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"They're both going to be ok, right?" - For sure! This is a happy happy bunny unicorn children show where nooooooothing ever goes wrong ever. *Rocks back and forth in a straitjacket*
While I know they had little to no creative control over the show, a distribution deal usually comes with a financial contribution to production, either directly or indirectly (financing is often secured when a distribution deal is sealed). Distribution, ergo, is considered an important step in the production of any show or film, including ARCANE. It is often the deciding factor for a production being greenlit. In this case, Riot’s Shauna Spenley previously worked as Netflix’s (English-language) marketing head, and she went to them to make the distro deal. So, yes, Netflix had a remarkable, not-zero impact on the creation of the show but they also gave Riot complete creative control, effectively. That, I imagine, was the deal Shauna brokered, which should not go without praise, and was pivotal in Riot moving forward.
21:33 Despite talk about how Viktor is like a brother to him, Jayce still can't shed his Topside mentality / privilege.... Anyone else notice how he and Mel are casually talking in Viktor's presence, about creating weapons of mass destruction for the express purpose of being used on his people, and then fully expecting him to go along and help make them?!
That wasn't Viktor's problem though, us versus them. He just categorically doesn't like building weapons, which is understandable, but at the same time, very naive. Hextech is out there now and it'll be used whether he likes it or not. The best he could realistically do now is mitigate the wrong applications of it.
@@TimoRutanen I know that's not his issue. I was referring to Jayce and Mel's insensitivity. And Jayce had just been reminded by Viktor that he was from the Undercity too.
I like to think that when Jinx pulled the pin on the bridge, it was an act of love for her friend. She knows she's never getting Ekko back on her side. And when he pauses, she sees that he doesn't have the strength to finish the job. So when she pulls the pin, I like to think she's saying "Let me finish it for you" as a final sacrificial gift to Ekko. In her own messed up way: an act of love.
Also, Jinx already knew it was Ekko behind the mask. It's why she calls hum "the boy savior" and why Ekko was adamant that she works for Silco because ahe wants to. Because he gave her the option of going with him, and didn't.
The only way out I can see from the way things happened is if in E3 Vi had the prescience to tell Ekko and Powder to take care of each other until she gets back from the mission.
Make sure you watch "Bridging the Rift" Documentory-series, here on RUclips after you're done with Arcane :) It's just as good as Arcane itself and shows who, why and how it was (almost not) made.
About Mel and Jayce, I think she always kind of had the hots for him, regardless of manipulating him, which she also did. After he opened up to her about Viktor and saw that he teuly trusted her and was cute about it I think she started to also catch feelings.
I feel like everyone would understand, if Viktor was just honest. If I went to my friends and was like "I have terminal cancer - but if I take heroin it will cure the cancer" and it was actually true then my friends would be like "then take heroin obviously."
You're kind of ignoring the Viktor is a Zaunite. Yes, if Jayce had to take Shimmer to survive, people would understand, but Viktor is a member of a group associated with being dangerous, drug-using criminals. His hesitancy is grounded in reality, even if his specific circumstances (friend of the head of the Council) might mean he could use Shimmer without being arrested.
@@ReaverARC I was only speaking of Vicktor's friends whom he wasn't even forthright with, not the public at large. The rest of what you say is true just not relevant to the point I was making. Sky is dead because Vicktor kept secrets.
Vi and her words influencing Ekko is possible, I think it's what made him hold back in the end, but it's also good to note according to the game which is obviously not the same as the show, but still, it's important and part of the lore, Ekko had a crush on Jinx. There is a voice line, a taunt from Ekko towards Jinx: "I had a crush, until you started talking to the gun."
There is also the fact that Ekko invited Jinx to play the game he used to play with Powder. He wouldn't have bother to do that if he truly felt her childhood friend was no more.
The other side of the weapon debate isn't unworthy of consideration. If Jinx develops Hextech weapons and nobody else does, do they just sit around and do nothing while she kills people so that they can pat themselves on the back for being so principled?
It's a difficult balance. If you build a new weapon, the enemy also has to build an equal thing or lose. If you're ahead, you don't want to spend resources to get more ahead, but you want to spend enough to stay ahead of the enemy. Quite obviously here, they've gone way too long without addressing the problems, and now they're knocking on the door. Hasty decisions have to be made now, and those will easily backfire later. For a scientist, the difficult part is knowing that if you invent something, it'll be taken and used by the powers that be (state, council, what have you). And if you don't think Very Carefully about what could go terribly wrong, you'll all be totally surprised and unprepared, when it goes terribly wrong in the wrong hands. It's pretty clear that Jayce and Viktor are very idealistic and don't see the glaringly obvious military uses for mega-gauntlets and laserbeams they casually whipped together in their lab. It seems a bit strange that Viktor especially being from the undercity, doesn't see how things can get corrupted very easily.
One point about the people around Jinx not helping her... how? They already established in episode 6 there aren't a lot of doctors of any kind in the undercity, it's highly likely there is no form of mental health care available at all down there. Silco's weird baptism idea was the best idea he could come up with to actually help Jinx deal with her demons (because it had 'worked' for him, not really he's pretty messed up too but he thinks it worked).
That last scene with Ekko and Jinx is so brilliantly done. Things are escalating very quickly now. I'm interested to see if your opinions of Mel change in future episodes. Great Video Basic!
20:16 I've gone through so many Arcane Reactors at this point and you're, I think, the first to point this out, tbh, lol. I had never once noticed this about Silco till now. And, honestly, this gives such other future scenes such context, lol!
For what it's worth, I'm not sure if Silco is necessarily manipulating Powder / Jinx. Rather, he completely believes what he's saying but is totally projecting his trauma and mental complexes onto her.
Hopefully you can watch Arcane: Bridging the Rift before season 2 airs, all 5 episodes are uploaded on LoL youtube channel and I believe they're not copyrighted material (meaning, you could just upload the whole episode like if you were reacting to a regular youtube video aka less editing needed?)
Regarding Marcus "I mean good riddance, but it doesn't feel good." That's part of why I love this show. They show where the "bad" people are coming from. He ambitiously wanted to be a kick ass enforcer, he wanted to be the better cop, he wanted to do the job better than the Voice lady (Shohreh Aghdashloo (so far, awesome in everything I've seen her in)). His downfall wasn't that he was bad, but that his judgement of people was humanly mistaken.
"What's your plan to fix this?" Finn asks Silco the same question Jayce asked Heimerdinger, and neither one of them has an answer. They don't actually have a plan to improve the conditions of their city, they're just hoping the answer falls into their laps someday
Well except Silco actually had a plan, he just wasn't interested in sharing it with Finn, his plan was betting on Jinx to finish the weapon before top side and threaten them with it.
@@tuanthanhnguyen7488 Jinx took that crystal against Silco's will like 36 hours ago, and at the time of this meeting he doesn't know where she is, whether she still has it or has made any progress, or even if she has or hasn't betrayed him to return to her sister. That's why he's so stressed that he almost skips the meeting to go look for her. That's not a plan, it's half a hope and a wish, which is about the equivalent of what Heimerdinger had by trying to motivational speech the council into not being politically corrupt anymore
@aranthur I disagree with the idea that Silco has half a plan. He knows the potential of Hextech, it's not exactly a secret. His plan is getting a weapon and forcing Piltover to negotiate. The only question is wether or not Jinx will deliver.
@@aranthur So you agree that Silco's plan is having a hextech weapon built by Jinx. Calling it "half a hope and a wish", is not denying the essence of what it is ( a plan), it's quantifying its qualities ( viability, efficiency, etc..). No matter how compromised it seems to be at the moment, that's still Silco's plan and you didn't disagree with that. Heimerdinger on the other hand had no plan at all. He didn't answer, Silco did: "Jinx will take care of it." Heimer wasn't shown to have one before, Silco was. These are not equivalent. You noticed a similarity between the two scenes and elaborated on it broadly, but you were wrong. Just recognize it and try to do better next time.
Absolutely LOVING your more natural eyes! 😍 Being a man, I would never tell a woman how she should or shouldn't look, though. I just wanted you to know that at least one viewer appreciates your choice for this video. 👍🏿
In the game ekko can turn back time to undo mistakes. This is represented in the show with his past self going through his attack pattern to see exactly where powder shoots him, allowing him to dodge her shots in real time in the current time.
@@basicwitgirlI mean, look, dude was in an animated thirst trap scene. It had the desired effect. You cannot be blamed! 😅 For me, there’s a fully-clothed Vi scene coming up which gave me the vapours. I can literally boil it down to one shot, pun intended. But, my addiction to badass women is to blame. Glad you’re enjoying the series! It’s top shelf stuff, IMO.
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Vi is short for Violet. You only hear it once though, in ep. 3.
Vi stands for VIOLENCE
you see it in their old home written on the pillar, the height-measurement-thing, as well :)
"They're both going to be ok, right?" - For sure! This is a happy happy bunny unicorn children show where nooooooothing ever goes wrong ever. *Rocks back and forth in a straitjacket*
He was ready to kill Jinx. He was not ready to kill Powder. I tear up everytime
Same. The most heartbreaking scene imo. The despair in Powder's eyes! 😭
32:50 Once again, Netflix had zero impact on the creation of this show, they only provided distribution.
While I know they had little to no creative control over the show, a distribution deal usually comes with a financial contribution to production, either directly or indirectly (financing is often secured when a distribution deal is sealed).
Distribution, ergo, is considered an important step in the production of any show or film, including ARCANE. It is often the deciding factor for a production being greenlit.
In this case, Riot’s Shauna Spenley previously worked as Netflix’s (English-language) marketing head, and she went to them to make the distro deal. So, yes, Netflix had a remarkable, not-zero impact on the creation of the show but they also gave Riot complete creative control, effectively. That, I imagine, was the deal Shauna brokered, which should not go without praise, and was pivotal in Riot moving forward.
21:33 Despite talk about how Viktor is like a brother to him, Jayce still can't shed his Topside mentality / privilege.... Anyone else notice how he and Mel are casually talking in Viktor's presence, about creating weapons of mass destruction for the express purpose of being used on his people, and then fully expecting him to go along and help make them?!
That wasn't Viktor's problem though, us versus them. He just categorically doesn't like building weapons, which is understandable, but at the same time, very naive. Hextech is out there now and it'll be used whether he likes it or not. The best he could realistically do now is mitigate the wrong applications of it.
@@TimoRutanen I know that's not his issue. I was referring to Jayce and Mel's insensitivity. And Jayce had just been reminded by Viktor that he was from the Undercity too.
@@evilwelshman Yeah, they should only talk about it behind his back. 🤣
I like to think that when Jinx pulled the pin on the bridge, it was an act of love for her friend. She knows she's never getting Ekko back on her side. And when he pauses, she sees that he doesn't have the strength to finish the job. So when she pulls the pin, I like to think she's saying "Let me finish it for you" as a final sacrificial gift to Ekko. In her own messed up way: an act of love.
Also, Jinx already knew it was Ekko behind the mask. It's why she calls hum "the boy savior" and why Ekko was adamant that she works for Silco because ahe wants to. Because he gave her the option of going with him, and didn't.
The only way out I can see from the way things happened is if in E3 Vi had the prescience to tell Ekko and Powder to take care of each other until she gets back from the mission.
Make sure you watch "Bridging the Rift" Documentory-series, here on RUclips after you're done with Arcane :) It's just as good as Arcane itself and shows who, why and how it was (almost not) made.
About Mel and Jayce, I think she always kind of had the hots for him, regardless of manipulating him, which she also did. After he opened up to her about Viktor and saw that he teuly trusted her and was cute about it I think she started to also catch feelings.
I feel like everyone would understand, if Viktor was just honest. If I went to my friends and was like "I have terminal cancer - but if I take heroin it will cure the cancer" and it was actually true then my friends would be like "then take heroin obviously."
You're kind of ignoring the Viktor is a Zaunite. Yes, if Jayce had to take Shimmer to survive, people would understand, but Viktor is a member of a group associated with being dangerous, drug-using criminals. His hesitancy is grounded in reality, even if his specific circumstances (friend of the head of the Council) might mean he could use Shimmer without being arrested.
@@ReaverARC I was only speaking of Vicktor's friends whom he wasn't even forthright with, not the public at large. The rest of what you say is true just not relevant to the point I was making. Sky is dead because Vicktor kept secrets.
@@ColinPooleedit your post and put a big "Spoiler" before she reads it.
Vi and her words influencing Ekko is possible, I think it's what made him hold back in the end, but it's also good to note according to the game which is obviously not the same as the show, but still, it's important and part of the lore, Ekko had a crush on Jinx. There is a voice line, a taunt from Ekko towards Jinx: "I had a crush, until you started talking to the gun."
There is also the fact that Ekko invited Jinx to play the game he used to play with Powder. He wouldn't have bother to do that if he truly felt her childhood friend was no more.
Watch Enemy from Imagine Dragons which explains why Ekko hesitates to finish her. She saw that Powder was still there.
The other side of the weapon debate isn't unworthy of consideration. If Jinx develops Hextech weapons and nobody else does, do they just sit around and do nothing while she kills people so that they can pat themselves on the back for being so principled?
It's the great thing about this show, pretty much all the characters have their reasons and there's merits behind what they think!
It's a difficult balance. If you build a new weapon, the enemy also has to build an equal thing or lose. If you're ahead, you don't want to spend resources to get more ahead, but you want to spend enough to stay ahead of the enemy. Quite obviously here, they've gone way too long without addressing the problems, and now they're knocking on the door. Hasty decisions have to be made now, and those will easily backfire later.
For a scientist, the difficult part is knowing that if you invent something, it'll be taken and used by the powers that be (state, council, what have you). And if you don't think Very Carefully about what could go terribly wrong, you'll all be totally surprised and unprepared, when it goes terribly wrong in the wrong hands.
It's pretty clear that Jayce and Viktor are very idealistic and don't see the glaringly obvious military uses for mega-gauntlets and laserbeams they casually whipped together in their lab. It seems a bit strange that Viktor especially being from the undercity, doesn't see how things can get corrupted very easily.
One point about the people around Jinx not helping her... how? They already established in episode 6 there aren't a lot of doctors of any kind in the undercity, it's highly likely there is no form of mental health care available at all down there. Silco's weird baptism idea was the best idea he could come up with to actually help Jinx deal with her demons (because it had 'worked' for him, not really he's pretty messed up too but he thinks it worked).
That last scene with Ekko and Jinx is so brilliantly done. Things are escalating very quickly now. I'm interested to see if your opinions of Mel change in future episodes. Great Video Basic!
20:16 I've gone through so many Arcane Reactors at this point and you're, I think, the first to point this out, tbh, lol.
I had never once noticed this about Silco till now. And, honestly, this gives such other future scenes such context, lol!
I'm just a girl with daddy issues noticing sign of a father caring for his daughter 😂
30:40 What do you mean?? We've not lost Powder. She's not gone. Powder fell down a well!! 😁😁
For what it's worth, I'm not sure if Silco is necessarily manipulating Powder / Jinx. Rather, he completely believes what he's saying but is totally projecting his trauma and mental complexes onto her.
Hopefully you can watch Arcane: Bridging the Rift before season 2 airs, all 5 episodes are uploaded on LoL youtube channel and I believe they're not copyrighted material (meaning, you could just upload the whole episode like if you were reacting to a regular youtube video aka less editing needed?)
Yes!! Please watch Bridging the Rift!
And powder steals the Hextech gem and blows up a bridge. yup, pattern holds.
Regarding Marcus "I mean good riddance, but it doesn't feel good." That's part of why I love this show. They show where the "bad" people are coming from. He ambitiously wanted to be a kick ass enforcer, he wanted to be the better cop, he wanted to do the job better than the Voice lady (Shohreh Aghdashloo (so far, awesome in everything I've seen her in)). His downfall wasn't that he was bad, but that his judgement of people was humanly mistaken.
He was also too weak to course correct when he saw what he'd done. There was plenty of time and opportunity, but he just slid in deeper and deeper.
"What's your plan to fix this?"
Finn asks Silco the same question Jayce asked Heimerdinger, and neither one of them has an answer. They don't actually have a plan to improve the conditions of their city, they're just hoping the answer falls into their laps someday
Well except Silco actually had a plan, he just wasn't interested in sharing it with Finn, his plan was betting on Jinx to finish the weapon before top side and threaten them with it.
@@tuanthanhnguyen7488 Jinx took that crystal against Silco's will like 36 hours ago, and at the time of this meeting he doesn't know where she is, whether she still has it or has made any progress, or even if she has or hasn't betrayed him to return to her sister. That's why he's so stressed that he almost skips the meeting to go look for her. That's not a plan, it's half a hope and a wish, which is about the equivalent of what Heimerdinger had by trying to motivational speech the council into not being politically corrupt anymore
@aranthur I disagree with the idea that Silco has half a plan. He knows the potential of Hextech, it's not exactly a secret. His plan is getting a weapon and forcing Piltover to negotiate. The only question is wether or not Jinx will deliver.
@@aranthur So you agree that Silco's plan is having a hextech weapon built by Jinx. Calling it "half a hope and a wish", is not denying the essence of what it is ( a plan), it's quantifying its qualities ( viability, efficiency, etc..).
No matter how compromised it seems to be at the moment, that's still Silco's plan and you didn't disagree with that.
Heimerdinger on the other hand had no plan at all. He didn't answer, Silco did: "Jinx will take care of it." Heimer wasn't shown to have one before, Silco was. These are not equivalent.
You noticed a similarity between the two scenes and elaborated on it broadly, but you were wrong. Just recognize it and try to do better next time.
Absolutely LOVING your more natural eyes! 😍
Being a man, I would never tell a woman how she should or shouldn't look, though. I just wanted you to know that at least one viewer appreciates your choice for this video. 👍🏿
Haha thank you!! Some days I just don't have the energy for eye makeup 😂
Im flying through these to catch up 😊😊
15:03, That scene is important! You'll understand near 26:25 of the episode.
This is my favorite episode, echo and vi's reunion always makes me cry. Also the jinx vs echo fight is an absolute masterpiece!
The Boy Savior...
you should have leard, the show loves cliffhangers. Dont worry i promes this is the last one of arcane ;-)
In the game ekko can turn back time to undo mistakes. This is represented in the show with his past self going through his attack pattern to see exactly where powder shoots him, allowing him to dodge her shots in real time in the current time.
felt like people have been too harsh on Mel...
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Love your reactions! And yes, Violet is her name.
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I lost my ability to speak for a moment 😂
@@basicwitgirlI mean, look, dude was in an animated thirst trap scene. It had the desired effect. You cannot be blamed! 😅
For me, there’s a fully-clothed Vi scene coming up which gave me the vapours. I can literally boil it down to one shot, pun intended. But, my addiction to badass women is to blame.
Glad you’re enjoying the series! It’s top shelf stuff, IMO.
I am a filhty liar🥹
🤣 never trust the twitch chatt😂 (me) XD