Did the writers not bother to watch Thor and Avengers? Why is this Loki the clown we got in Ragnarok? We all know that he was deliberately neutered in that film because Hemsworth was upset at being outshone in the previous 2 Thor movies. Up until that movie Loki was sneaky, clever, well spoken, mischievous yet terribly sad, lonely, passionate, subtle, furious and all sorts of other juicy adjectives that worked because Tom does such a good job with such a complicated character.

So why, why, why, were we given Ragnarok Loki? Not just Ragnarok Loki, but Ragnarok Loki with added hyperactivity and a ridiculous high school crush...I...I don't understand.

This Loki just got kidnapped, lost everything and everyone he ever knew, tried to take over earth, fell through space, met Thanos and presumably had a Not-Great time with him, discovered he was a frost giant/monster etc etc etc. And we're supposed to believe he's suddenly going to fall in love with some rando he's known for not even a day, barely a week after all this crap happened to him. What...???? He's over 1000 years old - to him this stuff may as well have all taken place on the same day. I did not expect any romance in this show for all of the above reasons, and so to be blindsided by a rushed, awkward one halfway through the series with a character I'd never heard of really was jarring.

To top it off, the dialogue is basic, boring and predictable. Full of plot holes and the writers can't decide what they were trying to do. Was it self-love, where Sylvie is actually Loki, just female, and he sees himself in her? Where if she was male she would presumably be another Tom Hiddleston Loki as seen in the void? Or is Sylvie a completely different character and person, which makes it less weird for them to be romantically involved but completely negates the whole 'self love'/Sylvie is a mirror thing they all seem so proud of. The interviews and the show suggest the creators and actors do not actually know. But it's pretty obvious that they made Sylvie female, gave her a different name and blond hair to try and make the whole thing less...Sweet Home Alabama. Could have saved themselves a lot of trouble by not making the relationship romantic.

The good bits? The music, the cgi, the TVA sets, Tom Hiddleston, Owen Wilson. Only just enough to make it watchable.

Also, Loki is genderfluid. The absolute erasure of this in the show is shocking and should be subject to much scrutiny.