4/19/2024 0 Comments Star wars scenery looping![]() This episode was the first time I felt as though this season did anything to make me care the way B-15 does about the unnamed and unseen people on the branching timelines. Something pure about the way Victor tries to force D-90 to try it so he too can experience the joy. It’s very pointedly not coffee, even though that machine says it also makes coffee. Sure, he’s from 1893 where they’re still stirring their chocolate-based beverages by hand, but, more importantly, he’s drawn in by a creature comfort usually enjoyed by children. It also builds a sense of childlike innocence into his character, in a way that clearly sets him far apart from Kang and He Who Remains. To teach him what the stakes of what they’re trying to save - the chance for people to try hot cocoa from a machine for the first time. It seems very fitting that Mobius, partaker in key lime pie, seeker of cracker jacks, and frequent consumer of machine-dispensed hot chocolate, is the one to expose Victor to this small, mundane wonder. So, I guess what I’m saying is…it’s the little things in life that are worth fighting for? Stop and smell the roses? Gosh, that sounds trite.Īnd yet, I can’t get away from the hot cocoa. In this respect, she should understand why Mobius would want to take a pie break. It’s why she found working a McDonald’s so alluring. On the other hand, Mobius is so good at the kind of quiet living that Sylvie wants to save so badly. She’s spot on in calling him out for not even wondering what his life on the timeline was like. ![]() I think there’s more to it than that, though, because Sylvie chews out Mobius for suggesting that she go eat pie with him and Loki while they wait for O.B., Victor, and Casey to iron out the technical details of their plan. The primary purpose of the cocoa may very well have been purely as a set-up, so that we could later get the dramatic splatter of it as X-5 prunes Hunter D-90 and captures Timely for Ravonna and Miss Minutes. Even more so once he learns that the cocoa came from a machine. ![]() ![]() Everyone else is engrossed in some combination of panicking and workshopping ideas about how to save the TVA, and yet hot cocoa, something that has no bearing on the fate of the timeline at all, captivates Victor. When Victor Timely stares intently at Mobius’ small beige paper cup, he does so in spite of all the crisis and confusion around him. This show is as interested in hot cocoa as it is in the end of time. ![]()
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