It has been a minute since the season one finale for Loki aired. These last few Loki-less Wednesdays [not counting the making-of special last week] have been brutal, but they’ve allowed me to take a sort of reflective look at the Marvel series.

The finale reminded us in many ways that time is a bittersweet, finite thing, and that everything good eventually has to come to an end. Okay, bleak outlook aside, the finale episode of Loki was just as exciting and time/mind-bending as the rest of the season. And though it did leave our emerald-clad heroes Loki and Sylvie separated at the end of time and the beginning of a new multiversal war, the season also made a lot of exciting promises for the future. Like the promise that Jonathan Majors is about to become a household name.