What is time-slipping in Loki season 2? Why the God of Mischief keeps glitching, explained
Warning! This article contains mild spoilers for Loki season 2 episode 1. If you've yet to tune in and don't want to know anything that happens, turn back now!
Tom Hiddleston's unlikely hero is having a tough time of it in the first episode of Loki season 2. After being booted through a portal by Sylvie during their brawl at the End of Time, the God of Mischief tries to catch up with Mobius and Hunter B-15, and get them up to speed. It's a task made difficult, though, by the fact that he keeps finding himself in different timelines. Turns out, he's time-slipping, but what exactly is it?
Well, we'll be honest, the show isn't super explicit with its explanation, but we do know that it's a term used to describe when someone is being involuntarily "being pulled through time, between the past and the present" – and sometimes, even the future. Episode 1 opens with Loki realizing that Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) has sent him back to a time where he's yet to meet Mobius and the gang. As suspicious Minute Men attempt to capture him, he hijacks a mail truck and winds up crashing through the window of an operations room, before the carnage sends a screen hanging from the ceiling to fall and crack the floor. Loki begs Casey (Eugene Codero) for help, but of course, the technician doesn't know him.
A later version of Casey does, mind, when Loki time-slips into the present. Noticing the damaged floor, Loki works out that the things he is doing in the past are actively affecting the current timeline.
According to Repair and Advancements guy O.B. (Ke Huy Quan), who Mobius (Owen Wilson) and Loki later seek out to help them, it's impossible to time-slip in the TVA. He changes his tune, however, when Loki is thrown back over 400 years and
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