By The recent second season of Marvel Studios’ “Loki” is drawing plenty of praise for its ending which gives Tom Hiddleston’s Loki proper closure to what has been one of Marvel’s biggest character arcs across the MCU.
The ending, however, underwent a big change during production and was ultimately more ambitious than what was originally planned. Details of that alternate ending have now been revealed as a part of the “Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of Loki Season 2” documentary special streaming on the Disney+ service.
Aaron Moorhead, who co-directed the back half of the season with Justin Benson, says the original plan was to have Loki save the Temporal Loom rather than destroy it and take its place.
That idea didn’t gel with the directors who felt it was missing an element of sacrifice that was required for the character to truly develop:
“There was a draft of the script of the very end, the very end. Something wasn’t sitting right with both of us about it. And the issue was, this draft didn’t have Loki destroying the Loom. He saved the Loom from imploding and then ascended the throne. We all knew something was up, we just didn’t know what. ‘Cause it was like, well he’s trying to save the Loom, he gets the throne, all of this.
But the problem was, is that he didn’t have the sacrifice, and we realized, why doesn’t he destroy the Loom and then have to take over the Loom’s massive responsibility? He doesn’t get anything out of it. It seems so obvious now, it seems like exactly the right choice. But that was a watershed moment in the development of it, when we realized Loki needs to destroy and become the Loom.”
The result was a more impactful ending, Loki sacrificing the rest of his life to overtake and become Temporal Loom for eternity – holding the branching timelines in place so his loved ones could lead the lives they wanted.
Source: Screen Rant
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