Did Loki Help Avengers: Endgame’s Time Travel Problems Or Make Them Worse?

It’s entirely possible that the TVA doesn’t know time as well as it thinks, and that Loki will eventually explain that. For now, though, the premiere left us with a flawed explanation justifying Avengers: Endgame, and a missed opportunity for Marvel Studios to put a lot of the speculation about the MCU and the effects of divergent timelines and multiverses to rest. There’s a chance that it all will be cleared up down the road, but should Marvel continue to build on premises that it hasn’t fully explained to its audience, I fear there’s a good chance things get more sloppy going forward. Of course, Marvel has done a great job with its storytelling over the past decade, so maybe my fears about where things are headed are misguided.