The flower on the necklace that Ekko gives to Jinx is a blue rose which symbolizes unattainable love. This is due to the fact that that a blue roses can not exist in nature.
French native here, about that dance scene song, stromae says "My best enemy is you" kinda play-on-words with the expression of "best friend" obviously, "Flee me, the worst is you and me" are the lyrics of the chorus. When I watched the episode and that french song popped up I think it hit 10x deeper because of the lyrics while witnessing that wonderful scene
studied french for a bit (im not good at all), and i interpreted it as "my dearest enemy". it being a play on the idea of 'best friend' hits so much harder though
This episode.... Is utter perfection. Brilliant fantastic heartbreaking utter perfection. We were given the old and tired trope of past present and future in an absolute briliiant manner. Past being Heimer being able to "redo" his past mistakes of non-action taking the teachings of his pupils and actually changing Piltover and Zaun for the better. Jayce being the future seeing the results of what Ekko and Heimer have been telling him.... The consequences of his actions, of his creation. And Ekko a man who's always lived in the present trying to help people but devastated and lost to hopelessness. He needed a rekindle of the hope to show him why. In this he creates the Z-Drive, a congregation of all three men into a mastery of time. The ability to replay the past to fix the present and secure the future. Then we have Jayce. He literally walked miles in Viktors shoes. He broke the same leg like Viktor started in the fissures like Viktor all the way to the very top... Like viktor... And through Viktors journey Jayce realizes they reached the wrong conclusion. Lastly we see how important and truly brilliant Jinx/Powder is to this world. She figures out hextech, time travel, destroys a council, starts a revolution, she's the catalyst for everything both good and bad. If only she could see herself through Ekkos eyes (which is us in this episode). Brilliance is all you can say. This is the absolute peak of Arcane.
3:45 It's a light touch but seeing how close and supportive grown-up Mylo and Powder are in this timeline is especially touching, when you consider how antagonistic their relationship was in the original timeline.... especially Mylo's voice towards Jinx.
I feel like it's probably a case of shared grief bringing them together. Mylo could be a bit of an ass, but he wasn't going to bully Powder in the wake of her losing her sister.
And honestly I think at least part of mylo's bullying was worry. He was a kid in an incredibly stressful situation, grown ass adults would be snappy. I'm not excusing his behavior mind you, but it makes sense
@@bensonwilson519 Agreed. Classic big brother mentality. While the status is quo, imma be on your butt the whole time. However, when something really bad happens, like really bad? Imma protecting that butt.
Well, most of Mylo's actions towards Powder were because she was the only one "below him", because if Powder wasn't there either he'd be the one picked on for being the least useful or he'd do it to himself, thinking the others were better than him and him the weak link or just coming up short all the time. You can see it in episode 3 of season 1 with how anxious and scared he is trying to pick Vander's locks and Vander himself calming him down by telling him he believes in him. Mylo doesn't really believe in himself, which is why he likely took out his fears and frustrations out on Powder, which then lead to a heavy amount of her own mental issues. Given Vi dying in the explosion, and her lack of presence in the world, Powder after getting over her emotional trauma of losing her sister, stepped up to seemingly try to fill her place. Mylo also seemed to adjust himself, be it because he saw what damage it did to Powder and reflected on his own actions or it just impacted him enough to adjust himself.
Another small detail I love, when powder makes her entrance at the dance they show the sliding rail system to pop balloons. Same sliding rail she used to blow up the firelights as Jinx in S1E4. The parallel of her using those tools but for good vs evil
@@scapedrag7893 I get that point it is fab service and my comment was sarcastic finale was better, but the episode was still hitting me in the feels, it dose t all need to be for plot
@@scapedrag7893 Ekko deserved the episode he had no screentime. It also was related as ekko needs to create the z-drive which is what ultimately saves the day in the end
@@scapedrag7893Nothing to do with the show? 💀💀 Surface level thinking right here We needed to see what happened with Ekko, Jayce, and Heimdinger. We needed Jayce’s reasoning and Ekko needed to find the will to believe in the underground and not give on it. This all bleeds into helping Jinx understand that she’s capable of good and the creation of the Z drive
Hello ! I will translate for you some lyrics of the song on the scene between ekko and powder, it is "Ma meilleure ennemie" ( my best enemy) by Stromae and Pomme (sorry for my English, as a good French speaker my English is horrible) You’re the best thing that ever happened to me But also the worst thing that happened to me The day I met you, I might have preferred that day never happened The worst of blessings The most beautiful curses From you I should get away But as the saying goes "Rather than being alone, it's better to be poorly accompanied" The chorus: My best enemy is you Run away from me The worst is you and me And finally And if you still want to have me, forget about me, the worst is you and I Why does your name hurt me? The scene hit so hard with the lyrics it's so damn good! Thank you for this reacts !
The fact that this version of the city improved so much in such a short time thanks in large part to Heimerdinger becoming aware of the plight of the undercity just 3 years earlier makes me sad that we didn't get this in the main timeline, but... it also makes me hopeful? That if Piltover can finally get their shit together NOW they can also achieve this much progress in just a few years
The "staff" Jayce was holding is the stick of his former hammer he dismantled to give him the mechanical parts to apply to his leg so he could actually walk and move around after his leg got smashed by the fall and his hammer pelting it.
I love the song. The words for friend and enemy are almost identical in French, so the refrain goes "You are my best enemy" but it's hard to tell whether he's saying Friend or Enemy...
@@ViridianMaridianthey don't sound the same, they maybe sound a bit similar if you are mumbling and speaking fast. It's very clear which one he is singing in the song
The co-creater of the show said in an interview, "Ekko is really like a champion of Zaun and the potential Zaun has..We always like the idea showing what Zaun can be, showing Ekko with having this moment where he kind of finds his spirit again. I think what's so cool about Ekko and Jinx is that when he tries to convince Jinx there's like different that- there is a version of Powder, her that is so different, like that is a whole complete, more complete person and he has seen it. It's not like some theory or him trying to convince her. I think she can feel that when he's like, that version of Powder exists. I think that's really beautiful and it really was what Ekko needed to kind of see. I mean Powder is such an amazing example of what Zaun can be and I think that's like worth kind of continuing their story for."
it's even more powerfull when you learn/understand the lyrics from the song when they are dancing, Ekko and Jinx, it hits really hard! Thank you for the video, i had some problems with the writing of this second season, but this episode was beautifully done, i love it!
Im just glad that of all people in the show, Ekko got a chance to feel and experience the exact thing he is fighting for, so he can never loose hope again.
Episodes 4/5/6 and 7 are literally the perfect quad. They're just so beautiful. Also this episode -- Heim and Ekko - Sunshine lollypops and... rainbows.. 🌈 Meanwhile... Jayce -- GET ME OUT OF THIS NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!!
as a french be able to understand that music and the lyrics and the meaning of it during my first watch of this scene was really something special and it make me cry so much instant at the start since it was implying so much
A couple of unspoken implications from this episode: Jayce probably couldn't land in this timeline anyways because he is very likely dead. After his experiment killed Vi, he was likely summarily exiled and Viktor would not decide to aid him in his work after seeing its destructive potential. Therefore he would not have been there to stop Jayce from jumping. The second implication is that even this timeline will meet the same fate as the other because we see that Powder kept the gemstones and Ekko and Heimerdinger just gave her a crash course on how they work. So Powder probably invents Hextech here and starts the cycle all over again. However, that's just my interpretation.
Yeah, I don't really see her making Hextech here, but helping OG Ekko with the experiment helped her to fully move on and want to improve her life. @@datzfatz2368
Ekko dancing with his girl while Jayce is playing bloodborne (edit- Demon Souls) on the hardest difficulty. And the fps drop on the dance was the only way it’s meant to be illustrated because if it was a normal & “eloquent” sequence I would be like hell no. The decision making on every episode & scene is deliberate & mind invigorating.
19:59 metter of fact.. lately they said they there was more scene with Ekko and Pouder, but they had to cut it because the episode would be too long.. and for Himer , if you know you know (bandle city)
still don't know how that would work though. is there only one bandle city for all these different timelines? i'd guess they each had one. so would heimer go to his bandle city or this alternate timeline one?
@@hotprints there's only one bandle city, and it exists outside the time and space/multiverse (it's a spirit world) when a yordle die in they're physical form, they automatically respawned in Bandle City, and it's the same Bandle City for everyone.. I know that it's complicated but yeah .. if you want.. try to read the lore in the league of legends site
@@hotprints Bandle City is like a pocket dimension, it is its own thing. Heimer was too self-aware that he was in another dimension and already didnt care enough until Ekko arrived. I would very much assume there is 1 Bandle City that exists for every timeline. The mortal rules dont really apply to Yordles and I wouldnt break my head thinking too hard about it. In the Bandle City animation for LoR they showd the Yordles going through portals to arrive at different location and I would assume they can go into other timelines aswell but usually end up in our main universe/timeline because thats just where our stories are told
a world where Arcane disappeared and a world where Arcane overtook everything. Everytime i hear "What could have been" i rehear the last words sung at the end of season 1
The thought that powder didn't use her Cristals to help ekko probably to spend more time with him... As Vander said "can't remember the last time I saw her so alive"
Husky Tantrum was a great reality check (along with "What the pixels?") after being emotionally ripped with the music and the moment of happiness in the kids' life
Just a heads-up about yordles. They don't necessarily die. They just gonna respawn in bandle city. One of league character named Vex, is a depressed Yordle. She's depressed because she basically can't die.
No arms race for hextech/chemtech means no leaving Zaun in the dust. Heimer pays more attention to the needs of Zaunites prior to them feeling the need for another revolution. Silco finds Vander's note in the mineshaft. How beautiful and cruel the butterfly effect can be.
If you watch the episode where they disappear, Heimer goes first, then Ekko, then Jayce. When we find them again, the Professor got sent to the near past, Ekko wound up in basically present day/alternate timeline, and Jayce was flung to the far future, after the calamity had already occurred. They were scattered through time, just like Heimerdinger proposed when he bumped into Ekko at The Last Drop. And their reality just happens to be one where Vi was just a half step slower than in the main storyline. In our version, she only narrowly escaped getting blown to bits. Dunno the ins and outs of how that led to peace for Piltover and prosperity for Zaun, but it's a lovely daydream that only hurts all the more when you realize that we can't stay. 😭 Loving your reactions. And I've watch quite a few. Can't wait to finish the season out with you. ❤
Wonderful reaction, I’ve been enjoying watching it with y’all as if it was the first time. I’m a French speaker and y’all should really search the lyrics for the Jinx and Ekko’s dance scene, it truly fits perfectly and is worth looking into because it explains a lot of how Ekko is feeling in that moment.
There are many moments when this show made me cry. But seing Powder and Ekko dance and realizing the giant "what could have been, but never was" made me sob like a baby.
Some people seem to think that Vi was the source of all the misery and because she died years ago, everything is going "right" or at least much better than the other world. but because of what we see with Silco. It looks like Singed never invented shimmer and also Jayce was not there to invent Hextech. I think it would have been pretty similar if Vi had survived because the real problem started with Silco and the shimmer experiments in the underwater lab with Singed.
I saw someone pointed out that Jayce pretty much went through the same journey Viktor did. Both having to climb away from a hole, with their disability making it even harder. They had to do it all alone until they reached Piltover, in hope for something better.
This episode is easily my all time episode ever. Cause of what has happened before it and then we get this What could have been episode. And the writing and the dialogue and character development for Ekko is just top tier. I've watched this episode alone now 5 times and there hasn't been another episode in any media that is this beautiful and this good storytelling for one episode. I loved this episode so much that i had to send a message to my two buddies that watched it with me and i told them thank you for being with me and experiencing this episode. Cause i've never watched any show with this good singular episode. This is my fav episode ever. And show tbh. Top tier
The song playing for Powder & Ekko is beautiful yet so heartbreaking 😭❤️🩹 My heart has never recovered. It’s saying “but my best enemy is you, flee from me, the worst is you & I, but if you keep searching for my voice, forget me, the worst is you & I” ❤️🩹❤️🩹😭
after the lyrics of the song have a meaning in relation to the scene and their past, it gives an even more emotional side. the title is: my best enemy. I love you, I'm leaving you you are the best thing that happened to me but also the worst thing that happened to me, that day when I met you, perhaps I would have preferred, that this day never came, the worst blessing, the most beautiful curse, I should move away from you, but as the saying goes, rather than being alone it is better to be poorly accompanied, you know what they say, be close to your dearest friends, but also, even closer to your opponents but my best enemy is you, run away from me, the worst is you and me, but if you are still looking for my voice, forget me, the worst is you and me, I love you, I'm leaving you why does your name bless me, when he hides, right there in space what emotion is hatred, or the sweetness when I hear your name, I told you, don't look back the past that follows you, makes war on you but my best enemy is you, run away from me, the worst is you and me, but my best enemy is you, run away from me, the worst is you and me, I love you, I'm leaving you if we translate roughly
Fun fact: The dance scene between Powder and Ekko has a framerate of 4 frames per second which is also the same amount of time Ekko's Z-Drive can rewind
the revelation that alt timeline Powder has the rest of the stones (and didn't disclose that she had them) is terrifying, she's now seen what a few small shards can accomplish...
I love how your reaction to the whole dance-and-kiss-on-the-balcony scene is the same as mine when i first watched it 😭Like you we could barely hold our breath and then he drops the title line and i was UUGLY crying so hard 😭😭😭
Its nice to see that somewhere, in an alternate universe, that Powder is happy. Maybe one day she'll use the hextech crystals to go to the main universe and meet our Vi.
I don't know if it was confirmed but my headcanon is that Jayce was separated from the others because there *was* no Jayce in that reality. It's possible he was also killed in the same explosion as Vi. Notably, we also don't see Cait in this episode either, and all of them would have been at the lab on that day.
fav reaction to this ep. cant get that ekko / powder scene / song out of my head. you 2 are rly good at understanding of whats going on in the episodes, keep the episodes coming :)❣
A lot of people watching this show don't even know what Yordles are 🙂. What they show us is Heimerdinger vanishing into thin air. That could mean lots of things, one of them being that he died ...
@@_MicZ_ there was literally no matter not even dust unlike that scientist lady got turned into dust after touching viktor. I think Riot is using yordle immortality to fk with ppl who dont know anything about league lore lmaoo, he did say "back in a wink" before he "died"
Heimerdinger is not dead. His race is called Yordles, magical creatures, and they are literally immortal. If they were to ever die in some concept, they return back to their home, Bandle City. It's a spiritual world that exists on another plane of existence.
Episode 7 is like a a tantalizing ending that the creators probably said “ you wish it was happy like this” “can we just pretend like it’s the first time….💋”
I just watched the episode (i'm watching each episode and then check the reaction on your channel lol). After Ekko and Powder's kiss, when it switched to Jayce I was like "wait a minute pause you completely changed the mood". I had to pause and compose myself lmao
Wonderful Reaction, sweet ladies. I'm late to the party of your Reaction channel, but glad I arrived. Your reaction is on par with most other Reactors I've viewed regarding key particulars of the events of this brutal-sweet episode, but your speculations regarding the gists and implications in this episode's narrative never veered beyond what has and is being presented. Your were exceptionally insightful about the alternate events of the episode paralleling Vi-Jesus's two-sided Hextech Sprocket, and particularly regarding the affects on Ekko informing his treatment of Powder. Though as others, one thing you ladies didn't seemingly pick up on was the essence of Ekko reaching the section of the bridge bazaar where in his reality he had faced off with Jinx, evoking his standing over her unconscious body in the aftermath of her suicidal grenade detonation: EKKO THOUGHT THE EXPLOSION HAD KILLED JINX, that's why his reaction of seeing Powder was so extreme, it wasn't just surprise, it was utter astonishment.
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"I hate them, i hate riot" sums up everyone whose ever gotten sucked into this universe, game or show 😂❤️
MOBA games bringing unhealthy mental state beyond the games
Me when I used to play League
And also, every LoL player. Hahaha.
"She is so sweet and sane and beautiful" that is literally how i want people to describe me
@Tethalite ur so sweet, sane and beautiful 😊
eh, being sane is overrated.
Kind of difficult to say that to a skeleton (your pfp)
@@Godvvinslawlmao not you saying that with the joker pfp 😭
@@jaopedrorelesbeles thats a line Shaco would say🤣 (FYI, if you haven't played league, he is the Joker of Runeterra)
Arcane writers:
Ep 5: _Cry happy tears!_
Ep 6: _Cry sad tears!_
Ep 7: _Cry happy and sad tears together!"_ 😭
By this point my eyes are very confused i think that one of them is for happy and the other is for sad ones.
Romans 10:9
So true
The flower on the necklace that Ekko gives to Jinx is a blue rose which symbolizes unattainable love. This is due to the fact that that a blue roses can not exist in nature.
In addition, the blue rose actually has Ekko’s and Powder’s silhouettes in its design.
And it’s a blue rose blue for powder and rose for VI
Wow. The song by Stromae, played during the dance scene, is about the same thing. Two lovers who can never be together.
@@TBoring And its sold out from riots store the second it came to exist.
@@snowown What??? They were actually selling it??? Woah!
TimeBomb's lil dance scene being animated at 4 fps, the same amount of seconds Ekko can rewind is a damn good detail
Then Powder dancing like Felicia....💔
Then you translate the lyrics....💔💔
Good catch
4fps is not 4 seconds
@@nonyourbusiness165that’s not what they said. They just said it was 4 fps representing the amount of seconds
jhin reference
French native here, about that dance scene song, stromae says "My best enemy is you" kinda play-on-words with the expression of "best friend" obviously, "Flee me, the worst is you and me" are the lyrics of the chorus. When I watched the episode and that french song popped up I think it hit 10x deeper because of the lyrics while witnessing that wonderful scene
studied french for a bit (im not good at all), and i interpreted it as "my dearest enemy". it being a play on the idea of 'best friend' hits so much harder though
This episode.... Is utter perfection. Brilliant fantastic heartbreaking utter perfection.
We were given the old and tired trope of past present and future in an absolute briliiant manner. Past being Heimer being able to "redo" his past mistakes of non-action taking the teachings of his pupils and actually changing Piltover and Zaun for the better. Jayce being the future seeing the results of what Ekko and Heimer have been telling him.... The consequences of his actions, of his creation. And Ekko a man who's always lived in the present trying to help people but devastated and lost to hopelessness. He needed a rekindle of the hope to show him why. In this he creates the Z-Drive, a congregation of all three men into a mastery of time. The ability to replay the past to fix the present and secure the future.
Then we have Jayce. He literally walked miles in Viktors shoes. He broke the same leg like Viktor started in the fissures like Viktor all the way to the very top... Like viktor... And through Viktors journey Jayce realizes they reached the wrong conclusion.
Lastly we see how important and truly brilliant Jinx/Powder is to this world. She figures out hextech, time travel, destroys a council, starts a revolution, she's the catalyst for everything both good and bad. If only she could see herself through Ekkos eyes (which is us in this episode).
Brilliance is all you can say. This is the absolute peak of Arcane.
3:45 It's a light touch but seeing how close and supportive grown-up Mylo and Powder are in this timeline is especially touching, when you consider how antagonistic their relationship was in the original timeline.... especially Mylo's voice towards Jinx.
I feel like it's probably a case of shared grief bringing them together. Mylo could be a bit of an ass, but he wasn't going to bully Powder in the wake of her losing her sister.
And honestly I think at least part of mylo's bullying was worry. He was a kid in an incredibly stressful situation, grown ass adults would be snappy.
I'm not excusing his behavior mind you, but it makes sense
@@bensonwilson519 Agreed. Classic big brother mentality. While the status is quo, imma be on your butt the whole time. However, when something really bad happens, like really bad? Imma protecting that butt.
Well, most of Mylo's actions towards Powder were because she was the only one "below him", because if Powder wasn't there either he'd be the one picked on for being the least useful or he'd do it to himself, thinking the others were better than him and him the weak link or just coming up short all the time. You can see it in episode 3 of season 1 with how anxious and scared he is trying to pick Vander's locks and Vander himself calming him down by telling him he believes in him. Mylo doesn't really believe in himself, which is why he likely took out his fears and frustrations out on Powder, which then lead to a heavy amount of her own mental issues.
Given Vi dying in the explosion, and her lack of presence in the world, Powder after getting over her emotional trauma of losing her sister, stepped up to seemingly try to fill her place. Mylo also seemed to adjust himself, be it because he saw what damage it did to Powder and reflected on his own actions or it just impacted him enough to adjust himself.
im guessing vi's death kinda brought them closer together since they no longer had the glue of the group rely on.
I love how Heimerdinger just becomes Bob Dylan.
Ekko left he’s dream life behind to safe he’s reality. My fckin GOAT
Another small detail I love, when powder makes her entrance at the dance they show the sliding rail system to pop balloons. Same sliding rail she used to blow up the firelights as Jinx in S1E4. The parallel of her using those tools but for good vs evil
This episode was a love letter and in my opinion the best episode of the season.
You mean best episode of the show right? It’s ok we all make auto correct mistakes. 4 real tho the feels in this one goddam
I thought this was the worst literally has nothing to do with the show and does not progress the plot at all
@@scapedrag7893 I get that point it is fab service and my comment was sarcastic finale was better, but the episode was still hitting me in the feels, it dose t all need to be for plot
@@scapedrag7893 Ekko deserved the episode he had no screentime.
It also was related as ekko needs to create the z-drive which is what ultimately saves the day in the end
@@scapedrag7893Nothing to do with the show? 💀💀 Surface level thinking right here
We needed to see what happened with Ekko, Jayce, and Heimdinger. We needed Jayce’s reasoning and Ekko needed to find the will to believe in the underground and not give on it. This all bleeds into helping Jinx understand that she’s capable of good and the creation of the Z drive
Hello ! I will translate for you some lyrics of the song on the scene between ekko and powder, it is "Ma meilleure ennemie" ( my best enemy) by Stromae and Pomme (sorry for my English, as a good French speaker my English is horrible)
You’re the best thing that ever happened to me
But also the worst thing that happened to me
The day I met you, I might have preferred that day never happened
The worst of blessings
The most beautiful curses
From you I should get away
But as the saying goes
"Rather than being alone, it's better to be poorly accompanied"
The chorus:
My best enemy is you
Run away from me
The worst is you and me
And finally
And if you still want to have me, forget about me, the worst is you and I
Why does your name hurt me?
The scene hit so hard with the lyrics it's so damn good!
Thank you for this reacts !
The fact that this version of the city improved so much in such a short time thanks in large part to Heimerdinger becoming aware of the plight of the undercity just 3 years earlier makes me sad that we didn't get this in the main timeline, but... it also makes me hopeful? That if Piltover can finally get their shit together NOW they can also achieve this much progress in just a few years
The "staff" Jayce was holding is the stick of his former hammer he dismantled to give him the mechanical parts to apply to his leg so he could actually walk and move around after his leg got smashed by the fall and his hammer pelting it.
I love the song. The words for friend and enemy are almost identical in French, so the refrain goes "You are my best enemy" but it's hard to tell whether he's saying Friend or Enemy...
Why did the french make opposing words sound the same what were they cooking
@@ViridianMaridianthey don't sound the same, they maybe sound a bit similar if you are mumbling and speaking fast. It's very clear which one he is singing in the song
What are you talking about
Friend = Copain/Ami
Enemy = Ennemie
Ennemie and Ami may rhyme if you have hearing trouble, I give you that much 😉😅.
The co-creater of the show said in an interview, "Ekko is really like a champion of Zaun and the potential Zaun has..We always like the idea showing what Zaun can be, showing Ekko with having this moment where he kind of finds his spirit again. I think what's so cool about Ekko and Jinx is that when he tries to convince Jinx there's like different that- there is a version of Powder, her that is so different, like that is a whole complete, more complete person and he has seen it. It's not like some theory or him trying to convince her. I think she can feel that when he's like, that version of Powder exists. I think that's really beautiful and it really was what Ekko needed to kind of see. I mean Powder is such an amazing example of what Zaun can be and I think that's like worth kind of continuing their story for."
well yeah because before Ekko all Zaunite champions were evil lmao, now there's other good Zaunite champs like Zeri
episode 7 was the best episode for me for both season 1 & 2
That song has been haunting me all week 🥲😭😭 been hanging out for this reaction, can’t wait for the next ep
this and remember me
I can have some criticisms about S2 here and there, but when they do things right, like this entire episode, they create perfection
woah kiss' aesthetic is really nice
I JUST realized Ekko's face paint is in the shape of an hour glass 🤦🏾♂️
Jace: I fought through hell to get back.
Echo: I gave up heaven to get back.
Heimerdinger: Anyway, here's Wonderwall
it's even more powerfull when you learn/understand the lyrics from the song when they are dancing, Ekko and Jinx, it hits really hard!
Thank you for the video, i had some problems with the writing of this second season, but this episode was beautifully done, i love it!
I think everyone is missing the fact that Powder kept our Ekko's gift as a keepsake because she realised that he wasnt her Ekko.
11:11 that Vi mural is 🤌🏾 🎨
Im just glad that of all people in the show, Ekko got a chance to feel and experience the exact thing he is fighting for, so he can never loose hope again.
Episodes 4/5/6 and 7 are literally the perfect quad. They're just so beautiful.
Also this episode -- Heim and Ekko - Sunshine lollypops and... rainbows.. 🌈
Meanwhile...
Jayce -- GET ME OUT OF THIS NIGHTMARE!!!!!!!!
as a french be able to understand that music and the lyrics and the meaning of it during my first watch of this scene was really something special and it make me cry so much instant at the start since it was implying so much
A couple of unspoken implications from this episode: Jayce probably couldn't land in this timeline anyways because he is very likely dead. After his experiment killed Vi, he was likely summarily exiled and Viktor would not decide to aid him in his work after seeing its destructive potential. Therefore he would not have been there to stop Jayce from jumping. The second implication is that even this timeline will meet the same fate as the other because we see that Powder kept the gemstones and Ekko and Heimerdinger just gave her a crash course on how they work. So Powder probably invents Hextech here and starts the cycle all over again. However, that's just my interpretation.
For my own Happiness i choose to believe that your second point is incorrrect and that that Timeline stays intact and happy the way it is^^
Yeah, I don't really see her making Hextech here, but helping OG Ekko with the experiment helped her to fully move on and want to improve her life.
@@datzfatz2368
I play this episode on repeat. When Ekko says the name of the episode and you see the vulnerability in his eyes I just lose it every time.
Ekko dancing with his girl while Jayce is playing bloodborne (edit- Demon Souls) on the hardest difficulty. And the fps drop on the dance was the only way it’s meant to be illustrated because if it was a normal & “eloquent” sequence I would be like hell no. The decision making on every episode & scene is deliberate & mind invigorating.
Bloodborne doesn’t have difficulties, that’s the main appeal of souls series...
@ I meant demon souls, I keep confusing the two somehow
Kiss at it again with the "Viktor became Arcane" line. She just randomly hits these things right on the nose lol.
He is not become Arcane
Kiss - "I feel like i just crying the whole time"
Me too Kiss, me too
19:59 metter of fact.. lately they said they there was more scene with Ekko and Pouder, but they had to cut it because the episode would be too long.. and for Himer , if you know you know (bandle city)
still don't know how that would work though. is there only one bandle city for all these different timelines? i'd guess they each had one. so would heimer go to his bandle city or this alternate timeline one?
@@hotprints there's only one bandle city, and it exists outside the time and space/multiverse (it's a spirit world) when a yordle die in they're physical form, they automatically respawned in Bandle City, and it's the same Bandle City for everyone.. I know that it's complicated but yeah .. if you want.. try to read the lore in the league of legends site
@@hotprints Bandle City is like a pocket dimension, it is its own thing. Heimer was too self-aware that he was in another dimension and already didnt care enough until Ekko arrived. I would very much assume there is 1 Bandle City that exists for every timeline. The mortal rules dont really apply to Yordles and I wouldnt break my head thinking too hard about it. In the Bandle City animation for LoR they showd the Yordles going through portals to arrive at different location and I would assume they can go into other timelines aswell but usually end up in our main universe/timeline because thats just where our stories are told
Jayce went to a different reality because the Jayce of Ekko's timeline died in the explosion, same with Vi and Caitlyn
a world where Arcane disappeared and a world where Arcane overtook everything.
Everytime i hear "What could have been" i rehear the last words sung at the end of season 1
Ekko got in a Powder-dating Simulator while Jayce thrown straight into Dark Souls
The thought that powder didn't use her Cristals to help ekko probably to spend more time with him... As Vander said "can't remember the last time I saw her so alive"
Husky Tantrum was a great reality check (along with "What the pixels?") after being emotionally ripped with the music and the moment of happiness in the kids' life
Just a heads-up about yordles.
They don't necessarily die. They just gonna respawn in bandle city.
One of league character named Vex, is a depressed Yordle. She's depressed because she basically can't die.
No arms race for hextech/chemtech means no leaving Zaun in the dust. Heimer pays more attention to the needs of Zaunites prior to them feeling the need for another revolution. Silco finds Vander's note in the mineshaft. How beautiful and cruel the butterfly effect can be.
If you watch the episode where they disappear, Heimer goes first, then Ekko, then Jayce. When we find them again, the Professor got sent to the near past, Ekko wound up in basically present day/alternate timeline, and Jayce was flung to the far future, after the calamity had already occurred. They were scattered through time, just like Heimerdinger proposed when he bumped into Ekko at The Last Drop.
And their reality just happens to be one where Vi was just a half step slower than in the main storyline. In our version, she only narrowly escaped getting blown to bits. Dunno the ins and outs of how that led to peace for Piltover and prosperity for Zaun, but it's a lovely daydream that only hurts all the more when you realize that we can't stay. 😭
Loving your reactions. And I've watch quite a few. Can't wait to finish the season out with you. ❤
Wonderful reaction, I’ve been enjoying watching it with y’all as if it was the first time. I’m a French speaker and y’all should really search the lyrics for the Jinx and Ekko’s dance scene, it truly fits perfectly and is worth looking into because it explains a lot of how Ekko is feeling in that moment.
There are many moments when this show made me cry. But seing Powder and Ekko dance and realizing the giant "what could have been, but never was" made me sob like a baby.
Some people seem to think that Vi was the source of all the misery and because she died years ago, everything is going "right" or at least much better than the other world. but because of what we see with Silco. It looks like Singed never invented shimmer and also Jayce was not there to invent Hextech. I think it would have been pretty similar if Vi had survived because the real problem started with Silco and the shimmer experiments in the underwater lab with Singed.
I love how powder just had a pouch of a bunch of hex stones while Ekko had to scavenge for tiny pieces of it lol
I saw someone pointed out that Jayce pretty much went through the same journey Viktor did. Both having to climb away from a hole, with their disability making it even harder. They had to do it all alone until they reached Piltover, in hope for something better.
That's a brave amount of eyeliner for Arcane. Looks AMAZING though
For me, the best episode of the entire series. Absolutely stunningly beautiful and bittersweet
The dance was animated at 4 frames a second... just like the 4 second his Z drive can rewind.
the song is amazing , ty Stromae & Pomme🥰
The song that plays during their dance is called "My best enemy" or something. The lyrics of the song make it even more sad.
Is the same mage from season 1, Jayce say "why do you give me this?", referring to the rune he wears in the wrist.
I love how Ekko is in a perfect world dancing with powder and then you cut to jayce on the verge of death getting hunted lol
This episode is easily my all time episode ever. Cause of what has happened before it and then we get this What could have been episode. And the writing and the dialogue and character development for Ekko is just top tier. I've watched this episode alone now 5 times and there hasn't been another episode in any media that is this beautiful and this good storytelling for one episode. I loved this episode so much that i had to send a message to my two buddies that watched it with me and i told them thank you for being with me and experiencing this episode. Cause i've never watched any show with this good singular episode. This is my fav episode ever. And show tbh. Top tier
The song playing for Powder & Ekko is beautiful yet so heartbreaking 😭❤️🩹 My heart has never recovered. It’s saying “but my best enemy is you, flee from me, the worst is you & I, but if you keep searching for my voice, forget me, the worst is you & I” ❤️🩹❤️🩹😭
after the lyrics of the song have a meaning in relation to the scene and their past, it gives an even more emotional side.
the title is: my best enemy.
I love you, I'm leaving you
you are the best thing that happened to me
but also the worst thing that happened to me,
that day when I met you, perhaps I would have preferred,
that this day never came,
the worst blessing,
the most beautiful curse,
I should move away from you,
but as the saying goes,
rather than being alone it is better to be poorly accompanied,
you know what they say,
be close to your dearest friends,
but also,
even closer to your opponents
but my best enemy is you,
run away from me, the worst is you and me,
but if you are still looking for my voice,
forget me, the worst is you and me,
I love you, I'm leaving you
why does your name bless me,
when he hides,
right there in space
what emotion is hatred,
or the sweetness when I hear your name,
I told you, don't look back
the past that follows you, makes war on you
but my best enemy is you,
run away from me, the worst is you and me,
but my best enemy is you,
run away from me, the worst is you and me,
I love you, I'm leaving you
if we translate roughly
I've never noticed the art on the disk until you mentioned it lmao
The song that plays during the dance is called 'Ma meilleure ennemie' which means 'My best/favourite enemy'. Very appropriate
JJK 2x19 and this back-to-back is crazy
Fun fact: The dance scene between Powder and Ekko has a framerate of 4 frames per second which is also the same amount of time Ekko's Z-Drive can rewind
I knew this one was gonna get you with the “first time” line!!
the revelation that alt timeline Powder has the rest of the stones (and didn't disclose that she had them) is terrifying, she's now seen what a few small shards can accomplish...
Powder fell in love with Ekko all over again even when he was from a different timeline UGH my heart!! I love them so much
The part where they are dancing together was done at 1 frame every 4 seconds (just like the limit of the Z drive)
*4 frames per second
The "Can we pretend like it's the first time" tugged on my heartstrings too Q.Q
As french understanding the lyrics of the song at the dance scene make it even more dramatic 😢
I love how your reaction to the whole dance-and-kiss-on-the-balcony scene is the same as mine when i first watched it 😭Like you we could barely hold our breath and then he drops the title line and i was UUGLY crying so hard 😭😭😭
Not the Husky’s tantrum 😂😭😭😭
Its nice to see that somewhere, in an alternate universe, that Powder is happy. Maybe one day she'll use the hextech crystals to go to the main universe and meet our Vi.
I don't know if it was confirmed but my headcanon is that Jayce was separated from the others because there *was* no Jayce in that reality. It's possible he was also killed in the same explosion as Vi. Notably, we also don't see Cait in this episode either, and all of them would have been at the lab on that day.
This episode is like: NOT NOW JAYCE
The name of the song that plays while they’re dancing is French for “my best enemy”
In League of Legends, one of Ekko's voice lines to Jinx is "I had a crush… until you started talking to the gun"
There is only 1 sentence that explains this episode to me: It HURTS SO GOOD.
fav reaction to this ep. cant get that ekko / powder scene / song out of my head. you 2 are rly good at understanding of whats going on in the episodes, keep the episodes coming :)❣
22:50 Yordles don't die. He was probably sent somewhere else or "reborn" in Bandle City (the spiritual place where Yordles live) I imagine.
A lot of people watching this show don't even know what Yordles are 🙂.
What they show us is Heimerdinger vanishing into thin air.
That could mean lots of things, one of them being that he died ...
Yeah but he will respawn in another universe's bandle city not the current timeline
Which is fine, because he wants to stay anyways
@@_MicZ_ there was literally no matter not even dust unlike that scientist lady got turned into dust after touching viktor. I think Riot is using yordle immortality to fk with ppl who dont know anything about league lore lmaoo, he did say "back in a wink" before he "died"
@@Shaesi. Reread my comment.
i saw the thumbnail and my eyes are already tearing up, oh boy this is going to be a fun ride
5:29 "... and sane..." broke me 😂
If u ladies gave a closer look at that necklace and understood its meaning, u would both cry your eyes out fot ages.
Ekko escaped heaven to come back to his people. & Heimer made that for him.
If Ekko was the MVP, Heimer is the SVP. ❤
Absolutely living for Kiss’ makeup this episode ❤
One of the best episode I’ve seen in a show!!
"Where's that guy been?" killed me lmao
If you want to cry again, look for the translation of the french song 😭
Heimerdinger is not dead. His race is called Yordles, magical creatures, and they are literally immortal. If they were to ever die in some concept, they return back to their home, Bandle City. It's a spiritual world that exists on another plane of existence.
Even more cooler is that the dance scene is 4fps (Ekko's rewind time is 4 sec)
Episode 7 is like a a tantalizing ending that the creators probably said “ you wish it was happy like this” “can we just pretend like it’s the first time….💋”
I just watched the episode (i'm watching each episode and then check the reaction on your channel lol).
After Ekko and Powder's kiss, when it switched to Jayce I was like "wait a minute pause you completely changed the mood". I had to pause and compose myself lmao
This is easily my favorite episode of the series. It's so good
You two have the sweetest souls
To save piltover and Zaun Jayce had to go through hell but Ekko had to give up Heaven.
Not me watching the JJK reaction and Arcane reaction within like 10 minutes. :))
Wonderful Reaction, sweet ladies. I'm late to the party of your Reaction channel, but glad I arrived.
Your reaction is on par with most other Reactors I've viewed regarding key particulars of the events of this brutal-sweet episode, but your speculations regarding the gists and implications in this episode's narrative never veered beyond what has and is being presented. Your were exceptionally insightful about the alternate events of the episode paralleling Vi-Jesus's two-sided Hextech Sprocket, and particularly regarding the affects on Ekko informing his treatment of Powder.
Though as others, one thing you ladies didn't seemingly pick up on was the essence of Ekko reaching the section of the bridge bazaar where in his reality he had faced off with Jinx, evoking his standing over her unconscious body in the aftermath of her suicidal grenade detonation: EKKO THOUGHT THE EXPLOSION HAD KILLED JINX, that's why his reaction of seeing Powder was so extreme, it wasn't just surprise, it was utter astonishment.
If Vi knew that this is what the world would be like without her in it, she would gladly give her life for it.
The dancing scene is not leaving my head since saturday.
Damnn Kiss be looking sensational 😅🔥, this ep was everything and more, it hurts to see how they could of been 😂😭👏🏾
16:34 my reaction too
Can someone explain to me how they make the screen where arcane is playing disappear for some seconds ? How do i do that in editing ?