The facial features of Powder when she realized what she did and the voice acting of the 14 year old actress lines that matched where amazing. Deeply expressive and emotional, this type of animation and acting is pretty ground breaking.
i watched this scene in all the languages available for me (english, german, frensh, russian and turkish) and all of them were extremely good. Riot is doing a great job with the voice actors
Riot did it way back (3 years ago more specifically) with the Annie: Origins video. I'm really glad they honed that painterly animation look into the identity we see today.
@@Thenormies I think maybe once Arcane is done and played through, there's a bunch of lore videos, character trailers and other animated content Riot has made over the last few years you might want to watch for more taste into the world and story of Runeterra. There's a pretty sizeable backlog of content to go through but I'm sure there's someone out there that could get you a curated list of videos. League of Legends as a game is whatever, but League of Legends as a lore source is holy shit. Riot's artistic teams outside of just game development are damn good, Arcane is just the ultimate culmination of their output.
I like how everyone who saw this thought, "USE IT AS A BOMB" and then after they see how destructive it is it's like, "DAMN IT DON'T USE IT". Similar to how Vi told Powder "They'll work, I know it", and then she get's upset at Powder after the bomb ruins everything. Cool similarity.
@@ch1dd I don't think it was 3, the scenes just showed different sides of the explosion, if it exploded 3 times monkey wouldnt be alive after the first. I forgot if she planted 3 in the money or not. But even then powder didn't think it through, the idea of helping her love one's clouded that judgement.
@@xerodight2057 there were 3 crystals, not 3 explosions. And they caused two explosions virtually at the same time, two blew up immediately and one got bounced inside the room the whole gang was before going off.
Fun Fact: In game there is a character named Fiddlesticks and he's a demon that knows everyone's biggest fears or some shit, and in an interaction with Jinx (Powder) he says in a creepy, eerie voice "Jinx! All your fault. ALL YOUR FAULT."
The scene of the explosion shows different perspectives, that's why there are so many haha. I'm glad you liked Act 1! Now we are all waiting for Saturday!
@@Vizible21 so if you set off 5 tnt right next to each other, you think it explodes 5 times in succession? Lol that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
@@Vizible21 Deckard was shown being blown away from the explosion, and on another one he was shown still being perfectly fine in front of the door and being blown away again. So that proved it was one explosion from different angles.
@@Vizible21 It was only three. Two went off at the same time inside, knocking the third one into the room where it exploded from collision with the ceiling.
I feel like Silco initially took in Powder out of empathy and genuine sadness which is apparent in his reaction when she hugs him. His eyes widen, he hesitates, he looks at the corpse of his pretty much brother, and sees Powder as a younger version of him.
23:53 is the very moment Vi realises she is just as much to blame as powder is. She remembered vander saying "THIS (her fists) are not gonna solve problems. Just makes more of them." And she made more problems. Then she needs just a second too long to recollect herself.
To further your point. Vi is also responsible for enabling powder. She never actually corrected her, she encouraged her to keep going. Powder was way to young to comprehend the consequences of her actions. Rather than vi using powders failures to correct her and teach her how her choices effect ever one, she was just like "it's OK, you figure it out"
@@jmadd1234567890 my point is that vi is not an adult responsible for a child. she is a kid bringing up another kid. and you know, it's funny, i actually somewhat agree with your argument. vi definitely indulged powder, i just don't agree that it was exactly in the way you expressed it, and especially with how you try to pin on vi unfortunate circumstances she was not equipped to deal with. the way vi brought up powder *was* with a favoritism and protectiveness that later blows up into a whole mess that is the issues between the sisters (plus the insane borderline incestuous way jinx comes to relate to her sister's love), but at that time, it was something very compatible with the character of powder. we don't even need a whole backstory, we know from the way they interact and the hints throughout the episodes, that vi tries very hard to teach powder how to get by, but powder just can't keep up and keeps messing up. vi understands that powder is fragile, emotionally weak and a very late bloomer, so this is her trying to do what's best for her sister. they are very conflicting objectives, to keep powder from being upset and getting powder to mature and know how to take care of herself, and with such a easily upset kid, it's incredibily hard to balance things out. vi was someone doing her best to take care of a whole ass kid while going through puberty. if someone is fully enabling powder's worst impulses on the show, that someone is definitely silco, and he knows it and does it on purpose.
I really like the perspective of someone who doesn't know the lore, that "because you are a jinx" really gives a lot of depth to Jinx, that is awesome character-building!!!!
I can't wait until Act 2 drops this weekend. I knew nothing about the lore but I'm hooked. I didn't realize how dark the League of Legends universe was.
Rana just got it immediately and that makes me happy. Silco knows what Powder is going through and takes her in. The writing of this show is pitch perfect.
I love how Red shirt was trying to do mental gymnastics as the explosion killed off main characters. "Maybe they'll come back with super powers". We're so conditioned to expect good things to happen after a protagonist builds up a plot-device that we didn't even consider they would yank out the rug from under us. Not only did Powder's bomb not save the day, but actually caused the death of her family. Imagine the ptsd from an event like that. That subversion of expectations, and the emotional depth the characters must journey through have made this show one of the greatest shows in recent history. Truly, anything is possible in this story
Can we take a moment to apreciate the fact that this group of reactors actually take a moment to fully understand whats happening and also take notes and raise good points? thats one of the best reactions ive seen, my favorite reactor is Rana, i want to be friends with her so bad shes so cool.
I feel like everyone is misinterpreting the monkey hitting the magic stones scene...it's not continuously exploding as if there are multiple monkeys, it's basically repeating the scene to portray it's effects on everyone in that one giant explosion and what each stones ricochet did
Silco is by far my most favourite antagonist of a show I am so impressed with his backstory and complex motives, You can tell he is such a deeper character than a greedy dude that hates the topsiders. His monologue in the intro got me SOLD on him.
No motion capture at all, everything was hand key animated by the amazing animators at fortiche studios, but i guess that the fact that you guys belived it was mocap is the highest compliment they can get
That line that Vi said: "Because you're a Jinx. Do you hear me?" It's so good because in the game, Powder is named Jinx. People who play the game didn't even knew Jinx wasn't her original name, so it's cool that she got it from some event in her life and it's part of her "transformation" into what she is in the game.
Just so y'all know, until recently the fact that Vi and "Powder" were sisters wasn't even officially confirmed, just hinted and tiptoed around. Even League players don't know entirely what to expect from Arcane, especially not the end of this episode holy shit it was fucking heartbreaking.
The thing that makes this hit different for like hardcore league fans is that it answered A LOT of unanswered questions in their lore/backstories in game. And going back to react and connect the dots between certain characters and how they interact with each other using unique dialog is absolutely mind blowing to me
I watched the three episodes in a row during the premiere and goddamn, they made me almost tear up for a character I didnt even know just before, that scene with powder/jinx and vi was crazy
Before the announcement of this show, the player-base technically didn't know that Vi and Powder's characters in the game were sisters (it was kind of leaked by a developer when they first got released, and there was one voice line alluding to it, though). The two characters were released one after another (9 years ago now) and we knew they were connected in some way.
@@cityshop7386 erm...idk about lol, cause I only play wild rift. But this line had been added to WR only about a week before the show started. So I thought it was quite fresh one.
@@bazinga1847 i dont know about WR but jinx vi and caitlyn added to the game 6 years ago at the same time and jinx splash art and vi splash art is the same but in jinx version everything is ruined and im sure this was always her line and devs didnt add their sisterhood just recently
Batman believes everyone can be redeemed. He believes this even when it should be obvious that someone cannot be redeemed. Conversely, Joker believes everyone is corruptible. In Killing Joke, Joker argues that everyone is "one bad day" away from becoming him. This was Powder's one bad day.
19:46 to be clear, thebomb didn't go off multiple times, they're just showing you in sequence what happened to all the characters 24:41 - also there is no reversing. The stuff that happened in heimerdinger's lab wasn't time reversal, it was just the shards being sucked back into the backdraft the magic made. it cut up jayce and vyktor on the way back in
February 2018 a champ was introduced into the game, who had the power to collect soul fragments of other champions and look into their memories. When he meets Powder in the game he has the line "Faces, fading in flames. It was all her fault" March 2020 a champ was introduced into the game, who is a great evil and has the ability to see the biggest trauma of people he is facing to use them against them. When he meets Powder he screams at her "ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT"
They just showed you the 4 different angles of the Explosion. Scientist blowing up, Bodyguard losing her arm, Kids dying, Powder falling. They weren't actually different explosions. Besides I think you interpret a lot of time stuff, when all that was shown was more of an implosion effect after the explosion, I do think that timey wimey stuff usually is shown to repair things or like make a bite in an apple reappear or smthn along those lines.
This is where my love-hate relationship with the name “Jinx” started. Because on one hand It sounds so cool! on the other hand she calls herself that because her sister calls her that when she leaves her and Mylo called her that a lot too) but it sounds SO COOL!
The final of this story was only very roughly teased... and it was FOUR YEARS AGO. There is ingame interaction, where character that is pretty much omniscient meets Powder in-game he says: "Faces fading in the flames... it was all her fault" This is all we knew for 4 years.
I love how on one end, Jayce and Viktor are shown using hectech and floating is seen as beautiful, paralleled with Powder using it and being blasted off the roof (in a similar floating way), both of which parallels the opening shot with Silco floating in the water
“red wedding” is exactly what i’m gonna use to describe the shift in tone this episode gave the show, so using that comparison thank you @ whoever said that lol
God Ekko's such a fucking aids champ when he gets ahead lmao, played a match two days ago where our mid fed him and that was that, good ol 26/3/2 Ekko jungle
Well now we know why Powder is called "Jinx" in the game. Oh, and by the way, this is not what League of Legends is about only, this is just the lore of a city and a couple of characters, the world is much bigger and has a lot of characters with a fantastic lore. Vi, Jinx and a few others are just members of the league, but they are not the only ones haha. And yeah, there is no go back after this haha.
There is a scene showing Powder putting all the "magic bombs" inside the monkey toy, the magic bomb outside was just to create the spark to explode all of them at once. When it exploded, the bombs were launched in many directions, the one that killed Clagger, was launch from the monkey to inside the room and them exploded right above clagger. But the event was one. The scene was just repeating the event to show all perspectives. Even the perspective of a person outside of the conflict, who was the officer who took Vi a little after that.
Some really great writing here. The monkey had 3 orbs. We saw the destructive path that each of those orbs took in that repeat scene. We see Vi come back in shock from Benzos and still mostly put together. Then see her heart breaking when she sees Powder and can't bring herself to say anything to her. Vi scared the shit out of herself after she strikes the one person she loved most. She needed a moment and no moments were given to her. Beautiful pacing and tension building from a storytelling art perspective. Powder consumed by the thoughts of "never good enough" to help any of the people she has loved her entire life. Little Powder lost her parents in war just a few years ago. Then she goes through life growing up feeling like a burden to the people she loves. She can't help on jobs. She can't help provide for anyone she cares about. Then her sister gives her a vague goodbye and leaves her wondering in her room with Mylo and Clagger in episode 2. Then she gets a small reprieve when her sister comes back only to get bombarded with the information that her basically adopted uncle is dead and her new father is abducted. Has to come to terms with her brothers and sister leaving her behind on what could be the last time she sees any of them alive again all while she's still being hunted by the enforcers in the back of her mind. As this next level trauma starts unfolding and she's at risk to lose the only family she has left, sees another small glimmer of hope weaponizing her monkey. Finally feels like she has contributed once in her life to her family only to realize that she killed her family and has the one remaining source of hope and comfort in her life (Vi) confirm her greatest fears: that she is a jinx that causes nothing but pain, hurt and anguish to the people she cares most about. Then we have Silco's character, this villain made from his environment. A dreamer who believes his end vision justifies his means. Witnesses a sister abandoned by her family and empathizes and offers comfort to her in the way he knows best. Not the one dimensional character the trailers would lead you to believe. Really excited for this weekend when the next three drop. Can't wait to see how these characters develop in this terrible world they're a part of.
Well here's my takeaway after watching the first 3 episodes: ...... I was NOT expecting this show to crush me as much as it did with this episode. It takes a LOT to get me to shed some tears, but they were indeed shed with this episode's end. Holy hell, the animation of the faces, the emotion, the voice acting is all unbelievable!
"Hey did you know we can use radiation as a means of electricity that will last hundreds and hundreds of years?" "Oh I just turned it into a bomb." The Manhattan project in a nutshell lmao
This is also quite the shocking reveal for League players. The relationship between Vi and Powder (in game name is Jinx) as sisters is only hinted at. No explicit evidence. Only info that was had was that Vi and Jinx/Powder were at two sides of an opposition, and Jinx is one hell of a violence/explosion-loving maniac. A loose cannon if you will, pun intended (since she carries a bazooka in game). So every progression made in this first act is very much a hard-to-swallow pill, despite knowing the end-product. This is quite the spectacle, masterfully made.
Awesome reaction! I think you're a bit confused about the explosion - the monkey did not explode multiple times (as it would have been destroyed in the first explosion); rather, it blew up once, and the camera went back to that moment several times to show you multiple angles of the explosion.
Vi and Jinx (powder) were made specifically for this show, it's been in the works for years. Even though it's just a game, there's a whole universe behind it and really great lore tied to each (100+) character. There's clans, cities, and so much more in this world. Zaun and Piltover are a small portion of how vast Runeterra is.
I honestly think Vander had one of the greatest "return to the field" scenes in history. You see him for so little, and only see him use his gauntlets once. But the tension after he breaks from the rubble, knowing at least one kid is alive, and that moment when he walks out with the blades, the chills I got! The absolute fury on his face. Incredible scene and show!
Btw, the way you react to Heimerdinger makes me think, you guys need to watch the cinematic short called "don't mess with yordles", it's just a 4min. short but it's a good one ;)
I'm so happy to see the team member in the white turtleneck. She was always in the Avatar and Korra reaction vids but I hadn't seen her in recent vids from this channel.
powder's reaction reminds me of kazutora's from tokyo revengers. they tried doing something good for someone they loved but it backfired and they ended up causing more pain for them. in their heads they dont know who to blame. if they blame themselves, the guilt would be too much for them to bear. so through a lot of twisted thinking they end up blaming their loved ones for not understanding that they were just trying to help.
30:47 remember the first episode! there were 6 hextech crystals in the chest in jayces lab. powder took em all and lost 1 on the way out. that makes still 5 crystals. 3 were in her posession before she went to "help". so there must be 2 more of those crystals! she may hid them somewhere or she put them in the bag that she threw into the water! so maybe they will retrieve the bag after all and silco may get an even more powerful weapon or powder uses them when shes older to forge weapons.
As a league player vi is one of my favorite champions but I never knew what the reason was for the hate between her and jinx now I know. I'm glad more people are getting into league because of arcane
Re-watching like 10mon later and all I can think is... you CAN animate this! You just have to be a great animator! No mo-cap here, just incredible artists and lots of reference materials 😍
How are there 4 different people watching this and none of them thought that the successive explosions was just an animated montage to just show different perspectives of only one explosion ? :D
The lore is actually what drew me into the game. The world behind all the champions has been super cool and seeing the variations that come with the introduction of skins has been phenomenal. Minus the recent ruination event, a lot of them have just been really cool.
League of Legends lore is just ridiculous, there are so many possibilities that i get chills just thinking about what is coming after Arcane, thats the beginning of LOLCU (like MCU, but bigger and maybe better)
Maybe bigger*, MCU can get pretty darn big, actually far bigger than LOLCU could, if you go by what lore they have to choose from. Actually nevermind, LOLCU don't have the growth potential compared to the MCU. Not defending the MCU per say, just saying that they have faaaar more characters to build from, LOLCU would need to keep introducing new characters over and over.
Bigger than MCU, you must be joking? The lore behind the MCU is a million times bigger and deeper than LOL. Although I do like the potential of a LOLCU, it's a cool world.
The animation is made by Fortiche Studio. This show is their first "big" work, but you could already see that they were great in their previous works. Indeed, they have worked wih Riot for a decade, and of the tons of small videos Riot has made, most of the best ones were with Fortiche: They did "Get Jinxed", "Warriors", "Seconds", "Rise", "KDA Pop/Star" (and of course "Enemy"). BTW, they don't use mocap. Everything is hand animated. Or to be more accurate, there is some mocap for prototyping a scene, and for characters in the background sometimes. But apparently, mocap is bad for the visual style the animators try to achieve. The studio produces in average 0.7 seconds of movie per day of work. They have expanded in recent years (from 20 before partenering with Riot to 40 when the Arcane project started, to 300 now working on Arcane season 2). While they are a french studio from Paris, they have extended a bit and are now also present in spain. Riot has invested in Fortiche in march this year. Finally, while they have already annouced they are working on Arcane season 2, the rise in the number of employee is also due to the facts that they are partenering in other not yet announced projects.
No spoilers, but for context, we as League players and/or lore readers know the end game for most of the characters like Jayce, Viktor, Violet and Powder but their story was never told to us, it was always context clues, dialog interactions and implied comments and little tid-bits, we know the ending but we never went on the journey
I just want to point out that in ep 1 Powder doesn’t get hurt in the little street brawl they had and then in ep 3 she throws the magic bombs and manages to get out unharmed again. Thought that was interesting. Might be some symbolism in there somewhere. Don’t have profound revelations to say about it rn tho lol.
watched this episode from like 3 other reactions and once myself and i still cry every time i see it. so emotional and so good u can really feel the hurt jinx is going through in those moments the voice actress is perfect for her and i heard she was like 12-13 years old only what talent!
This has been the longest week ever for me. Before, my life goes by so fast and since Arcane was released, it feels like I'm living in slow motion! Can't wait for Saturday to come!
Hearing Powder call Vi by her full name while sobbing is ROUGH. Slowly realizing what she's done and hearing her say "I only wanted to help" over and over made me cry when I first heard it
The facial features of Powder when she realized what she did and the voice acting of the 14 year old actress lines that matched where amazing. Deeply expressive and emotional, this type of animation and acting is pretty ground breaking.
true, that was so fucking impressive i watched that scene many time gushing about how they made it
i watched this scene in all the languages available for me (english, german, frensh, russian and turkish) and all of them were extremely good. Riot is doing a great job with the voice actors
That scene almost made me cry, and my eyes always get teary when I see that scene in reactions, her acting is so real...
Riot did it way back (3 years ago more specifically) with the Annie: Origins video. I'm really glad they honed that painterly animation look into the identity we see today.
When I saw that, it looked like a real girl actually cried and I felt that
Rana: "Let's see if Powder's bombs work! :)"
Literally everyone: "Are you sure about that?"
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@@Thenormies I think maybe once Arcane is done and played through, there's a bunch of lore videos, character trailers and other animated content Riot has made over the last few years you might want to watch for more taste into the world and story of Runeterra. There's a pretty sizeable backlog of content to go through but I'm sure there's someone out there that could get you a curated list of videos. League of Legends as a game is whatever, but League of Legends as a lore source is holy shit. Riot's artistic teams outside of just game development are damn good, Arcane is just the ultimate culmination of their output.
I love how it automatically played out in John Cena’s voice.
@@Domura man i wish they did that that would've been so cool. But hey here's hoping maybe they will with s2 about to come out either after or before
Rana: maybe she is a jinx
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I like how everyone who saw this thought, "USE IT AS A BOMB" and then after they see how destructive it is it's like, "DAMN IT DON'T USE IT". Similar to how Vi told Powder "They'll work, I know it", and then she get's upset at Powder after the bomb ruins everything. Cool similarity.
Using it as *a* bomb would've been ok. Three nukes, however... we saw how it went.
@@ch1dd I don't think it was 3, the scenes just showed different sides of the explosion, if it exploded 3 times monkey wouldnt be alive after the first. I forgot if she planted 3 in the money or not. But even then powder didn't think it through, the idea of helping her love one's clouded that judgement.
@@xerodight2057 there were 3 crystals, not 3 explosions. And they caused two explosions virtually at the same time, two blew up immediately and one got bounced inside the room the whole gang was before going off.
@@ch1dd same thought, one hexcore would've been fine.
@@ch1dd Im glad this explosion happened. Happy to see the powder vs vi dynamic.
Rana: "Thank god Powder was there"
Everyone: "About that"
@@therealneal3034 😂😂😂😂exaclty
@@therealneal3034 yeah has the bomb exploded only once or twice it would have been perfectly useful, but the third time was toi much.
@@therealneal3034 OR the issue is Powder being there
Fun Fact: In game there is a character named Fiddlesticks and he's a demon that knows everyone's biggest fears or some shit, and in an interaction with Jinx (Powder) he says in a creepy, eerie voice "Jinx! All your fault. ALL YOUR FAULT."
Also, when Swain collect her soul via his W skill: "Faces.. fading in the flames.. it was all her fault"
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Warwick also says "You were there...let me forget."
Warwicks theme plays when Silco drags Vander.
As Nahid would say: "This is not a kid's show!"
damn. I miss this dude. Hope he comes back
I mean, it literally isn't. This is TV-14
The kids who played LOL aren´t kids anymore :D
What happened to Nahid? He has his own channel now...
@@MatheusCRFSC Wow didn'y know this, thanks!
The scene of the explosion shows different perspectives, that's why there are so many haha. I'm glad you liked Act 1! Now we are all waiting for Saturday!
There's still a lot of explosion tho. Since Powder put all crystals inside the monkey.
@@Vizible21 so if you set off 5 tnt right next to each other, you think it explodes 5 times in succession? Lol that's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.
@@Vizible21 Deckard was shown being blown away from the explosion, and on another one he was shown still being perfectly fine in front of the door and being blown away again. So that proved it was one explosion from different angles.
We had 4 explosions, 3 from the balls and 1 from the chemicals in the lab (or maybe that one was just very quick fire spreading)
@@Vizible21 It was only three. Two went off at the same time inside, knocking the third one into the room where it exploded from collision with the ceiling.
"You can't animate something like that"
You can, you just need time and talent, and a fantastic animation library!
Mic drop🎤
And like 4 years of work
I was going to come comment about this too! The animation is amazing and takes so much work!
And lots of money
I now understand Fidlesticks interaction with Jinx: "Jinx, all your fault! All your fault!"
Hits differently once you've seen that
Also Swain when getting a Soul Fragment from Jinx: "Faces fading in the flames. It was all her fault"
Fiddlesticks is nightmare fuel.
He wasn't saying her name, he was actually calling her a jinx
Can we please talk about jinx's voice actress in the last scene? it was insane!!! that "I just wanted to help" hit harder than my mother's chancla
I mean….dude already pointed out that the voice actress is doing a phenomenal job!
When her voice breaks when she shouts “Why did you *leave* me”, I lose my sh!t
Yes she did an amazing job! It hit so hard 😢
It wasnt five explosions, it was one explosion from different points of view
lmao sigh
Well kinda 2 is f you count the one crystal that blew up in the cell separately
lmao yeah how are they so stupid xD they really think it exploded 5 times
@@chainsawboy2388 It was one explosion, all gems exploded at same time.
@@cadelinha You can clearly see one of the crystals flying into the room after the first blast, hit the wall and blow up
Man I didn’t expect this show to be this good. I actually teared up at the end and can’t wait for the next episodes.
Same
If Viktor doesn't say "function over form" before the show's over, I'll be sad.
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I feel like Silco initially took in Powder out of empathy and genuine sadness which is apparent in his reaction when she hugs him. His eyes widen, he hesitates, he looks at the corpse of his pretty much brother, and sees Powder as a younger version of him.
Glad you guys picked up on Silco likely empathizing with Powder. That's, honestly, brilliant writing
@@gerardlacroix6015 He's essentially the Magneto to Vander's Professor X. They shared a history and had the same goal, he's just more radical.
@@gerardlacroix6015 manipulating that child wouldnt really have any obvious benefits to him anyway
23:53 is the very moment Vi realises she is just as much to blame as powder is. She remembered vander saying "THIS (her fists) are not gonna solve problems. Just makes more of them." And she made more problems. Then she needs just a second too long to recollect herself.
To further your point. Vi is also responsible for enabling powder. She never actually corrected her, she encouraged her to keep going. Powder was way to young to comprehend the consequences of her actions. Rather than vi using powders failures to correct her and teach her how her choices effect ever one, she was just like "it's OK, you figure it out"
@@jmadd1234567890 Vi is a KID, she is not powder's mother
@@l.josino you don't have to be someones mother to enable them. She had enough sense to know vi wasn't ready
@@jmadd1234567890 my point is that vi is not an adult responsible for a child. she is a kid bringing up another kid. and you know, it's funny, i actually somewhat agree with your argument. vi definitely indulged powder, i just don't agree that it was exactly in the way you expressed it, and especially with how you try to pin on vi unfortunate circumstances she was not equipped to deal with.
the way vi brought up powder *was* with a favoritism and protectiveness that later blows up into a whole mess that is the issues between the sisters (plus the insane borderline incestuous way jinx comes to relate to her sister's love), but at that time, it was something very compatible with the character of powder. we don't even need a whole backstory, we know from the way they interact and the hints throughout the episodes, that vi tries very hard to teach powder how to get by, but powder just can't keep up and keeps messing up. vi understands that powder is fragile, emotionally weak and a very late bloomer, so this is her trying to do what's best for her sister. they are very conflicting objectives, to keep powder from being upset and getting powder to mature and know how to take care of herself, and with such a easily upset kid, it's incredibily hard to balance things out. vi was someone doing her best to take care of a whole ass kid while going through puberty. if someone is fully enabling powder's worst impulses on the show, that someone is definitely silco, and he knows it and does it on purpose.
I really like the perspective of someone who doesn't know the lore, that "because you are a jinx" really gives a lot of depth to Jinx, that is awesome character-building!!!!
I can't wait until Act 2 drops this weekend. I knew nothing about the lore but I'm hooked. I didn't realize how dark the League of Legends universe was.
@@chaost4544 actually piltover and zaun aren't the dark stories of runterra if you want some check freljord and the void stories
@@chaost4544 You should look up Fiddlesticks if you want dark.
@@chaost4544 league of legends has literally a lore about demons and sht like a demon succubus (evelynn) and other sht
Singed maybe also got his nickname after this event since the flames singed his face.
Rana just got it immediately and that makes me happy. Silco knows what Powder is going through and takes her in. The writing of this show is pitch perfect.
I love how Red shirt was trying to do mental gymnastics as the explosion killed off main characters. "Maybe they'll come back with super powers". We're so conditioned to expect good things to happen after a protagonist builds up a plot-device that we didn't even consider they would yank out the rug from under us. Not only did Powder's bomb not save the day, but actually caused the death of her family. Imagine the ptsd from an event like that. That subversion of expectations, and the emotional depth the characters must journey through have made this show one of the greatest shows in recent history. Truly, anything is possible in this story
Zoom on Rana, happy, celebrating in anticipation: "Let's see if Powder's bombs work!"
I see you, editor. You are a mean bastard and I appreciate you.
"thank god powder was there" famous last words
Can we take a moment to apreciate the fact that this group of reactors actually take a moment to fully understand whats happening and also take notes and raise good points? thats one of the best reactions ive seen, my favorite reactor is Rana, i want to be friends with her so bad shes so cool.
Its your first time seeing them? Normally they miss even obvious points in the story. No at least they seem to be paying more attention.
She’s an overreactor tbh it gets old fast
@@nstorm2415 Lol facts. They really aren't that smart most of the time.
I feel like everyone is misinterpreting the monkey hitting the magic stones scene...it's not continuously exploding as if there are multiple monkeys, it's basically repeating the scene to portray it's effects on everyone in that one giant explosion and what each stones ricochet did
Silco is by far my most favourite antagonist of a show I am so impressed with his backstory and complex motives, You can tell he is such a deeper character than a greedy dude that hates the topsiders. His monologue in the intro got me SOLD on him.
No motion capture at all, everything was hand key animated by the amazing animators at fortiche studios, but i guess that the fact that you guys belived it was mocap is the highest compliment they can get
That line that Vi said: "Because you're a Jinx. Do you hear me?" It's so good because in the game, Powder is named Jinx. People who play the game didn't even knew Jinx wasn't her original name, so it's cool that she got it from some event in her life and it's part of her "transformation" into what she is in the game.
Just so y'all know, until recently the fact that Vi and "Powder" were sisters wasn't even officially confirmed, just hinted and tiptoed around. Even League players don't know entirely what to expect from Arcane, especially not the end of this episode holy shit it was fucking heartbreaking.
"Thank god Powder was there." Famous words before disaster.
The thing that makes this hit different for like hardcore league fans is that it answered A LOT of unanswered questions in their lore/backstories in game. And going back to react and connect the dots between certain characters and how they interact with each other using unique dialog is absolutely mind blowing to me
I watched the three episodes in a row during the premiere and goddamn, they made me almost tear up for a character I didnt even know just before, that scene with powder/jinx and vi was crazy
Before the announcement of this show, the player-base technically didn't know that Vi and Powder's characters in the game were sisters (it was kind of leaked by a developer when they first got released, and there was one voice line alluding to it, though). The two characters were released one after another (9 years ago now) and we knew they were connected in some way.
actully jinx has a line in the game " u think im crazy ? u should see my sister " i didnt know she meant vi before
@@cityshop7386 erm...idk about lol, cause I only play wild rift. But this line had been added to WR only about a week before the show started. So I thought it was quite fresh one.
@@bazinga1847 i dont know about WR but jinx vi and caitlyn added to the game 6 years ago at the same time and jinx splash art and vi splash art is the same but in jinx version everything is ruined and im sure this was always her line and devs didnt add their sisterhood just recently
@@bazinga1847 In PC lol the line has existed for years
Batman believes everyone can be redeemed. He believes this even when it should be obvious that someone cannot be redeemed. Conversely, Joker believes everyone is corruptible. In Killing Joke, Joker argues that everyone is "one bad day" away from becoming him.
This was Powder's one bad day.
"I hope Powder's nail bombs work now" -- That AGED like milk during a single episode, my god.
It was one explosion - replayed multiple times for the audience so you can see how it affected every party involved :)
Brilliant storytelling, honestly
19:46 to be clear, thebomb didn't go off multiple times, they're just showing you in sequence what happened to all the characters
24:41 - also there is no reversing. The stuff that happened in heimerdinger's lab wasn't time reversal, it was just the shards being sucked back into the backdraft the magic made. it cut up jayce and vyktor on the way back in
February 2018 a champ was introduced into the game, who had the power to collect soul fragments of other champions and look into their memories. When he meets Powder in the game he has the line "Faces, fading in flames. It was all her fault"
March 2020 a champ was introduced into the game, who is a great evil and has the ability to see the biggest trauma of people he is facing to use them against them. When he meets Powder he screams at her "ALL YOUR FAULT! ALL YOUR FAULT"
They just showed you the 4 different angles of the Explosion. Scientist blowing up, Bodyguard losing her arm, Kids dying, Powder falling. They weren't actually different explosions. Besides I think you interpret a lot of time stuff, when all that was shown was more of an implosion effect after the explosion, I do think that timey wimey stuff usually is shown to repair things or like make a bite in an apple reappear or smthn along those lines.
dying*
The monkey didn't explode many times, just once. They just show different perspectives from the same explosion
lol sigh
Aww man missed Viktor’s line of “Oh, this isnt my bedroom?!”
This is where my love-hate relationship with the name “Jinx” started. Because on one hand It sounds so cool! on the other hand she calls herself that because her sister calls her that when she leaves her and Mylo called her that a lot too) but it sounds SO COOL!
The final of this story was only very roughly teased... and it was FOUR YEARS AGO. There is ingame interaction, where character that is pretty much omniscient meets Powder in-game he says: "Faces fading in the flames... it was all her fault" This is all we knew for 4 years.
Also fiddlesticks has similar quote
@@klusimo4543 But fiddlesticks was like a year and a half old... Swain will soon be 4 years and that's what awesome
@@baxland2539 i know
waht champ are you talking about that has the quote? Aurilien sol?
@@porterwallace8190 the faces fading quote? Swain says it, but guess the information is from the all seeing Raum
Guys, it was one explosion shown multiple times from multiple perspectives
3:48 "I am excited for Powder! Let's see if Powder's bombs work!"
Fans:
“Maybe Powder will be more introspective and careful later…”
(Insane Hysterical Laughter)
i cried on vi crying
i balled my brains out on vi screaming as vander passes
and i was a wreck on powder's crying...
GOD THIS SHOW IS SO FUCKING GOOD.
I love how on one end, Jayce and Viktor are shown using hectech and floating is seen as beautiful, paralleled with Powder using it and being blasted off the roof (in a similar floating way), both of which parallels the opening shot with Silco floating in the water
"Let's see if Powder's bombs work"
"Man, I hope Powder's nail bombs work now"
"Put those in your bombs"
Yall really got what you asked for huh
“red wedding” is exactly what i’m gonna use to describe the shift in tone this episode gave the show, so using that comparison thank you @ whoever said that lol
There was only one explosion, just from different points of view.
True, I don't why they didn't get that
I love how everyone is just simping for Mel.
Also, who is that cute doggo?!
"Boomerang reverse time shit" If you're a league player, you know 😉
When you accidentally actually describe a character from the game
God Ekko's such a fucking aids champ when he gets ahead lmao, played a match two days ago where our mid fed him and that was that, good ol 26/3/2 Ekko jungle
Well now we know why Powder is called "Jinx" in the game.
Oh, and by the way, this is not what League of Legends is about only, this is just the lore of a city and a couple of characters, the world is much bigger and has a lot of characters with a fantastic lore. Vi, Jinx and a few others are just members of the league, but they are not the only ones haha.
And yeah, there is no go back after this haha.
There is a scene showing Powder putting all the "magic bombs" inside the monkey toy, the magic bomb outside was just to create the spark to explode all of them at once. When it exploded, the bombs were launched in many directions, the one that killed Clagger, was launch from the monkey to inside the room and them exploded right above clagger. But the event was one. The scene was just repeating the event to show all perspectives. Even the perspective of a person outside of the conflict, who was the officer who took Vi a little after that.
Some really great writing here.
The monkey had 3 orbs. We saw the destructive path that each of those orbs took in that repeat scene.
We see Vi come back in shock from Benzos and still mostly put together. Then see her heart breaking when she sees Powder and can't bring herself to say anything to her. Vi scared the shit out of herself after she strikes the one person she loved most. She needed a moment and no moments were given to her. Beautiful pacing and tension building from a storytelling art perspective.
Powder consumed by the thoughts of "never good enough" to help any of the people she has loved her entire life. Little Powder lost her parents in war just a few years ago. Then she goes through life growing up feeling like a burden to the people she loves. She can't help on jobs. She can't help provide for anyone she cares about. Then her sister gives her a vague goodbye and leaves her wondering in her room with Mylo and Clagger in episode 2. Then she gets a small reprieve when her sister comes back only to get bombarded with the information that her basically adopted uncle is dead and her new father is abducted. Has to come to terms with her brothers and sister leaving her behind on what could be the last time she sees any of them alive again all while she's still being hunted by the enforcers in the back of her mind. As this next level trauma starts unfolding and she's at risk to lose the only family she has left, sees another small glimmer of hope weaponizing her monkey. Finally feels like she has contributed once in her life to her family only to realize that she killed her family and has the one remaining source of hope and comfort in her life (Vi) confirm her greatest fears: that she is a jinx that causes nothing but pain, hurt and anguish to the people she cares most about.
Then we have Silco's character, this villain made from his environment. A dreamer who believes his end vision justifies his means. Witnesses a sister abandoned by her family and empathizes and offers comfort to her in the way he knows best. Not the one dimensional character the trailers would lead you to believe.
Really excited for this weekend when the next three drop. Can't wait to see how these characters develop in this terrible world they're a part of.
Well here's my takeaway after watching the first 3 episodes: ...... I was NOT expecting this show to crush me as much as it did with this episode. It takes a LOT to get me to shed some tears, but they were indeed shed with this episode's end. Holy hell, the animation of the faces, the emotion, the voice acting is all unbelievable!
It was just one explosion (minus the second bomb bouncing where Vander was captive), they just showed what happend from the perspective of everyone.
28:00 That's not motion capture... Fortiche did a phenomenal job with animating all the micro-expressions in each and every character.
"Hey did you know we can use radiation as a means of electricity that will last hundreds and hundreds of years?"
"Oh I just turned it into a bomb."
The Manhattan project in a nutshell lmao
One of the best reactions to anything ever I've seen. Y'all just different Normies 💯💯💯 TY 🙏🏾
The subtle tone change in Silcos tone when he "comforts" powder
Just 😘😘😘
This show is a masterpiece. One of the best shows of the year by far.
Didn’t think this show would make me upset but damn this episode was close to getting me
This is also quite the shocking reveal for League players. The relationship between Vi and Powder (in game name is Jinx) as sisters is only hinted at. No explicit evidence. Only info that was had was that Vi and Jinx/Powder were at two sides of an opposition, and Jinx is one hell of a violence/explosion-loving maniac. A loose cannon if you will, pun intended (since she carries a bazooka in game). So every progression made in this first act is very much a hard-to-swallow pill, despite knowing the end-product. This is quite the spectacle, masterfully made.
Awesome reaction! I think you're a bit confused about the explosion - the monkey did not explode multiple times (as it would have been destroyed in the first explosion); rather, it blew up once, and the camera went back to that moment several times to show you multiple angles of the explosion.
Thanks for having empathy. I really feel for so many of them, even silco.
RIP Vander you were "a good boi" ;)
Damn, you're calling him a good boi like dog, dude
Oh wait....
@@CorpseStarchEnjoyer WAIT. Is he WW? Or do i not get it?
@@TheKannibalistic
Nah, Vander is called the "Hound of the Underground" in this series.
This Show is literally 10/10 after Invincible.
Vi and Jinx (powder) were made specifically for this show, it's been in the works for years. Even though it's just a game, there's a whole universe behind it and really great lore tied to each (100+) character. There's clans, cities, and so much more in this world. Zaun and Piltover are a small portion of how vast Runeterra is.
I honestly think Vander had one of the greatest "return to the field" scenes in history. You see him for so little, and only see him use his gauntlets once. But the tension after he breaks from the rubble, knowing at least one kid is alive, and that moment when he walks out with the blades, the chills I got! The absolute fury on his face. Incredible scene and show!
ON THE SAME DAY! Oh this is amazing
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im so glad you guys are watching this. its quickly becoming one of my favorite shows out
Notice how Silco looks at his former friend when Powder says Vi isn’t her sister. He took her in because he felt abandoned like her
"You can't animate stuff like that..."
Fortiche: "Hold my baguette!"
Btw, the way you react to Heimerdinger makes me think, you guys need to watch the cinematic short called "don't mess with yordles", it's just a 4min. short but it's a good one ;)
I'm so happy to see the team member in the white turtleneck. She was always in the Avatar and Korra reaction vids but I hadn't seen her in recent vids from this channel.
You know the series is so fucking good when The Normies upload 2 episodes of it.
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Rana is on point on her comments! They're just comments but somehow most are predictions that hit the nail every time!
powder's reaction reminds me of kazutora's from tokyo revengers. they tried doing something good for someone they loved but it backfired and they ended up causing more pain for them. in their heads they dont know who to blame. if they blame themselves, the guilt would be too much for them to bear. so through a lot of twisted thinking they end up blaming their loved ones for not understanding that they were just trying to help.
30:47 remember the first episode! there were 6 hextech crystals in the chest in jayces lab. powder took em all and lost 1 on the way out. that makes still 5 crystals. 3 were in her posession before she went to "help". so there must be 2 more of those crystals! she may hid them somewhere or she put them in the bag that she threw into the water! so maybe they will retrieve the bag after all and silco may get an even more powerful weapon or powder uses them when shes older to forge weapons.
“Let’s see if Powder’s bombs work”
That did not age well…
Thank you for releasing all the episodes before the new ones drop. Love watching your reactions, greetings from Croatia.
When they finnished the series they should most definifitly watch the Get Jinxed music video.
No motion capture.
Just raw talent.
As a league player vi is one of my favorite champions but I never knew what the reason was for the hate between her and jinx now I know. I'm glad more people are getting into league because of arcane
Re-watching like 10mon later and all I can think is... you CAN animate this! You just have to be a great animator! No mo-cap here, just incredible artists and lots of reference materials 😍
GUYS, crystals did not exploded 4 times. I do not know why nobody understands this but it is only ONE explosion but from differant angles.
How are there 4 different people watching this and none of them thought that the successive explosions was just an animated montage to just show different perspectives of only one explosion ? :D
Mickey had it but then Chris convinced him otherwise
I’m pretty sure it was a single exploding just shown from different perspectives and moments in time. The monkey didn’t keep hitting the Crystal.
The lore is actually what drew me into the game. The world behind all the champions has been super cool and seeing the variations that come with the introduction of skins has been phenomenal. Minus the recent ruination event, a lot of them have just been really cool.
League of Legends lore is just ridiculous, there are so many possibilities that i get chills just thinking about what is coming after Arcane, thats the beginning of LOLCU (like MCU, but bigger and maybe better)
I hope so
Maybe bigger*, MCU can get pretty darn big, actually far bigger than LOLCU could, if you go by what lore they have to choose from.
Actually nevermind, LOLCU don't have the growth potential compared to the MCU.
Not defending the MCU per say, just saying that they have faaaar more characters to build from, LOLCU would need to keep introducing new characters over and over.
Bigger than MCU, you must be joking? The lore behind the MCU is a million times bigger and deeper than LOL. Although I do like the potential of a LOLCU, it's a cool world.
Same like MCU, LoL's lore is written before it became a whole series
The animation is made by Fortiche Studio. This show is their first "big" work, but you could already see that they were great in their previous works.
Indeed, they have worked wih Riot for a decade, and of the tons of small videos Riot has made, most of the best ones were with Fortiche:
They did "Get Jinxed", "Warriors", "Seconds", "Rise", "KDA Pop/Star" (and of course "Enemy").
BTW, they don't use mocap. Everything is hand animated.
Or to be more accurate, there is some mocap for prototyping a scene, and for characters in the background sometimes. But apparently, mocap is bad for the visual style the animators try to achieve.
The studio produces in average 0.7 seconds of movie per day of work.
They have expanded in recent years (from 20 before partenering with Riot to 40 when the Arcane project started, to 300 now working on Arcane season 2). While they are a french studio from Paris, they have extended a bit and are now also present in spain. Riot has invested in Fortiche in march this year.
Finally, while they have already annouced they are working on Arcane season 2, the rise in the number of employee is also due to the facts that they are partenering in other not yet announced projects.
No spoilers, but for context, we as League players and/or lore readers know the end game for most of the characters like Jayce, Viktor, Violet and Powder but their story was never told to us, it was always context clues, dialog interactions and implied comments and little tid-bits, we know the ending but we never went on the journey
So glad you guys are enjoying this as much as me
I just want to point out that in ep 1 Powder doesn’t get hurt in the little street brawl they had and then in ep 3 she throws the magic bombs and manages to get out unharmed again. Thought that was interesting. Might be some symbolism in there somewhere. Don’t have profound revelations to say about it rn tho lol.
watched this episode from like 3 other reactions and once myself and i still cry every time i see it. so emotional and so good u can really feel the hurt jinx is going through in those moments the voice actress is perfect for her and i heard she was like 12-13 years old only what talent!
WE WANT MORE!!!
OK!!
This has been the longest week ever for me. Before, my life goes by so fast and since Arcane was released, it feels like I'm living in slow motion! Can't wait for Saturday to come!
18:22 "Thank god powder was there" -.- yeah fuck no hahaha
Hearing Powder call Vi by her full name while sobbing is ROUGH. Slowly realizing what she's done and hearing her say "I only wanted to help" over and over made me cry when I first heard it