SOS Bros React - Arcane Season 1 Episode 3 - Base Violence Necessary for Change!
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- NOOOO! Vi! Powder! Vander! Everything has gone wrong, this is the worst timeline possible!
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sos bros arcane episode 3 reaction
NOOOO! Vi! Powder! Vander! Everything has gone wrong, this is the worst timeline possible!
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I honestly wasn't expecting Powder to turn evil. It was an incredible surprise
I tear up every time I see this. jeebus.
"Sure it is Abed"
Regarding Vi. My take on it her "walking away" from Powder was that Vi had realized just how out of control that SHE was in that moment & that she could do further damage to Powder if she stayed. She walked away to calm down enough to deal with situation rationally. If Silco & Marcus had not turned up I believe Vi would have gone back to Powder.
I think so too, but either way, I think it was too late. Calling Powder a jinx and then seemingly abandoning her had already broken her and their relationship irreparably. Coming back for her later wouldn't have changed that.
@@Birthday888 this^
it's extremely understandable that she reacted the way that she did (it's easily forgotten bc of how mature Vi is but she's just a kid herself and her best friends & father figure had just been brutally murdered and it was seemingly entirely a result of powder's actions; she needed space to cool off before going back to powder --- I would've very likely reacted in a similar way), but it still had devastating consequences
Agreed. She stayed close but I think she was walking away to 1. make sure she didn't physically hurt Powder again and 2. deal with her own grief because she doesn't want Powder to see her break down
seemed she walked away to take a sec to cd since she just made her bleed and she was looking at her hands like what did i do. would of come back a second or 2 later to take her home and instantly ran to her when silco showed up but Marcus prevented that. powder did just accidentally kill their entire family and with vi being 10-12 she acted pretty reasonable.
Also there’s a lot of shame there too, she was so caught up in the moment that when she sees Powder’s blood trickling down her palm she’s shocked at what she just realizes she did to her and can’t bear to look her in the eye at the moment, you can visibly see her struggling to maintain eye contact with her and how that anger is just gone the moment she’s behind that corner.
There is a great symmetry in Silco’s birth by water and Jinx’s birth backdropped by fire.
that's asymmetry and oh my god why am i such a nazi
☝️underrated comment
lot's of symmetries in this story. Compare the lives, gadgets, company and personalities of
spoiler
Jinx and Ekko.
@@marcusc9931 chemtech vs hextech
So much duality
SPOILER....
viktor as a child trying to catch up to the toy boat, then as an adult, running and surpassing an actual boat, but running in the opposite direction.
I feel like a lot of people are so used to extremely selfless heroes written in a way where they barely experience any sort of trauma even though hell is happening around them. This is why people completely forget the possible trauma, physical and mental exhaustion on Vi's part-- oh and a lot of people also forget she's just a kid too. Just because she's older doesn't mean she's an adult in the first act.
What Vi did was very human and understandable, she didn't want to hurt powder further than what she had already done. I found this relatable as I was the same when I was a kid-- I get super aggressive when I was angry. So I've learned to lock myself in a room whenever I am angry, so I would never accidentally punch someone and regret it later.
I think the meta of Jinx being "LoL's main character" has turned them against Vi's very human reaction
@@fedwyn
Sadly it was the wrong one... not of a leader, nor sister or anyone who knows this place is still dangerous.. another human reaction.
Getting out of thier with your sister to safety.
But no you failed as a leader, and sister.
She is impulsive.
Less thinking more doing.
It failed her.
@@lolicongang.4974 she's a child.
honestly Vi's behaviour there was beyond understandable. it was outright reasonable I'd say. before the bomb went off they were about to get out, Vander was freed from the chair and Claggor had opened a hole in the wall for them to all escape. then the bomb killed Mylo and Claggor and set up the circumstances for Vander's death (though the blame for Vander's death ultimately lies with Silco). Powder's bomb had killed 2 members of their family and then she just goes up to Violet to celebrate the fact that it had worked.
Exactly, Arcane's portrayals of its protagonists are much more realistic. People aren't black and white, and the people looking down on VI would likely be no better in her shoes.
We need to put ourselves in Vi's shoes. She was a teenager, she saw her new family die IN FRONT OF HER EYES, Clagor and Mylo once again followed her and we saw how it ended, she was extremely close to Vander (way closer than Powder seem to have ever been), he was her new dad and then had the culprit in front of her before she could even fully catch her breath after everything happened, maybe some people are saints but I'm pretty sure the majority of us would have snaped, broke down and said/do things we would regret just like Vi. She needed time but never got it.
She need at least bring Powder in safe place first
And when your whole world and foundation is shifting under your feet, it's hard to make clear headed rational decisions especially when you're young.
@@vahl1471 That would hunt Vi down for the rest of her life
Exactly! People seem to forget that teenagers (Vi is like 15, 14 at best) are not the most rational, emotionally or physically mature people around. Vi caught herself after that first punch, but she needed some space and to cool off or else she might've done something else.
@@Алексей545-т6б Vi needed to cool off because she was afraid that she might hit her sister again (in her anger and grief). She literally saw the blood on her hands from striking Powder and decided to distance herself.
Powder: "I can help them"
Other reactors: Yes the bombs are finally going to work it's Powder's time to shine she's going to save them!!
SOS Bros: NOOOOOO
That was me, I had the same reaction as the bros
I saw the opposite.
This is why I enjoy the SOS bros so much - they see the implications far quicker than the average reactor. 🧠 (Like how they could immediately tell that it was one bomb from different perspectives, and not multiple bombs going off when only one was sent in. 🙄)
Hats off to them! 😁
The replaying of the explosion from different perspectives was such a brilliant idea. It gave me chills
It's also perfect in context with the Jayce and Viktor parts that precedes it. Where they haphazardly activate their magic crystals (and even have a small explosion themselves), but find their success. These two things happening at the same time is also thematically fitting because ..of course Piltover finds success and the oppressed Undercity is left more damaged than before.
it’s wild to see so many people think that it was going off multiple times.
@@jessemaleh8145 Like in what world would that monkey stay in one piece for more than 1 blast? How did people think it was multiple from the same monkey?
@@jessemaleh8145 Right? Seeing most reactors to this think it was multiple explosions really forced me to realize that a lot of people interpret things incorrectly, even when it seems completely obvious. It's kinda aggravating.
@@jessemaleh8145 Normies made me facepalm like always lol
the creators did confirm that vi was never intending to actually leave power there, but that she was walking away to cool off so that she wouldnt hurt her any more
The creators of Arcane said in an interview they built the story around the concept of “duality”. You can find this concept all over the show.
I don't blame vi or powder in this scenario tbh Powder obviously thought she was helping and had the purest intentions; it was just tragic luck it turned out the way it did. Vi had a very honest/understandable reaction in needing a moment to cool down after almost everyone who was close to her just died bc of powder and if she had stayed, I feel like the situation would have gotten worse with all of her emotions exploding even more towards powder in that moment obviously not knowing how to process what just happened bc vi is young too. the worst part tho is before the bomb was set off it showed the hope of vander getting out of the cuffs and the brick wall being broken down as they can finally escape just for everything to go wrong again, tragic.
I blame the leader.
Poor decisions.
Didn't handle the situation right.
Emotions.
Vander said it best (although I didnt care much for vander)
You can't be selfish.
In the moment where you needed to get out of there, you get out of there... you couldn't control yourself.
You failed.
The thing I found most impressive was that scene of Powder breaking down after being left alone. Firstly, the voice actress (Who was around TEN??? at the time???? Oh my god) did an INCREDIBLE job really showing the pain and unstable-ness in her voice. The animators absolutely killed it too.
But the part where she's mid break down, sobbing, crying, she watches the Monkey still moving, and its almost like everything goes unfocused for a moment. The act of being midbreakdown and just locking in on some movement or object and everything else disappearing is such a realistic way for a character to calm down and be grounded. I've had moments where I was going through such traumatic events and it's such a realistic moment to just see something which... makes the pain go away.
I love Riot and Fortische, so much.
Before Arcane, 2 League characters with voice lines hinting towards Jinx’s past are Swain and Fiddlesticks.
Swain: “Faces fading in the flames. It was all her fault.”
Fiddlesticks: “All your fault! All your fault!”
And with Arcane, it hurts to see it happen.
Vi was traumetized as much as Powder. Do not forget these are still Kids/Pre-Teens. Vi had to handle the Fact that her beloved sister just killed her "brothers" and her Father while they almost escaped savely. Eventho she had "more" time handle it, it was a matter of secs or a min.
And also Vi DID see how out of control she was and therefore she needed space from powder, just for a couple minutes to calm down, u can see it in the moment Vi looked at her hand when she slapped Powder and then wanted to go back to powder when she saw silco. So we really cant blame anyone, since Powder and Vi are kids, who had to go through a war, loose their parents and then again loose their family.
And MOst importantly respect to the brothers for also risking their life and trusting in Vi and went to save Vender without questioning anything.
Brave kids
Vi is not a preteen. Powder is.
The fact that Vi and everyone else would have absolutely all got out together without the monkey bomb is so unbelievably tragic
Yeah well that isn't a fact that they would've gotten out
@@jarvisfowlkes3200 vander was free, claggor broke out the wall completely, vi was recovering. I think it’s very heavily implied that they would
@@mfgeedorah479 yeah but silco still have shimmer that he couldve gave to the other goons. Theres no way they will outrun them when silco's men are on shimmer
I dont believe the idea that they wouldve all got out. Not when silco's men have huge amounts of shimmer (look at all those shimmer that vander fell on).
@@AJ-jx5gm From a storytelling point of view, there is literally zero reason whatsoever to cut to Mylo freeing Vandar and Clagger breaking through the wall OTHER than to show that they were free and clear and had gotten out of their own accord before the bomb went off.
Thats storytelling 101. And in a well written, really tight piece like Arcane that's never going to be an accident.
Vi walked away to calm down, she had already hit powder once and didn’t want to do something she would regret cause of the overwhelming emotions of that moment after she saw all her family died!! So she went to get herself together and the moment she saw powder in danger she run towards her. I don’t get how people get mad and blame Vi in that scene. If anything she was super mature to take a moment to cool down
I agree, I personally don't think anyone is at fault tbh, there's no way anyone could've known that things would escalate to this extent!!
@@Anu32148 I mean, Silco is at fault.
@@shiki780 so was Marcus tbh
@@kyopium3676 I guess? Mostly, though, Silco could have just... not attempted to kill a man and his 4 adopted children with like 20 thugs and a drugged up superhuman.
I feel like people gloss over that part a lot when talking about Silco. Like, people will praise him for being a "good father" to Jinx (and that's also highly debatable considering he indulged her worst impulses and at best didn't stop her from hurting and killing people if it benefited him, and at worst directly instructed her to kill people for his own gain), but like. If Silco hadn't done anything Powder's family would've been alive. Yeah Vander would've still, like, gone to prison or something, but if Silco hadn't fuckin murdered two children and their adoptive dad and tried to murder two other children then maybe Powder wouldn't have had such a shitty fucking life.
I don't know how many "father-points" Silco has amassed throughout him taking care of Powder and turning her into Jinx, but, like, killing your future-adopted daughter's previous family feels like a solid negative 1000000 father-points.
I agree. She was doing the best she could in a frankly overwhelming situation.
You may be pleasantly suprised how dramatically different Jinx and Silco are from Harley Quinn and the Joker.
But that 1 scene from the next episode is going to make them feel that way..that's the feeling I am getting
@@Anu32148 Which? The father/daughter scene? How is it like harley and the joker?
@@TheJamieellis i mean the first few seconds of that scene made me deathly scared it was gonna be gross, thankfully the relationship that silco and jinx actually have was amazingly executed and the lack of boundaries they have as father-daughter just highlights how broken the whole situation is, jinx with abandonment issues and silco projecting and seeing himself in jinx
@@violetbitch9492 Fair. To me it was a lil bit more obvious based on the fact that we know Jinx has abandonment issues and the fact Silco is never the one to initiate that close intimate contact, such as resting their heads on each other. He realises she can be skittish and is allowing her to be physically affectionate and in control of that affection so that she feels safe. Which also ties into him allowing her to microdose his eye with Shimmer. He's showing her that he feels comfortable enough around her to be in such a vulnerable state, in her hands. There's definite closeness and intimacy between them and Silco, turns out, is being a pretty fantastic dad.
To be fair, Vi didn’t “continuously” tell Powder she wasn’t ready. She only told Powder she wasn’t ready that one time, in this episode. Every other interaction we see between them or where Vi’s talking about Powder is her encouraging Powder, or shutting Mylo down when he says that Powder wasn’t ready. I took what she said this episode to be her actually listening to Vander’s advice and trying not to endanger Powder.
Also, the only reason that the mission Vi led in the first episode went wrong was because of the magic bomb, and honestly I don’t think anyone would be ready for something that just looks like a pretty gemstone to actually be a powerful explosive.
Vi was in an emotional unstable state (she even hits Powder, which she wouldn‘t have done under good conscience). After the hit she relised that. Vi needed space to cool off and walked away from her, just around the corner.
right! She was always going to come back. She wasn't abandoning Powder.
FUN FACT: There's the monkey bomb card in the Legend of Runeterra, a card game based on LoL universe, called Get Excited. To use it, you have to discard a card to deal 3 damage to the enemy.
After this episode, I lose more than a card and it deals me more than 3 damage.
And in order to get Jinx's ult in the game, you have to discard all of the cards in your hand. So you're basically sacrificing everything you have just to have a big explosion.
Powder/Jinx is literally the most accurate representation of Borderline Personality Disorder that I have ever seen in any media. Her journey is so heartbreaking, but they did it so tastefully. You dont often see BPD portrayed in an empathetic light and as someone who suffers from it myself, I greatly appreciate this.
Harley's the prototype, Jinx is the Meruem to what Cell was, but DC fans aren't ready to have that conversation.
If you haven't seen it yet Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is also pretty accurate representation of BPD.
@@X3MAntics I like that description :)
YES omg I finally see someone saying it. Jinx/Powder is the most realistic BPD portrayed character in media, not like sparkly-quirky Harley Quinn, but realistic, creepy and saddening disorder ruining your life and lifes of people surrounding you.
I have bpd myself and oh man it was sooo difficult for me to watch Jinx development as much as I love this series. I just couldn't take it at some point. I don't have severe bpd, since I got help in time. Jinx didn't get help she needed and had terrible path of traumas after traumas. Her story is sickening.
That scene with Silko is so heartbreaking, from mercilessly going to stab Powder to loosing all will to fight when he sees someone like himself, abandoned by their family
Everything in Arcane is about duality. Episode 3 is a good example that proves what Heimerdinger said. Magic, in the wrong hands, is dangerous. Here we see Jayce and Viktor use magic correctly and make a spell work beautifully. But we also see Powder use the crystals to basically primitively explode, leading to massive consequences.
I dont have to explain the duality of Powder/Vi compared to Silco/Vander because yall knew that one well.
Vi didn't have time to deal with it - she was literally just thrown out the building, her dad died, and then Powder told her it was her doing. Vi DID spend time with the bodies - she was stuck under rubble and saw her friends' corpses while she could do nothing to help Vander and just had to lay there.
Vi snapping is completely understandable. Honestly, blaming either Vi or Powder is meaningless. Both of them are just children and Silco was obviously plotting for a lot of this - he set up a trap for the kids to sneak in, after all. This was a case of kids trying to deal with adult problems and - of course - failing at it because ... well, they're kids and even the adults are doing a pretty terrible job
I think Silco sees himself in Jinx, but that what also brings them together at this moment is shared grief. Both have lost Vander. In a way, Silco is grieving the loss of who was once his brother, another emotion that allows him to connect with Powder. The visual parallels between Powder's tears and the raindrops running down Silco's face, in the corner of his eye, is telling. Well done for noticing that! The "we' Silco uses also struck me. It felt as if he really meant it: they're together now, in grief, loss, and vengeance.
It's not at all how we could have expected this scene to happen, what the audience and Vi expected when they saw Silco looming like death over the devastated Powder. Nope, we avoid the mustach-twirling cliché villain who smirks as he says "Welcome to the family, little one.", and instead we get to see a zoom out on who was once a one-dimensional villain comforting a crying little girl, staying at her level so he can hold her more comfortably, uncaring of what his goons or anyone might think.
Yup, this is the episode that breaks grown men. Im a 44 year old dude, I was straight up ugly crying at the end of the episode.
Every powder scene is a heartbreak for me, she's such an adorable innocent child and they capture her innocence, struggles and pain so well
i love the way everyone cheers that jinx bomb worked.....to absolute shock when it kills cleggor and mylo
You guys are super perceptive. I thought Powder would become the hero till the very last second lol. Probably because I didn't know squat about Jinx then. Had no idea it would be a tragedy instead of a hero's journey till episode 3.
Ye most league players know jinx is crazy and hates vi so it was only a matter of how and when it happens.
I like your reactions, great afteranalysis, but i feel the need to say that not just you but in general vi gets blamed for leaving powder, but she didn't walk away, after she hit powder she realized that she indeed was acting against vanders last wish and so she left just some meters to breath and get a clear mind, she would have come back and also she is just a teenager who lost basically her emotional father and her 2 brothers.
There's a lot of focus on Silco's bad eye, but look at his good eye when he's looking at dead Vander and hears Powder talking about Vi no longer being her sister. You can see the understanding in Silco's eye, her pain is his pain. He doesn't have to deceive or cheat her, he was just there to take her at her most vulnerable out of genuine compassion.
You are the first reactors to immediately know that Powder "helping" was gonna be bad before it actually happened🥲 I love this channel, you guys could really write a show yourselves😊
Really? Every reactor I've watched was like "oh shit" when powder said she'd help
@@Esthoneal Well we must not have seen the same ones. Most of the ones I saw were like " yeah you go girl make it work ! GO GO MONKEY BOMB : ", and then it happened, and they were like " you stupid bitch " " yeah punch her again I would have given her three of those. "
Literally everyone I've seen has said "no powder stay there" lol
They were the first to realize the explosion wasnt changing time or reversing, but just shown through multiple perspectives tho
I could feel how legitimetely stressed you guys were by the end of the episode. Love your reactions!
Also, when you go into League lore, Fiddlesticks, the demon of Fear, that screams out the champions' worst fears, when he interacts with jinx, he says "Jinx, ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT"
This hurts
✨ emotional damage ✨
Okay but i can't even bring myself to blame Vi. She just lost everything right there. And she even left because she realises in that moment she was a danger to Powder. But she immediately tried to come back after collecting her thoughts.
No, she tries to come back after seeing Silco. She makes no attempt to come back before that moment. Why do so many people misrepresent this?
@@darksaint0124 she hadnt collected her thoughts yet, so how am i wrong? What if she came back still angry enough to physically hurt her💀
I cant tell you how many reactors have been like, "Powder is trash". Thank you for the genuine empathy in your discussion. Both of yall saw that this girl only wanted to help and it resulted in a terrible accident. Like yall really put yourself in her shoes and I appreciated the hell out of that.
That scene with powder and her breakdown is a perfect visual example of a full-on panic attack
One of the best observations I've read about this show is that every character is a product of their environment. They're all doing what they think is right, based on their life experiences.
*Powder sees hex crystals*
SOS: "OH, NO!""
Here comes the pain. What's the saying? Sometimes the best of intentions can lead to tragic outcomes, and Powder surely came with the best of intentions. Same with Marcus. Even though he saved Vi's life by taking her away from Silco's gang, in doing so, she lost the chance to mend her relationship with Powder at that moment.
And yet, Arcane will STILL subvert their expectations when it reveals that Vi and Jinx still love each other so, so much. I don't think they can ever bring themselves to hate each other.
Silco lowering his guard and predatory vibe once Powder embraces him is great character development. He was trying to finish off the family, Powder included, but this broken child disarmed him literally and figuratively. The one moment of being needed was able to change my whole opinion of him instantly. "We'll show them, we'll show them all" *instant chills*
This episode made me realise that Arcane isn't just another show. This truly was the best show this year
great show indeed, best show of the year was Mushoku Tensei for me though.
@@dohalimilqarasdeldemenanci8483 holy crap i read the light novel for that but not the anime. Is the anime really that good?
Best for me was Oddtaxi. But Arcane, Shigguang Dailiren and Mushoku Tensei come really close to Oddtaxi's greatness. Such incredible shows. 2021 blessed us with great anime
@@justinw8916 the anime is like 10 times better than the LN. The studio was basically made for this anime only and the quality is off the chart, let's not even start with the music.
"They're giving us hope😧"
"I know😟"
"I'm so scared😫"
Absolutely love this part!😆
These guys get it.
"Oh man, he doesn't even want to..." I thought was a super perceptive point. You could tell in that moment he looked at Vi with pity.
It's always the same, Powder ape works and everyone is super happy, then absolute horror sets in.
My favorite episode of the series by far. Powder's breakdown at 10:07 is one of the best in the show (imo) with how raw the emotion is being put out alongside an incredibly haunting score for such a short scene.
I think Vi's reaction was just a visceral reaction to seeing her entire family destroyed. She regreted it and tried to come back. I can't blame Vi because she's human, it's a gut reaction.
"He's not gonna do it, he didn't do it back then so he- oh"
That "Oh" in unison got me lol
I love the detail you guys interpreted about the "warning" monkey being destroyed by Powder.
Also, small something I thought of when you guys were mentioning it. Vi was denied the "We", the opportunity to participate when Vander said "I'll figure something out" while Powder had the opposite treatment.
"THAT WAS AMAZING... BUT FUCK THAT HURT!!" 😭😭😂😂
The reaction of horror and realisation of Powder to what she have done.
It make a shiver go down your spine.
They went in really Hard on the animation and the voice acting.
And its refreshing to see Strong females charcters that arn't obnoxious, forced or mary sues, and actually complexe, nuanced and feels real.
This show was the best surprise of 2021, and that comes from someone who doesn't like LoL.
Remember fiddlesticks' line to Jinx
"JINX! ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT!"
Joyful Powder appearing sayin "Vi It worked!" is so painful. And those "I only wanted to help" break me every times. The voice actress for Powder is just amazing. I can't imagine any better delivery.
And about Vi leaving Powder behind: After hitting her sister, Vi realized she had Power's blood on her hand. Considering she is the kind of person who like to be in control, she probably doesn't know how to deal with losing control.. She should have comforted her sister but she panicked. She ran away (from herself) to protect Powder. She still stayed, stayed close enough so she could still hear her sister and go back to her when she would manage to get her own mind back together.
It's so sad that they needed very different things in that moments. Vi needed to cool down and Powder needs some attachment/attention💔💔. That situation couldn't give both of them that at the same time and that's just tragic😭.
Very observant and thoughtful, as usual. I hadn't notice Powder little smile during her breakdown in the bedroom, incredible detail. The whole sequence of events of Powder seeing Vi leave, understanding on some level what is going on, getting her sister back only to see how distraught she is, then being left behind and breaking down. It's so intense and with so little words. The immense amount of work Fortiche put in the facial animation is truly astonishing.
The first scene of the season showed the point at which Vander gave up on,
His and Silco's Dream, The Nation of Zaun.
I love that Silco genuinely feels for Powder, him taking her in isn't some maniacal, evil way to turn her against Vi, it's an act of compassion from someone who understands what it feels like to be betrayed.
“Emotional healing”
… sure let’s call it that.
"The b̶e̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ trauma will continue until morale improves!"
The thing is they didn't know it was the balls that blew up the apartment.
So they couldn't really tell Powder they were dangerous.
Vi even asks Powder what they do and she says she doesn't know.
Powder realized they caused the explosion when she dropped them in her room and they started sparkling.
My theory, is that when Vi saw the monkey head, she thought Powder followed them and ended up being killed or buried like Mylo and Claggor. Up until she hears Powder come around the corner.
How the fuck can it be so good, how can i be so invested after three episodes. Damn dude.
i am sooo impressed by your insights, seing where this was going, and reaction to the 2 steps towards the BOMB for example. And still being surprised by it, and the extent of it.
And Seeing you react with all your heart after being so intellectual about it , is heart candy for me , as i so want to talk and share and feel again about the show , like i think we all do. Does it makes us all masochists? :-)
This is Reacting!
i must say i followed one of your link because i saw you at least twice in reactions mashups on the show, and was telling me "Oh that's the guy who gets all emotional! " ,-).
Again , that was a great pleasure making you acointance. i'm gonna binge your arcane reactions right now.
I really disagree on how much blame you put on Vi. Powder literally killed her entire family, specially after Vi told her to stay home. Like, I love my siblings but if any of them accidentally killed the rest of the family I wouldn't go hug them immediately, I'd be in shock, which is Vi's state
Everyone always comments on how when Vi sees the monkey after the explosion “she knows it was powder” but I don’t think that’s quite right.
Her face when she sees it is distraught, lining up with her either thinking powder was here and is probably dead, or that now she’s about to die and powder is going to be alone. It’s why she was so surprised when Powder said her bomb worked, she didn’t think it was Powder until that moment.
18:33 thats a genuine reaction i like that ,thats the same face i made when i watched this ep
A therapist on TH-cam who analyzes shows and stuff, had a point about Vi. That she was the avoidance type, the kind of person who isolates themselves after traumatic events to pull together. contrasted greatly with Powder's need for human contact and reassurance after trauma.
Love how Vi leaves and Silco enters like a stage play. It makes it comical, in a good way and dark hilarious way. Yall ge what i mean?
Voice acting in this show is insane. Mia Sinclair Jinesse absolutely nailed this performance for Powder. Absolutely fantastic.
Voice acting 10/10.
Animation 10/10.
World building 10/10.
Character development 10/10.
What a fantastic show.
You guys are literally the first ones I see putting some... responsibility? perspective? on Vi's actions as well. I noticed because I was shocked listening it, like, all through other people's comments you see a lot of focus on Powder's actions and trauma, but people really consider poor Vi, who is also a kid, as having done everything sort of flawlessly. I absolute love the idea that there is this cumulative of not-so-bright choices, made with good intentions, that culminated in this. I joined patreon because I have been enjoying a lot of your insights in previous videos, and this is great. Good stuff guys.
nobody says that, vi literally gets the most hate bc she walked away to cool herself down bc she didn't want to hurt powder again.
@@S0LAVELLANHELL nah this is literally the first time I've heard people on Powder's side here.
I think another thing many people are forgetting is that Vander probably put too much responsibility on Vi, who is only a teen herself, and apart from the bar scene, we didn't really see the extent of his and Powder's relationship.
@@TheMaitoPulla lmao yea right people expect too much from Vi… they want Vi to tell her sister it’s okay that she unintentionally killed their adoptive family… it’s always fuck Vi’s feelings and “poor Jinx” as IF Vi herself isn’t fucking traumatized .
@@TheMaitoPulla I've watched a lot of reactions to this episode, and have seen a lot of people be on the side of both characters.
Just want to say you two are some of the most thoughtful and engaged reactors I have seen in a long time. Look forward to seeing more of your content! (P.S. WHERE DID YOU GET THE RIZA HAWKEYE SHIRT?! ITS AMAZING!!!)
It is worth noting that this actually a tragic event in the classic greek sense. We nowadays use the term much broader. What it meant is what is shown here. Trying to prevent something and in doing so, causing it to happen.
"Isildur taking up his father's sword shit!" YO. xD That made me laugh/cry lol.
The one thing that makes Arcane so captivating are micro-expressions. The attention to facial expressions really helps this show flourish past a 10 to an 11 out of 10 rating.
15:25 Amazing how many other reactors didn't get it and think that it was various explosions
bruh it kills me that the bros actually think Vi abandoned Powder, like, what are you talkin about "Vi had time to process the trauma of her family being killed" LOL NO SHE DID NOT, it literally just happened!! She literally went through it, what the fuck
i trust the bros in most of their discussions but im dying here, it's almost like they blame Vi but she's a traumatized kid too. to be fAIR, they go into it more about how all the actions of the characters make sense and thus you can't really blame any one of them for what outcome came of it. but still,,,
I didn't see as them blaming her? They're just adding to the pile of "not so great actions that might make this worse". Vi was not wrong, but that broke Powder for good, which is something they highlight.
@@annapires991 yeah, I think they're just focusing more on Powder because she's the younger one and she's the one who's clearly gonna be the more fucked up about this incident.
because of the guilt*
Well, Vi is a teenager and all of that, but!
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1. Vi put all blame on Powder while Vi was the one who led her family into obvios trap. Vi was the one who create this whole situation
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2. That does not change the fact that Vi crippeled her sister
@@Алексей545-т6б Vi did NOT put the blame on Powder. She blamed herself for everything. Remember that she was just a kid too and were holding so much responsibilities (saving her friends, Vander and powder) in such a short time. If anyone's at fault it's Silco, not Vi.
Sheldon Cooper: "You told me it's mind-blowing, so my mind is going into it pre-blown, and once a mind is *pre*-blown, it cannot be *re*-blown."
I think telling them ep 3 is mindblowing etc is kinda heavily spoiling them even without mentioning the actual plot. 😐
19:11 aint no shame in crying, brother; I did too!
I wonder if you noticed the similarity in the earlier scene where Vander grabs Silco by the neck and then Vi grabs Powder by the neck. A comparison could not be more accurate about the relationship between these couples.
First reactors to get it. She's 7 and there wasn't a more important time to hug/comfort her than after she has the realization of her terrible mistake. Very nice reaction.
Well no shit, but it's also very understandable from Vi's pov, so they're one of the few reactors that didn't really get the idea.
@@seezar100 but like can you really blame it either side had it point nobody perfect you know and see the reason for it so yes unless you paying max attentions you would most likely only gona understand one
@@whatyalokingat1735 That's not true at all. It's easy to understand where characters decisions come from and both sides. They just missed the point, it happens.
@@seezar100 yes? I think you miss understand something and rephrase my comment here that what I exactly just daid
@@seezar100 "Well no shit, but it's also very understandable from Vi's pov" I bet you're one of the people or parents who punch their child in the head when they spill milk. I understand Vi's position, but it doesn't change anything. She just heard to take care of Powder. You see, that's the responsibility of being the older adult/parent. You just can't take a crap on a young child and not expect it to have consequences.
I love your reactions to Arcane!
I've seen too many reactions of others that just don't get all the small details and implications, but you two catch everything!
Also, your predictions are so on point, it's impressive.
Every single character has valid and understandable reasons for what they did and how it went down. Everyone is a little bit at fault and everything made sense. Just a shitty situation.
i dont think Vander wanted to let Silco kill him. Remember that Silco was trying to kill Vi and could possibly go after Powder, so there is no way Vander would leave him, he even tried to go after him before saving Vi. I think Vander was just exhausted from the fight and being stabbed in the back and then in the belly is VERY painfull and does Exhaust a Person heavly. Vander just couldnt stand anymore.
The orange backdrop of the flames behind powder in that final scene is a callback to the very first scene in the show. Vi and powder finding their parents in the flames and smoke and learning that they're alone. Then being adopted by vander and starting a new family only to end up in the same place again. For powder however she believes it all her fault now and that's she's the reason that everyone around her dies and leaves her. She latches onto silco as that's preferable to being alone again regardless of the situation. As fate would have it silco is the one person who immediately understands what powder is going through and sympathises with her as he went through the same thing himself. Absolutely brilliant writing in this show great reaction guys 👍
23:17
cmon this is none of vi's doing. they show us that they (the kids) almost succeed in saving vander when the bomb explodes 14:24. the door still stand and nothing deckard and silco can do to them while they escape if only there's no fricking bomb killing everyone.
"It's almost like a *Powder* keg is going to blow up."
Don't *Jink* it Kaleb!"
Nice.
Dang I actually watched the whole thing. Great video you guys!
I especially liked when you pointed out how "in character" they always are and how they are
"consistent in their disfunction". It's so true and it keeps being true throughout the entire show. I really think this is one of the things that elevates this show above and beyond.
I can’t wait until they see episode 9. I just finished it and I was SOBBING
I think theres a few points missed.
1. The characters dont actually know how the apartment blew up. Vander wasnt there, and the other kids didnt notice any of the hex crystals. Its only when Powder sees the hex crystal take impact again does she piece together what actually happened in the heist.
2. Vi stares at her hands after she punches Powder, like she cant believe she just did that. She walks away for a bit so she can calm down and not hurt Powder accidentally again. Unfortunately, Silco steps in before Vi can go back, and then Marcus intervenes.
Bruh don’t blame Vi for everything. Keep in mind, she’s also a child who is taking the role of an adult for her sister. Powder literally killed everyone. Anyone could’ve been extremely mad if that happened to them! Powder is not the only victim of trauma here!
Vi led them to that apartment and almost got them arrested, even killed. Vi treated Powder as if she hasn't any fault when she threw the stuff in the river. With that, Vi should've comforted her sister after all that yet what did she do?
@@kilnareth7970 Powder almost got them arrested because she was the one who dropped the crystal. Powder killed everyone, they were so close to getting out. I don’t blame Vi to being upset, she just needed some time to process everything, but she got arrested, leaving Powder to think she got abandoned. So my point is, not everything is Vi’s fault
"I feel like there's a powder keg going off soon"
"Don't jynx it!"
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"Where does it go from here?!"
My sweet summer child...
Powder's face twisting between anger and sadness is so amazingly well done
that whole scene is a knife deep in you, twitsting for your maximum pain... congrats on being able to deal with your emotions and cry because that is the final intent: to let your emotions be messed with. this story ressonates. this series is feelings serial killer.
A video game adaptation based on League of Legends never had business being this amazing lol
*powder completely traumatized after killing her family*
Silco: Don't worry. I am here.
and we all know what happens next...
"where does it go from here?" 6:23
.....Me "oh you have no idea"
Your insight and enthusiasm to talk about these story elements is why I think you're some of the best reactors/commentators. It was so interesting to see your views on this episode that I was equally impacted by.
You guys are great at breaking down and analyzing the parts of the scenes that stood out to you, which I have to say covers a lot of details that other people miss. Not only does this tell me you were paying attention, it also allows us to see the intricacy and parallels each scene shares with other scenes throughout the show. Believe me, you're in for a ride.
During the Powder breakdown in her room, she destroys the monkey, which IS something she created. I agree with the idea another reactor theorized, she chooses to break something she created because the things she created aren't good enough to be of use to Vi.
In any other outcome, Vi dies. She needs a minute (much more) to deal with all what is happening. There is no way that she won't react that way with Powder, but she went to take a breather, and not far; Again, she needs to be allow to feel, if she didn't go away with Powder, she would break and cry along with Powder right there, and wich how wounded the is there, she is not getting away of Silco's gang. If she didn't, Silco founds her there with Powder, she resist, both are dead. If she goes away how she did and Marcus didn't grab her, she resist, then dies.
Jacob is right about what feels did the flashbacks about Vander and Silco. Vander drop the gauntlets when he saw Vi and Powder in the bridge, Silco would want to keep pushing whatever the cost. Is a clash of ideals.
Vi was mentored by Vander. Powder was being mentored by Vi, who did everything she could to get her ready, she included her multiple times in jobs, and always encouraged Powder. That would work eventually, but due all what happened, there was never enough time. And there was never going to be enough time, Silco rushed his plans in order to take adventage of Vanders problems, but the plans where there from the beginning.
So This show needs an Emmy.
Vi's greatest regret. She walked away because she was ashamed she hit Powder and needed to cool off. She never meant to leave her. Still a horrible mistake, but she's still a kid. It's a tragedy for both.
"I can help them!!"
OWH NOOOOOAAAARRR