Eric Martin was credited on Loki season 1 as the sole writer of "The Nexus Event" and a co-writer on the finale, "For All Time. Always." However, his contributions to the Disney+ series were grander in scope than we realised.
Martin, who is now season 2's Head Writer, recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter and shared details on the extent of work he did on those first six episodes.
While season 1 Head Writer Michael Waldron typically receives the lion's share of praise for spearheading the show during its first year, this may go some way in explaining why Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness wasn't quite as good as we expected (and why he's supposedly no longer penning Avengers: Secret Wars).
"So when Michael left to go do Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, he passed off the reins to me for season one, so I was the production writer and we co-wrote episode six. So I finished that one off, and then Covid hit and I had to rewrite a ton of the season because of all the new realities we were facing. So [the promotion] was somewhere along that process, but I can’t even remember when. I should probably write these things down."
"It would be nice to actually know the date when my life changed, but Marvel contacted me and said, 'Hey, we’re going to do season two, for sure.' We had talked about it for a long time, but it hadn’t been a certainty. So they asked me to be the head writer, and it made a lot of sense for me."
"I had been so deep in everything from the beginning of the season one writer’s room all the way through production and everything, so it was just a natural step. Because I’d taken over for production and then rewritten things throughout the pandemic, it felt like I’d already done this job in a smaller way. So it was a comfortable leap."
Martin has established himself as one heck of a writer, prompting many fans to push for the Loki scribe to pen the upcoming Avengers movies. However, like Waldron and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania's Jeff Loveness, he too hails from Rick and Morty, so whether handing him the keys to those projects is advisable remains up for debate.
What we can say is that Loki season 2 has been firing on all cylinders and is on its way to becoming Marvel Studios' best Disney+ TV series.
Be sure to check back here on Thursday for our in-depth recap of the penultimate episode!