#i am not what you'd call a natural optimist i just think this season is WEIRD about sylvie

[nostalgia-tblr]

i can attempt to cheer up the sylkis, but bear in mind i am never right about anything.

It's not that S1 sylki is being treated like it never happened, because you could do this season with Sylvie rejoining the gang after an episode and she and Loki are now besties but no they are keeping my fave from me I AM SUFFERING SO MUCH and she turns up mid-episode so help with a plot thing and then fucks off again at the end four episodes in a row like she cannot be left hanging around because then we'd have to address the elephant in the room. And I feel like the elephant is still in the room, because we haven't mentioned the kissing at all and it's well past the point where that just seems weird.

And the people saying "if they'd got it on in episode 2/3 they'd def be doomed" are correct, that's pretty much what always happens in telly. They haven't made the romantic shit explicit enough to do a tragic parting (probably - like I say I am often wrong about telly) but equally the way it's not being talked about does not really scream retconned to me it. Same as how Sylvie is sidelined in a way that to me says either "actress was not available much" (and she was) or "we need to stop these characters having this conversation or we'll resolve the plot too soon." And if it's that then as a Sylvie stan I am annoyed to have her role reduced just to make a man a bit sad for a while. Because you'd think she should have some role in doing Whatever The Heck is happening after she killed HWR, there's no reason she couldn't have (for example) agreed to come and fix the loom etc while fully intending to leave when that's done (and she could bitch about the TVA while she did it!) But no, she's conspicuously Not There yet also she has to turn up for Reasons mid-episode because she's still a main character and probaby important to whatever the resolution of all this stuff is. (And the end of ep 5 seems to strongly imply that she is.)

And like. Leaving her to the end while "getting the gang back together" feels extremely deliberate as a choice. Building up to her. And then she says nope and then appears again at the end as a spark of hope before everything turns into spaghetti. And then that ending stuff where Loki can control the time-skipping because it's about "who". And yeah possibly this means one of his new besties at the TVA but if I had to guess and I was only allowed to guess one of them.

I think my main point is that yes it's awkward, but it didn't need to be as awkward for as long so something is being dragged out to the very end here, it's not just a change in direction where we're gonna ignore the kissing because the kissing doesn't matter. I feel like we're ignoring it because it does. But what do I know? 🤷‍♀️