Loki season 2 is hinting at the biggest Loki story of the last decade, as best it can

polygon.com:

From the start, Loki has been a liberal interpretation of Marvel Comics mythology, where the inner workings of the Time Variance Authority have never been given a consistent spotlight and the god of mischief has never really been associated with them. It made reference to specific Lokis from comics past, but wasn’t interested in playing out their stories.

But that all might be changing in the penultimate episode of Loki season 2. The Marvel Cinematic Universe appears to be picking up Loki’s biggest character moment of the last decade — one that, ironically, probably wouldn’t have happened without the MCU.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for “Science/Fiction,” the fifth episode of Loki season 2.]

There isn’t really a specific moment that gives away the intentions of the Loki writers room in “Science/Fiction,” but lots of vague ones. Sylvie tells him: “We’re all writing our own stories now.” O.B./A.D. encourages Loki to find the solution to his time-travel problems through fiction, not science. Then there’s Loki’s own end-of-episode declaration that his new ability to control his timeslipping will allow him to “rewrite the story.”

In season 2, Loki has found a place he likes in the TVA, and the TVA is in dire need of someone to teach it how to shepherd timelines instead of pruning them: Someone to watch over the “story” of the multiverse. This pivot — of likening the ability to control time to fiction — is a dead ringer for the most consequential transformation the shape-shifting Asgardian has made in modern comics: when Loki stopped being the god of lies and started being the god of stories. But it’s not exactly the same in one major way.

Loki’s transition from evil trickster to sympathetic trickster probably