The Variant, The Twins, and the Sack-Red Timeline: Loki S1 Ep2 | Marvelous DeMystifiers Ep. 17

“I intend to break it down in a very granular fashion because this is one of those things that seems to prove that what we talk about in symbolism is real and is known by those who are putting the programming out there into the world. It's a mountain of evidence. You know, the lie dies under the weight of its own details.”

“The Loki thing is really fascinating to me. The signs and signals are kind of all there. Coming through on my second watch, I'm seeing a lot more indicators along the lines of pre-crime. I didn't really think of that in that context the first time through.”

“If you ever told me, when I was in my twenties and really into comic books in college, that I would get, as my job, to break down esoteric stuff from comic book shows, I would have been stoked about that. That's a great job.”

“In terms of the sacred timeline, which is the approved official narrative of human history in our story, our iPhones have become our access to the sacred timeline. I feel like a lot of people know more about the official story on things than ever before, and we're quicker to defer to the authority story because we have access to it within reach, right in our pocket.”

“That's one of the reasons I like this show, is that you see the gamma being redeemed and becoming a nice, healthy bravo or delta, meaning somebody that can play a support role, can support the rest of their community, cede power to those who are better fit for a job or a role, not get all bent out of shape over feeling inferior. So I like to see that.”

“Variant, etymologically, the simplest definition for that would be tending to change, which is a perfect reference to the mercurial archetype, which is what Loki is. V-A-R-I is an anagram for river.”

“Your origin is unknowable, and that applies in the macrocosm, because no matter how good we get at geology, archaeology, astrophysics, all these things, no one's ever going to actually be able to know. History is always a story. All that exists is actually right now.”

“Loki has one of the most wise statements in the show, where he says, no one bad is ever truly bad and no one good is ever truly good. That's, I think, the nutshell, the nuance that you really need in life to get through without heroes and villains controlling your worldview and making you feel like a victim or small or disempowered.”

“The 248 years is Pluto's return number. And Pluto just returned in 2022. So that's an interesting number for them to hail as a disaster, because Pluto is going to till up the soil and turn everything and bring revolution. So yeah, that was a very significant number that they used, the 248.”

“Edvard Munch was walking along this boardwalk and he almost passed out because he had a feeling exactly like Obi-Wan Kenobi. He had a sense that thousands of voices were crying out in agony and they were all suddenly silenced. And so that's a call and response. The call is the scream, and the response is the hush, the silence.”

“This is why we're doing this. That's why we're covering the show. And hopefully it also gives people maybe some training on, not saying that we're experts or anything, but training on how to decipher symbolism in film or just symbolism in general, some symbolic literacy.”

“The three aspects of the Eleusinian mysteries are that which is shown, that which is told, and that which is performed. And sometimes you're being told one thing, shown something completely different, and then the actions are a third thing entirely. And so I think it's very important to always be aware that we presume that we're going to see what we were told.”

“You're very graciously welcomed to add to our thoughts and drop your weaves into our telegram chat. We'd love to know. Maybe we missed something huge, or maybe we're teetering on the edge of a realization and we didn't quite click the pieces together. And you saw it. So let us know.”