, and was [[ObliviousAdoption Obliviously Adopted]]. Sylvie does not remember her mother, knew she was adopted, and was on the run from the TVA pretty much her entire life. While both are sarcastic tricksters, Loki is more cultured, prefers guile, knows more spells, and appears more irresponsible and braggy. Sylvie swears a lot, does not hesitate to use violence, taught herself unusual but limited magic, and appears more mature.

** [[Recap/LokiEpisode2TheVariant "The Variant"]] has Loki theorize that nothing you do during an apocalypse matters, since everything and everyone within the vicinity tends to die or get destroyed before any meaningful changes take place. Here, Sylvie and Loki's attempts to escape from Lamentis-1 results in just that-- [[YouCantFightFate their attempt to change history fails, because they can't reach the Ark fast enough to launch it before it gets destroyed]].

* NoSell: Sylvie's enchantment magic fails to work on Loki, who attributes it to his strong mind. She herself later admits that there's a spectrum of effectiveness: most people it's effortless, a little more effort on strong-minded people like the Hunters - in those hard cases she has to create enchantments based on their memories to manipulate them. Still, she's apparently never met someone before who was so strong-minded that they simply shrugged off her attempt at enchantment without batting an eye.

* TheOner: The scene when Loki and Sylvie try to get to the Ark is shot in one long take.[[labelnote:note]]The scene was actually shot in multiple takes, just stitched together to look like one shot.[[/labelnote]]

* ReforgedIntoAMinion: According to Sylvie, all TVA employees are this, not [[ArtificialHuman artificial constructs]] of the Time Keepers as they claimed. They were previously Variants, like Loki and Sylvie, but had their memories suppressed and were given a new identity as part of the TVA.

* SlobsVsSnobs: A bulk of the personality clashes between Loki and Sylvie is also colored by this--what with Loki being only-recently a royal prince (as well as the commander of Thanos's Chitauri force) expecting things to always go his way--and Sylvie (having been practically a StreetUrchin since her escape) always adamant to get what she wants before she loses the opportunity to.

** Music/HayleyKiyoko's "Demons"--a song about someone who is either losing their mind, depressed, or questioning their sense of reality--plays in the ColdOpen where Hunter C-20 is being trapped in a LotusEaterMachine made out of her memories.
** Bonnie Guitar's cover of Ned Miller's "Dark Moon", a song about the Moon losing its light, lost loves, and plans that don't go as expected, closes out the episode-- which ends with Loki and Sylvie's plan to escape failing and the Lamentis-1 moon becoming very close to colliding with the planet that it orbits.