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Jinx had abandonment issues and when vi left she just latched to the first person she found. Unfortunatly it was silco. Also she didn't have much info on silco.
Also the decent into evil/crazy is 7 years of Silco manipulating her and feeding her paranoia and various other issues. If Vi hadn't been taken away for 7 years, they would probably have reunited soon after, and (hopefully) Powder wouldn't have turned into Jinx.
Jinx is utter trash. She kills her family and NEVER takes responsibility!!! Not once! She is a terrible person and I hope she dies next season, and I hope Echo is the one who kills her. Echo is YOUNGER than Jinx. They BOTH lost everyone in one night. But Echo had no one to take him in. HE managed to NOT be a psycho murderer. He ends up HELPING people. Bringing them together and making a family group. Anyone making excuses for that literal shit Jinx should really self reflect. She's no different than a mass shooter. Bitch needs to be put down.
The saying goes “any port in a storm” and Powder was fucking drowning. Literally, her deepest darkest fears just came true and her world was falling apart around her. She was surrounded by chaos and the corpses of her family, abandoned by the person she cares for the most after she confirms what she always feared she was (a painful burden on those she loves), and then here comes Silco; a calm, comforting voice when she was at her absolute lowest (mirroring how she was found by Vander in a lot of ways). We as viewers have perfect clarity on the situation, and exactly what part Silco played in this tragedy, but the character, Powder does not. That context rationalizes her reaction to me.
@@andrewreynolds912 It's the Queer Experience problem where cis hetero males tend to struggle to relate and understand. It's the same with Scarlet Witch in the MCU how Gays and Women tend to love her and there's a lot of cis hetero male fans who hate on her and act like her actions are unjustified despite having witnessed all of the trauma that led her to these moments. But people who have known trauma from discrimination for things beyond their control like being LGBTQ, female, not white, mentally ill etc. They find it easier to identify and relate to the trauma and how the character feels/thinks as a result the experience. This is mostly known as the Queer Experience and when characters go through it and refuse to forgive and are "difficult" yet fans still love them It's called Diva Worship. And it's because these characters represent our desire to hurt those who hurt us and get our own back on the world that constantly tore us down in the past. So when we see characters going full villain after their abuse and getting revenge eg: Jinx, Scarlet Witch, Harley Quinn etc. We feel represented and connect on a personal level with them. More privileged people who have had easier lives don't like the characters and struggle to understand having not known that sort of traumatic experience. I'm a trans woman who's mother verbally abused me with her boyfriend for two months until I had to leave home to get away and became homeless for two months. So when I saw Powder trying everything to impress her role model, main family member and most important person in her life and do everything she could to help then that person hit her and shouted at her and called her names that really stick with you I fully felt for her. She was only trying to help and didn't realise she had killed her family right away. I don't know why this person expected Powder to know who Silco was and that he had kidnapped and tried to kill Vander and Vi when she'd never met him before and didn't see what went on in the factory she just sent her bomb in there. But to me it was clear when Powder met Silco she had no idea who he was and just thought he was a kind stranger. She didn't know he knew and had history with Vander until he told her. Xx
It's actually nice to hear someone who isn't a video essayist analysing something and just hearing their thoughts and opinions. The average person is just like the guy who uploaded this video. You can gauge more about how audiences feel about a media from the responses of people like this guy than you would listening to highly organised video essays.
They serve different purposes in my opinion. One to gauge raw emotions about something and one to deconstruct and understand something on a deeper level
jinx doesn't know who silco is, her hugging silco to her is just her hugging someone, anyone, cause she's too emotionally unstable to really think straight. my sister leaves me here alone, this man comes to me, soft spoken, asking me about where my sister went. with everything that's just happened within a snap, probably the instinct to do is cling into someone present. she needed someone, vi was not there, so silco. also, jinx was originally a harley quinn character, with all of her crazy talk and especially her famous music video "get jinxed". but with this show, they made her crazy girl trope into something more traumatic and realistic. the reason she is what she is is because of what happened to her and not cause she's quirky.
@@Thesmus yeah but jinx obviously is so much more complex then Harley Quinn so it actually makes a lot more sense to compare her to the joker even in her reasonings for doing the shir she does
@@Ruby-lee33 yeah, but i'm talking about league jinx, not arcane jinx. i don't think i've heard people talking about how deep league jinx is, all she was before arcane is haha silly crazy girl that talks to her weapons and likes to make stuffs boom. arcane just turned those tropes from silly fun to an actual tragedy. also, harley quinn tend to be known as the female joker and that pig tails are an iconic image of jinx and quinn.
Yall know Milo was shittalking powder so much because he knew that the only reason she hadn't overtaken him in skill yet was her age, and because his lockpicking skills were often mocked (Vi just impatiently kicks the door open and Claggor smacks him in the back of the head. Milo was incredibly selfconcious and he took that out on Powder because she still made a lot of mistakes yet Vi just lets her get away with everything and Claggor doesn't stand up for Milo. When it came down to it and Milo had to free Vander and the reason he folded was because nobody seemed to ever actually need him or care about building his confidence (so he build his own confidence by picking on powder, probably subconsciously hoping to keep her 'small' so she doesn't outgrow him too), and Vander saw that and knew, and told him to calm down, gave him the confidence to succeed under pressure. And finally, FINALLY, his skills are helping, he does something nobody else could have done, he proved his worth! Maybe now he can finally work on putting his insecurities to rest and stop fearing Powder and putting her down every chance he gets! And then he dies. And at least Claggor is instantly knocked out, but Milo is actually given a moment to process what is happening and panic and he is conscious when he is speared and the rocks crush him. I felt sorry for Milo. He wasn't a good kid, he was a bully, yes, but he wasn't evil. He was just another orphan in a dog eat dog world where he slowly had to realize that maybe he is the unstable link in the chain. That maybe he will be abandoned or abused when he is the lowest ranked member, who knows, I mean we don't know what his life was like before Vander. I mean just look at how he freezes up when Vi kicks the door open and that's just one of several moments. Milo has issues and nobody really cares, because that's the kind of world they all live in. Powder has lots of issues too, but she has Vi and Vi never stops showing Powder how much she cares. I wonder what that felt like to a kid like Milo who felt he had to put down a little girl to make himself look better and get any form of attention. He compliments Vi telling her you where twice what Powder is at half her age, he looks up to her, he wants to be seen as competent and useful, playing up his average skills as if fishing for compliments. And Claggor isn't helping, he's more on the quiet side and doesn't really admonish anyone but he does tease Milo about his shooting and losing to Powder and that probably isn't helping his inferiority complex and doesn't make him like Powder any better. She WILL be more useful than him soon enough, and then what? Will he still be needed? THeir skillsets are awfully similar. I dunno man, Milo was a huge dingleberry but I felt very sorry for him. The way his facial expressions and his whole demeanor are animated and the whole way he talks make it easy to find his weakspots if you just focus on him and try to find them. Fuck man, he was just another orphan. Just another kid. Fighting to justify his existence.
Agreed. I love this. I know Milo would've grown as a person eventually had he not died that day. People forget, he was only 13 -15 years old. I think he would've smartened up given how much he looked up to Vi and Vander as people. "He's our father too Vi"💔😭
wanna get more heartbreak? Milo still loved Powder as a sister. He wanted to see her succeed, but he couldn't say it out loud to keep face. In the shooting ground, he's missing every shot on the targets. When enforcers come in and he's actually threatened, he hits every shot he fires. The only logical explanation I have for it is that he wanted to give Powder some confidence after the botched up heist, and missing targets was the easiest way to do it without breaking character.
The thing with Jinx is that she seems to be codependent. When her parents die, she completely relies on Vi for her mental stability. When Vi tells her to stay behind, it 1) confirms her own doubts about her self-worth, and 2) makes her fear that Vi has abandoned her. That's why you see her having what looks like an over-the-top reaction -- it's just a panic attack. She only calms down when she thinks of an excuse to follow them. After the explosion, she clings to the first person who comes along, which is unfortunately Silco. This also explains why she was so quick to turn on Silco when she thought he would betray her. She has trust issues big-time. Man, that fight scene between Jinx and Ekko literally brought tears to my eyes. The switching back and forth shows that they've had this fight before. But now the stakes are life and death, and Jinx doesn't even know that because mentally she's a child playing with her friend again.
I literally just watched Arcane two days ago for the first time too, it's such a great show. I'm hooked, can't wait for season 2. EVERY SINGLE character is great there's no arguing, but Vi is definitely my fave 🙌
Glad you enjoyed the show and could appreciate the amazing art. Too bad you couldn't relate to Powder/Jinx as her journey was the main story in more then one way, but I guess everyone experiences things differently...
Jinx undergoes the chaotic/evil version of the Hero's journey. Someone did a video on the subject, like the Inverse hero's journey or something like that.
I'm 100% with you: Ekko is my favorite character. He doesn't care about politics, he just cares about protecting the people who need it. It doesn't matter who you are, if you are threatening the people he is protecting, he will fight you with everything he has. Love it.
SPOILERS BELOW!!! Just a reminder, that powder never actually saw that Silco was the person behind all of those events. So to Powder she just saw someone come up to her and she just embraced him since she needed someone. P.s. if you check out the animated music video of "Enemy" on the League of Legends channel, it will provide a bit more content/context between Ekko and Powder/Jinx. You should definitely check it out, but not upload due to copyright.
Maybe but afterwards she knew Silco was behind everything. At the start of the Dinner scene Jinx says "This is where he took everything from us" referring to Silco
@@morganegerme684 not exactly, dialogue between jinx/silco during the baptism scene already alludes to the fact she is aware of Silco's actions, the dinner scene is the concrete confirmation.
(Tried to keep watching) 11:23 nope nope nope I will not hear any Powder/Jinx slander on my feed this is blasphemy she’s my favorite and I will protect danger baby with my entire being. She’s an amazingly written character, I get it you can’t see past the Harley Quinn comparison, but man I can’t even listen anymore lol. Maybe watch a break down video of her character and how the writers dealt with the topics of ptsd, psychosis, and paranoid schizophrenia. Trust me, once you understand you’ll see that Jinx is on a different level than all the “cutesy psychotic” characters out there. Jinx feels the most real out of all of them.
You instantly lost me as “Jinx is trying hard to be Harley Quinn” bro Harley Quinn may’ve come first, but Harley looks like a cheap replica compared to Arcane Jinx. Great video tho, I like your style of editing and the way you talk kept be engaged 👍🏼
Riot did initially made jinx, inspired from Harely Quinn and The Joker. But eventually they didn't want Jinx to just be their clone so they decided to flesh her out and give her things that are unique to her. A lot of league's characters are heavily inspired by other media. Lee Sin is inspired by Bruce Lee, Wukong is inspired by Sun Wukong, Casseopia is pretty much Medusa. But over time they all get their own stories and individuality.
I wholeheartedly recommend Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Great vid, love the editing and additional sound. But a couple of things. Powder didn't know Silco was the cause of everything. He also did not tell her a version of what happened until much later and then he painted Vander as the villain. She killed her brothers, her father, her sister straight up blasted her in the face then abandoned her. Plus she already had untreated trauma from the bridge and possibly before from living in the crackhead den beforehand. Also you are absolutely correct about the scene where she fired the buster rocket was pure, beautiful, emotional art. I was leaking a little, NGL.
Just wanna point out, it might have already been said, but I don’t think Powder knew who Silco was at that moment; she saw Vi fighting on the bridge when she peaked through the wall, but I don’t know that she saw Silco. She was just a scared kid who was left alone and didn’t know what else to do, and latched onto the first hand that was offered to her.
Knowing what Ekko’s lore should end up being… I’m excited for season two. Because I’m gonna be real. He can stay this badass forever. He has a lot more stuff that needs to happen before he catches up with the game version if himself. He’s my favorite Champion in League and Arcane hit him so right. Season two should only improve him.
There's so much character depth in this entire show, I love it! Glad you watched it! I watched this when it came out and I'm still obsessed with it, it truly is one of the best shows ever. You should checkout Bridging the Rift, the bts docuseries that Riot released. Also Schnee's got a lot of great videos on Arcane too, highly reccomend 😁 I'm glad you like Caitlyn too! I feel like she's a bit overshadowed in the fandom and I really like her too :) Nice noticing the distinct arcs, it was released in 3 episode sections with a week in between, so genuinely a 3 act story :)
Arcane is the closest thing to a perfect season I've ever seen. I can, across the entire 9 episodes, only think of a handful of things that I thought could have been better, but they're so minor it's hardly even worth pointing out because frankly in any other show you wouldn't even notice, it's just Arcane is so close to flawless that the tiniest inconsistencies seem inflated. My complaints are; - Sky's death (Viktor's assistant) doesn't hit as hard as it could've, she could have used more setup. - The music was very good in the show, but sometimes it got a little bit jarring when a mini music video played in a scene. This is barely a negative because I feel like you could just as easily like this as dislike it. - The CGI during Vander's final moments (after escaping the building, before he dies, ep 3.) was just a little bit under the absurdly high standard that the show set. Something about Vander's mutated form lying there seemed a little too jarring to me. That's it. Everything else was perfect. What can you do?
I disagree about your first point. We don't know Sky because Viktor doesn't know her. It was the point. The guy tried to do its best, and accidentally killed someone trying to help him. The remorse hits hard at this point. Then he realized that she loved him, and that simply made his remorse worse. The fact that he doesn't know her as much as she deserved before she died for him makes it hit even harder!
@@roidrannoc1691 I can see that angle, but my counterpoint is that as a result of not knowing her, neither does the audience, which somewhat dampens the impact in my opinion.
@@isaakvandaalen3899 I see it a bit like Jayce killing the kid by accident. We don't know to know the kid to understand the impact on the character responsible for the death. The tragedy with Jayce is that it's a kid, the tragedy with Viktor is that it's a woman that loved him while he himself never had the opportunity to know her.
I literally just watched the entire thing yesterday for the first time and I had the exact same thoughts regarding the issues. I went from tears welling up on my face to legitimately laughing when I saw the Vandar death animation quality when Vi is kneeled over him crying.
the reason powder switched to silco is because she has attachment issues. it was hinted at throughout the show, where she constantly wanted validation from someone around her (vi and her friends) so when she was betrayed, she was desperately clinging to anyone she could find
Interesting thing is that the League devs have said Jinx was inspired by the Joker, Gollum, and Helena Bonham Carter. And that was known at least 8 years ago, definitely before any Arcane work began.
Holy... I love your editing, especially the sound effects, funniest video i've watched in a bit. Yup, this show is insanely good, cant wait for S2. In a few days there will be some kinda of Arcane Anniversary event, we might get some info there.
i saw this vid right after also finishing the show in 24 hours (cause i’m also late lmao) and yes, omygosh i also believe that this is one of the best shows i’ve ever watched, this year, or in my life really, and i say this as a person who finds it hard to get into plot-heavy shows (as i prefer sitcoms) and it’s generally hard for me to get into stuff personally, but i enjoyed it immensely. also enjoyed this video alot! good shtuffb
you are seeing things very black and white instead of the grey area in which arcane characters are in. also jinx is easily the best character and the most entertaining one. she has the most presence in every scene she is in and her mental battle is just so well shown and done. amazing. arcane is a masterpiece 10/10
I too saw "Arcane" late. Just a couple months ago, and I was glad I saw it after the hype had largely subsided. Cause this show ROCKS!! Also, glad to see someone else loves Ekko for the same reasons as I do!
Powder gravitated to Silco because of all the reasons already stated, Vi left her and Silco was the only person to provide comfort when she was at her lowest. But it’s also the fact that Powder is perfectly aware of what Silco did to Vander but she also blames herself for the deaths of Milo and Claggor. So both her and Silco are guilty but she latches onto Silco because he’s the only person who would GET her at the time. Powder thinks of herself as a monster. She’s the monster who killed her family. The monster who did something so heinous and unforgivable that it would cause Vi to stop loving her and abandon her. What she did was so horrible that nobody would ever accept her or love her again unless they were just as monstrous as she was. Powder and Silco share the same guilt, so she joined him and just embraced it. Because it’s all a mixture of her low self worth and her struggling with her identity. In her eyes, she failed at being a person worth loving by regular people and the only person who can love and accept her is someone like Silco. That’s how she sees it.
And yeah even before that she has extreme attactment issues. Her need for Vi even befor was very unhealthy. She probably would have clung to the first person she saw.
You should check out ekkos cinematic. We barely even get a hint of a taste of his iconic powers. He COULD die, but it's gonna take someone WAY stronger than jinx to do it.
This was excellent, man! Really loved the format and editing in the video! I DO 100% disagree with you about Powder, but she is my favourite character, so I am bias! XD Great work!
Its crazy to hear someone's opinion on jinx from a perspective of someone that cannot relate or watches the show casually Like the editing a lot dude 👍
Arcane is that type of show that blows you away even after you hear how hyped up it is. It exceeds expectations. Also, your commentary about the show is hilarious lmao. I could listen to you react to all of season 1
I shared your gripe with Jinx until I rewatch the series. I realize she was so young back when her parents died and she probably saw some shit that messed her up emotionally. That scene when Vi left her to save Vander and she start freaking out in her room, crying and throwing stuff. That's not a normal response from someone. She has MAJOR childhood trauma and abandonment issues to begin with. So the scene where she instantly grabbed onto Silco when she thinks Vi actually abandoned her start to make a lot of sense for her character.
Hilarious editing and you summed up my exact reaction accurately!🤣 If you want more I recommend watching Arcane Bridging the Rift (on RUclips), you won't get any s2 info from it but it shows the work that went into the making of Arcane and it honestly made me appreciate the series even more. Like I cried watching those episodes/parts.
so I love that line of yours "i will tell you one thing about vi. she got straight outa prison and she went straight to boxin because she does not care. she does not care who you are she does not care what you do. she's throwing hands." fits pretty well with game vi. "Punch First, Ask Questions While Punching"
How luckily for you is that future seasons are gonna focus on different stories, the Piltover vs Zaun Arc is most likely 2 seasons, and then there's a lot of debate of where its gonna go, most assume Noxus (Hence why Mama Medarda showed up) but I kinda hope it goes to Bilgewater just cus thats my favorite League Location
What's more to know is that, Piltover and Zaun is just 1 of 8 regions of the "universe" in whic it is taking place in. Honestly, I don't like the game but the lore and worldbuilding of League is so so sooo good and compelling mostly.
I don't know why but the use of Leorio's face at one point in here just about killed me. Your editing is fantastic. I think you'd probably benefit from a second watch of the show - knowing the characters a bit better makes it easier to follow their character arcs and motives, and the love they put into those things makes it absolutely worthwhile! Also, to comment on the suddenness of Powder's connection to Silco, given she's like... 8... forming a trauma bond given what she was going through makes sense. It isn't so much that Silco hugged her - she hugged him first, after all - it's that he accepted her when she felt she'd lost everything else. She's definitely not a character everyone will appreciate or understand, but the depictions of her trauma and the results of her trauma are really well handled and executed. So glad you gave it a shot!
If you want a little extra from Powder and Echo to add to that fight; go watch the Enemy official music video and get more of the backstory.... And also like 67 seconds of JID being absolutely flawless.
Loved this video I laughed and got hyped with you big time 🤣. Also a thing about your comments on Vi and Jinx: I understand you didn't click with Jinx that's cool, but she is not a Harley Quinn wannabe in Arcane; in LOL her design was inspired by Harley and so is her crazy manic pixie dream girl persona, but in the show her personality, mannerisms are ways she has to cope with the trauma of her past from losing her parents to her adoptive family, so that comparison doesn't sit right with me NGL. And Vi is a menace indeed 😅she never backs down from a fight and ain't scared of confrontation, but she doesn't attack whoever whenever (majority of the time anyway), she specifically goes to fight people she knows and has had an issue with like Sevika, Silco & company, Decard and so on.
i just watched it to, 1 year after too. and... wtf did i just watch ?! i never played LoL, not my kind of game, but THIS ?!! omfg, what a fkg masterpiece
Yes! I agree it is a 10/10 show. This video was so fun to watch. I laughed a lot, including when you made lighthearted humor about episode 3 which was so surprising 😅😂
I am such a hard critic, and I will find any reason not to like something, but Arcane being less than 10 out of 10 for anyone makes me respect them less. You can not like the show, everyone's got their preferences, but when you look at objective quality, season 1 was easily a masterpiece. I have never compared anything to Avatar: The Last Airbender, but if Arcane ends with the quality season 1 maintained, ATLA will be replaced, in my mind, as the best piece of media ever produced. The animation, the attention to detail, the character development, I truly never excepted anything to across-the-board compete with ATLA. If season 1 was a fluke, and season 2 and on is garbage, season 1 was still the Mona Lisa of what animated TV can be. I believe in Fortiche's capability to maintain that reputation, but it will need to be seen whether or not LoL's creators or Netflix decides to intervene and ruin this work of art in seasons to come. My advice to both of the latter: Let Fortiche do their shit. Ekko vs Jinx was one of the best, if not the best, pieces of cinematic history, and that was all Fortiche. Let them take chances, let them do what they do, and Arcane will be everything it was meant to be, and has shown to be so far. That is my advice to the powers that be.
Yeah, Powder has very bad dissociative disorder issues and validation issues along with trauma. The issue was the timing, when she came for validation when she tried to help Vi punched her but the Marcus came to arrest her to isolate Vi from Silco leaving Powder with nobody to calm her severe anxiety. It's shown during the fight scenes and when she is making gadgets and didn't fully hear out the conversation and leaves when she hears something she doesn't like and tries to leave instead of hearing the full thing out to reason. In the end, she killed both father figues who raised her and the same anxiety attack when the first fight happened, occured when Vi and Silco were arguing over her mentally but Silco actually understood she had mental disorders which is why he tried to shoot Vi.
For Powder gravitating towards Silco, keep in mind that she didn’t really know who Silco was. He was just someone that gave her what she needed at that moment of breaking.
Not to risk any spoilers for you in the future seasons to come, but I have good news about Ekko: He's got all of the plot armor. Arcane is basically a prequel to League of Legends. And Ekko is a champion in the game, sooo...He's safe LOL Basically, anyone who is a champion in the game is safe. It's actually my ONLY gripe with the show. And it is kind of a big one, but not big enough to actually give it any negative points with all the bonuses it gets in writing, art style, animation, voice acting, and literally everything else. If you know the champions, you know who is 100% safe, and who isn't. As an example, the bridge scene. Vi, Caitlyn, Ekko, and Jinx survive the mechanical butterfly explosions, while the entire Enforcer squad is taken out with all their armor...AND Jinx and Ekko both survive the point-blank explosion of her chomper grenade to boot? It's a bit much LOL Also, Jinx's mad tea party...Vi, Jinx, and Caitlyn are all champions. Silco is a new character for Arcane...So who is gonna die? Can't be anyone but Silco. That said, even if I didn't know all this, that scene still has the PERFECT writing to back up the decision. Silco's story is over. His arc is done, and his death is all that can truly seal the deal. Jinx 'killed' her first father figure (Vander), and has now killed her second, and the most prominent parent in her life (Silco). It solidifies her as Jinx, and was the true death of Powder. That show really makes all the deaths count, even if some of the non-fatalities are silly. It is, without a doubt, my all-time favorite show. I cannot wait for November this year...I NEED more
Two notes from the game that will likely become relevant in the future. 1.The Ekko Jinx fight scene is even better than you know. In the future he becomes a time traveler. By pulling out the watch and turning it into a childhood game he’s metaphorically using the same fighting style he will eventually develop without any actual magical abilities. Madarda isn’t really a hero or a villain. She’s from Noxus which has a completely different set of core values than either Piltover’s or America.To them ambition and strength are positive traits while expansionism and conquest are a way of life. So, while her push for Jayce to weaponize his technology and political scheming may appear as evil from an outside perspective from her culture’s point of view it would be entirely positive and rather admirable. While Noxus may appear as the stereotypical evil empire on the surface they’re actually rather nuanced and are one of the few truly meritocratic factions with little to no discrimination or restrictive social systems. When conquering a region they don’t just pillage it. Instead they incorporate it into the empire and give everyone a equal footing regardless of previous status. Even a former slave could quickly become a master commander with enough ambition.
Honestly I can see why you feel back and forth about all these characters, they are all very morally grey which makes them feel more human, at least that’s how I interpreted it.
"sometimes a hypocrite is just a man in the process of changing" or something along those lines, it's too true, I been there on so many things hell I did it with one piece, years back when bleach op and naruto constantly were pitted against one another in the big 3 I always clowned it, once bleach ended I went to naruto liked it then it ended and eventually came around to giving one piece a shot and mannnnnnnnnnnnnn it is just good ass world building, journey of a life time. Still not my favorite series (that goes to hxh and also watched that week to week from 2011-2013 and tower of god the webtoon) but I'll be damned to not admit it's a classic, iconic adventure shounen and the best part is now that I'm older I can watch it with my nephews and the fam.
My logic with this series is if there's a reoccurring character that's not a playable in League of Legends, they're going to die at some point in the series.
Some people and I mean a minority of people did not understand Powder's "switch up" in episode 3 but if you watch the show carefully they have laid out plenty of clues that Powder did have abandonment issues. She also had self-esteem issues and there were plenty of times when the show pointed us to these facts. Vi was the only person that was still comforting her. When she killed everyone trying to help, it validated again that she was useless, a jinx. Vi slapped her hard and called her a jinx, validating what Mylo kept nagging at her for. She had NEVER met Silco before, all he was for her at that time was a gentle older person coming up at her at a moment of pure weakness and heartbreak. Powder did not realize at the time the danger she was in, she did not see through Silco's fake silky voice there. She simply jumped at him and when Silco told her "it's OK." that was it. I personally do not understand why a minority of people can't see that switch in a little low self-esteem child with war PTSD who's just been abandonned by her only relative left alive at that point in time. It's very basic humane psychology right there? You could call it a weird switch up only in the case of her knowing who Silco was and what he planned to do with them. She did not immediately identify him as an enemy trying to kill her whole family. Maybe you need a second watching to absorb all these. I have watched Arcane several times and I've found new pieces of this masterful story puzzle at every viewing. Would massively recommend it.
11:40 powder has no idea that it was Silco's fault at that time. He was there when powder was most vunerable, and no one else was. I think it's really beliveable that a child would try to hold on to anyone that shows compassion to her in this situatio where she just killed her father and brothers and her sister beats her and leaves.
10/10 is only controversial from the aspect that TECHNICALLY nothing is ever 10/10. From a Casual "This show is fantastic" rating thats pretty much what everyone else gave it. Its like 100%/97% on RT and made a clean sweap at the Animation awards (the Annies? I think) the Oscars for animated shows. It won like 17 categories or something. So, I dont think 10/10 is very controversial 🤣
For me arcane is THE BEST thing I have watched all my life can not wait for season two the teaser’s are crazy late 2023 or early 2024 season 2 comes out
Powder gravitated towards Silco because she believed that Vi had just completely abandoned her and disappeared. This is further reinforced when Powder/Jinx does not hear from Vi for such a long time. Along with the knowledge of her own actions killing Vander and her friends (but, honestly, FUCK MILO, HE WAS JUST A BULLY), this fractured her mentality and she needed to attach to someone who could give her security. With no one else left, she turned to Silco. Heimerdinger was 1000% a hater. He tried to block the progress of Hextech, and wasn't it Heimerdinger who originally got Jayce banished?? Now, we can make the argument that Heimerdinger has PTSD. The moment he saw Hextech, he had a flashback to the Rune Wars or w/e it was. I love Jinx. Her character is perfect. She's an incredible representation of trauma. There are so many levels to this show. 17:53 - The Stopwatch is a small call-back to his ultimate in-game. The way he turns back time using it. All in all, I"d give it an 11/10. The plot is fantastic, the worldbuilding is incredible bc you do not need to know anything about the game to enjoy the show, the women in the show have agency, so it's not just up to the men to progress the plot, like honestly there's so much to break down and it's amazing.
Finally i see someone who was annoyed by Jinx, just like i was! I mean she's interesting character, but i was really annoyed how she breaks everything. And final scene... It's really beautiful. Terrifying and so beautiful. Btw my favourite character is Viktor
Silco showed up to jinx with a knife. She used the hug to literally disarm him. I'm not sure if she lives, if she says anything else to him. I don't think it was that moment that she became evil either. I think she just made herself safe, and during the time skip, she slowly, truly became family with silco.
I have made a lit of every show I've watched, animated, japanese style anime, live action, 3D animated... I think I put Breaking Bad at the second spot, I'm still not sure about the 3rd spot. But boy oh boy am I 100% sure that Arcane has the first one. I wasn't interested at all in watching it, I have spent my whole game life avoiding League of Legends, and I really even avoided this one. After Act 1 dropped, my whole Twitter TL exploded. After act 2 dropped, everybody I followed was only talking about this. Decided I was the right time, watch 1 episode a day for a week until Act 3 drops, perfect plan... watched the first episode and I couldn't help myself I watched the 5 other available episodes in the same day. The week long wait till the release of Act 3 was probably one of the longest weeks of my life when it comes to media releases, and even with the massive expectations, it did not dissapoint, I think I'm not ready for season two this year. What a tremendous show, the emotional damage was real.
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Congrats!! Enjoyed the video and especially the Denzel curry moment cause that’s exactly how I felt during that scene too
@@joewilson5921 thank you man
Jinx had abandonment issues and when vi left she just latched to the first person she found. Unfortunatly it was silco. Also she didn't have much info on silco.
Also the decent into evil/crazy is 7 years of Silco manipulating her and feeding her paranoia and various other issues.
If Vi hadn't been taken away for 7 years, they would probably have reunited soon after, and (hopefully) Powder wouldn't have turned into Jinx.
Jinx is utter trash. She kills her family and NEVER takes responsibility!!! Not once! She is a terrible person and I hope she dies next season, and I hope Echo is the one who kills her.
Echo is YOUNGER than Jinx. They BOTH lost everyone in one night. But Echo had no one to take him in. HE managed to NOT be a psycho murderer. He ends up HELPING people. Bringing them together and making a family group.
Anyone making excuses for that literal shit Jinx should really self reflect. She's no different than a mass shooter. Bitch needs to be put down.
The saying goes “any port in a storm” and Powder was fucking drowning. Literally, her deepest darkest fears just came true and her world was falling apart around her. She was surrounded by chaos and the corpses of her family, abandoned by the person she cares for the most after she confirms what she always feared she was (a painful burden on those she loves), and then here comes Silco; a calm, comforting voice when she was at her absolute lowest (mirroring how she was found by Vander in a lot of ways). We as viewers have perfect clarity on the situation, and exactly what part Silco played in this tragedy, but the character, Powder does not. That context rationalizes her reaction to me.
Exactly like wtf man how did this guy not see that
@@andrewreynolds912 It's the Queer Experience problem where cis hetero males tend to struggle to relate and understand. It's the same with Scarlet Witch in the MCU how Gays and Women tend to love her and there's a lot of cis hetero male fans who hate on her and act like her actions are unjustified despite having witnessed all of the trauma that led her to these moments. But people who have known trauma from discrimination for things beyond their control like being LGBTQ, female, not white, mentally ill etc. They find it easier to identify and relate to the trauma and how the character feels/thinks as a result the experience. This is mostly known as the Queer Experience and when characters go through it and refuse to forgive and are "difficult" yet fans still love them It's called Diva Worship. And it's because these characters represent our desire to hurt those who hurt us and get our own back on the world that constantly tore us down in the past. So when we see characters going full villain after their abuse and getting revenge eg: Jinx, Scarlet Witch, Harley Quinn etc. We feel represented and connect on a personal level with them. More privileged people who have had easier lives don't like the characters and struggle to understand having not known that sort of traumatic experience. I'm a trans woman who's mother verbally abused me with her boyfriend for two months until I had to leave home to get away and became homeless for two months. So when I saw Powder trying everything to impress her role model, main family member and most important person in her life and do everything she could to help then that person hit her and shouted at her and called her names that really stick with you I fully felt for her. She was only trying to help and didn't realise she had killed her family right away. I don't know why this person expected Powder to know who Silco was and that he had kidnapped and tried to kill Vander and Vi when she'd never met him before and didn't see what went on in the factory she just sent her bomb in there. But to me it was clear when Powder met Silco she had no idea who he was and just thought he was a kind stranger. She didn't know he knew and had history with Vander until he told her. Xx
It's actually nice to hear someone who isn't a video essayist analysing something and just hearing their thoughts and opinions. The average person is just like the guy who uploaded this video. You can gauge more about how audiences feel about a media from the responses of people like this guy than you would listening to highly organised video essays.
They serve different purposes in my opinion. One to gauge raw emotions about something and one to deconstruct and understand something on a deeper level
what weird comment. 😂
jinx doesn't know who silco is, her hugging silco to her is just her hugging someone, anyone, cause she's too emotionally unstable to really think straight. my sister leaves me here alone, this man comes to me, soft spoken, asking me about where my sister went. with everything that's just happened within a snap, probably the instinct to do is cling into someone present. she needed someone, vi was not there, so silco.
also, jinx was originally a harley quinn character, with all of her crazy talk and especially her famous music video "get jinxed". but with this show, they made her crazy girl trope into something more traumatic and realistic. the reason she is what she is is because of what happened to her and not cause she's quirky.
actually the Joker was one of her inspirations, not Harley Quinn.
@@EternalDensity oh really? still, she's more commonly associated with harley quinn
@@Thesmus yeah but jinx obviously is so much more complex then Harley Quinn so it actually makes a lot more sense to compare her to the joker even in her reasonings for doing the shir she does
@@Ruby-lee33 yeah, but i'm talking about league jinx, not arcane jinx. i don't think i've heard people talking about how deep league jinx is, all she was before arcane is haha silly crazy girl that talks to her weapons and likes to make stuffs boom. arcane just turned those tropes from silly fun to an actual tragedy.
also, harley quinn tend to be known as the female joker and that pig tails are an iconic image of jinx and quinn.
@@Thesmus associated, sure, but not in the character design process
You know a show is huge when fans are still commenting and supporting every Arcane video that comes out.
yall nibbas is thirsty
Still true in 2024
Yall know Milo was shittalking powder so much because he knew that the only reason she hadn't overtaken him in skill yet was her age, and because his lockpicking skills were often mocked (Vi just impatiently kicks the door open and Claggor smacks him in the back of the head. Milo was incredibly selfconcious and he took that out on Powder because she still made a lot of mistakes yet Vi just lets her get away with everything and Claggor doesn't stand up for Milo. When it came down to it and Milo had to free Vander and the reason he folded was because nobody seemed to ever actually need him or care about building his confidence (so he build his own confidence by picking on powder, probably subconsciously hoping to keep her 'small' so she doesn't outgrow him too), and Vander saw that and knew, and told him to calm down, gave him the confidence to succeed under pressure. And finally, FINALLY, his skills are helping, he does something nobody else could have done, he proved his worth! Maybe now he can finally work on putting his insecurities to rest and stop fearing Powder and putting her down every chance he gets! And then he dies. And at least Claggor is instantly knocked out, but Milo is actually given a moment to process what is happening and panic and he is conscious when he is speared and the rocks crush him. I felt sorry for Milo. He wasn't a good kid, he was a bully, yes, but he wasn't evil. He was just another orphan in a dog eat dog world where he slowly had to realize that maybe he is the unstable link in the chain. That maybe he will be abandoned or abused when he is the lowest ranked member, who knows, I mean we don't know what his life was like before Vander. I mean just look at how he freezes up when Vi kicks the door open and that's just one of several moments. Milo has issues and nobody really cares, because that's the kind of world they all live in. Powder has lots of issues too, but she has Vi and Vi never stops showing Powder how much she cares. I wonder what that felt like to a kid like Milo who felt he had to put down a little girl to make himself look better and get any form of attention. He compliments Vi telling her you where twice what Powder is at half her age, he looks up to her, he wants to be seen as competent and useful, playing up his average skills as if fishing for compliments. And Claggor isn't helping, he's more on the quiet side and doesn't really admonish anyone but he does tease Milo about his shooting and losing to Powder and that probably isn't helping his inferiority complex and doesn't make him like Powder any better. She WILL be more useful than him soon enough, and then what? Will he still be needed? THeir skillsets are awfully similar. I dunno man, Milo was a huge dingleberry but I felt very sorry for him. The way his facial expressions and his whole demeanor are animated and the whole way he talks make it easy to find his weakspots if you just focus on him and try to find them. Fuck man, he was just another orphan. Just another kid. Fighting to justify his existence.
Agreed. I love this. I know Milo would've grown as a person eventually had he not died that day. People forget, he was only 13 -15 years old.
I think he would've smartened up given how much he looked up to Vi and Vander as people.
"He's our father too Vi"💔😭
wanna get more heartbreak? Milo still loved Powder as a sister. He wanted to see her succeed, but he couldn't say it out loud to keep face. In the shooting ground, he's missing every shot on the targets. When enforcers come in and he's actually threatened, he hits every shot he fires.
The only logical explanation I have for it is that he wanted to give Powder some confidence after the botched up heist, and missing targets was the easiest way to do it without breaking character.
The thing with Jinx is that she seems to be codependent. When her parents die, she completely relies on Vi for her mental stability. When Vi tells her to stay behind, it 1) confirms her own doubts about her self-worth, and 2) makes her fear that Vi has abandoned her. That's why you see her having what looks like an over-the-top reaction -- it's just a panic attack. She only calms down when she thinks of an excuse to follow them. After the explosion, she clings to the first person who comes along, which is unfortunately Silco. This also explains why she was so quick to turn on Silco when she thought he would betray her. She has trust issues big-time.
Man, that fight scene between Jinx and Ekko literally brought tears to my eyes. The switching back and forth shows that they've had this fight before. But now the stakes are life and death, and Jinx doesn't even know that because mentally she's a child playing with her friend again.
I literally just watched Arcane two days ago for the first time too, it's such a great show. I'm hooked, can't wait for season 2. EVERY SINGLE character is great there's no arguing, but Vi is definitely my fave 🙌
My favourite character is Viktor, just because, and I want to see more of his "Glorious evolution!"
Glad you enjoyed the show and could appreciate the amazing art.
Too bad you couldn't relate to Powder/Jinx as her journey was the main story in more then one way, but I guess everyone experiences things differently...
Jinx undergoes the chaotic/evil version of the Hero's journey. Someone did a video on the subject, like the Inverse hero's journey or something like that.
I'm 100% with you: Ekko is my favorite character. He doesn't care about politics, he just cares about protecting the people who need it. It doesn't matter who you are, if you are threatening the people he is protecting, he will fight you with everything he has. Love it.
SPOILERS BELOW!!!
Just a reminder, that powder never actually saw that Silco was the person behind all of those events. So to Powder she just saw someone come up to her and she just embraced him since she needed someone.
P.s. if you check out the animated music video of "Enemy" on the League of Legends channel, it will provide a bit more content/context between Ekko and Powder/Jinx. You should definitely check it out, but not upload due to copyright.
Maybe but afterwards she knew Silco was behind everything.
At the start of the Dinner scene Jinx says "This is where he took everything from us" referring to Silco
@@lilysdong1457 Yes, but at that point she had a splitting episode on her family and is in a co-dependant relationship with Silco
@@morganegerme684 not exactly, dialogue between jinx/silco during the baptism scene already alludes to the fact she is aware of Silco's actions, the dinner scene is the concrete confirmation.
@@lilysdong1457 Yes, like I said, at this point she had a splitting episode on her family, and is in a codependent relationship with Silco.
(Tried to keep watching) 11:23 nope nope nope I will not hear any Powder/Jinx slander on my feed this is blasphemy she’s my favorite and I will protect danger baby with my entire being. She’s an amazingly written character, I get it you can’t see past the Harley Quinn comparison, but man I can’t even listen anymore lol. Maybe watch a break down video of her character and how the writers dealt with the topics of ptsd, psychosis, and paranoid schizophrenia. Trust me, once you understand you’ll see that Jinx is on a different level than all the “cutesy psychotic” characters out there. Jinx feels the most real out of all of them.
my mans seems like he's never had severe trauma in his life. ofc he won't understand... other than that it's a great video
@@justyana488 most of us haven't.
@@nickmilo932 that’s true however it’s quite easy to understand why she does the shit she does
@@Ruby-lee33 sure
@@nickmilo932 ?
You instantly lost me as “Jinx is trying hard to be Harley Quinn” bro Harley Quinn may’ve come first, but Harley looks like a cheap replica compared to Arcane Jinx. Great video tho, I like your style of editing and the way you talk kept be engaged 👍🏼
Thank you I appreciate it
Funnily enough Jinx was inspired more by the Joker than Harley Quinn. She's meant to be like a mix of Joker, Gollum, and Helena Bonham Carter.
@@minutemansam1214 Gollum ??
@@leobaron9417, she talks to herself out loud in a way that's kinda reminiscent of the way Gollum talks to himself.
Riot did initially made jinx, inspired from Harely Quinn and The Joker. But eventually they didn't want Jinx to just be their clone so they decided to flesh her out and give her things that are unique to her. A lot of league's characters are heavily inspired by other media. Lee Sin is inspired by Bruce Lee, Wukong is inspired by Sun Wukong, Casseopia is pretty much Medusa. But over time they all get their own stories and individuality.
I wholeheartedly recommend Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Great vid, love the editing and additional sound.
But a couple of things.
Powder didn't know Silco was the cause of everything. He also did not tell her a version of what happened until much later and then he painted Vander as the villain. She killed her brothers, her father, her sister straight up blasted her in the face then abandoned her. Plus she already had untreated trauma from the bridge and possibly before from living in the crackhead den beforehand.
Also you are absolutely correct about the scene where she fired the buster rocket was pure, beautiful, emotional art. I was leaking a little, NGL.
I did watch it and actually have another review about it on the channel if you wanna go check it out 😤💪 appreciate it 🙏
Just wanna point out, it might have already been said, but I don’t think Powder knew who Silco was at that moment; she saw Vi fighting on the bridge when she peaked through the wall, but I don’t know that she saw Silco. She was just a scared kid who was left alone and didn’t know what else to do, and latched onto the first hand that was offered to her.
Knowing what Ekko’s lore should end up being… I’m excited for season two. Because I’m gonna be real. He can stay this badass forever. He has a lot more stuff that needs to happen before he catches up with the game version if himself.
He’s my favorite Champion in League and Arcane hit him so right. Season two should only improve him.
There's so much character depth in this entire show, I love it! Glad you watched it! I watched this when it came out and I'm still obsessed with it, it truly is one of the best shows ever. You should checkout Bridging the Rift, the bts docuseries that Riot released. Also Schnee's got a lot of great videos on Arcane too, highly reccomend 😁 I'm glad you like Caitlyn too! I feel like she's a bit overshadowed in the fandom and I really like her too :) Nice noticing the distinct arcs, it was released in 3 episode sections with a week in between, so genuinely a 3 act story :)
Arcane is the closest thing to a perfect season I've ever seen. I can, across the entire 9 episodes, only think of a handful of things that I thought could have been better, but they're so minor it's hardly even worth pointing out because frankly in any other show you wouldn't even notice, it's just Arcane is so close to flawless that the tiniest inconsistencies seem inflated.
My complaints are;
- Sky's death (Viktor's assistant) doesn't hit as hard as it could've, she could have used more setup.
- The music was very good in the show, but sometimes it got a little bit jarring when a mini music video played in a scene. This is barely a negative because I feel like you could just as easily like this as dislike it.
- The CGI during Vander's final moments (after escaping the building, before he dies, ep 3.) was just a little bit under the absurdly high standard that the show set. Something about Vander's mutated form lying there seemed a little too jarring to me.
That's it. Everything else was perfect. What can you do?
I disagree about your first point. We don't know Sky because Viktor doesn't know her. It was the point. The guy tried to do its best, and accidentally killed someone trying to help him. The remorse hits hard at this point. Then he realized that she loved him, and that simply made his remorse worse. The fact that he doesn't know her as much as she deserved before she died for him makes it hit even harder!
@@roidrannoc1691 I can see that angle, but my counterpoint is that as a result of not knowing her, neither does the audience, which somewhat dampens the impact in my opinion.
@@isaakvandaalen3899 I see it a bit like Jayce killing the kid by accident. We don't know to know the kid to understand the impact on the character responsible for the death. The tragedy with Jayce is that it's a kid, the tragedy with Viktor is that it's a woman that loved him while he himself never had the opportunity to know her.
I literally just watched the entire thing yesterday for the first time and I had the exact same thoughts regarding the issues. I went from tears welling up on my face to legitimately laughing when I saw the Vandar death animation quality when Vi is kneeled over him crying.
the reason powder switched to silco is because she has attachment issues.
it was hinted at throughout the show, where she constantly wanted validation from someone around her (vi and her friends)
so when she was betrayed, she was desperately clinging to anyone she could find
Interesting thing is that the League devs have said Jinx was inspired by the Joker, Gollum, and Helena Bonham Carter. And that was known at least 8 years ago, definitely before any Arcane work began.
Holy... I love your editing, especially the sound effects, funniest video i've watched in a bit.
Yup, this show is insanely good, cant wait for S2.
In a few days there will be some kinda of Arcane Anniversary event, we might get some info there.
Thank you man I appreciate that💪
Totally agree🤣
i saw this vid right after also finishing the show in 24 hours (cause i’m also late lmao) and yes, omygosh i also believe that this is one of the best shows i’ve ever watched, this year, or in my life really, and i say this as a person who finds it hard to get into plot-heavy shows (as i prefer sitcoms) and it’s generally hard for me to get into stuff personally, but i enjoyed it immensely. also enjoyed this video alot! good shtuffb
you are seeing things very black and white instead of the grey area in which arcane characters are in.
also jinx is easily the best character and the most entertaining one. she has the most presence in every scene she is in and her mental battle is just so well shown and done. amazing.
arcane is a masterpiece 10/10
Jinx is best girl.
Uuuh nah. Vi.
@@nickmilo932 sorry man jinx def steals the spotlight
@@Ruby-lee33 not for me. Vi and Cait are in the top, then Mel. Then jinx.
@@nickmilo932 couldnt agree more
I too saw "Arcane" late. Just a couple months ago, and I was glad I saw it after the hype had largely subsided. Cause this show ROCKS!!
Also, glad to see someone else loves Ekko for the same reasons as I do!
Powder gravitated to Silco because of all the reasons already stated, Vi left her and Silco was the only person to provide comfort when she was at her lowest. But it’s also the fact that Powder is perfectly aware of what Silco did to Vander but she also blames herself for the deaths of Milo and Claggor. So both her and Silco are guilty but she latches onto Silco because he’s the only person who would GET her at the time.
Powder thinks of herself as a monster. She’s the monster who killed her family. The monster who did something so heinous and unforgivable that it would cause Vi to stop loving her and abandon her. What she did was so horrible that nobody would ever accept her or love her again unless they were just as monstrous as she was.
Powder and Silco share the same guilt, so she joined him and just embraced it.
Because it’s all a mixture of her low self worth and her struggling with her identity. In her eyes, she failed at being a person worth loving by regular people and the only person who can love and accept her is someone like Silco. That’s how she sees it.
And yeah even before that she has extreme attactment issues. Her need for Vi even befor was very unhealthy. She probably would have clung to the first person she saw.
You should check out ekkos cinematic. We barely even get a hint of a taste of his iconic powers. He COULD die, but it's gonna take someone WAY stronger than jinx to do it.
"Caitlyn is my cupcake" It's so hilarious🤣
This was excellent, man! Really loved the format and editing in the video! I DO 100% disagree with you about Powder, but she is my favourite character, so I am bias! XD Great work!
Its crazy to hear someone's opinion on jinx from a perspective of someone that cannot relate or watches the show casually
Like the editing a lot dude 👍
Banger of a video dude! Keep up the awesome reviews!!
Arcane is that type of show that blows you away even after you hear how hyped up it is. It exceeds expectations. Also, your commentary about the show is hilarious lmao. I could listen to you react to all of season 1
I shared your gripe with Jinx until I rewatch the series. I realize she was so young back when her parents died and she probably saw some shit that messed her up emotionally. That scene when Vi left her to save Vander and she start freaking out in her room, crying and throwing stuff. That's not a normal response from someone. She has MAJOR childhood trauma and abandonment issues to begin with. So the scene where she instantly grabbed onto Silco when she thinks Vi actually abandoned her start to make a lot of sense for her character.
10:41 Dude this fucking killed me. That's literally my favorite tearjerker scene and you made me laugh at it.
Hilarious editing and you summed up my exact reaction accurately!🤣 If you want more I recommend watching Arcane Bridging the Rift (on RUclips), you won't get any s2 info from it but it shows the work that went into the making of Arcane and it honestly made me appreciate the series even more. Like I cried watching those episodes/parts.
Great Video! I really like the sound effects to spice up the fights.
so I love that line of yours "i will tell you one thing about vi. she got straight outa prison and she went straight to boxin because she does not care. she does not care who you are she does not care what you do. she's throwing hands."
fits pretty well with game vi.
"Punch First, Ask Questions While Punching"
Just to be clear, i think anything less than a 10 is a controversial opinion...
Great editing dude, love how you just went in basically no scrip and your funny and just really good man can’t wait for the next video!
How luckily for you is that future seasons are gonna focus on different stories, the Piltover vs Zaun Arc is most likely 2 seasons, and then there's a lot of debate of where its gonna go, most assume Noxus (Hence why Mama Medarda showed up) but I kinda hope it goes to Bilgewater just cus thats my favorite League Location
Powder has never seen silco before she hugs him. To her he's just some random stranger.
Your memes and comedic timing are on point! 😂
And, yes, Arcane is a masterpiece.
First time here... Good video and good EDITING!
Season 2's gonna be hype fr... I really hope they made that one character as terrifying as he is in his own cinematic.
Heyy nice. Finally! Glad you liked it. Arcane is a really great show.
What's more to know is that, Piltover and Zaun is just 1 of 8 regions of the "universe" in whic it is taking place in. Honestly, I don't like the game but the lore and worldbuilding of League is so so sooo good and compelling mostly.
I don't know why but the use of Leorio's face at one point in here just about killed me. Your editing is fantastic. I think you'd probably benefit from a second watch of the show - knowing the characters a bit better makes it easier to follow their character arcs and motives, and the love they put into those things makes it absolutely worthwhile!
Also, to comment on the suddenness of Powder's connection to Silco, given she's like... 8... forming a trauma bond given what she was going through makes sense. It isn't so much that Silco hugged her - she hugged him first, after all - it's that he accepted her when she felt she'd lost everything else. She's definitely not a character everyone will appreciate or understand, but the depictions of her trauma and the results of her trauma are really well handled and executed.
So glad you gave it a shot!
If you want a little extra from Powder and Echo to add to that fight; go watch the Enemy official music video and get more of the backstory.... And also like 67 seconds of JID being absolutely flawless.
Loved this video I laughed and got hyped with you big time 🤣. Also a thing about your comments on Vi and Jinx: I understand you didn't click with Jinx that's cool, but she is not a Harley Quinn wannabe in Arcane; in LOL her design was inspired by Harley and so is her crazy manic pixie dream girl persona, but in the show her personality, mannerisms are ways she has to cope with the trauma of her past from losing her parents to her adoptive family, so that comparison doesn't sit right with me NGL. And Vi is a menace indeed 😅she never backs down from a fight and ain't scared of confrontation, but she doesn't attack whoever whenever (majority of the time anyway), she specifically goes to fight people she knows and has had an issue with like Sevika, Silco & company, Decard and so on.
i just watched it to, 1 year after too. and... wtf did i just watch ?! i never played LoL, not my kind of game, but THIS ?!! omfg, what a fkg masterpiece
It's nice to finally more people who like both Mel and Jayce! I love their relationship and personalities.
Yes! I agree it is a 10/10 show. This video was so fun to watch. I laughed a lot, including when you made lighthearted humor about episode 3 which was so surprising 😅😂
The audio edits on this are gold lmfaoo
I am such a hard critic, and I will find any reason not to like something, but Arcane being less than 10 out of 10 for anyone makes me respect them less. You can not like the show, everyone's got their preferences, but when you look at objective quality, season 1 was easily a masterpiece. I have never compared anything to Avatar: The Last Airbender, but if Arcane ends with the quality season 1 maintained, ATLA will be replaced, in my mind, as the best piece of media ever produced. The animation, the attention to detail, the character development, I truly never excepted anything to across-the-board compete with ATLA. If season 1 was a fluke, and season 2 and on is garbage, season 1 was still the Mona Lisa of what animated TV can be.
I believe in Fortiche's capability to maintain that reputation, but it will need to be seen whether or not LoL's creators or Netflix decides to intervene and ruin this work of art in seasons to come. My advice to both of the latter: Let Fortiche do their shit. Ekko vs Jinx was one of the best, if not the best, pieces of cinematic history, and that was all Fortiche. Let them take chances, let them do what they do, and Arcane will be everything it was meant to be, and has shown to be so far. That is my advice to the powers that be.
Yeah, Powder has very bad dissociative disorder issues and validation issues along with trauma. The issue was the timing, when she came for validation when she tried to help Vi punched her but the Marcus came to arrest her to isolate Vi from Silco leaving Powder with nobody to calm her severe anxiety. It's shown during the fight scenes and when she is making gadgets and didn't fully hear out the conversation and leaves when she hears something she doesn't like and tries to leave instead of hearing the full thing out to reason. In the end, she killed both father figues who raised her and the same anxiety attack when the first fight happened, occured when Vi and Silco were arguing over her mentally but Silco actually understood she had mental disorders which is why he tried to shoot Vi.
had a good couple of giggles while watching this :) suscribed
I honestly recommend watching the show through a second time it’s really good to rewatch and understand the story a bit bettee
The documentary on how they made this masterpiece is worth watching too.
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video was goin great and I liked what I was seein but this part, this part right here
IS WHEN I KNEW HOMIE WAS MY GANG FOR REAL, BRO YOU SPITTIN
For Powder gravitating towards Silco, keep in mind that she didn’t really know who Silco was. He was just someone that gave her what she needed at that moment of breaking.
Other then that hilarious review I’m glad u enjoyed it
This is a great video ngl turned this very serious and dark show into a very funny review thing ☠️
This is an artistic masterpiece!! Glad you enjoyed it man. Now you got to wait like the rest of us haha!
Not to risk any spoilers for you in the future seasons to come, but I have good news about Ekko: He's got all of the plot armor. Arcane is basically a prequel to League of Legends. And Ekko is a champion in the game, sooo...He's safe LOL Basically, anyone who is a champion in the game is safe. It's actually my ONLY gripe with the show. And it is kind of a big one, but not big enough to actually give it any negative points with all the bonuses it gets in writing, art style, animation, voice acting, and literally everything else. If you know the champions, you know who is 100% safe, and who isn't. As an example, the bridge scene. Vi, Caitlyn, Ekko, and Jinx survive the mechanical butterfly explosions, while the entire Enforcer squad is taken out with all their armor...AND Jinx and Ekko both survive the point-blank explosion of her chomper grenade to boot? It's a bit much LOL Also, Jinx's mad tea party...Vi, Jinx, and Caitlyn are all champions. Silco is a new character for Arcane...So who is gonna die? Can't be anyone but Silco. That said, even if I didn't know all this, that scene still has the PERFECT writing to back up the decision. Silco's story is over. His arc is done, and his death is all that can truly seal the deal. Jinx 'killed' her first father figure (Vander), and has now killed her second, and the most prominent parent in her life (Silco). It solidifies her as Jinx, and was the true death of Powder. That show really makes all the deaths count, even if some of the non-fatalities are silly. It is, without a doubt, my all-time favorite show. I cannot wait for November this year...I NEED more
Absolutely enjoyed watching your video
arcane is my fav show ever
Two notes from the game that will likely become relevant in the future.
1.The Ekko Jinx fight scene is even better than you know. In the future he becomes a time traveler. By pulling out the watch and turning it into a childhood game he’s metaphorically using the same fighting style he will eventually develop without any actual magical abilities.
Madarda isn’t really a hero or a villain. She’s from Noxus which has a completely different set of core values than either Piltover’s or America.To them ambition and strength are positive traits while expansionism and conquest are a way of life. So, while her push for Jayce to weaponize his technology and political scheming may appear as evil from an outside perspective from her culture’s point of view it would be entirely positive and rather admirable.
While Noxus may appear as the stereotypical evil empire on the surface they’re actually rather nuanced and are one of the few truly meritocratic factions with little to no discrimination or restrictive social systems. When conquering a region they don’t just pillage it. Instead they incorporate it into the empire and give everyone a equal footing regardless of previous status. Even a former slave could quickly become a master commander with enough ambition.
About time. More people need to watch this show. Phenomenal and perfect. Can't wait for season 2.
Great show I loved it as well.
Honestly I can see why you feel back and forth about all these characters, they are all very morally grey which makes them feel more human, at least that’s how I interpreted it.
"sometimes a hypocrite is just a man in the process of changing" or something along those lines, it's too true, I been there on so many things
hell I did it with one piece, years back when bleach op and naruto constantly were pitted against one another in the big 3 I always clowned it, once bleach ended I went to naruto liked it then it ended and eventually came around to giving one piece a shot and mannnnnnnnnnnnnn it is just good ass world building, journey of a life time. Still not my favorite series (that goes to hxh and also watched that week to week from 2011-2013 and tower of god the webtoon) but I'll be damned to not admit it's a classic, iconic adventure shounen and the best part is now that I'm older I can watch it with my nephews and the fam.
Finally, someone else who thinks it was unforgivable to see Heimerdinger that sad.
It has a very similar artsyle to the Dishonoured games
My logic with this series is if there's a reoccurring character that's not a playable in League of Legends, they're going to die at some point in the series.
Vi would beat your ass for flirting with Caitlyn LMAO
Bro after watching this show, i felt like a lot of the anime i watch lacked something. This show was amazing.
"Vi was just built like that. Anytime she saw the opportunity to put her fist in someones mouth, she TOOK it"
Lmao. Love her.
Not talking about Viktor shoud be a crime.
i did the same by avoiding it and shitting on it, but the show was so fucking good. glad to hear someone else took a year to finally watch it
Some people and I mean a minority of people did not understand Powder's "switch up" in episode 3 but if you watch the show carefully they have laid out plenty of clues that Powder did have abandonment issues. She also had self-esteem issues and there were plenty of times when the show pointed us to these facts. Vi was the only person that was still comforting her. When she killed everyone trying to help, it validated again that she was useless, a jinx. Vi slapped her hard and called her a jinx, validating what Mylo kept nagging at her for.
She had NEVER met Silco before, all he was for her at that time was a gentle older person coming up at her at a moment of pure weakness and heartbreak. Powder did not realize at the time the danger she was in, she did not see through Silco's fake silky voice there. She simply jumped at him and when Silco told her "it's OK." that was it.
I personally do not understand why a minority of people can't see that switch in a little low self-esteem child with war PTSD who's just been abandonned by her only relative left alive at that point in time. It's very basic humane psychology right there?
You could call it a weird switch up only in the case of her knowing who Silco was and what he planned to do with them. She did not immediately identify him as an enemy trying to kill her whole family.
Maybe you need a second watching to absorb all these. I have watched Arcane several times and I've found new pieces of this masterful story puzzle at every viewing. Would massively recommend it.
11:40 powder has no idea that it was Silco's fault at that time. He was there when powder was most vunerable, and no one else was. I think it's really beliveable that a child would try to hold on to anyone that shows compassion to her in this situatio where she just killed her father and brothers and her sister beats her and leaves.
Great video! I don't really agree with you on everything but I liked the way you expressed your opinions and you're really funny!
Thank you I appreciate it!
10/10 is only controversial from the aspect that TECHNICALLY nothing is ever 10/10.
From a Casual "This show is fantastic" rating thats pretty much what everyone else gave it.
Its like 100%/97% on RT and made a clean sweap at the Animation awards (the Annies? I think) the Oscars for animated shows.
It won like 17 categories or something.
So, I dont think 10/10 is very controversial 🤣
ROFL 🤣
I've never seen that zodiac stuff before, and I LOLd so hard 😆
For me arcane is THE BEST thing I have watched all my life can not wait for season two the teaser’s are crazy late 2023 or early 2024 season 2 comes out
Love your enthusiasm.
Bruh prep the Jinx lovers are coming for your butt. Anyway great video man gave me a good laugh!
Mel does something to me I can’t explain
not the sonic riders 16:58 my gawdddd this video is gold 🤣
Powder gravitated towards Silco because she believed that Vi had just completely abandoned her and disappeared. This is further reinforced when Powder/Jinx does not hear from Vi for such a long time. Along with the knowledge of her own actions killing Vander and her friends (but, honestly, FUCK MILO, HE WAS JUST A BULLY), this fractured her mentality and she needed to attach to someone who could give her security. With no one else left, she turned to Silco.
Heimerdinger was 1000% a hater. He tried to block the progress of Hextech, and wasn't it Heimerdinger who originally got Jayce banished?? Now, we can make the argument that Heimerdinger has PTSD. The moment he saw Hextech, he had a flashback to the Rune Wars or w/e it was.
I love Jinx. Her character is perfect. She's an incredible representation of trauma. There are so many levels to this show.
17:53 - The Stopwatch is a small call-back to his ultimate in-game. The way he turns back time using it.
All in all, I"d give it an 11/10. The plot is fantastic, the worldbuilding is incredible bc you do not need to know anything about the game to enjoy the show, the women in the show have agency, so it's not just up to the men to progress the plot, like honestly there's so much to break down and it's amazing.
Finally i see someone who was annoyed by Jinx, just like i was! I mean she's interesting character, but i was really annoyed how she breaks everything. And final scene... It's really beautiful. Terrifying and so beautiful. Btw my favourite character is Viktor
I’m sorry but if u get annoyed by jinx as a character u really have not understood her
Silco showed up to jinx with a knife. She used the hug to literally disarm him. I'm not sure if she lives, if she says anything else to him. I don't think it was that moment that she became evil either. I think she just made herself safe, and during the time skip, she slowly, truly became family with silco.
I have made a lit of every show I've watched, animated, japanese style anime, live action, 3D animated...
I think I put Breaking Bad at the second spot, I'm still not sure about the 3rd spot. But boy oh boy am I 100% sure that Arcane has the first one. I wasn't interested at all in watching it, I have spent my whole game life avoiding League of Legends, and I really even avoided this one.
After Act 1 dropped, my whole Twitter TL exploded. After act 2 dropped, everybody I followed was only talking about this. Decided I was the right time, watch 1 episode a day for a week until Act 3 drops, perfect plan... watched the first episode and I couldn't help myself I watched the 5 other available episodes in the same day. The week long wait till the release of Act 3 was probably one of the longest weeks of my life when it comes to media releases, and even with the massive expectations, it did not dissapoint,
I think I'm not ready for season two this year. What a tremendous show, the emotional damage was real.
I think Silco look like her dad. You can kinda make out and see the resemblance of her dead father in ep1 and Silco.
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great video! so good editions
You know there is an MMORPG set in the League universe, right?
Thats huge axx map is about to be an open world.
This review is really great
I love this show.
I loathe marcus. No he doesn’t even get his name spelled with a capital letter.
Huge review absolutely agree!
The steampunk aesthetic is just better in all wats