even without the hearts scrawled over her eyes, you can tell just by her expression just how much love Jinx has for Vi. like, holy shit I'm kinda tearing up with the tragedy of it...
It's amazing how much of the actual story you were able to infer from this 2 minute clip. Having just watched the show a couple weeks ago, and gushing about it ever since, it's amazing how good the visual storytelling is in this show. I can't even express how impressed I was in this show. Arcane is my favorite show, hard stop.
Came over from bridging the rift, watched the whole animation breakdown and ... completely bawled my eyes out. Very insightful analysis video, and amazing on how much stuff you were right at that point in time. Very deserved mention in the BTS.
With the punching machine score… what if VI's score improves because she is getting angrier and angrier through days? What if that’s what they want to show?
Super late to the Arcane train but I just gotta say with the closing remark at the end about how the final product might not be as good as this scene- ITS SO COOL THAT IT WAS!!! The immense consistency with this show wows me every time
Warwick knows Jinx and Vi for sure from his voice lines. He did something to them, something that he regrets to Jinx and it seems he has anger towards Vi. Specically the line of "Zaun needed you." He also has the line of "Who taught you how to punch" to Vi which has lovely possible tie ins to him teaching her to fight or her learning to punch from him in other ways. Warwick has already been confirmed for the series so have to assume that scream is to do with Warwick. My personal headcanon was Warwick is Jinx and Vi's father and the scream was Jinx witnessing Warwick be taken or he did something unspeakably terrible (hence his voice line to jinx of being "let me forget...")
i hate how rito cinematics and animations never fail to make me emotional. idk what exactly does so, probably the master tier combination of storytelling and animation down to the tiniest details like camera angle and color palette. i just love it. and hate it
OMG It's almost 3 AM over here and, suddenly, "HERE'S A NEW TBSKYEN VIDEO" I was expecting this, but not now. At first, I thought it was just a short, but God, it's 1 hour long... I LOVE IT I'll check it out as soon as I wake up. Thank you!
idk if its a slight error or a hint at something else but the scoreboard in the flashback @ 34:17 seems to be the same as the on in the 'present' as we see jinx observing it. which means the flashback of vi is her punching the machine and resulting in a score lower than 12th place, which is 975. to me this means vi either beat the machine so hard it broke, explaining why jinx had to fix it or less likely, this is the one time she didn't use augmented gauntlets lol. i also love Jinx's top. i haven't heard any one mention this but i doubt im the only one to notice but there's a rather overt "X" visible in its style. Vi being 6 in roman numerals. and ekko - also from zaun and likely the same "gang" or "family" has Xii on his bat/sword/lightsabre thingie. just a neat little nuance i appreciated. and this *might* be a bit of a stretch but the railing around the punching machine seems chaotic but on the left (when looking in from the outside) you have a shape like a "J" and on the right you see a "V" shape. again, this is a bit of a stretch but i had to notice it. ALSO, another thing i might be reading into too much is the break in the STAINED glass could be interpreted as a giant bullet whole with its trajectory aiming like a rifle scope at the position where the crow ultimately ends up landing, and unfortunately being "murdered" [which btw its literally legally impossible to murder an animal, murder only applies to humans, sorry im a stickler] and a flock of crows is called a murder. so a bit of an inception esq. foreshadowing/symbolism. sorry for the rant, i don't really do reddit, im not on any forms nor am i part of any online community besides youtube comments. so if this has all been discussed.. oops? just wanted to let it all out.
Skyen talking about the meaning of 2 seconds of animation has the same energy as those english teachers that talk about the hidden meaning of a random sentence for 20 minutes of a lecture
when powder got slapped i cryed and when i saw jinx at the episode the walls are falling down at the end the way jinx got all crazy killing made me cry
Not to put too fine a point on it, but 2D "smearing" is just art-directed motion blur. Smearing, "motion lines", duplicated geometry, and squash and stretch are all 2D hacks meant to simulate motion blur. But since these effects aren't generated by a mathematical simulation of physics (like 3D motion blur is), they can be art-directed in all kinds of interesting ways.
this animation breakdown has "college professor lecturing passionately at his students" energy and im completely here for it and taking notes for the test on Friday sir.
The thing that gets me is this. Vi has boxing gloves and most of the targets are padded, but not the face plate. Jinx punches the metal faceplate multiple times, with all her strength, and doesnt even flinch. That has to hurt.
After six rounds of re-editing, and some careful deployment of awkward slideshows, I _think_ the copyright bots are finally leaving this video alone. At least for now. It might get claimed later, and I'll just have to live without the ad revenue, oh well. Thank god for my Patreon supporters
Watched over 30 mins & 3~4 ads were played so far... Really great presentation i hope it didn't get copyrighted by any mean & still get the revenue from me watching those lil ads..
*Spoiler Warning* 26:37 I just noticed, that in the moment Jinx shot the bird, she closed her eyes. Now, this could just be an instinctive reaction to firing her gun, a lot of people do that - but, with the benefit of having watched all of Arcane multiple times, I've noticed something of a trend in Jinx's behavior: She doesn't like violence or death - chaos, destruction, explosions; absolutely yes, but not violence itself. Let me explain: *Episode 1,* we see her covering her eyes as singing a song as she and Vi walks along a bridge during a battle between Piltover and Zaun. She is blocking out the violence and destruction around her. Later, the same episode, Vi and the gang gets into a fight with some other kids on the street, and she looks absolutely traumatized as she looks on. *Episode 3,* after the disaster of her Monkey Bomb, she runs up to Vi pleased that her Monkey Bomb worked, not even noticing the corpse right next to her, only reacting to the fact that Vi is upset with her, and when she does realize that something went horribly wrong, her eyes immediately fixate of Claggor's bloody goggles, rather than the corpse in front of her. *Episode 5,* (this scene), she closes her eyes as she shoots the bird. *Episode 7,* after setting off a series of explosive mechanical butterflies (or whatever), Jinx walks down the old bridge, humming the tune she was singing in Episode 1, when she comes upon one enforcer who is badly wounded, but still alive, and she points her gun at him, looking at him only briefly, before averting her eyes as she pulls the trigger. Add to this the fact, that her preferred weapons are her explosives and the minigun - her pistol is used mostly as a backup/holdout weapon; her MO of killing is imprecise, impersonal, and at a distance, so she doesn't have to see the people she kills, and her victims are nameless, faceless enforcers or members of a rival gang (Firelights) - obstacles in her path that have no emotional tie to her. The few times when she is confronted by someone she actually knows (Vi, Ekko, even Cait and Sevika), she hesitates/refuses to pull the trigger and/or misses her shots, even at close range. Jinx does not lack empathy, she is not an unfeeling, cold-blooded killer (at least not in season 1) - she has learned to mentally block out violence and death from her mind, to the point she's probably not even aware she's doing it. To her, the "kill" itself is not the point, it's not why she attacks people (or birds) - it's just about making them "go away".
You're totally right! I've been trying to explain this many times, because Jinx was a very empathetic child. She didn't show any signs of struggling with empathy or anything. As Powder, she always would absorb everyone's moods like a sponge, and when she didn't understand the gravity of death on the bridge ep1 bc she was like 5, she looked to her sister and then immediately started crying because Vi was crying. Actually the ep3 scene you mentioned is one of the things that people use to claim she wasn't very empathetic. People point out how she yelled about 'why did you leave me' rather than about the fact that her family died, but from my pov, it seems totally reasonable that a child that would struggle to process all of that guilt and grief would try to shift the blame onto VI's actions. Like, in that scene, Jinx's priority wasn't that Vi left her, and it wasn't what hurt the most. It was what Jinx fixated on because out of everything that hurt, it hurt the least. So it wasn't an unempathetic reaction to her family's death, it was coping with too many emotions to process. But yeah, the only time we see her actively enjoying violence is ep6 while shooting the firelights, and from everything I've seen, they were faceless, and she didn't look like she was even paying attention to how she was hurting people. She looked like she was on an adrenaline high or playing a game. There was no sadism there, just a mindless mania. She only really seems sadistic when around Sevika or pulling a prank, but with Sevika it's a 'haha I'm in control and you're not' vibe, and she treats her pranks with about the levity you'd expect a teenager to, even though they're notably crueler bc of her upbringing. What you were saying about her averting her eyes when looking at violence- ok two things that solidify your point, One- im gonna elaborate on the example from this video-> Jinx doesn't just close her eyes when she shoots the crow, she doesn't even turn back to look. We know from the show that at some point she gathered the feathers, but she doesn't want to see it fall to the ground or suffer. She turns around with the momentum of the shot and doesn't even get a glance at its body. And picking up the feathers was likely a utilitarianism- 'well I've already killed this thing, and these feathers are scattered all around, let's make some use of them' Two-> In the Jinx council archives(i think of you haven't already read them, they're on the league wiki), she basically writes in her diary that that she feels immense guilt about everyone she killed, not just her family, and that they haunt her constantly. She also wrote(a little cryptically) basically that she used to close the eyes of the people she 'took care of' on silcos orders. We also see that Jinx independently developed the religious belief that everyone goes to a wholesome afterlife where they're with their loved ones, likely to cope with the fact that she regularly murders people. These are not things that come about when you have a character who enjoys inflicting pain or lacks empathy, these are the behaviors of someone who has to shut down their empathy to cope with working in a gang in Zaun. Anyway sorry if this went on too long, I hope you appreciate my input. Love your comment and your interpretations, have a good day :D
we should make a skyen drinking game: - if the video is more than 40 min, drink - "animated on 2s/3s" drink - "hand animatade" drink - when he talks for 5 min about a 2 second scene, drink
the animators also did a great job showing the weight or intensity of her breathing with her stomach moving in & out, plus her arms & shoulders shifting slightly to accommodate her ribs as she's breathing.
The animation here is amazing but it's those facial expressions that really sell it. They're just so raw and prefect. Even the shots of Jinx with the "emotionless mask".... shows so much emotion. I know that emotion. I've felt it. And I can feel it in her when watching this. As for the mirroring fight scene. Yeah, Jinx is mirroring Vi's attacks, but is doing things HER way. It shows the differences in personality. Vi is a very controlled and methodical fighter. Every strike is precise and the movement is quick and tight. Where-as Jinx is just going absolutely wild. She's flailing around and throwing her whole body into every attack. It shows her crazy personality, but it also shows that she's just letting go and pouring out all of her emotions into every attack. That is why she's not only exhausted at the end, but also why she's still not as good a fighter as Vi. I've never been a fan of LoL and never played the games (love the Pentakill music though). But this animation just looks way too good not to watch. Sure, the Jinx in the game (and the animated promo stuff for the game) looks like a fun character - but the Jinx in Arcane looks like someone with so much depth to them and I feel like I can relate to a lot.
This actually puts a tragic spin on Vi's rogueish hotshot persona as well. Because, as far as I've seen in the games, Vi never let's herself get angry, like really, primal yell angry. For all her "punch first..." attitude, she doesn't seem to get much hotter, emotionally, than "why I oughtta..."
From what we know (just the Warwick "You were there... Let me forget", Fiddlestick "Jinx! All your fault. All your fault!" and Sawin "Faces... Fading in the flames... It was all her fault" quites) Vi very VERY likely had a good reason to be pissed. The context of the Swain line is basicly Swain reading the memories of Jinx too...
The neutral expression when Jinx whips out her pistol is a battle stare. Essentially a trigger has already been pulled in the mind and any doubts have significantly reduced impact on judgement. This allows for quick and even merciless decision making. While this is often equated to combat readiness it should rather be seen as a method of emotional preservation, a way to disassociate one's self from immediate actions and events.
I’ve felt that, that instant “shut everything off but what you need”. Only once, in a dangerous situation, and then in the flashbacks after. It’s… horrible. I feel so bad for Jinx, if she’s always on the edge of that.
Looked it up cause I happen to have frighteningly experienced it once, coincidentally and quite sadly, like the afrementioned series, towards my younger sister. So it genuinely intrigued me, and I found out that it's sometimes known as the thousand-yard stare, "The blank, unfocused gazed of combatants who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them."
I also appreciate that there's a separate conversation that kinda help someone who doesn't understand trauma get what's going on without directly talking about Vi and Jinx when Mel says that her family cast her out but part of her still loves them.
39:15 The way Jinx is standing there while remembering Vi - With her legs together, arms to the side, head down, is similar to the way a child apologizes to a parent or teacher for doing something wrong. But in this case, of course, it’s more twisted than that. Also, when you said “Taking her high score away from her, however small that is..” my eyes got steamy. As a Jinx main, I know how hard it is to kite a Vi… Jinx needs a guardian angel 👼🏼🥺 (Ya know there’s a double meaning in those LoL jokes. )
Jesus Christ this video came out over a year ago now? I'm rewatching this after seeing that the Arcane creators talked about this exact video on their "the creation of Arcane" Bridging the Rift series.
Zaunite that lived in the slums have a very harsh live. A childs that was abandoned by their parents is pretty common in there. It's like a dystopian fantasy world. Either their turn to crimes so that they can eat, or become a scavenger that have very little income, or they starve to death. It's hard to find a clean & steady jobs in Zaun, Finding a jobs in Piltover is not a pretty common option because Piltovans looks down on Zaunite as a lesser class so the jobs is either an illegal courier, tech scavengers, a spy of white-collar companies, or a servant to the previleges family.
Swain's qoute to Jinx: "Faces fading in flames... it was all her fault." and when we see Vi slaping Jinx there's fire around them sooo Jinx probably killed her own parents by accident.
Skyen is going to be as Mad as Jinx by the time Arcane comes out and we get all those episodes… Still, no denying the work put into this is nothing short of spectacular and who knows how those bots will be working by the time we get there. They can be like sharks in the water.
@@markopusic8258 I mean, unlike those dolts Skyen actually has useful and entertaining things to say, where they renarrate what they were watching at full length if not longer for no reason.
I also kinda love how at this time, jinx only has the cloud tattoos and none of the bullets. They could be representing the sky which is impossible to see from where she lives in zaun so she carries a little bit of it with her instead
after watching it i assume the tattoos represent the explosion at the factory in ep 3 as she falls down. that is the last time we see powder, after all
@@chickenx777 I actually read somewhere that it was for the blue flare, like deep down she was still hoping Vi would come back for her. After all, she held onto it for years despite believing Vi was dead. So I guess some part of her still hoped Vi would come back.
I sort of disagree with your assessment of Jinx' expression as she draws on the birb. To me there is fear there, but the sort of fear that's been dulled down by trauma. It's a sorta thousand yard stare, very blank, but her eyes are also extremely wide and alert. Like the fear has become normal to the point of it being dulled in a way... Like a sort of dissociation. And I find that heartbreaking, but also brilliantly done.
I initially agreed with Skyen, but now that you've said that, I'm 100% with you on this. It's kind of a battle-ready fear, too. It's a, 'I'm scared and I'm prepared to do whatever is necessary for self preservation' but also very dissociated, as you said. It's not an active fear, it's distant and primal, almost. She looks like she's operating off of pure survival instinct. I think that's also what gives her the thing people call the 'crazy eyed' look of that shot, because she's not really thinking, she's just acting. I've noticed a lot of that dissociated look on Arcane-Jinx, generally, and this definitely matches that.
I am so f*cking hyped for Arcane. I already made plans to watch this show with a friend and my sister when it comes out. And of course I'll watch every minute of your animation breakdown ^^
"she has lost all control of her self and her feelings. This is all grief and trauma and hurt and anger and sadness just flying out...... With some lovely smear frame animations c:"
As someone who struggles with mental health, I think the animation in that moment when she's trying to keep it all in, to stay in control (around 39:30) was really impressive. In fact, I didn't even realise I tend to do the exact same motion when dealing with unpleasant thoughts irl: a closed body, a lower head, eyes shut to focus on the problem at hand; and finally the twitching and REM as the vulnerability bubbles up, mixes with the frustration of not being able to keep everything in check and becomes unbereable. Really well done indeed.
I would like to add my own interpretation to the story telling here, I believe that all the way upto the bird appearing, Jinx has felt so numb and unsafe every since whatever happened, that she has lost her empathy as a survival mechanism in Zaun. So during that moment when she was looking at the punching machine, she felt something, becoming emotionally vulnerable (whether she wanted to or not), so when she pulled the gun out and saw the bird, she returned back to her survival mode, cutting off her empathy again. However, I believe that she got slightly upset that something so small and non-threatening managed to get so close to her, and so she killed it, which I find greatly enhances the impact of when we see her lose it against the punching machine. P.s Thank you for reading all the way to the end of my comment. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Let me know if you agree or not to my enterpretation of this scene.
@@DemraSynfata sounds more likely- a few lore bits we got a few years ago, her comic with Ziggs and her short story about party crashing, she *delays* explosives and preventing deaths, and she speaks extremely highly of random Zaun little men trying to get by
Oh I totally agree, that's always how I've read that scene- it's about her feelings of inadequacy and also how brutal life has treated her, so how better to show that than such a violent, overcompensating response to feeling weak
14:21 "He's gonna be some minor secondary villain in the show." Oh how wrong Skyen was. *Milo's apparition pops up behind Jinx to taunt her some more* Oh shit no, he's right. Definitely a secondary villain.
my theory- Jinx may have been a very sickly child/child that got sick often (probably thanks to Zaun's quite literal toxic environment), Vi probably was taking care of her, raising Jinx (maybe their parents died when they were younger). After whatever caused the fire and the things that led to it, Vi realised that she's not equipped to take care of her sister, making her leave in some orphanage, thinking that it would be better for both of them. From Jinx's perspective at so young age + traumatic event she felt left and betrayed by her sister. (also i'm almost sure, for that few frames in between scribbles on vi's face in the fire flashback, she's crying, slapping jinx. whatever happened then - It broke her, also it is possible that was the first time she ever hit her. Jinx caretaker, Vi, hurt her. From personal experience slaps to the face are way more worse, because they not only it hurts physically - they hurt emotionally)
This video aged REALLLY well haha. Great video analysis. The only thing I'd add is that VIs score is from a flashback aka when VI was a child. So the failure is a double whammy.
So by the rule of the “big numbers” if Skyen made an hour long video from a 2 min trailer, then we’ll probably get a 10 hour stream/video from each 20 min episode. Niceeeeee
I would love to get a video reexamining this scene now that the first season is over. I'm interested in your thoughts with the added context of the rest of the show.
when he mentioned the thing about a character hurting an animal to show moral issues, the same is true for the opposite! if you want to establish that a character is good hearted, show them being kind to an animal! I IMMEDIETLY thought of the first episode of squid game when gi-hun fed the stray cat some of the fish he bought when he doesnt have much for himself. great point!
eh feeding the cat still doesnt erase the fact that gi hun was shitty to his wife and daughter. i never really liked his character, never thought he was a good person. why cant being cruel/kind to a human reveal smt about a character? there are ppl irl who are kind to animals but horrible to the ppl around them. but cruelty to animals usually means theyre cruel to humans yeah
I think you misread some of her eye movements. I think they're meant to sell that she's got some analysis going on, thinking about how the machine works, what's broken, what's working. I think even her first sets of eye movements were her assessing the machine. It sort of conveys where her focus is and some of her skills. It doesn't look like curiosity to me, it looks more like someone cataloguing and taking stock of a machine. I think from the moment she picked up the plate she was intending on fixing it. I'd probably say she fits PTSD but I don't think it's the best fit. I think looking up borderline personality disorder may give you some more interesting insights. These types of behaviors don't really fit neatly into any particular disorder, but I have felt as though she was written even from the beginning more or less as someone with borderline personality disorder and not PTSD. One last note, I think you may want to take a very close look at Vi's face at the end of the slap. She's in pain there, and a lot of it. While she's clearly terrifying to Jinx at that moment, a small bit of Jinx is able to see past that rage and at some real grief. But more importantly, the fact that Vi was in so much pain at that moment could help build on what the remainder is about. Obviously Vi doing that was wrong, but why she's doing that even though it hurt so much to do so could elaborate on the rest of the story, perhaps on why Jinx needs to beat that high score. If that fire was her fault and she wanted to fix it and Vi told her off for that since she didn't want Jinx to go into a fire and die, there could be an element of Jinx needing to prove she's strong enough. Or maybe it tells us that Jinx killed several of Vi's friends, but that usually leads to self hatred, she probably wouldn't demonize or compete with Vi if that was what was in her memory.
I think that maybe she has already been “yokerified” as we would see it but in actuality what we have always seen is a mask or a persona she puts on and this trailer is a moment where she is alone and let’s the mask drop
I mean, I know Jinx is Jinx, but I also wondered if the crow could be Fiddlesticks doing. Probably looking into this too deeply but they have lines with her in the game.
@@captainfroubird2482 Probably, most of Fiddlesticks skins are canon in the same universe. Since they are how Fiddle looks when It goes to different places. Like Bilgewater, and the Jack Skin is probably It’s Piltover version. Even tho, Probably they do not know him as fiddlesticks. Since It has differents names
TB Forgot to mention something I thought was interesting, Jinx didn't look at the bird as she fired. Yes, she decided to shoot the bird and committed to the kill. However, when she did, she did not look at the bird as it died, only after.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the fact her name on the scoreboard was "Pow" Of course, short for Powder, but Pow-Pow is also the name she gave to her gun.
It's s trange but, each Arcane trailer makes me more afraid of what we are going to have. One thing you talked about Jinx in the past, were that she was a "walking chaos" without need for a reason. I think it was regarding her color story invading a high class party. I didn't agree with the take, because, yeah i like that she isn't just "Random random bom bom lol for fun". I liked that she had an "aim". Well se could well turn to be a really pain the ass not only for Vi and Cait but for Camille. But, i'm afraid that, they will "jokerfie(2019)" or "Cruellafie" her. Give her TOO much of a background for us to be sad for her and will end up passing a, not wrong but problematic message. Spoilers ahead for AoT: You have been warned. I hope th youtube "Read more" cut here. It'll feel the same for the crowd saying "BUT ERIN HAD A SAD PAST". Yeah he had. And still commited genocide. That's my only fear with the Arcane, is that they will try to humanize Jinx too much. BUT i can ben wrong, they may work on trauma, they may do a good work on that, and one thing you comented, maybe they are not blood sisters, and now that i think of it, it's a cool idea for a "found family" that isn't the happy story we normally see. And i really hope, but my hopes on this are low, that possible the finale, will be the confrontation of Vi and Jinx inside the Vault of Piltover. Maybe, she did all that to have a 1x1 time with VI on a completly secure from the world, safe spot to confront her traumas? And for wild theoring, Clag that is on the scoreboard may be their other friend, the big guy one. (AND PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GODS DO NOT LET NOT THEM MAKE THE BIG FELLOW PRE-TRANSFORMATION MUNDO)
The one thing I took away from the trailer is that Jinx real eyes are incredible beautiful...and incredible sad. You can see that her emotions or even her sanity is hanging by a hair.
I think it’s good to note where as jinx is throwing all of her emotion into fighting the machine, the mirrored Vi is calm during her fight with it focused, which is why I think jinx fell short of Vi’s score but it did represent how Jinx’s pure emotions rival Vi’s focus and training
Well, Arcane will make me feel all kind of emotions.
My friend, you have no idea what’s about to come down...
I actually cried when I watched the trailer lol
Vi went from caressing Jinx to slapping her in the next shot was like peak traumatizing
@@datsuspicious that wasn't a slap, Vi clocked Jinx.
ooh a hornet pfp
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Nah it was a slap, if you go frame by frame, it was open hand
Still looks hurt af tho
Jinx: *Has a mental breakdown
Skyen: *"Let's zoom in on it"*
Let's have looky at crying child now shall we
💀💀💀💀
@@gaminglqm2319 - she’s a very well-done crying child, tho.
@@Ajehy you can really taste the salt in her tear
@@gaminglqm2319 😱
even without the hearts scrawled over her eyes, you can tell just by her expression just how much love Jinx has for Vi. like, holy shit I'm kinda tearing up with the tragedy of it...
“There’s a thin line between love and hate.” I wonder how blurred that line will get?
Hope you watched the series. Im a tough nut but even I was crying like a little bish in the end of 3rd episode
The fact a clip this is in Bridging the Rift is amazing. Congrats dude!
hey! congrats on getting featured in the Bridging The Rift Arcane doco!! well deserved
Watching this after watching arcane, IM SURPRISED ON HOW RIGHT ON THE MONEY HIS INTERPRETATION EACH FRAME. LIKE HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT???
I KNOW RIGHT
It's amazing how much of the actual story you were able to infer from this 2 minute clip. Having just watched the show a couple weeks ago, and gushing about it ever since, it's amazing how good the visual storytelling is in this show. I can't even express how impressed I was in this show. Arcane is my favorite show, hard stop.
Came over from bridging the rift, watched the whole animation breakdown and ... completely bawled my eyes out.
Very insightful analysis video, and amazing on how much stuff you were right at that point in time.
Very deserved mention in the BTS.
This scene literally says so much without saying a single word. God why is this show so good it keeps giving me breakdowns and emotional trauma
With the punching machine score… what if VI's score improves because she is getting angrier and angrier through days? What if that’s what they want to show?
In the last minutes i can't focus on the narrative, i just can see the frustration of a man with a video claimed for copyright infraction six times.
wtf you mean what happened between them?
*sees the date posted*
oh, THAT'S what you mean.
Super late to the Arcane train but I just gotta say with the closing remark at the end about how the final product might not be as good as this scene- ITS SO COOL THAT IT WAS!!!
The immense consistency with this show wows me every time
this reminds me of my art teachers evaluating a painting
Warwick knows Jinx and Vi for sure from his voice lines. He did something to them, something that he regrets to Jinx and it seems he has anger towards Vi. Specically the line of "Zaun needed you."
He also has the line of "Who taught you how to punch" to Vi which has lovely possible tie ins to him teaching her to fight or her learning to punch from him in other ways.
Warwick has already been confirmed for the series so have to assume that scream is to do with Warwick.
My personal headcanon was Warwick is Jinx and Vi's father and the scream was Jinx witnessing Warwick be taken or he did something unspeakably terrible (hence his voice line to jinx of being "let me forget...")
i hate how rito cinematics and animations never fail to make me emotional. idk what exactly does so, probably the master tier combination of storytelling and animation down to the tiniest details like camera angle and color palette. i just love it. and hate it
It's so interesting to see this video after Arcane, thank you for making this :D
OMG It's almost 3 AM over here and, suddenly, "HERE'S A NEW TBSKYEN VIDEO" I was expecting this, but not now. At first, I thought it was just a short, but God, it's 1 hour long... I LOVE IT
I'll check it out as soon as I wake up. Thank you!
idk if its a slight error or a hint at something else but the scoreboard in the flashback @ 34:17 seems to be the same as the on in the 'present' as we see jinx observing it. which means the flashback of vi is her punching the machine and resulting in a score lower than 12th place, which is 975. to me this means vi either beat the machine so hard it broke, explaining why jinx had to fix it or less likely, this is the one time she didn't use augmented gauntlets lol.
i also love Jinx's top. i haven't heard any one mention this but i doubt im the only one to notice but there's a rather overt "X" visible in its style. Vi being 6 in roman numerals. and ekko - also from zaun and likely the same "gang" or "family" has Xii on his bat/sword/lightsabre thingie. just a neat little nuance i appreciated.
and this *might* be a bit of a stretch but the railing around the punching machine seems chaotic but on the left (when looking in from the outside) you have a shape like a "J" and on the right you see a "V" shape. again, this is a bit of a stretch but i had to notice it.
ALSO, another thing i might be reading into too much is the break in the STAINED glass could be interpreted as a giant bullet whole with its trajectory aiming like a rifle scope at the position where the crow ultimately ends up landing, and unfortunately being "murdered" [which btw its literally legally impossible to murder an animal, murder only applies to humans, sorry im a stickler] and a flock of crows is called a murder. so a bit of an inception esq. foreshadowing/symbolism.
sorry for the rant, i don't really do reddit, im not on any forms nor am i part of any online community besides youtube comments. so if this has all been discussed.. oops? just wanted to let it all out.
Skyen talking about the meaning of 2 seconds of animation has the same energy as those english teachers that talk about the hidden meaning of a random sentence for 20 minutes of a lecture
2:44 "She's the first thing that more here"
Dust flare: Are we invisible to you?
On my recommendations I saw necrit and tb skyen video about the trailer and was like
Hmmmm was expected it to be longer
when powder got slapped i cryed and when i saw jinx at the episode the walls are falling down at the end the way jinx got all crazy killing made me cry
I always loved jinx, but she is SO adorable here
I was this years old when I realized why hook - the punch - is called the hook
38:55 i always have this posture .-. Feels persoanlly attackd
Poor jinx has the saddest mentaly brake down
Those eyes at 53:40 ... If looks could kill.
oh well im going to cry so much, can't wait for the series to come out
Animation style is giving me very much life is strange
You expected your first break to be Bloodborne but it was ME! An ARCANE TRAILER!!!
(insert Dio picture here)
TB SKYEN is the type of person who will explain dust falling for 30 minutes
HELL YEAH!
Noodle has a good video on animation when it comes to frames and how technology is strongarm-ing its way in
Well... Now we know. "All your fault."
One of the few people who is more attracted to the animation instead of Jinx or Vi.
Skyen: Women are temporary, animation is forever.
oof... there's also the squash of the cushion after the right jab.
Very good job, I like your videos
Also how long are the actual episode break downs going to be? A day?
If he keeps the same ratio of animation-length-to-video-length of many of these analysis videos, probably around 10 to 15 hours.
@@TheNeilBlack cant wait
This is the most elaborate skin advertisement riot has ever done
make a 16-hour video on each episode.
i like the theory that Warwick is Jinx and Vi's father
Not to put too fine a point on it, but 2D "smearing" is just art-directed motion blur. Smearing, "motion lines", duplicated geometry, and squash and stretch are all 2D hacks meant to simulate motion blur. But since these effects aren't generated by a mathematical simulation of physics (like 3D motion blur is), they can be art-directed in all kinds of interesting ways.
this animation breakdown has "college professor lecturing passionately at his students" energy and im completely here for it and taking notes for the test on Friday sir.
The class is based on attendance only, you pass if you're there for at least one.
@@TBSkyen yet the Riot execs still fail the design portion.
SAME
@@Ajehy they get it right sometimes like once every mass extinction event
Oh my god you hit the nail on the head
The thing that gets me is this. Vi has boxing gloves and most of the targets are padded, but not the face plate. Jinx punches the metal faceplate multiple times, with all her strength, and doesnt even flinch. That has to hurt.
I'd wager that was the point from Jinx' perspective.
After six rounds of re-editing, and some careful deployment of awkward slideshows, I _think_ the copyright bots are finally leaving this video alone. At least for now. It might get claimed later, and I'll just have to live without the ad revenue, oh well. Thank god for my Patreon supporters
lol i thought u dropped this gem, tnx man
Incoming 1 minute parts for the full episode when it comes out.
@@daxterisnumber1 I mean, yeah, honestly I might just have to split it up into very discrete segments like that to get around it.
@@TBSkyen Thank you for the Efforts, I am sorry Netflix is causing you so much trouble =(
Watched over 30 mins & 3~4 ads were played so far... Really great presentation i hope it didn't get copyrighted by any mean & still get the revenue from me watching those lil ads..
*Spoiler Warning*
26:37 I just noticed, that in the moment Jinx shot the bird, she closed her eyes. Now, this could just be an instinctive reaction to firing her gun, a lot of people do that - but, with the benefit of having watched all of Arcane multiple times, I've noticed something of a trend in Jinx's behavior: She doesn't like violence or death - chaos, destruction, explosions; absolutely yes, but not violence itself.
Let me explain:
*Episode 1,* we see her covering her eyes as singing a song as she and Vi walks along a bridge during a battle between Piltover and Zaun. She is blocking out the violence and destruction around her. Later, the same episode, Vi and the gang gets into a fight with some other kids on the street, and she looks absolutely traumatized as she looks on.
*Episode 3,* after the disaster of her Monkey Bomb, she runs up to Vi pleased that her Monkey Bomb worked, not even noticing the corpse right next to her, only reacting to the fact that Vi is upset with her, and when she does realize that something went horribly wrong, her eyes immediately fixate of Claggor's bloody goggles, rather than the corpse in front of her.
*Episode 5,* (this scene), she closes her eyes as she shoots the bird.
*Episode 7,* after setting off a series of explosive mechanical butterflies (or whatever), Jinx walks down the old bridge, humming the tune she was singing in Episode 1, when she comes upon one enforcer who is badly wounded, but still alive, and she points her gun at him, looking at him only briefly, before averting her eyes as she pulls the trigger.
Add to this the fact, that her preferred weapons are her explosives and the minigun - her pistol is used mostly as a backup/holdout weapon; her MO of killing is imprecise, impersonal, and at a distance, so she doesn't have to see the people she kills, and her victims are nameless, faceless enforcers or members of a rival gang (Firelights) - obstacles in her path that have no emotional tie to her. The few times when she is confronted by someone she actually knows (Vi, Ekko, even Cait and Sevika), she hesitates/refuses to pull the trigger and/or misses her shots, even at close range.
Jinx does not lack empathy, she is not an unfeeling, cold-blooded killer (at least not in season 1) - she has learned to mentally block out violence and death from her mind, to the point she's probably not even aware she's doing it. To her, the "kill" itself is not the point, it's not why she attacks people (or birds) - it's just about making them "go away".
yeah really insightful comment.very detailed.
You're totally right! I've been trying to explain this many times, because Jinx was a very empathetic child. She didn't show any signs of struggling with empathy or anything. As Powder, she always would absorb everyone's moods like a sponge, and when she didn't understand the gravity of death on the bridge ep1 bc she was like 5, she looked to her sister and then immediately started crying because Vi was crying.
Actually the ep3 scene you mentioned is one of the things that people use to claim she wasn't very empathetic. People point out how she yelled about 'why did you leave me' rather than about the fact that her family died, but from my pov, it seems totally reasonable that a child that would struggle to process all of that guilt and grief would try to shift the blame onto VI's actions. Like, in that scene, Jinx's priority wasn't that Vi left her, and it wasn't what hurt the most. It was what Jinx fixated on because out of everything that hurt, it hurt the least. So it wasn't an unempathetic reaction to her family's death, it was coping with too many emotions to process.
But yeah, the only time we see her actively enjoying violence is ep6 while shooting the firelights, and from everything I've seen, they were faceless, and she didn't look like she was even paying attention to how she was hurting people. She looked like she was on an adrenaline high or playing a game. There was no sadism there, just a mindless mania. She only really seems sadistic when around Sevika or pulling a prank, but with Sevika it's a 'haha I'm in control and you're not' vibe, and she treats her pranks with about the levity you'd expect a teenager to, even though they're notably crueler bc of her upbringing.
What you were saying about her averting her eyes when looking at violence- ok two things that solidify your point,
One- im gonna elaborate on the example from this video-> Jinx doesn't just close her eyes when she shoots the crow, she doesn't even turn back to look. We know from the show that at some point she gathered the feathers, but she doesn't want to see it fall to the ground or suffer. She turns around with the momentum of the shot and doesn't even get a glance at its body. And picking up the feathers was likely a utilitarianism- 'well I've already killed this thing, and these feathers are scattered all around, let's make some use of them'
Two-> In the Jinx council archives(i think of you haven't already read them, they're on the league wiki), she basically writes in her diary that that she feels immense guilt about everyone she killed, not just her family, and that they haunt her constantly. She also wrote(a little cryptically) basically that she used to close the eyes of the people she 'took care of' on silcos orders. We also see that Jinx independently developed the religious belief that everyone goes to a wholesome afterlife where they're with their loved ones, likely to cope with the fact that she regularly murders people. These are not things that come about when you have a character who enjoys inflicting pain or lacks empathy, these are the behaviors of someone who has to shut down their empathy to cope with working in a gang in Zaun.
Anyway sorry if this went on too long, I hope you appreciate my input. Love your comment and your interpretations, have a good day :D
YEAHH
"If you want to show that a character is morally compromised, have them be cruel to an animal."
*Hirohiko Araki has joined the chat*
Shou Tucker bids him welcome
@@TBSkyen shou tucker is in his own league
T B Skyen Shou Tucker was cruel to more than just the animal
Code Lyoko pfp, ho god the feels
@@TBSkyen too soon!
we should make a skyen drinking game:
- if the video is more than 40 min, drink
- "animated on 2s/3s" drink
- "hand animatade" drink
- when he talks for 5 min about a 2 second scene, drink
How do we afford that much alcohol?
Please try not to die I don't want to answer questions from the police
LThe eyes look look the eyes the movement”
I can hear a thousand livers crying out in agony, then gurgling into silence.
- "ha ha. Long hand. Hands shouldn't be long. But in animation they can." drink
the animators also did a great job showing the weight or intensity of her breathing with her stomach moving in & out, plus her arms & shoulders shifting slightly to accommodate her ribs as she's breathing.
The animation here is amazing but it's those facial expressions that really sell it. They're just so raw and prefect.
Even the shots of Jinx with the "emotionless mask".... shows so much emotion. I know that emotion. I've felt it. And I can feel it in her when watching this.
As for the mirroring fight scene. Yeah, Jinx is mirroring Vi's attacks, but is doing things HER way. It shows the differences in personality. Vi is a very controlled and methodical fighter. Every strike is precise and the movement is quick and tight. Where-as Jinx is just going absolutely wild. She's flailing around and throwing her whole body into every attack. It shows her crazy personality, but it also shows that she's just letting go and pouring out all of her emotions into every attack. That is why she's not only exhausted at the end, but also why she's still not as good a fighter as Vi.
I've never been a fan of LoL and never played the games (love the Pentakill music though). But this animation just looks way too good not to watch. Sure, the Jinx in the game (and the animated promo stuff for the game) looks like a fun character - but the Jinx in Arcane looks like someone with so much depth to them and I feel like I can relate to a lot.
The lord of time himself. Stretching 2 minutes into an hour
Zilean is quaking
Skyen has the stand ZA WARUDO but he uses it to nerd out
so fun to come back after having seen this video mentionned in the making of serie they made xD
This actually puts a tragic spin on Vi's rogueish hotshot persona as well. Because, as far as I've seen in the games, Vi never let's herself get angry, like really, primal yell angry. For all her "punch first..." attitude, she doesn't seem to get much hotter, emotionally, than "why I oughtta..."
From what we know (just the Warwick "You were there... Let me forget", Fiddlestick "Jinx! All your fault. All your fault!" and Sawin "Faces... Fading in the flames... It was all her fault" quites) Vi very VERY likely had a good reason to be pissed.
The context of the Swain line is basicly Swain reading the memories of Jinx too...
The neutral expression when Jinx whips out her pistol is a battle stare. Essentially a trigger has already been pulled in the mind and any doubts have significantly reduced impact on judgement. This allows for quick and even merciless decision making. While this is often equated to combat readiness it should rather be seen as a method of emotional preservation, a way to disassociate one's self from immediate actions and events.
i knew there was a word for it and you described it perfectly thank you
I’ve felt that, that instant “shut everything off but what you need”. Only once, in a dangerous situation, and then in the flashbacks after.
It’s… horrible. I feel so bad for Jinx, if she’s always on the edge of that.
Somehow I understood all that
Glad someone else linked that stare with Dissociation, rather than desensitization to violence
Looked it up cause I happen to have frighteningly experienced it once, coincidentally and quite sadly, like the afrementioned series, towards my younger sister. So it genuinely intrigued me, and I found out that it's sometimes known as the thousand-yard stare, "The blank, unfocused gazed of combatants who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them."
"It's not just that she hates her sister. It's also that she loves her."
i cried a lot thanks
I also appreciate that there's a separate conversation that kinda help someone who doesn't understand trauma get what's going on without directly talking about Vi and Jinx when Mel says that her family cast her out but part of her still loves them.
39:15 The way Jinx is standing there while remembering Vi - With her legs together, arms to the side, head down, is similar to the way a child apologizes to a parent or teacher for doing something wrong. But in this case, of course, it’s more twisted than that.
Also, when you said “Taking her high score away from her, however small that is..” my eyes got steamy.
As a Jinx main, I know how hard it is to kite a Vi… Jinx needs a guardian angel 👼🏼🥺 (Ya know there’s a double meaning in those LoL jokes. )
Jesus Christ this video came out over a year ago now? I'm rewatching this after seeing that the Arcane creators talked about this exact video on their "the creation of Arcane" Bridging the Rift series.
super stupid easter egg i just realized, Vi costs 4800 ip in the league store right now. her top score on the score board is 4800
Jinx must have done some terrible things to make Vi slap her (worse than murdering an animal). I'm so hype for Arcane and the animation breakdowns.
Or Vi was quick to anger and that manifested as abuse.
Zaunite that lived in the slums have a very harsh live. A childs that was abandoned by their parents is pretty common in there.
It's like a dystopian fantasy world. Either their turn to crimes so that they can eat, or become a scavenger that have very little income, or they starve to death.
It's hard to find a clean & steady jobs in Zaun, Finding a jobs in Piltover is not a pretty common option because Piltovans looks down on Zaunite as a lesser class so the jobs is either an illegal courier, tech scavengers, a spy of white-collar companies, or a servant to the previleges family.
Vi main spotted
Swain's qoute to Jinx: "Faces fading in flames... it was all her fault." and when we see Vi slaping Jinx there's fire around them sooo Jinx probably killed her own parents by accident.
She fucked up really bad i can bet. Vi doesnt go crazy like that for no reason.
Necrit: Makes a 13 minute video out of a 2 minute trailer.
T B Skyen: Hold my frames
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
But how many frames are there per second? Only he can tell us!
Bridging the Rift mentioned this in part 5 about someone making a 1 hour analysis video.
Skyen is going to be as Mad as Jinx by the time Arcane comes out and we get all those episodes…
Still, no denying the work put into this is nothing short of spectacular and who knows how those bots will be working by the time we get there. They can be like sharks in the water.
"i'm going to do an animation breakdown of an entire episode of this show"
sky breaks the record for longest youtube stream
Imagine if 1 episode is 30mins
@@froirissting66 lmao itll be like 24 hoyrs lmao
It would make a worthy opponent for EFAP, maybe.
@@froirissting66 all the episodes are 40, we're in for a ride!
@@markopusic8258 I mean, unlike those dolts Skyen actually has useful and entertaining things to say, where they renarrate what they were watching at full length if not longer for no reason.
I also kinda love how at this time, jinx only has the cloud tattoos and none of the bullets. They could be representing the sky which is impossible to see from where she lives in zaun so she carries a little bit of it with her instead
I wonder if she worships Janna? Could those clouds be the equivalent of cross tattoos?
after watching it i assume the tattoos represent the explosion at the factory in ep 3 as she falls down. that is the last time we see powder, after all
@@chickenx777 I actually read somewhere that it was for the blue flare, like deep down she was still hoping Vi would come back for her. After all, she held onto it for years despite believing Vi was dead. So I guess some part of her still hoped Vi would come back.
@@Swordprincess777 i didn't even think of that! makes a lot of sense as well
I sort of disagree with your assessment of Jinx' expression as she draws on the birb. To me there is fear there, but the sort of fear that's been dulled down by trauma. It's a sorta thousand yard stare, very blank, but her eyes are also extremely wide and alert. Like the fear has become normal to the point of it being dulled in a way... Like a sort of dissociation. And I find that heartbreaking, but also brilliantly done.
I initially agreed with Skyen, but now that you've said that, I'm 100% with you on this. It's kind of a battle-ready fear, too. It's a, 'I'm scared and I'm prepared to do whatever is necessary for self preservation' but also very dissociated, as you said. It's not an active fear, it's distant and primal, almost. She looks like she's operating off of pure survival instinct. I think that's also what gives her the thing people call the 'crazy eyed' look of that shot, because she's not really thinking, she's just acting. I've noticed a lot of that dissociated look on Arcane-Jinx, generally, and this definitely matches that.
We did it guys.
We transmuted 1 second into 30 seconds
I am so f*cking hyped for Arcane. I already made plans to watch this show with a friend and my sister when it comes out. And of course I'll watch every minute of your animation breakdown ^^
Showing the love between the sisters lets you see why it hurts Jinx so much. Only someone you love can hurt you that much.
Babe wake up new skyen animation breakdown
Watching this scene after knowing the context within the show, 9 months later, was really interesting.
"she has lost all control of her self and her feelings. This is all grief and trauma and hurt and anger and sadness just flying out......
With some lovely smear frame animations c:"
As someone who struggles with mental health, I think the animation in that moment when she's trying to keep it all in, to stay in control (around 39:30) was really impressive. In fact, I didn't even realise I tend to do the exact same motion when dealing with unpleasant thoughts irl: a closed body, a lower head, eyes shut to focus on the problem at hand; and finally the twitching and REM as the vulnerability bubbles up, mixes with the frustration of not being able to keep everything in check and becomes unbereable. Really well done indeed.
It's really funny listening to this after watching Arcane😄
Mylo betraying them for another gang and also being warwick
I would like to add my own interpretation to the story telling here, I believe that all the way upto the bird appearing, Jinx has felt so numb and unsafe every since whatever happened, that she has lost her empathy as a survival mechanism in Zaun. So during that moment when she was looking at the punching machine, she felt something, becoming emotionally vulnerable (whether she wanted to or not), so when she pulled the gun out and saw the bird, she returned back to her survival mode, cutting off her empathy again. However, I believe that she got slightly upset that something so small and non-threatening managed to get so close to her, and so she killed it, which I find greatly enhances the impact of when we see her lose it against the punching machine.
P.s Thank you for reading all the way to the end of my comment. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Let me know if you agree or not to my enterpretation of this scene.
*That's deep*
I love it
I was moreso thinking ptsd due to the flashbacks and the familiar location
@@DemraSynfata sounds more likely- a few lore bits we got a few years ago, her comic with Ziggs and her short story about party crashing, she *delays* explosives and preventing deaths, and she speaks extremely highly of random Zaun little men trying to get by
I agree, killing the bird was about establishing control over herself and her environment. It’s a small, petty thing, but real.
Oh I totally agree, that's always how I've read that scene- it's about her feelings of inadequacy and also how brutal life has treated her, so how better to show that than such a violent, overcompensating response to feeling weak
14:21 "He's gonna be some minor secondary villain in the show."
Oh how wrong Skyen was.
*Milo's apparition pops up behind Jinx to taunt her some more*
Oh shit no, he's right. Definitely a secondary villain.
I like the pants Jinx is wearing here. They look so awesome and comfy. I need a pair of those, too!!
my theory- Jinx may have been a very sickly child/child that got sick often (probably thanks to Zaun's quite literal toxic environment), Vi probably was taking care of her, raising Jinx (maybe their parents died when they were younger).
After whatever caused the fire and the things that led to it, Vi realised that she's not equipped to take care of her sister, making her leave in some orphanage, thinking that it would be better for both of them. From Jinx's perspective at so young age + traumatic event she felt left and betrayed by her sister.
(also i'm almost sure, for that few frames in between scribbles on vi's face in the fire flashback, she's crying, slapping jinx. whatever happened then - It broke her, also it is possible that was the first time she ever hit her. Jinx caretaker, Vi, hurt her. From personal experience slaps to the face are way more worse, because they not only it hurts physically - they hurt emotionally)
This video aged REALLLY well haha. Great video analysis. The only thing I'd add is that VIs score is from a flashback aka when VI was a child. So the failure is a double whammy.
So by the rule of the “big numbers” if Skyen made an hour long video from a 2 min trailer, then we’ll probably get a 10 hour stream/video from each 20 min episode. Niceeeeee
I would love to get a video reexamining this scene now that the first season is over. I'm interested in your thoughts with the added context of the rest of the show.
when he mentioned the thing about a character hurting an animal to show moral issues, the same is true for the opposite! if you want to establish that a character is good hearted, show them being kind to an animal! I IMMEDIETLY thought of the first episode of squid game when gi-hun fed the stray cat some of the fish he bought when he doesnt have much for himself. great point!
Yeah, the "save the cat" moment
eh feeding the cat still doesnt erase the fact that gi hun was shitty to his wife and daughter. i never really liked his character, never thought he was a good person. why cant being cruel/kind to a human reveal smt about a character? there are ppl irl who are kind to animals but horrible to the ppl around them. but cruelty to animals usually means theyre cruel to humans yeah
a whole new perspective from watching this right after Arcane
I think you misread some of her eye movements. I think they're meant to sell that she's got some analysis going on, thinking about how the machine works, what's broken, what's working. I think even her first sets of eye movements were her assessing the machine. It sort of conveys where her focus is and some of her skills. It doesn't look like curiosity to me, it looks more like someone cataloguing and taking stock of a machine. I think from the moment she picked up the plate she was intending on fixing it.
I'd probably say she fits PTSD but I don't think it's the best fit. I think looking up borderline personality disorder may give you some more interesting insights. These types of behaviors don't really fit neatly into any particular disorder, but I have felt as though she was written even from the beginning more or less as someone with borderline personality disorder and not PTSD.
One last note, I think you may want to take a very close look at Vi's face at the end of the slap. She's in pain there, and a lot of it. While she's clearly terrifying to Jinx at that moment, a small bit of Jinx is able to see past that rage and at some real grief. But more importantly, the fact that Vi was in so much pain at that moment could help build on what the remainder is about. Obviously Vi doing that was wrong, but why she's doing that even though it hurt so much to do so could elaborate on the rest of the story, perhaps on why Jinx needs to beat that high score. If that fire was her fault and she wanted to fix it and Vi told her off for that since she didn't want Jinx to go into a fire and die, there could be an element of Jinx needing to prove she's strong enough. Or maybe it tells us that Jinx killed several of Vi's friends, but that usually leads to self hatred, she probably wouldn't demonize or compete with Vi if that was what was in her memory.
@@dimitrilepain3821 Yes.
I always thought she had bpd
Finding this video after Arcane. Its shocking the depth and accuracy you had in the analysis of this scene.
At some point you got to analyze "the Boy Savior Scene" man
I think that maybe she has already been “yokerified” as we would see it but in actuality what we have always seen is a mask or a persona she puts on and this trailer is a moment where she is alone and let’s the mask drop
Fuck it, skyen movie it is then, homework can wait
skyen breaking down a full length episode will be the best week ever
I mean, I know Jinx is Jinx, but I also wondered if the crow could be Fiddlesticks doing. Probably looking into this too deeply but they have lines with her in the game.
It could be
There's a high chance that zaunite Kids knows the legend of fiddlesticks that's why they are always cautious about crows and ravens
@@captainfroubird2482 Probably, most of Fiddlesticks skins are canon in the same universe. Since they are how Fiddle looks when It goes to different places. Like Bilgewater, and the Jack Skin is probably It’s Piltover version.
Even tho, Probably they do not know him as fiddlesticks. Since It has differents names
Rocks moves*
T B skyen: lets talk about this for the next 20 min
My Brand™
TB Forgot to mention something I thought was interesting, Jinx didn't look at the bird as she fired. Yes, she decided to shoot the bird and committed to the kill. However, when she did, she did not look at the bird as it died, only after.
Now we know why she so mad at Violet
I mean fair enough, Violet has 100 reasons to be mad at Powder, VALID
But damn Powder....killing a bird?
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the fact her name on the scoreboard was "Pow"
Of course, short for Powder, but Pow-Pow is also the name she gave to her gun.
If the full ep breakdown isn't atleast 8hrs long im not going to watch it.
A whole Netflix length series of analysis per episode or I’m not in
Coming back to this video after watching arcane HITS DIFFERENT……:: just PAAAAAAAAAAAIN
It's s trange but, each Arcane trailer makes me more afraid of what we are going to have.
One thing you talked about Jinx in the past, were that she was a "walking chaos" without need for a reason. I think it was regarding her color story invading a high class party.
I didn't agree with the take, because, yeah i like that she isn't just "Random random bom bom lol for fun". I liked that she had an "aim". Well se could well turn to be a really pain the ass not only for Vi and Cait but for Camille.
But, i'm afraid that, they will "jokerfie(2019)" or "Cruellafie" her. Give her TOO much of a background for us to be sad for her and will end up passing a, not wrong but problematic message.
Spoilers ahead for AoT: You have been warned. I hope th youtube "Read more" cut here.
It'll feel the same for the crowd saying "BUT ERIN HAD A SAD PAST". Yeah he had. And still commited genocide.
That's my only fear with the Arcane, is that they will try to humanize Jinx too much.
BUT i can ben wrong, they may work on trauma, they may do a good work on that, and one thing you comented, maybe they are not blood sisters, and now that i think of it, it's a cool idea for a "found family" that isn't the happy story we normally see.
And i really hope, but my hopes on this are low, that possible the finale, will be the confrontation of Vi and Jinx inside the Vault of Piltover. Maybe, she did all that to have a 1x1 time with VI on a completly secure from the world, safe spot to confront her traumas?
And for wild theoring, Clag that is on the scoreboard may be their other friend, the big guy one. (AND PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GODS DO NOT LET NOT THEM MAKE THE BIG FELLOW PRE-TRANSFORMATION MUNDO)
57 minute off a 2 minute vid. Respect
Knowing the identity crisis she was going through now, I find it interesting that she put her name in as Pow instead of Jin or Jix.
These breakdowns are always so good, I always feel like I learn a lot from them.
The one thing I took away from the trailer is that Jinx real eyes are incredible beautiful...and incredible sad. You can see that her emotions or even her sanity is hanging by a hair.
I think it’s good to note where as jinx is throwing all of her emotion into fighting the machine, the mirrored Vi is calm during her fight with it focused, which is why I think jinx fell short of Vi’s score but it did represent how Jinx’s pure emotions rival Vi’s focus and training