Warning! This post contains SPOILERS for Loki season 2, episode 1

Summary

  • Time doesn't matter in the TVA because the organization exists outside of time and space, allowing agents to live for centuries.
  • The multiverse expanding is affecting the TVA, causing power surges and risking the overload of the Time Loom.
  • The core plot of Loki season 2 likely revolves around saving the TVA from the effects of time itself.

MCU's Time Variance Authority, and the premiere further reveals why time doesn't matter inside the TVA itself. Having found He Who Remains at the end of Loki season 1, Loki was sent back to the TVA by Sylvie, though it was quite different from the TVA he originally left. Now, Loki season 2 offers new insights into why time works so differently inside the TVA.

In Ouroboros aka O.B. (Ke Huy Quan), the TVA's head of Repairs and Advancement. Here's why time doesn't matter inside the TVA.

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The TVA Exists Outside Of Time

OB, Hunter B-15, Loki, and Mobius in the TVA in Loki season 2

At its core, the primary reason time doesn't matter in the TVA is because the entire organization exists outside the normal confines of time and space. This is likely why its agents are able to live and work for hundreds of years, seeing as how Mobius and O.B. claim they hadn't seen each other in over four centuries. As has been said many times by Agent Mobius, "Time works differently in the TVA". Thanks to their technology such as TemPads, the TVA can enter and exit points of time across various realities as needed to maintain and protect the Sacred Timeline.

As Loki season 2 continues, it will be interesting to learn more about the origins of the TVA and how it was built by He Who Remains outside of time and space. However, that may be hard to do with the reveal that most TVA agents were routinely given mind wipes, preventing them from ing the truth about former lives as variants or the TVA's true purpose in maintaining the Sacred Timeline. However, it also looks as though time itself is creeping into the Time Variance Authority now that He Who Remains is dead and the multiverse has begun to freely expand with new branch realities.

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How The Multiverse Is Affecting The TVA

TVA Time Loom in Loki Season 2

Not only has the TVA been experiencing power surges ever since the multiverse began expanding, but the TVA's Time Loom is at risk of overloading. Beyond its core function to create a physical timeline out of raw temporal energy, the Loom was apparently never made to handle the influx of new branch timelines. This forces O.B. to seal off the machine so he can hopefully begin retrofitting the Loom (lest the entire TVA be destroyed).

Likewise, Loki's time-slipping is undoubtedly connected to the new multiverse expansion as well. Furthermore, it's been teased that the temporal affliction may have come through Sylvie's use of He Who Remains' TemPad in Loki season 1. Nevertheless, it does seem as though the core plot of Loki season 2 will be focused on saving the TVA from time itself.

Loki season 2 continues next Thursday, Oct. 12 at 9pm ET on Disney+.

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