The first episode of Loki season 2 premiered on Disney+ yesterday evening and it's left us with plenty to discuss. Deadline was fortunate enough to catch up with executive producer Kevin Wright to learn more about "Ouroboros" and what the deal was with the God of Mischief's brief meeting with Sylvie in the future.
"So, in the context of that, he’s been slipping in the past and to the present, and in that moment, he has slipped into the future," Wright explains, "and so, he is seeing something in Sylvie that has yet to happen for him on his personal timeline, that will loop back around again."
It sounds like that moment is one we'll revisit in an upcoming episode, hopefully meaning we'll discover who pruned Loki (we're assuming it was Sylvie but she was still in the elevator when it happened).
Elsewhere in the conversation, Wright was asked directly if Loki season 2 is going to lead directly into any upcoming MCU movies, including Avengers: The Kang Dynasty. "Nothing that I could say in the near future," he admits. "The implications will ripple into other projects, though, certainly, and the TVA is an organization that will continue to have stories to tell, which is one of the exciting things about it to us."
The TVA is, of course, expected to appear in Deadpool 3, suggesting Agent Dox wasn't the only one who decided to take matters into their own hands when He Who Remains was killed by Sylvie.
As for where Loki goes from here, it doesn't sound like plans for season 3 are set in stone. Yet.
"We take it season by season, and there are certainly things that Tom and I and other casts have talked about of where we see this going, and I know there’s some excitement for that internally, but just from a storytelling standpoint, I think we always conceived of seasons 1 and 2 as a whole."
"That these are two chapters of the same book, and that season two is finishing that book," Wright continues, "and there are other stories to be told there, but I think they would be new books, if that’s not too coy."
"I will say is [season 2's finale is] not a cliffhanger. We want to be able to deliver real fulfillment in what we’re doing, but I do think it’ll be exciting and unexpected and everything people like about this show."
We have an exciting five weeks ahead, that's for sure, and Marvel Studios needs to use Loki to better explain the Multiverse Saga. Right now, it sounds like the focus will be on telling the title character's story, though the backstory teased for He Who Remains in the premiere surely has to inform what's to come with Kang.