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Full spoilers follow for Loki season 2 episode 1, plus the entirety of Loki season 1.
There’s plenty that’s packed into the first episode, titled ‘Ouroboros’, ofLoki’s second season.
Loki and company have their work cut out with the Temporal Loom this season.
If you’re after something less spoiler-filled, read ourfull thoughts onLokiseason 2’s first four entries.
What is the Temporal Loom?
And who created it?
The Temporal Loom is responsible for the MCU’s so-called Sacred Timeline
It’s a humungous unit that converts raw time, from the timestream, into physical realities.
The Temporal Loom’s other big role is weaving those various universes together to form the so-called Sacred Timeline.
These realms were gathered together because, despite their individual look and feel, they share the same baseline.
He Who Remains was the one who created the Temporal Loom and the TVA
What’s wrong with the Temporal Loom in Loki season 2?
That’s why he was tracked down by the TVA inLokiepisode 1and subsequently arrested.
Anyway, inLokiepisode 6, one of the trickster god’s variants, Sylvie, killed He Who Remains.
O.B. (center) needs to find a way to increase the Temporal Loom’s capacity
The Temporal Loom doesn’t have the capacity to weave all of these new timelines together.
How can Loki and the TVA fix the Temporal Loom?
And what impact will it have on the MCU?
the TVA’s engineer-in-chief believes he has a solution.
Everyone needs to move as quickly as possible, however.
Not only that, the addition of all these new realities could lead to multiple Incursions.