***SPOILER WARNING FOR LOKI SEASON 1***
Loki, which just wrapped up its first season in grand/weird fashion on Disney+, is just one piece of the slate of Marvel programming that had the promise of being something new and different from what became a pretty formulaic style of filmmaking over the last decade.
And while WandaVision and The Falcon and The Winter Soldier delivered good quality with mixed results as far as “new and different” is concerned, from a plot and theme perspective, Loki has them soundly beaten. It draws from things like Rick and Morty’s multiverse jumping protagonists, the retrofuturist aesthetic like something out of the Fallout games, and still has enough big action setpieces balanced with levity and heart to give you that pure Marvel feel. However, something that slipped notice is just how much it has in common with Christopher Nolan’s McConaughey-est film (until he agrees to film our script for Mattception), Interstellar.
From the purely superficial perspective, both feature planet-hopping adventures, epic musical scores with ticking clock themes, mysterious and secretive agencies that exist for the good of everyone, and climaxes that take our heroes beyond known time and space. Each approaches these things differently, of course, Interstellar is mostly hard sci-fi while Loki embraces the fantasy that’s allotted to a Marvel property, but they are both driven by a fear of what the unknown future holds and the idea that we might be running out of time before it gets here.
That theme and the plots surrounding it are both also handled much differently by their respective creative teams, and that’s because they’re from different generations.
Our Protagonists: First, we have Cooper from Interstellar, a former NASA test-pilot that gave up on his space dreams to become a farmer because in the future different kinds of blight kill off so many of our crops that we’ve resorted to a mostly corn diet which brings up some poop questions that Nolan chooses not to address for some reason.
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