Welcome back fellow Defenders we're chatting about Marvel's Loki Episode 1 "Glorious Purpose" which arrived on June 9th 2021. We learn all about the Time Variance Authority as Loki diverges from his destiny and messes with the timeline.

Loki Episode 1 "Glorious Purpose" Synopsis

Episode Written by: Michael Waldron

Episode Directed By: Kate Herron

Following his battle with the Avengers in New York, Loki, God of Mischief was captured and awaiting transport back to Asgard to be punished for his crimes. But, in their search for the infinity stones to defeat Thanos in the future, the Avengers travelled back to 2012 to retrieve the Tesseract.

Fortunately for Loki, during the time heist the Tesseract was dropped at his feet allowing him to escape. Unfortunately this change in destiny altered the “sacred timeline” drawing the attention of the Time Variance Authority. Loki is captured by TVA Hunter B-15 and put on trial for his crimes in front of Juge Ravonna Renslayer.

Meanwhile TVA employee Mobius M. Mobius is investigating a series of murders in the timeline of other TVA agents. He saves Loki from his trial and explains the work of the Time Variance Authority is to uphold the events deemed sacred by three interdimensional beings known as the Timekeepers.

As Loki diverged from this timeline he’s now a variant of the original Loki. Mobius needs Loki’s help to capture the murderer as he believes it’s another Loki variant travelling through time. If Loki helps end the threat a meeting with the Timekeepers is on the table.

Loki Season 1 Cast

Loki Laufeyson played by Tom Hiddleston

Mobius M. Mobius played by Owen Wilson

Hunter B15 played by Wunmi Mosaku

Judge Ravonna Renslayer played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Casey The Paperwork Clerk played by Jon Levin

A Return to Defending

As we are returning to the Marvel TV universe we are using the format of our former Marvel podcast, Defenders TV Podcast.

We discuss:

• Our Top 5 Points (or Variants) of the episode
• Whether we each Defend the episode or not
• Notes, Quotes and comic references

The Loki Pub Quiz

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Next time on TV Podcast Industries

We'll be back on Saturday the 12th June with our discussion of the latest episode of Star Wars The Bad Batch and we'll return next week with Loki Episode 2. You can also join us on our main feed for all of our podcasts including Loki, Star Wars The Bad Batch, Wandavision, Falcon and The Winter Soldier and much much more.

Until then, Keep Watching, Keep Listening and Keep Defending.

Derek, Chris and John

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