This is making me a little angry. They had a perfect little thing here, enough money, buckets of talent, the only non-CGI Marvel villain that didn't suck, and the first two episodes it was like watching them.emptying out a bucket full of colorful legos, promising to build the most amazing thing.... and only 20 minutes later, they pulled that stupid barbie doll out of their pocket and turned Loki into a Ken, aggressively triying to play house with them, nonexisiting chemistry be damned.

Even exploding planets and an otherwise great cast had no chance against whatever the f*ck di Martino is doing here. The character was already unnecessary, because you had a perfectly good lead, and you also had a perfectly good antagonist, which was exactly that lead, so if you weren't going down that road whoever was up against Hiddleston instead had to be really, really good.

Di Martino instead brought a weirdly surprised stare to every scene, and managed to look every bit like a proud cosplayer showing of her costume on some convention. Let's not even wonder how, on her long and ardeous journey since she was nine years old, her character came up with that costume, because every tiny detail of the plot surrounding her is a convoluted mess.

Sylvie a superstorm of bad writing and bad acting, which is a real shame given the fact that they had all the pieces in place and all they had to do was just not include her.

Yet she has so much screentime and tacked-on relevance for the plot that it is impossible to ignore her and enjoy all the great stuff that was just spoiled by her, so at least in that regard I can see some god of mischief at work(it certainly doesn't show in the actual series).