I also see the “he’s your dad too” line as an acceptance of jinx as her sister, which is what jinx wanted (and needed) from vi the most. What an incredible scene.
It's absolutely essential that it's Vi who invites Jinx to the embrace, instead of Jinx eventually summoning the courage to join it herself. It undoes the otherwise permanent damage they've done to each other's relationships, and Vander's monstrous form puts in perspective that despite the monsters they have all become, in spite of it all they can still love one another and recognize each other as family. Must not have been 'paced' correctly though 🤡🥴
It’s actually a three stage repetition. In Act 1, S1, when Vi returns to the bar after Vander was kidnapped, Vi grabs her things, then Mylo starts collecting things as well to help her, because “He’s our dad too.” The brothers are choosing to risk their lives for their father because he’s family, but Powder is pushed out. In that moment, she isn’t family. Vi has pushed her out, overriding Powder’s willing choice to fight for her dad. And Powder, showing signs of BPD, can’t tell it’s because Vi can risk the brothers, she can risk Vander, but she can’t risk her. Then in the mines during Season 2, Jinx tells Vi bluntly that she brought her along because “He’s your dad too.” It’s phrased uncertainly when Jinx says it, as if she’s almost offering it to Vi as proof. What she’s avoiding saying is the question “are we still family?” Jinx doesn’t know what Vi thinks anymore, all she’s seen is her sister in a destructive spiral, to the point where everything she knew about her is different. Then we see it conclude when Vi chooses to trust Jinx, letting down her guard and closing in with Vander. This terrifies Jinx, but when she finally can see, Vi returns the statement. “He’s your dad too” emphasizing that after everything, they’re still family, Vi and Jinx are still sisters, even if everything is different. They’ve all become monstrous versions of themselves, but that bond is still unbroken.
and it happens as equals, i maybe wrong, but this maybe the cause of why they couldn't mend their relationship in the first season, because Vi tries to save Powder, instead of working with Jinx through her issues.
I assumed Jinx was terrified in the dark because she "jinxes" everyone close to her, and maybe led Vi to her death. But Vi was embracing Vander. This reassured within Jinx two things: 1. She is not delusional as Vi claimed earlier ("Vander is dead, you're delusional") thus she can trust in her own perceptions 2. She is not a jinx or a curse, her actions can lead to beautiful things happening. Trusting in her will not necessarily lead to misery. Powder/Jinx had been yearning for this to happen. For Vi to trust her, to believe her, and for her own judgement to lead to good things
"She is not a jinx or a curse, her actions can lead to beautiful things happening." Jinx might have a hard time convincing herself of that after what just happened
ohhhh i love this! clap clap makes sense to me! I loved the animation of her expression when she was in the dark! They're SO incredible at animating expressions!!!!
for her whole life with Vi, her opinion was disregarded. shes always wanted Vi to trust her since s1e1 its why when Vi leaves her in s1e3 Powder goes crazy. "why did you leave me?" -> "because you're a jinx" powder feels Vi is saying "i dont trust you. you mess everything up because thats who you are" then in s2e6 when Vi asks "what do you think?" Jinx is completely taken aback that Vi actually wants her opinion arcane really does have incredible character arcs. you can look at moments from multiple seasons and they lock together like puzzle pieces
''Powder/Jinx had been yearning for this to happen. For Vi to trust her, to believe her, and for her own judgement to lead to good thing'' Except for blowing up everyone in season 1 😅
Honestly? I think it will be a happy ending. Jinx and Vi are getting along, and even though things look bad after Isha, I'm pretty sure that the climax will be Jinx and Vi working together. I don't think Jayce and Victor are going to get along, but the two sisters are going to work out, and that's good enough for me.
Their relationship is so tragic. And the song "What have they done to us" in that scene is just killing me with it's lyrics😭😭😭 They just wanted to be a happy familly, but the circumstances they were all put in just didn't give them a chance💔💔💔
"Violet you've got a good heart. Don't ever lose it, no matter how hard the world tries to break you. Protect the family." Vi literaly said "He's gonna kill you" while running into a 2meters monster that can slash you in half in a single blow. Vander was right, she has such good heart, able to forgive everyone whatever the pain she suffured.
I think it reframes everything Silco ever told Jinx about their own failed revolution. Vander wasn't the malicious betrayer and he didn't work with the Enforcers because he gave up on an independent Zaun. He was a man who deeply regretted his actions and worked toward a peaceful solution. Vander and Silco wanted the same thing but they just had two different ways of achieving it.
That’s why the scene where Silco talks to his statue in season 1 hits so fucking hard man. He finally realized why Vander would be so determined not to fight anymore, why after commuting such a horrific act of violence against Silco he could still preach peace. Silco could’ve had everything he wanted if he gave up Jinx, but he couldn’t bring himself to abandon his daughter. This damn show man 💔
Learning that Silco was going to casually murder his dead friends kids as steps B and C to a plan for getting personal power reframes things pretty heavily too. He knew those kids, he knew their mother, and the only reason he didn't unceremoniously butcher both of them was the fact one fought like hell to stop him, and the other lucked into triggering his narcissism.
@@troikas3353 and it also reframed his hug after she throws herself into his arms. She’s not a random kid. He knows her. And she knows him too, from before her parents died.
As a grown man of thirty years, I am wholly unashamed to say that I was ugly crying at this scene. Big fat, ugly tears rolling down my cheeks. It really was a beautiful scene and it wasn’t until my second watch through that I realized the letter was a direct parallel to Jinx and Vi. Like you said, there really isn’t another story like it. Arcane sits, amongst others, at the peak of story telling.
47 and did the same, and still tear up every single time I see this scene. It's taken 23 years, but I think this series has finally knocked Band of Brothers from my #1 best TV series spot. Or at least equalled it.
Re-watch season one. It hits COMPLETELY differently. The details... they were there the whole time. Male, about to be 32 in a matter of days. I sobbed, in private, like a child who needed their mother, so many times in between S1 and S2. The closure. The new wounds. The new questions. Episode 7, S2. Isha. Watching Jinx begin to heal (for a bit) and care for others. "Ever since you came into my life, it feels like I put on glasses... except I can't tell if it's clearer or blurry..." I can't begin to describe how this series has affected me and allowed me to look at myself through a different lens. I am a different person after finishing it. And I have never, ever loaded a LoL character into RuneTerra, and know jack-shit about the game.
Something worth of note as well because I'm uncertain if the creators did this intentionally. When Jinx is reading the letter with Vi at her back, the shadow Vi casts on the wall matches Vander's silhouette.
100% intentional. The Arcane writers and animators have been insanely thorough and thoughtful in how they craft this show down to details like that throughout both seasons. Also nice catch, I didn't notice it in my first or second watch somehow.
I won't fully recover if Vi and Jinx don't get the "together again" happy ending at the end of the show. The show owes it to Vi, one of the few characters who went through a lot of pain yet never decided to show a dark side of her. The only times she made poor decisions was breaking through Jayce's lab when they were young, and when she decides to punish herself in season 2 act 2.
I love that the hug scene is one of the rare moments the show breaks with its "grim-dark" theme. (grim-dark = characters are punished for trying to do the right thing) In this moment we fear Vander killed Vi, because the show proved to us many times it is very possible for tragedy to happen. Vander killing Vi in that moment would have been absolutely devastatig. And that is why the hug feels so cathartic. Relief + hope + healing. I cried. Of course we'll be hit with tragedy again soon enough, in order for these rare moments to feel so painfully sweet and fragile.
Also, Isha loaded three hex spheres into the gun, much like Powder she used with her monkey bomb that once derailed the entire storyline. But this time, Isha turns the tide, saving the day by sacrificing herself for everyone else-a true act of redemption for Powder through Isha
So fantastically pointed out that how Vander's letter describes Vi and Jinx. Season 1 makes it clear that those two inherit the "family" conflict between Vander and Silco, and it's been my belief that you can use the dynamic between the sisters to infer the dynamic of the brothers. When we see the conflict between Vi and Jinx develop in season 1, we were also learning more about Silco and Vander. Sure, Silco said Vander betrayed him, but I don't think a lot of us sympathized with Silco in S1E3. However, we empathized with Powder when Vi hit her, and Vi realized she was making a mistake. They then gave us 3 years to infer that this is how Silco experienced Vander's betrayal before confirming it with the letter. To me it's another example where the writers tell us "see, it was the same as with Vi and Jinx all along, did you make the connection yet?"
Perhaps alluding to the last scene, when we see the airship leaving, presumably with Jinx in it. Powder said she'll ride an airship in the first episode. So, we can assume she left Piltover and is now "world's apart", yet is still with Vi in her heart.
i luv u for not removing music. u cannot change my mind that arcane is the peak of storywriting. it is perfect, in every way music, it's perfect, artwork, perfect, imagery, perfect, character design, perfect, references, perfect, sound design, perfect... EVERYTHING IS PERFECT. like i cannot find even ONE character that i can hate, theres not ONE i tell u
Holy crap, this is one of the best post-Arcane videos I've yet seen: You not only made your point, you _crushed_ it with editing that made it absolutely undeniable. Really excellent job -- shame about the demonetization, but as least you get an insta-sub from me! :) (That bit where you managed to map Silco's words -- "blisters and bedrock" -- to Jinx's lips was _inspired!_ )
It was crazy how well that lined up. And no worries, I don't care much about the monetization it's just kinda crazy how the copyright system works. I just really wanted to have the music in there. Also - thank you!
and the other thing when Warwick comes barrelling down the hall Vi puts herself between him and Jinx and says "he's going to kill you" not "you lied" or "he's going to kill me" Vi still loved her sister and even thought they have hurt each other they still consciously or not still protect each other when it matters Vi when she listened to Jinx "trust me" and Vi when she stood in front of them
I also love how despite Vi constantly saying how much she doesn’t trust Jinx, she still follows her to check out what she’s claiming, despite how much Jinx has done and how Vi believes jinx isn’t her sister anymore, she still goes and her saying how much she doesn’t trust her is as if she is trying to remind herself not to because it’s in her instinct to trust her sister but that trust is broken yet she’s still in that tunnel and how Vi instantly jumps in between Jinx and Warwick to protect her because she is still her older loving and protective big sis
Great analysis, but one part you left out. The flashback scene in the bar with the mom. The scene itself seems really innocuous, but it brilliantly fleshes out Vander's perspective. I know most the Arcane audience tends to focus on Vi and Jinx, who are absolutely amazingly written characters. But, as someone with a daughter myself, i really identified with the everyday comfort of that flashback scene and how it contrasts with the chaos of having kids. But, as every parent will tell you, you wouldn't trade that chaos for anything. That, and seeing your kids supporting each other, like Vi and Jinx did in that moment just melts your heart. The emotional impact of that scene, all four characters getting that redemption, blew me away, both as a viewer, but also as someone who likes to critically analyze stories. The writers for Arcane deserve every award possible for this series.
There's sooo much meaning put into every detail in this story. For example the name Isha comes from the Indian culture, and it has a few different meanings. The most generic one is "guardian or protector" but there're even more alternative meanings as the word also directly connects to Shiva - the supreme deity who embodies absolute consciousness and is considered the destroyer of evil. Both interpretations can be applied to the character, as she was Jinx's protector (to her very end), but more importantly, her death was Jinx's wakeup call, essentially making her more conscious about her own actions which in turn made her a better person, as she stopped being evil. Not only that, but this can be expanded or explained even further, as with "destroying evil" it could also be foreshadowing for Isha ending the cursed death cycle of Jinx's loved ones - which also works with the fact that the word Jinx means "a person or thing that brings bad luck to; cast an evil spell on."
I dunno. I've never been this deeply emotionally involved in a show for a long time. It's good to know you're not eternally jaded and dead inside. That's like therapy.
Jinx : “Enforcer Vi, you’re under arrest! 😜😜😜😜😜😜” Vi : “GET OVER HERE! You idiot…I got no more supplies…of that lipstick…” - Who framed Roger Rabbit reference
Your are right. This series is INCREDIBLY beautiful and unique. What did we do to deserve it, you know? It basically came out of nowhere from a crew that made a few music videos and cinematics, like WHATT??? Thank you so much for sharing your perspective on this scene my friend, it was another glimpse at reliving the experience of the show now that it's done.
Low-key mention of SamDroid's "Arcane - What Have They Done to Us", brings further context to this assertion as well. BTW. Really awesome video and catch, it is very spot on. This show does not pull any punches.
I literally ugly cried during the "he's your dad too" scene. My wife, not interested in the show said, "why are you crying at the cartoon?" Had to take a week off from her, she wouldn't understand haha
Vander as Warwick was the catalyst to reunite Vi and Jinx the same way they are a catalyst to Warwick himself, which is Singed’s experiment and his path to successfully finish it. This has been the best Act from Arcane ever since Season 1 Act 1.
This scene hit me like a ton of bricks. Jinx finally feels acceptance for the person she is, not who she was supposed to be to Vi. Despite everything, Vi risks her life for Jinx and trusts her, and we get this amazing reunion. If only it could have ended on a similar note.
Episode 5 is the best of the entire series. And it was only with the two sisters together the way to "kill the circle"... that was how it had to end, with the two sisters together (even in death) to end it all in the 3 act.
The whole series feels like if any character did a single thing differently, everything would be so much better, its so tragic and heartbreaking. (also anyone know why in the act 3 teaser, the line "the likes of which piltover has never seen", jayce sounds scottish, its not close to his usual accent, or the actor's)
@@Of_infinite_Faith he's definitely the one saying "there's a storm coming", but with the attention to detail of arcane its no mistake. I was thinking it isn't him. (also ngl cant tell if its Irish or Scottish), either way there's none currently other than Maddie.
this is life, tiny details in life that if they had gone a different way our lives would be so different, then you add the parallel worlds theory where there is a word out there where each of those other choices are being played out. to add for those who don't know parallel worlds is a concept that is being widely researched and people like Stephen Hawkins accepted the theory, if you want more info you'd need to research multiple universe theory and quantum entanglement. what i find intriguing about all this is quantum entanglement which was just a hypothesis has been proven, so we might just be an the verge of finding other univeres
The letter and flashback scenes are what made Arcane season 2 lose me complitely. It does infinite amout damage to Silco's character by turning him from a person from Vander's past to effectively a godfather of the sisters. It fucking retcons season 1 and shifts foundation of relationship between Silco and each sister!
Feels like its a little less clean of a parallel when the "dirt" is that Vi smacked Powder once, while Powder turned into John Doe from Seven last season.
you are misunderstanding what happened from powder's perspective. Vi hit powder and left. She tried to go back, but got thrown in jail. Powder doesn't know that. She became jinx because she thought Vi abandoned her. She has severe abandonment issues, probably from losing her parents at a young age. It's why she clings so tightly to vi as a child and its why she replaces her with Silco.
@@flowchartkenYT I understand that Powder feels Vi abandoned her and doesn't know thats not true until E6 of last season. I understand thats the source of Powders issues with Vi and that those issues are exacerbated by Silco's gaslighting. What I'm saying is that the comparison pretty much ignores that the source of Vi's issues with Powder aren't merely that she caused the death of a loved one, but that she's since become a serial killer who's butchered a lot of Zaunites in service to the man that murdered their family, tried to gun down Vi herself in cold blood within minutes of reuniting and tried to coerce Vi into murdering Cait in a display of truly unhinged emotional blackmail before committing an act of mass murder. There's a pretty huge disparity between what Vi did to Powder as a half-beaten-to-death-tweenager, and what Powder has done to Vi and others as an (admittedly mentally unwell) young adult since then. and while Powder has now gotten an explanation for what happened from Vi.. Powder has given Vi absolutely nothing for her own actions. Unlike Silco himself, deranged as he was, Powder doesn't even claim to be motivated by a desire for revolution. All the blood on her hands in S1, and her attempted murder of Vi, just came from her trying to please Silco because her toxic codependency on him was her coping mechanism. The parallel of the Silco and Vander split to the Vi and Powder split only really works if you just stop at "friends/siblings who fell out". The overlayed sequences from this season chosen to show "what Vi did" to Powder ignore the context that those things only happened after Powder had killed a lot of innocent people in both cities. And its fine if you just want to stop there and say they just choose to not address that fact further for the sake of their relationship, though for the narrative I hope they dont do that, but the reality of their situations just isn't all that similar beyond a pretty surface level reading.
@@troikas3353Eh where Jinx killed "lots of innocents"? She almost exclusively killed Enforcers and thugs, only time we can say she killed something close to "innocent" is when she kills some Firelights Also literally everyone in the show has blood on their hands, ironically Vi and Cait have more blood of innocents on their hands than Jinx due to releasing Gray into Zaun, and then afterwards with the invasion of Zaun Cait basically repeated the situation in which Jinx and Vi's parents were killed. Not to mention Ambessa, whom Caitlyn worked with, Singed and so on
The seemingly popular discourse that Vi was underserved or didn't have an arc this season feels extremely reductive in the phase of excellent sequences like this one.
Long have I praised Tron Uprising as the greatest show despite them mouse lovers canceled the second season. But that compared to Arcane? Yeah... suddenly, Tron Uprising is nothing more but a bunch of moving lines in comparison. Arcane is a moving museum, not just a piece of art.
Absolute Cinema!! And some say s2 was bad.. true it could have been better if they had more runtime but damn the writing is sooo good. This is why Arcane just hits different emotionally.
where exactly is the writing good? you mean the part where Vi turns from hating enforcers to gassing Zaun with no proper explanation? Or the part where Jinx just decides to stop being crazy? Or the part where they have a fucking rat steak 15 minutes of screentime only to then be dispatched in a pointless fight that has no consequences? Or the part where Cait just starts sleeping with a random enforcer she previously hadnt even talked to? Or the part where Jayce, who fought Chemtanks before, can't hold his own against the dumbass baroness? Or the entire Mel-plot which is confusing AF and makes no sense? I could go on ... but you get the idea. The writing of season 2 is anything but good. there are good moments in the show but it gets weighed down too much by pointless set-ups without payoffs, deus ex machina, off-screen development and characters making decisions they never should have made.
@@thomasmann4536there are countless videos and such explaining why vi turns.. its sudden but it can be explained through what we have seen in the show. And jinx doesn’t just stop deciding to be crazy? She’s still crazy throughout. It’s just numbed by Isha’s presence. There are ALOT of things wrong with this season don’t get me wrong. But in my opinion it was still beautiful. But I can see where others come from. Just not with the jinx storyline, I think that was done pretty well.i will still love the show
@@thomasmann4536 it shows her resolve to stop jinx and she wasn’t gassing all of zaun. She wanted to use the gas in order to take out the people corrupting zaun. And even then you can see the turmoil inside her head and when confronting jinx and also confronting Caitlin. She wanted to trust that Caitlin was doing g the right thing. But I would agree that vi’s writing is great. A better way for me to put it would be that it felt like everything was in character for her.. it was just very abrupt with the way we got there. If you get me? The main thing I disagreed with u was about jinx.
I also see the “he’s your dad too” line as an acceptance of jinx as her sister, which is what jinx wanted (and needed) from vi the most. What an incredible scene.
MY HEART
It's absolutely essential that it's Vi who invites Jinx to the embrace, instead of Jinx eventually summoning the courage to join it herself. It undoes the otherwise permanent damage they've done to each other's relationships, and Vander's monstrous form puts in perspective that despite the monsters they have all become, in spite of it all they can still love one another and recognize each other as family.
Must not have been 'paced' correctly though 🤡🥴
It’s actually a three stage repetition.
In Act 1, S1, when Vi returns to the bar after Vander was kidnapped, Vi grabs her things, then Mylo starts collecting things as well to help her, because “He’s our dad too.” The brothers are choosing to risk their lives for their father because he’s family, but Powder is pushed out. In that moment, she isn’t family. Vi has pushed her out, overriding Powder’s willing choice to fight for her dad. And Powder, showing signs of BPD, can’t tell it’s because Vi can risk the brothers, she can risk Vander, but she can’t risk her.
Then in the mines during Season 2, Jinx tells Vi bluntly that she brought her along because “He’s your dad too.” It’s phrased uncertainly when Jinx says it, as if she’s almost offering it to Vi as proof. What she’s avoiding saying is the question “are we still family?” Jinx doesn’t know what Vi thinks anymore, all she’s seen is her sister in a destructive spiral, to the point where everything she knew about her is different.
Then we see it conclude when Vi chooses to trust Jinx, letting down her guard and closing in with Vander. This terrifies Jinx, but when she finally can see, Vi returns the statement. “He’s your dad too” emphasizing that after everything, they’re still family, Vi and Jinx are still sisters, even if everything is different. They’ve all become monstrous versions of themselves, but that bond is still unbroken.
and it happens as equals, i maybe wrong, but this maybe the cause of why they couldn't mend their relationship in the first season, because Vi tries to save Powder, instead of working with Jinx through her issues.
@@arbiterally101very well put!
The letter is even signed as V, which works both for Vander and Vi!
OMG
Wait… holy crap…
also V is 5 and Vi is 6 which is kinda a random funny lol
Wait until they meet vis daughter vii
@@oplars6487 or vander dad: Ivan
"He's your dad too" what a wonderful way to say "we are still sisters" without even saying it
Especially since Jinx actually said it first, earlier in the episode
I assumed Jinx was terrified in the dark because she "jinxes" everyone close to her, and maybe led Vi to her death. But Vi was embracing Vander. This reassured within Jinx two things:
1. She is not delusional as Vi claimed earlier ("Vander is dead, you're delusional") thus she can trust in her own perceptions
2. She is not a jinx or a curse, her actions can lead to beautiful things happening. Trusting in her will not necessarily lead to misery.
Powder/Jinx had been yearning for this to happen. For Vi to trust her, to believe her, and for her own judgement to lead to good things
"She is not a jinx or a curse, her actions can lead to beautiful things happening."
Jinx might have a hard time convincing herself of that after what just happened
@chrishaven1489 just let her have this one moment atleast😭😭😭😭
ohhhh i love this! clap clap
makes sense to me! I loved the animation of her expression when she was in the dark! They're SO incredible at animating expressions!!!!
for her whole life with Vi, her opinion was disregarded. shes always wanted Vi to trust her since s1e1
its why when Vi leaves her in s1e3 Powder goes crazy. "why did you leave me?" -> "because you're a jinx"
powder feels Vi is saying "i dont trust you. you mess everything up because thats who you are"
then in s2e6 when Vi asks "what do you think?" Jinx is completely taken aback that Vi actually wants her opinion
arcane really does have incredible character arcs. you can look at moments from multiple seasons and they lock together like puzzle pieces
''Powder/Jinx had been yearning for this to happen. For Vi to trust her, to believe her, and for her own judgement to lead to good thing''
Except for blowing up everyone in season 1 😅
I wanted it to end right there soooo baaad. Ahh that brought me to tears.
Same
Same
This scene made me cry so much. I almost don’t even want act 3 because we all know it won’t be a happy ending.
Arcane S2 was 5 episodes, what do you mean act 3?
@@xArt_16 oh you sweet child of Alabama
@@xArt_16i respect the cope
I think the ending will be bitter sweet
Honestly? I think it will be a happy ending. Jinx and Vi are getting along, and even though things look bad after Isha, I'm pretty sure that the climax will be Jinx and Vi working together.
I don't think Jayce and Victor are going to get along, but the two sisters are going to work out, and that's good enough for me.
Their relationship is so tragic. And the song "What have they done to us" in that scene is just killing me with it's lyrics😭😭😭
They just wanted to be a happy familly, but the circumstances they were all put in just didn't give them a chance💔💔💔
and even in the world where she isnt a jinx, they still arent all there 😭
"Violet you've got a good heart. Don't ever lose it, no matter how hard the world tries to break you. Protect the family."
Vi literaly said "He's gonna kill you" while running into a 2meters monster that can slash you in half in a single blow. Vander was right, she has such good heart, able to forgive everyone whatever the pain she suffured.
Alternate timeline Powder is also right.
Vi is afraid of losing her loved ones more than anything.
I think it reframes everything Silco ever told Jinx about their own failed revolution. Vander wasn't the malicious betrayer and he didn't work with the Enforcers because he gave up on an independent Zaun. He was a man who deeply regretted his actions and worked toward a peaceful solution.
Vander and Silco wanted the same thing but they just had two different ways of achieving it.
That’s why the scene where Silco talks to his statue in season 1 hits so fucking hard man. He finally realized why Vander would be so determined not to fight anymore, why after commuting such a horrific act of violence against Silco he could still preach peace. Silco could’ve had everything he wanted if he gave up Jinx, but he couldn’t bring himself to abandon his daughter. This damn show man 💔
Learning that Silco was going to casually murder his dead friends kids as steps B and C to a plan for getting personal power reframes things pretty heavily too. He knew those kids, he knew their mother, and the only reason he didn't unceremoniously butcher both of them was the fact one fought like hell to stop him, and the other lucked into triggering his narcissism.
@@troikas3353 and it also reframed his hug after she throws herself into his arms. She’s not a random kid. He knows her. And she knows him too, from before her parents died.
As a grown man of thirty years, I am wholly unashamed to say that I was ugly crying at this scene. Big fat, ugly tears rolling down my cheeks. It really was a beautiful scene and it wasn’t until my second watch through that I realized the letter was a direct parallel to Jinx and Vi. Like you said, there really isn’t another story like it. Arcane sits, amongst others, at the peak of story telling.
Dude I'm 51 and I ugly cried. Don't be ashamed of having a heart.
47 and did the same, and still tear up every single time I see this scene. It's taken 23 years, but I think this series has finally knocked Band of Brothers from my #1 best TV series spot. Or at least equalled it.
Re-watch season one. It hits COMPLETELY differently. The details... they were there the whole time.
Male, about to be 32 in a matter of days. I sobbed, in private, like a child who needed their mother, so many times in between S1 and S2. The closure. The new wounds. The new questions. Episode 7, S2. Isha. Watching Jinx begin to heal (for a bit) and care for others. "Ever since you came into my life, it feels like I put on glasses... except I can't tell if it's clearer or blurry..."
I can't begin to describe how this series has affected me and allowed me to look at myself through a different lens.
I am a different person after finishing it. And I have never, ever loaded a LoL character into RuneTerra, and know jack-shit about the game.
@@SavveGaming Tears are never ugly 😌
Let me join the club of 30+ yo men who cried watching this scene.
Something worth of note as well because I'm uncertain if the creators did this intentionally. When Jinx is reading the letter with Vi at her back, the shadow Vi casts on the wall matches Vander's silhouette.
wow I didn't even see that before but I think you're right. That's very cool good catch
100% intentional. The Arcane writers and animators have been insanely thorough and thoughtful in how they craft this show down to details like that throughout both seasons. Also nice catch, I didn't notice it in my first or second watch somehow.
I won't fully recover if Vi and Jinx don't get the "together again" happy ending at the end of the show. The show owes it to Vi, one of the few characters who went through a lot of pain yet never decided to show a dark side of her. The only times she made poor decisions was breaking through Jayce's lab when they were young, and when she decides to punish herself in season 2 act 2.
Agreed
Jinx and Vi deserve to have a happy ending i agree
I her defence, robbing Jayce was just a way to provide for their family
I feel like jinx might leave on her own but in good terms with Vi.
Or maybe when she tried to kill her sister?
I love that the hug scene is one of the rare moments the show breaks with its "grim-dark" theme. (grim-dark = characters are punished for trying to do the right thing)
In this moment we fear Vander killed Vi, because the show proved to us many times it is very possible for tragedy to happen.
Vander killing Vi in that moment would have been absolutely devastatig.
And that is why the hug feels so cathartic. Relief + hope + healing. I cried.
Of course we'll be hit with tragedy again soon enough, in order for these rare moments to feel so painfully sweet and fragile.
When something good seemed to happen in Arcane it's only so that the show could rip all our hope to shreds an EP later 😢
Also, Isha loaded three hex spheres into the gun, much like Powder she used with her monkey bomb that once derailed the entire storyline. But this time, Isha turns the tide, saving the day by sacrificing herself for everyone else-a true act of redemption for Powder through Isha
Vi really has a good heart, even after all that happened she trusted her life to Jinx words and let them be a family for a moment again 😢😢
Alot of relationship is like this and can be save by just simply reaching out, admitting the mistake or apologizing.
sometimes we just need to talk to each other
So fantastically pointed out that how Vander's letter describes Vi and Jinx. Season 1 makes it clear that those two inherit the "family" conflict between Vander and Silco, and it's been my belief that you can use the dynamic between the sisters to infer the dynamic of the brothers. When we see the conflict between Vi and Jinx develop in season 1, we were also learning more about Silco and Vander. Sure, Silco said Vander betrayed him, but I don't think a lot of us sympathized with Silco in S1E3. However, we empathized with Powder when Vi hit her, and Vi realized she was making a mistake. They then gave us 3 years to infer that this is how Silco experienced Vander's betrayal before confirming it with the letter. To me it's another example where the writers tell us "see, it was the same as with Vi and Jinx all along, did you make the connection yet?"
This is definitely a show that requires you to pay attention, pause, think and rewatch, in order to fully understand its meaning.
I love how jinx said "I'm always with you, even if we're worlds Apart"
Perhaps alluding to the last scene, when we see the airship leaving, presumably with Jinx in it. Powder said she'll ride an airship in the first episode. So, we can assume she left Piltover and is now "world's apart", yet is still with Vi in her heart.
Let's hope Jinx, Isha, Vi and Vander can finally have the happy ending they’ve earned.
Isha died
@shannarong3475 act 2 episode 6: well, about that... 😬
@@umcaraaleatorio751 What are you talking about? Isha grew up happy and is living a good life with her sister and dad in Viktor’s glorious church.
@@gifem507 ik Everyone is living happily and peacefully. far away from war and all the madness.
@@shannarong3475 The copium is insane
i luv u for not removing music.
u cannot change my mind that arcane is the peak of storywriting. it is perfect, in every way
music, it's perfect,
artwork, perfect,
imagery, perfect,
character design, perfect,
references, perfect,
sound design, perfect...
EVERYTHING IS PERFECT.
like i cannot find even ONE character that i can hate, theres not ONE i tell u
MFKING MADDIE
Holy crap, this is one of the best post-Arcane videos I've yet seen: You not only made your point, you _crushed_ it with editing that made it absolutely undeniable. Really excellent job -- shame about the demonetization, but as least you get an insta-sub from me! :) (That bit where you managed to map Silco's words -- "blisters and bedrock" -- to Jinx's lips was _inspired!_ )
It was crazy how well that lined up. And no worries, I don't care much about the monetization it's just kinda crazy how the copyright system works. I just really wanted to have the music in there.
Also - thank you!
Jinx desperately search for vi in the dark is so sad
and the other thing when Warwick comes barrelling down the hall Vi puts herself between him and Jinx and says "he's going to kill you" not "you lied" or "he's going to kill me" Vi still loved her sister and even thought they have hurt each other they still consciously or not still protect each other when it matters Vi when she listened to Jinx "trust me" and Vi when she stood in front of them
when vi and jinx find vander in the tunnels, and "remember me" starts playing, i started balling my eyes out
When i saw the scene were they all embraced each other i thought to myself what a fucked up yet beautiful family
"There is truly nothing else in the world like this show" amen to that, brother. Nice videao
Really enjoying these quick bite sized vids, great analysis
I also love how despite Vi constantly saying how much she doesn’t trust Jinx, she still follows her to check out what she’s claiming, despite how much Jinx has done and how Vi believes jinx isn’t her sister anymore, she still goes and her saying how much she doesn’t trust her is as if she is trying to remind herself not to because it’s in her instinct to trust her sister but that trust is broken yet she’s still in that tunnel and how Vi instantly jumps in between Jinx and Warwick to protect her because she is still her older loving and protective big sis
Great analysis, but one part you left out. The flashback scene in the bar with the mom. The scene itself seems really innocuous, but it brilliantly fleshes out Vander's perspective. I know most the Arcane audience tends to focus on Vi and Jinx, who are absolutely amazingly written characters. But, as someone with a daughter myself, i really identified with the everyday comfort of that flashback scene and how it contrasts with the chaos of having kids. But, as every parent will tell you, you wouldn't trade that chaos for anything. That, and seeing your kids supporting each other, like Vi and Jinx did in that moment just melts your heart. The emotional impact of that scene, all four characters getting that redemption, blew me away, both as a viewer, but also as someone who likes to critically analyze stories. The writers for Arcane deserve every award possible for this series.
There's sooo much meaning put into every detail in this story. For example the name Isha comes from the Indian culture, and it has a few different meanings.
The most generic one is "guardian or protector" but there're even more alternative meanings as the word also directly connects to Shiva - the supreme deity who embodies absolute consciousness and is considered the destroyer of evil. Both interpretations can be applied to the character, as she was Jinx's protector (to her very end), but more importantly, her death was Jinx's wakeup call, essentially making her more conscious about her own actions which in turn made her a better person, as she stopped being evil. Not only that, but this can be expanded or explained even further, as with "destroying evil" it could also be foreshadowing for Isha ending the cursed death cycle of Jinx's loved ones - which also works with the fact that the word Jinx means "a person or thing that brings bad luck to; cast an evil spell on."
Thank you, I've been trying fo the past hour to stop crying about the season finale and now im crying all over again
Every day I fall more in love with this show.
Vi's shadow is Vander's silhouette. Wild. Wonderul scene. Great video.
Saw the description, and im like hell yeah this wouldnt have been the same without the music.
This video is perfectly spot on. I couldn't have described the parallels any better and I gladly yap about this show to anyone I know
you sold me the show ( it is already my favorite piece of cinema )
Now I need Riot to pay for my therapy. Pain.
I dunno. I've never been this deeply emotionally involved in a show for a long time.
It's good to know you're not eternally jaded and dead inside.
That's like therapy.
did u talk to riot about it
That's literally their only moment of happiness and it lasted what? 5 seconds 😭
Portryal of familial love always gets me, Arcane does it beautifully and of course left me drowning in am ocean of my own tears 😭
I am work... holding back tears so I dont have to explain myself to a bunch of co-workers that just would not understand..
This was the first time I've ever cried during a TV show.
Jinx : “Enforcer Vi, you’re under arrest! 😜😜😜😜😜😜”
Vi : “GET OVER HERE! You idiot…I got no more supplies…of that lipstick…”
- Who framed Roger Rabbit reference
Dude. That was beautiful.
This is what arcane is about… beauty. I live it so much despite the negative reviews it’s been getting recently.
This scene hits so hard. This show is outstanding in it's writting and character development.
Isha is an allegory of Jinx's inner child I will die on this hill.
Your are right. This series is INCREDIBLY beautiful and unique. What did we do to deserve it, you know? It basically came out of nowhere from a crew that made a few music videos and cinematics, like WHATT??? Thank you so much for sharing your perspective on this scene my friend, it was another glimpse at reliving the experience of the show now that it's done.
Jinx's lips perfectly syncing with "blisters and bedrock" was criminal
this is the scene that broke me the hardest.
yesss! this scene made me tear up!! the embrace, ahhh!
The most beautiful scene and my favourite in the entire show.
there is truly nothing else like this show in this world... 100% on spot!
this freaking damn scene hit me in ways i could not even imagine was possible 😩
"There is truly nothing else in the world like this show" - that was exactly what i thought after i saw it.
I cried my eyes out on this scene, and still feel the goosebumps
Low-key mention of SamDroid's "Arcane - What Have They Done to Us", brings further context to this assertion as well. BTW. Really awesome video and catch, it is very spot on. This show does not pull any punches.
fuck dude.... I cried watching it and now teared up again...Such an amazing show!
I hope we get longer vids like this more regularly!!
When Isha walks over to console Jinx, look how Jinx's face lights up when she looks at Isha.
Thanks for making me cry again :D
To be fair I was not expecting much of Arcane, but when I watched the S1 it was epic. Now with s2 it's even better.
It's a job very well done.
Great breakdown
I thought I was losing my eyes from crying during this
I literally ugly cried during the "he's your dad too" scene. My wife, not interested in the show said, "why are you crying at the cartoon?" Had to take a week off from her, she wouldn't understand haha
honestly your wife deserved that timeout hahahaha
Damn, that's hard to be with someone with whom you can't share those moments. 😢
YOU FOOL THE SHOW ALREADY WON ME OVER IN THE VERY FIRST EPISODE
so much bad luck in their lives, especially jinx. so much wrong decisions made with good intentions. its heartbreaking.
Vander as Warwick was the catalyst to reunite Vi and Jinx the same way they are a catalyst to Warwick himself, which is Singed’s experiment and his path to successfully finish it.
This has been the best Act from Arcane ever since Season 1 Act 1.
damn you dig deep
Thanks for this. Didn’t know here’s a parallel too!
This scene hit me like a ton of bricks. Jinx finally feels acceptance for the person she is, not who she was supposed to be to Vi. Despite everything, Vi risks her life for Jinx and trusts her, and we get this amazing reunion. If only it could have ended on a similar note.
Yeah then episode 6 instantly destroyed it 😭
I cried harder for this scene than for Isha in E6.
Me and my sister lost out dad 3 years ago. And this whole sequence hit so hard.
Wow, this shows storytelling is amazing
This show got parallels for days.
AMAZING video and analysis
thx, now im crying...again...😢
Man, Arcane gets better the more times you watch it
Episode 5 is the best of the entire series. And it was only with the two sisters together the way to "kill the circle"... that was how it had to end, with the two sisters together (even in death) to end it all in the 3 act.
...I'm not crying, I was attacked by onion ninjas.
agreed, thats the scene that won me over on season 2
The best series on Netflix so far.
The whole series feels like if any character did a single thing differently, everything would be so much better, its so tragic and heartbreaking.
(also anyone know why in the act 3 teaser, the line "the likes of which piltover has never seen", jayce sounds scottish, its not close to his usual accent, or the actor's)
Because it's not Jayce saying those lines, it's somebody else. Idk who.
@@Of_infinite_Faith he's definitely the one saying "there's a storm coming", but with the attention to detail of arcane its no mistake. I was thinking it isn't him. (also ngl cant tell if its Irish or Scottish), either way there's none currently other than Maddie.
"And even Powder in the form of Isha."
Dont you hit me with the "Isha became Powder" line after act 2's ending, I stg. Q('.'Q)
this is life, tiny details in life that if they had gone a different way our lives would be so different, then you add the parallel worlds theory where there is a word out there where each of those other choices are being played out. to add for those who don't know parallel worlds is a concept that is being widely researched and people like Stephen Hawkins accepted the theory, if you want more info you'd need to research multiple universe theory and quantum entanglement. what i find intriguing about all this is quantum entanglement which was just a hypothesis has been proven, so we might just be an the verge of finding other univeres
I love this final scene on the season finale of arcane, yep the show totally ended after this and nothing bad happened.
So good!
i watched this scene last night and it pained me sm. i miss Silco and Vander. I wish they made up together like what happened in the alter universe
I… I just teared up.. again.. WHEN JINX TEARED UP AND LIKE..W,DMQLDKWDNAK????????? HUH
Fck, you made me cry again😢
The letter and flashback scenes are what made Arcane season 2 lose me complitely. It does infinite amout damage to Silco's character by turning him from a person from Vander's past to effectively a godfather of the sisters. It fucking retcons season 1 and shifts foundation of relationship between Silco and each sister!
How can a show be this good! unbelievable!
It's raining again!!!
Arcane season 1 should really be called Jinx's two dads
best show in my life i have ever seen . sorry TLOU HBO
Feels like its a little less clean of a parallel when the "dirt" is that Vi smacked Powder once, while Powder turned into John Doe from Seven last season.
you are misunderstanding what happened from powder's perspective.
Vi hit powder and left. She tried to go back, but got thrown in jail. Powder doesn't know that. She became jinx because she thought Vi abandoned her. She has severe abandonment issues, probably from losing her parents at a young age. It's why she clings so tightly to vi as a child and its why she replaces her with Silco.
@@flowchartkenYT I understand that Powder feels Vi abandoned her and doesn't know thats not true until E6 of last season. I understand thats the source of Powders issues with Vi and that those issues are exacerbated by Silco's gaslighting.
What I'm saying is that the comparison pretty much ignores that the source of Vi's issues with Powder aren't merely that she caused the death of a loved one, but that she's since become a serial killer who's butchered a lot of Zaunites in service to the man that murdered their family, tried to gun down Vi herself in cold blood within minutes of reuniting and tried to coerce Vi into murdering Cait in a display of truly unhinged emotional blackmail before committing an act of mass murder.
There's a pretty huge disparity between what Vi did to Powder as a half-beaten-to-death-tweenager, and what Powder has done to Vi and others as an (admittedly mentally unwell) young adult since then. and while Powder has now gotten an explanation for what happened from Vi.. Powder has given Vi absolutely nothing for her own actions. Unlike Silco himself, deranged as he was, Powder doesn't even claim to be motivated by a desire for revolution. All the blood on her hands in S1, and her attempted murder of Vi, just came from her trying to please Silco because her toxic codependency on him was her coping mechanism.
The parallel of the Silco and Vander split to the Vi and Powder split only really works if you just stop at "friends/siblings who fell out". The overlayed sequences from this season chosen to show "what Vi did" to Powder ignore the context that those things only happened after Powder had killed a lot of innocent people in both cities. And its fine if you just want to stop there and say they just choose to not address that fact further for the sake of their relationship, though for the narrative I hope they dont do that, but the reality of their situations just isn't all that similar beyond a pretty surface level reading.
@@troikas3353Eh where Jinx killed "lots of innocents"? She almost exclusively killed Enforcers and thugs, only time we can say she killed something close to "innocent" is when she kills some Firelights
Also literally everyone in the show has blood on their hands, ironically Vi and Cait have more blood of innocents on their hands than Jinx due to releasing Gray into Zaun, and then afterwards with the invasion of Zaun Cait basically repeated the situation in which Jinx and Vi's parents were killed. Not to mention Ambessa, whom Caitlyn worked with, Singed and so on
The seemingly popular discourse that Vi was underserved or didn't have an arc this season feels extremely reductive in the phase of excellent sequences like this one.
Why your channel has just 13k !?
Long have I praised Tron Uprising as the greatest show despite them mouse lovers canceled the second season. But that compared to Arcane?
Yeah... suddenly, Tron Uprising is nothing more but a bunch of moving lines in comparison.
Arcane is a moving museum, not just a piece of art.
Absolute Cinema!! And some say s2 was bad.. true it could have been better if they had more runtime but damn the writing is sooo good. This is why Arcane just hits different emotionally.
where exactly is the writing good?
you mean the part where Vi turns from hating enforcers to gassing Zaun with no proper explanation? Or the part where Jinx just decides to stop being crazy? Or the part where they have a fucking rat steak 15 minutes of screentime only to then be dispatched in a pointless fight that has no consequences? Or the part where Cait just starts sleeping with a random enforcer she previously hadnt even talked to? Or the part where Jayce, who fought Chemtanks before, can't hold his own against the dumbass baroness? Or the entire Mel-plot which is confusing AF and makes no sense?
I could go on ... but you get the idea. The writing of season 2 is anything but good. there are good moments in the show but it gets weighed down too much by pointless set-ups without payoffs, deus ex machina, off-screen development and characters making decisions they never should have made.
The writing wasn’t amazing but the season and show as a whole was decent.
@@thomasmann4536there are countless videos and such explaining why vi turns.. its sudden but it can be explained through what we have seen in the show. And jinx doesn’t just stop deciding to be crazy? She’s still crazy throughout. It’s just numbed by Isha’s presence. There are ALOT of things wrong with this season don’t get me wrong. But in my opinion it was still beautiful. But I can see where others come from. Just not with the jinx storyline, I think that was done pretty well.i will still love the show
@@atomicaaron6720 please point me at the scene in the show that explains why Vi is suddenly fine with gassing Zaun.
@@thomasmann4536 it shows her resolve to stop jinx and she wasn’t gassing all of zaun. She wanted to use the gas in order to take out the people corrupting zaun. And even then you can see the turmoil inside her head and when confronting jinx and also confronting Caitlin. She wanted to trust that Caitlin was doing g the right thing. But I would agree that vi’s writing is great. A better way for me to put it would be that it felt like everything was in character for her.. it was just very abrupt with the way we got there. If you get me? The main thing I disagreed with u was about jinx.
And then loses me completely in Act 3