I'm 22 with a 6 year old sister and this scene gets me good every time. Edit: What also gets me is I put on music all the time to dance and goof off with my sister. And just like Isha, my sister also copied my hair (I keep my hair very short, so does my other sibling, and so she wanted a short haircut too to match us both) so the parallels just shatter me
The whole time I was rocking up and down saying to myself "she's gonna be okay, ishas not going to die, it's okay, it's okay... STOP SHOWING FLASHBACKS!!!"
She IS going to be okay, because introducing a child just to rip them away to spur Jinx on is called fridging and it's bad writing. There be time travel afoot.
@mega17 Isha showed up in like episode 2 of this season. With this shows pacing it's perfectly fine writing for her to die here (as sad as I am about it)
Plus, Isha was a lone kid, running in fear from those goons. Maybe it reminded Powder of what she was like? Silco took care of her, in a way, so she wanted to do the same thing for Isha, only better.
I don’t think she was mute, but that’s a good interpretation. During the prison under the metal music you can actually hear her call jinx mama while Sevika pulls her away. But then again she could just be selectively mute so ignore me lol. Have a nice day!
@@3childreninatrenchcoat its confirmed shes mute, and if she said mama in that scene it would have been in the subtitles, yet it was not. all it says is [isha screaming], also she doesnt even close her mouth to make the "M" sound
@@violetmaritime I don’t think she’s confirmed to be mute, I’ve tried searching and see no confirmation, selectively mute would be more explainable and is probably most likely. But maybe I misheard and she was just screaming and I heard mama.
Sad but true. That's why I 100% believe Jinx isn't dead. If she actually had died, there would have been some montage or memories of the sisters as a memorial. The fact that there wasn't to me is proof cause there's no way they gave Isha and even Caitlyn's mom (who no one really cared for) more of a goodbye than Jinx if she was really dead.
I knew this kid was screwed, I knew that, and I still cried. Her last little finger gun is what got me. When she looks up at Vander at 1:48 you can tell that she’s scared, but as she turns to Jinx she puts on a smile just for her. That poor, brave little soul 🥺
@@mekasaka5379 And that's something I love about Arcane Fortiche does such a good job at animating small details the eye dilation thing is done during multiple scenes in the show and it's such a small detail most people won't notice but it's so powerful and makes the scene more emotional if noticed.
0:53 The smile combined with the tears in her eyes always fucks me up. She knows full well what's about to happen and she's completely okay with it. I know it's a cartoon, but no person should be content with self sacrifice when you haven't even lived a full life yet.
at 1:06 it also parallels the older/younger sister relationship jinx always wanted with vi when they spray paint(jinx sprays in pink which are vi's color symbolizing her acting as the older one and isha sprays in blue representing jinxs color as the younger sister.
Kids are surprisingly really ok with sacrificing themselves to save someone else and it's amazing considering how terrifying death is. There was a story about an older brother who was i think 10 who shielded his sister from a pit bull attack and he said something like "id rather I die then her" and it's wild to think abou5
I believe the title of Isha's song '這樣很好' roughly translates to 'it's okay' or 'it's alright [for things to be this way]' which almost sounds like Isha is reassuring Jinx
not enough people talk about how much style she went out with. the slide to grab the gun, the pose while loading the gun, taking the time to finger gun while crouched under a rage monster, then leaning backwards to shoot instead of just pointing it conventionally.
Everyone talks about that final pew but not that knowing smile Isha gives Jinx when she yells out her name. It's like she's saying, "I know. This is going to hurt. I'm sorry. But I have to protect you." And then she raises the gun and does just that
@@kristopherhayes1957personally I can see it. The first time Vander showed up and they carried isha away while Jinx was in trouble, isha was screaming and crying because she thought Jinx would die. Now even more so that they confirmed it was Vander in there, in this scene Jinx was trying to talk some sense into something dangerous and in doing so leaving her guard down. She obviously did what she did for someone she loves. What other reason would she have to sacrifice herself.
@@kristopherhayes1957 fr jinx was in no way close to being in harm. also what do you think jinx cared about more? isha or the fact that isha is about to kill her father?
@@kristopherhayes1957 Vander tossed Jinx aside like a rag doll, and Isha freaked over it. She knew Jinx could never hurt him. Also, Isha's name means "protector" in Hindi.
Well. I am going to say something maybe stupid as i dont know LoL Lore. Is Hexer an invention specific to Arcane show ? Is it sentient ? Is it the manisfestation of somewhat a Higher Power ? Even if Isha's body was disintegrated, maybe her spirit became one with this Higher Being ? After all, there are Alternate Universes and Viktor was in some kind of "spiritual world of Hexer" in some episodes. So, who knows ?
A few episodes later when Mel enters the camp, you can see her helmet on a grave. The Noxians gave her a warrior's burial next to Ambessa's luitenant. Pretty cool detail!
@@zaimhassan5278 And let's not forget Ambessa's insistence on a fourth Noxian pillar: Sacrifice. For all I can't stand Ambessa, nobody in the show would have respected Isha's sacrifice more than her.
think it had way more to do with the animation than the writing lol. and so far historically the mute/stoic characters with little or nothing to say have always been loved by viewers …. let’s not overhype the writing lol
@@buenocarlo You know what I'm going to delve deeper into this. I am not a mother - I love to say that to my six little siblings. But I am in a lot of ways a parent, because that's how life played out. Jynx is the sole provider and guardian for Isha. I think the quote applies here.
@@buenocarlo True, but I don't know if Isha thought of her that way. When Sevika's carrying her away, it sounds like Isha's calling out "mama" after Jinx
Everyone talks about Isha but no one talks about warwick, you could tell Vander was still in there. He looked sad, and when Jinx screamed Isha's name he looked at Isha, no beast would look directly at the person named Isha while in the middle of a battlefield while there are other bloodied and injured soldiers. Like one of Warwick's voice lines in game "Trying to save you..." he was probably trying to save her while also fighting the control of his bloodlust
unfortunately, it's most likely that he reacted to Jinx's scream (maybe it was too desperate and loud) orrrr the remains of Vander's consciousness made Warwick turn that way, and then he kinda noticed (or smelled?) little fella that slipped right under him
In fiction we usually see parental figures sacrifice themselves for their surrogate children, so to have this show turn that trope on its head was a real punch to the gur
I knew she was written to die, but I still sobbed my eyes out to this scene. Seriously, I couldn’t see through my glasses. This show had destroyed me 😭
I loved this because if you catch it you can see jinx’s eyes flash blue when you slow the video around 1:15 I think in another part of this drawing style you can see it also. Idk if it was intentional but I thought it depicted her letting powder heal and be happy for a moment.
@@zh9335 Isha is an Sanskrit word, and so the OC meant it to be of Hindu origins. It also means "goddess". And secondly, Islam is not a language. But even if we don't take your words literally, Isha refers to the fifth prayer of a muslim. Doesn't sound much of a name, does it? And from when did Islam started acknowledging anything vaguely related to "gods" or "goddesses"?
@@zh9335 The comment above me explains it pretty well. In arabic isha can mean night or life by my understanding. But sanskrit is the older language which the writers were going for, for the implication. Sanskrit, persian and arabic do use some similar words. For example eid is derived from vedic sanskrit word idhi
It’s the tears that start as Isha is running that makes my heart start to race. Then the finger gun makes the tears roll. And her closing her eyes as she accepts it all. Ugh. This show. It all hurts but I keep revisiting it
The one moment that absolutely wrecked me. I applaud the creators and writers of the show, you got a grown ass man bawling his eyes out to a show based on a toxic game.
Imagine ur a little girl around the ages 8-11 and you run to a monster sacrificing yourself for your best friend and never seeing them again. I feel so bad for both Jinx and Isha, they were such a great duo and the fact Isha has the courage to make that decision for Jinx is amazing and heartbreaking! Great job to the actors and producers that made this series
what's makes this part even sadder is that in a way we can still see a bit of Vander in there after Jinx screams "No" at 1:47 he glances a bit at Isha and when Isha was about to shoot at 2:02 he had a very sad expression. Vander is still in there and was trying to fight it but he couldn't do anything because he was not in full control of his current body anymore 😢
Does ANYONE else notice Isha's pupils slightly enlarging and her eyes becoming only glossy at 1:47-1:51 when looking at Jinx??? Both the expression of bravery and love staring right back at Jinx. Save me the anguish! I was swallowed by it once Isha began running.
One thing I don't see a lot of people mentioning, and something I really love about this scene because it's exactly the little detail of emphasis that Arcane design & art team do to make things amazing, is that one, Vander's final motion towards 2:02 Isha is, yes, a beast about to claw at her, but it has been done in a manner to render him visually despairing, his face is elongated in a scream, but the aggressive shapes and features of directed anger aren't there, it communicates despair at what is happening more than this. And doubly so, all of the glowing 'lava' looking streams coming out of his body, in this moment, in this framing, they've made it so the streams are coming from his eyes and looking like tears. An echo of the small time of bonding Isha & Vander got to have beforehand, and knowing that Isha is connected to Powder.
I like a good breakdown but I feel like stuff like this just reads way too much into the process. The lava tears yes but idk about the rest. Seems pretentious imo
@@maxm2656 That's the consequence of having actual art & design - visual communication and means thereof specifically, not valued in education. They shape the way you see and craft the world around you. All of this is extremely basic ideas of shape language and communicating via form and context. I say all of this because this is all things that myself and my peers actively do when creating. There's intent behind every decision - because that's what art and design is, active decision making - ESPECIALLY when we're talking about something like Arcane. It's cool to just turn off and go 'heh pretty pictures these guys are good' but it's just a lowest denominator experience. Which is fine, what goes behind something like Arcane is lost on majority, even in your case here, the mere idea of fathoming that a team designs a scene in a specific way and gesture is lost.
@@ashryver3605 yeah still pretentious. You’re definitely the kind of person who thinks they piss excellence. I even agreed, Warwick has glowing red tears flow down to make it appear like Vander’s humanity is still there and he’s crying. But the stuff about anger not being there? The whole thing is that only a portion of Vander’s humanity is left, with Warwick having taken over and being a beast. The angry colors pretty clearly denote that. Saying that the shapes of anger have disappeared make no sense lol. Isha’s boutta get merc’d. You even said “I don’t see people talking about this” bc you wanted to be a special snowflake. Congrats you’re an annoying one lol
I had to take a film class as an elective in college and you would’ve fit right in. They all loved to talk about how a specific shot and framing showed a power difference. To me, all that should be evident from the story itself. I also agreed with you and just said you were stretching things. That shot of Warwick about to annihilate Isha is a reminder that he was once Vander but has been completely transformed. Your talk about the shapes and being elongated into a scream are stretches. The “tears” contrast the animalistic rage. And they’re more twisted because the colors around them give that angry war zone setting. You clearly like to sound smart “they’ve made it so the streams are coming from his eyes and looking like tears”. You don’t need the wordy, flowery language to say he has “tears”. “The mere idea of fathoming…” is just confirmation you want to sound smart. There’s a difference between being eloquent and being wordy and you’re definitely the latter. Even Microsoft Word could catch that and offer you a suggestion to cut down. But we all have the freedom of speech even if people use to act like they’re the next Tarantino or Nolan. You guys regurgitate what you hear on forums to sound smart for sub 100 likes on a TH-cam video. Congrats lol
I just want to say that this song is so amazing. Along with the beautiful pastel artwork of Jinx and Isha's adorable moments together, it somehow makes one of the saddest scenes in the show simultaneously incredibly pure and heartfelt and triumphant. Yes we lose Isha but this is also Isha's victory, she successfully protects her beloved big sister by sacrificing herself🥺
First time I watched this, the scenes of her dancing with jinx broke me. She was healing jinx by being in her life. How precious she was. How selfless. The music stabs me in the heart as well. Much as it sucks, this was perfect.
Nothing has ever made me cry on first watch and rewatch. Honestly for me one of the best moments in the show and one of my favourite moments in fiction full stop.
@@kristopherhayes1957 I just realized I misread your comment as “that’s definitely a blink” meaning you thought it was Jinx blinking. My bad haha. But no I don’t know of any more times it happens
I just realize teh significance of Jinx and Isha painting reddish purple and blue streaks on the walls. Vi's signature colour in the show is the colour Jinx is painting with, and Powder's signature colour is the one Isha's painting with :c
I wonder how many people, as soon as this scene started, just said "Oh my god no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no" the whole time.
I started balling at the flashback of jinx dancing with Isha, it’s just such an emotional scene especially for jinx’s character and personality, and really shows how happy Isha made her
I think its beautiful how in the 1:09 running scene, Jinx uses pink while Isha uses blue. Just like how big sis Vi was pink and little Powder was blue.
My favorite part of Act 2. I love when pop culture deaths mean something and it isn't just killing characters off for the sake of killing characters off.
Underrated moment: Vi protects Jinx/Powder @ 1:52 For three years since s1 I never would have thought I'd see their sisterly bond repaired to that point
There is a reason this has been the highest rated epsiode in all of arcane. ISHA's sacrifice hit so many people and the facg the creator didnt acknowledged her post her death is saddening, atleast give something about here, a funeral..
@@user-me4nm7qg3u 2 Critical times were in season 1 after the explosion and the season 2 jail cell scene. There's no excuse why that scene took place there after the conversation they had before. If they had more time like they wanted you can add that scene in ep 9 and at least have Vi attempt to locate Jinx and fail to keep the same plot points.
1:00 This is where I started crying Isha is a little badass in this scene no doubt, but that scene just reminded me that she really IS just a kid. She's so excited to get her hair dyed the same way as her Idol/sister-figure, she can't contain herself. Combined with the style of drawing, what she was about to do hit me all at once like a truck. 😭😭😭😭
I love the way that they wrote this show in English but gave a mandarin song to the 1 mute character knowing that 70% of the viewing of the show wouldn’t understand the lyrics but still understand the emotion behind the song. That’s art.
Looking back, I now realize that Isha was the only one to quickly realize that Warwick was on a rampage that could not be stopped like the previous incidents. He posed a deadly threat to everyone around him. As a result, she willing chose to sacrifice her own life to stop him. She was essentially acting as a last resort to save the others from certain death.
Jinx wouldn't say that, because it would be too selfish. Protecting her family, and finally dying are the only two things she has truly wanted. Seeing Isha die took everything from Jinx, even the cold comfort of her own suicidal ideation.
it shows small detail of when they are entering and theyre forced to hand over their wepons. isha looks over at vi's gloves . it seems that she took the hextech crystals from her gloves and used them to overload jinxs wepon in the end . she uses 3 crystals , the same amount powder uses when she uses hextech for the first time.
The tears she sheds while running shows she didn’t want to die but knew she needed to make the sacrifice for the person she loved most. Which brought her to a smile while running as well because she knew she would save Jinx…. Pure Love
When I saw the flashbacks of their happy moments, I knew "Oh shit" she's gonna die isn't she. That's why they're showing us her happiest moment in her young, brief life." Then we saw her put more gemstones in which would obviously be too much power. And I knew it was over. This was Isha's last moment. And we didn't even know much about her, why was she chased, where were her parents, what her life was before meeting Jinx. All we know is that she was happy being Jinx's little sister. And that she loved her big sis so much she would sacrifice herself for her.
the fact that Isha died in a similar way as to when she accidentaly killed milo and clegor, with a weapon of hex crystals malfunctioning, is gonna be so traumatic for her. Poor girl doesn't deserve this
1:51 this moment has the same exact energy as when jinx ignites the flare. just the way it lines up perfectly with the music and the orchestra gets the loudest ughhhhhhh flawless.
You know, this is emotional and all and it is a genuinely beautiful scene… but to be completely honest she did not need to do that. Vander would have taken out a bunch of Noxians before going down himself; all the girls needed to do was leave and Isha would have been fine. I do see the reasoning that she probably did what she did so she could basically put Vander out of his misery, but it honestly didn’t work. Vander’s body would go on to be used by Singed to restore Viktor and bring him to his Glorious Evolution. Had Vander sustained more damage, he may not have been able to be used one last time. I feel like if Isha just ran, things would have been at least moderately okay.
True but why do people get so hung up on what characters “need” to do and every choice they make has to be the right one when it comes to movies and shows. People do a lot of unnecessary things in real life and make terrible choices. Plus this is just the same as young jinx with the monkey bomb, kids are dumb and make stupid decision.
@@Fantisma7 I get where you’re coming from but I don’t think this is the same as powder with the monkey bomb at all. And I don’t think he’s being hung up or saying that characters have to make the right move in shows/movies. Even irl when people make stupid/unnecessary decisions that’s sometimes fine but doesn’t mean that it should be normalized and stuff
@@henry.-.2183 it’s already normal, so it’s impossible to normalize it. And how is it not the same as the monkey bomb, it’s two young kids who think they’re making the best decision to save their loved ones, but end up failing.
You can see an interesting parallel in season 1 episode 1. Powder was scared in the slomo shot, she ran away. Here Isha was the same but instead of running away, she run towards them to save them. "Thinking one day it could all go pew"
Isha is a representation of jinx second chance at powder. Shes what powder would have been had she not been subjected to silco or the guilt of vanders death. If shed had a sister instead of a hard nosed protector. Jinx gave isha what powder should have had and isha was a fucking selfless hero. Its brutal to know what powder became in the abscene of these things and its even harder to watch isha be everything we so desperate want jinx to fufill in herself and that the loss pf isha moved powder farther from that fufillment. We didnt deserve this. Its better than what we deserve.
So far we've seen how Powder had a sister who gave up on her just cuz she's different than she "should be"., but also Jinx being the sister Isha never had, and who apparently did a great job raising her. 2 cases where the same person was on the receiving and providing end of the parenting treatment. 2 different scenarios. We've seen how the rage of jinx made her create weapons, and how her actions lead to Isha's death. Isha saw how jinx behaved, and took her as an example, and she does for jinx what jinx would do for her, or at least what she would want jinx to do for her. Jinx's rage and pursue for destruction lead to the death of the closest person to her. You reap what you sow. Connecting all this, Jinx had a bad childhood, she has baggage, and she became a better sister to isha than Vi was to her. She wanted people to accept different, and the only way she saw was destruction. She lost a bigger sister, a family, and she had nothing else to lose. Now with Isha, she plotted everything differently as she stopped seeking destruction for a while. |f you don't know, her workshop was redecorated to be a good place for Isha to stay, and a safe one too. Now she loses another sister when she did everything BETTER (behavior wise) than we expected from her. She was becoming a better person. Now what will become of a person who lost everything TWICE? I cry everytime I watch this. I blame rito
Also, is this the only song that is not English in the series? It'd be funny, cuz even if it's just the only asian song, it's the song of Isha. That should mean something right?
@mohamedmarzouq I'm not sure, really. Isha never really talked except for a few words or grunts. Isha was able to (or seem to) understand jinx and jinx understood nonverbal cues.
@kristopherhayes1957 I wasnt trying to indicate that she was chinese. she was mute, and it just fascinates me that her song was the only non english song, as if that means something.
Isha never spoke a word, but Jinx understood her quite perfectly, and we the viewers did stumble in trying to fing the meanings of those non-verbal cues. She "communicated perfectly in her own way",but we, the able-bodied viewers lacked something (inspite of having all the both parts) and werw unable to understand her communication. Even in her death, Isha communicated "perfectly" via the song, and yet again we weren't able to understand her (assuming most of us don't understand Mandarin). So, even at the end, we are the one who are incomplete, not her... Sorry, if I don't make any sense....
Even knowing something bad was probably going to happen to Isha, I completely fell apart when I first saw this scene. Seeing them bring out the childlike innocence of each other makes Jinx's loss so much more devastating.
This was one of the hardest scenes to watch, but at the same time, so beautiful, so full of passion and love and dedication - most of all, appreciation for Jinx and all her love for someone when the audience thought she could not love again (and was full of hate). I've whatched it a couple more times after and it stills bring me to tears, it's incredible.
What gets me so much in this scene is how horrible Isha's little life had been and how happy she finally was with Jinx that it was worth to her sacrificing everything. It really gets you this scene.
I have to say, you gave an immense amount of willpower and self-control, that you had a tear rolling down. Most of us ended up bawling for minutes, and in shock for hours.
I've seen people here touching on every single beautiful and artistically flawless creative choice made during this scene aside from the music. I encourage all of you to watch the lyric video + translation of Isha's song from Eason Chan. The lyrics are some of the most beautiful I've ever read. The essence of the song is Isha telling Jinx to keep running, keep living, keep flying as a "carefree bird" and that Isha is at peace with herself and her choice. A couple lines listed below: "There was a time that, while we still looked and acted like children in a field amongst millions, we yearned to bloom with fragrance and splendor" "We are all bounded by nature, to bloom and to wither, Yet, even the most obstinate stone and rubble bloom with flowers." I think it's very much intentful that the writers chose to add a piece in mandarin here that most would not understand, yet would still convey the strong emotions throughout the scene. Isha is mute and we cannot understand her either, yet through her actions and facial expressions she becomes one of the most well-written and loved characters in the show. Words aren't needed for Isha to convey her sisterly love for Jinx (and seemingly vi and caitlyn as well to some degree.).
![Eason Chan - “这样很好 (Isha’s Song)” (from Arcane Season 2) [Official Music Video]](/img/n.gif)
Jinx having a happiness for one minute,
screenwriter: OK, that's enough
Nah that was vi's fault, she literally was smiling a moment before, the writters can't allow that
Screenwriter: nah, we need conflict
@@Rebellion5in what way is this Vi's fault 😭😭😭😭
@softerhaze I was joking
This time jayce fault @@Rebellion5
The way the flashbacks were drawn in the style of childlike simplicity was just *chefs kiss*
its how isha sees the world whe shes with jinx:(((
The dish was delectable and spicy. Now we all burn our shitters in pain.
@@shotgun6125 Cuh What
Right??!!!!❤
So many tears. Poor Jinx.
What gets me is how she runs... my little 6 year old runs just like that, like her head is still to big for her body but still gives it her all.
Time to dye her hair blue
Time to dye her hair blue
Imagine if your little 6 year old sacrifice for you because of the love good moments. Damn its depressing
I'm 22 with a 6 year old sister and this scene gets me good every time.
Edit: What also gets me is I put on music all the time to dance and goof off with my sister. And just like Isha, my sister also copied my hair (I keep my hair very short, so does my other sibling, and so she wanted a short haircut too to match us both) so the parallels just shatter me
Time to dye her hair blue
The whole time I was rocking up and down saying to myself "she's gonna be okay, ishas not going to die, it's okay, it's okay... STOP SHOWING FLASHBACKS!!!"
Netflix just confirmed that she’s definitely not surviving with the video name as well… 😭
She IS going to be okay, because introducing a child just to rip them away to spur Jinx on is called fridging and it's bad writing. There be time travel afoot.
@ it was seen in the trailer that Jinx chops her hair off so you know that had to have been for Isha
if anime has taught me anything its that: if you start having flashbacks, its wraps for you.
@mega17 Isha showed up in like episode 2 of this season. With this shows pacing it's perfectly fine writing for her to die here (as sad as I am about it)
Isha brought peace and calm to Jinx, literally because she was mute and also symbolised how she muted all the voices in her head :(
Plus, Isha was a lone kid, running in fear from those goons. Maybe it reminded Powder of what she was like? Silco took care of her, in a way, so she wanted to do the same thing for Isha, only better.
I don’t think she was mute, but that’s a good interpretation. During the prison under the metal music you can actually hear her call jinx mama while Sevika pulls her away. But then again she could just be selectively mute so ignore me lol. Have a nice day!
No funny i thought she wasn’t real till vi slapped her in the cave 😭
@@3childreninatrenchcoat its confirmed shes mute, and if she said mama in that scene it would have been in the subtitles, yet it was not. all it says is [isha screaming], also she doesnt even close her mouth to make the "M" sound
@@violetmaritime I don’t think she’s confirmed to be mute, I’ve tried searching and see no confirmation, selectively mute would be more explainable and is probably most likely. But maybe I misheard and she was just screaming and I heard mama.
You know someone gonna die when suddenly their whole life starts flashing.
it may be a cliche, but it's implied that this was what she was thinking of while doing so.
Sad but true. That's why I 100% believe Jinx isn't dead. If she actually had died, there would have been some montage or memories of the sisters as a memorial. The fact that there wasn't to me is proof cause there's no way they gave Isha and even Caitlyn's mom (who no one really cared for) more of a goodbye than Jinx if she was really dead.
Isha was like the innocence that Jinx had found again. Until she lost her.
Mini me
I knew this kid was screwed, I knew that, and I still cried. Her last little finger gun is what got me. When she looks up at Vander at 1:48 you can tell that she’s scared, but as she turns to Jinx she puts on a smile just for her. That poor, brave little soul 🥺
Notice that her eyes dilate when she sees Jinx too. Dilating for someone she loves.
@@mekasaka5379 And that's something I love about Arcane Fortiche does such a good job at animating small details the eye dilation thing is done during multiple scenes in the show and it's such a small detail most people won't notice but it's so powerful and makes the scene more emotional if noticed.
When they first met, jinx did the pew & when they last meet, isha does the pew IM CRYIINNFGGGGG
@@mekasaka5379 not only, Jinx's pupil get smaller when she sees Isha
0:53 The smile combined with the tears in her eyes always fucks me up. She knows full well what's about to happen and she's completely okay with it. I know it's a cartoon, but no person should be content with self sacrifice when you haven't even lived a full life yet.
I DIDNT EVEN KNOW SHE WAS ALREADY CRYING THERE NOW IM SOBBING AGAIN
at 1:06 it also parallels the older/younger sister relationship jinx always wanted with vi when they spray paint(jinx sprays in pink which are vi's color symbolizing her acting as the older one and isha sprays in blue representing jinxs color as the younger sister.
Kids are surprisingly really ok with sacrificing themselves to save someone else and it's amazing considering how terrifying death is.
There was a story about an older brother who was i think 10 who shielded his sister from a pit bull attack and he said something like "id rather I die then her" and it's wild to think abou5
I believe the title of Isha's song '這樣很好' roughly translates to 'it's okay' or 'it's alright [for things to be this way]' which almost sounds like Isha is reassuring Jinx
Sobbing till the end
not enough people talk about how much style she went out with. the slide to grab the gun, the pose while loading the gun, taking the time to finger gun while crouched under a rage monster, then leaning backwards to shoot instead of just pointing it conventionally.
So true!
Well, she was amazed with jinx so she did it her style.
She was copying jinxs style of theatrics 😭
Everyone talks about that final pew but not that knowing smile Isha gives Jinx when she yells out her name. It's like she's saying, "I know. This is going to hurt. I'm sorry. But I have to protect you." And then she raises the gun and does just that
How is it protection?
@@kristopherhayes1957personally I can see it. The first time Vander showed up and they carried isha away while Jinx was in trouble, isha was screaming and crying because she thought Jinx would die. Now even more so that they confirmed it was Vander in there, in this scene Jinx was trying to talk some sense into something dangerous and in doing so leaving her guard down. She obviously did what she did for someone she loves. What other reason would she have to sacrifice herself.
@@kristopherhayes1957 fr jinx was in no way close to being in harm.
also what do you think jinx cared about more?
isha or the fact that isha is about to kill her father?
@@kristopherhayes1957 Vander tossed Jinx aside like a rag doll, and Isha freaked over it. She knew Jinx could never hurt him. Also, Isha's name means "protector" in Hindi.
Its the way Jinx slowly realizes what Isha is planning to do and the way she screams Isha's name.. 💔
She knows the look of a little, blue haired girl who wants to use 3 Hextech gemstones to save everyone.
@@xanadu6784 or reminding her that a little blue haired girl is about to kill her father..again.
That final "pew" had me bawling
It's giving the terminator thumbs up death.
seriously 😭
that pew shot my tear gland into pieces
Same, I bawled
Cried a lot in this scene 😭🥺
"ISHA IS STILL ALIVE" I scream as they wrap me in a straight jacket
Well. I am going to say something maybe stupid as i dont know LoL Lore. Is Hexer an invention specific to Arcane show ? Is it sentient ? Is it the manisfestation of somewhat a Higher Power ? Even if Isha's body was disintegrated, maybe her spirit became one with this Higher Being ? After all, there are Alternate Universes and Viktor was in some kind of "spiritual world of Hexer" in some episodes. So, who knows ?
😂😂😂😂
A few episodes later when Mel enters the camp, you can see her helmet on a grave. The Noxians gave her a warrior's burial next to Ambessa's luitenant.
Pretty cool detail!
you just gave me another reason to watch the entire show again
a warrior burial for my baby, TT as she deserves
Out of everyhing, Noxians respect strength the most. Beautiful.
While that would be cool it's not the same helmet. I like to think they still did you just don't see it.
@@zaimhassan5278 And let's not forget Ambessa's insistence on a fourth Noxian pillar: Sacrifice. For all I can't stand Ambessa, nobody in the show would have respected Isha's sacrifice more than her.
The fact that they made a mute child one of the most loveable characters in the show in a sign of fantastic writing.
The unintended implication that mute characters can't be loved is craaazy
@@chrishaven1489dude
Very cruel and genius. 😢
@@chrishaven1489the only crime is how stupid you are he means as in you can feel the emotions of the story without words and relate to the character…
think it had way more to do with the animation than the writing lol. and so far historically the mute/stoic characters with little or nothing to say have always been loved by viewers …. let’s not overhype the writing lol
“Is there anything so undoing as a daughter”
In this case jinx thought of her as a sister. She even tried flexing her infront of vi in the cave 😂
@@buenocarlo You know what I'm going to delve deeper into this. I am not a mother - I love to say that to my six little siblings. But I am in a lot of ways a parent, because that's how life played out. Jynx is the sole provider and guardian for Isha. I think the quote applies here.
@@buenocarlo True, but I don't know if Isha thought of her that way. When Sevika's carrying her away, it sounds like Isha's calling out "mama" after Jinx
Oh heck you! 😭😭😭
thanks, i wasnt alreadys crying enough
Everyone talks about Isha but no one talks about warwick, you could tell Vander was still in there. He looked sad, and when Jinx screamed Isha's name he looked at Isha, no beast would look directly at the person named Isha while in the middle of a battlefield while there are other bloodied and injured soldiers. Like one of Warwick's voice lines in game "Trying to save you..." he was probably trying to save her while also fighting the control of his bloodlust
unfortunately, it's most likely that he reacted to Jinx's scream (maybe it was too desperate and loud) orrrr the remains of Vander's consciousness made Warwick turn that way, and then he kinda noticed (or smelled?) little fella that slipped right under him
In fiction we usually see parental figures sacrifice themselves for their surrogate children, so to have this show turn that trope on its head was a real punch to the gur
Ishe knowing EXACTLY what she was doing made it 100% worse.
Jinx is just legally not allowed to be happy apparently. 😭
Nobody is allowed to be happy in this show
@@michaelarias3310 except for vi and caitlyn
All that and it didn’t even put Vander out of his misery
Its leauge. Not even the players are happy
@@E621_Rule34 THIS
I knew she was written to die, but I still sobbed my eyes out to this scene. Seriously, I couldn’t see through my glasses. This show had destroyed me 😭
Oh I threw my glasses off before the final blow so I could see what happened
Same. I haven't gotten this emotional over a show in years.
She went out fearless and with a heart full of love. Maybe the only love she ever felt in her whole short life. RIP little hero
I loved this because if you catch it you can see jinx’s eyes flash blue when you slow the video around 1:15 I think in another part of this drawing style you can see it also. Idk if it was intentional but I thought it depicted her letting powder heal and be happy for a moment.
Well uh...yeah....pretty sure she is about to go off the deep end
You can also see it at 0:45 too
Both thier eyes do
In 0:25 this mirrors the consequence of the action she made when she messed up and she's relieving it.
I noticed that too
Isha in Hindu means, "One Who Protects." The writers knew what they were doing.
Which makes it more sad that Isha would do anything to protect Jinx, even if that means giving her own life.
Jeebus H Chirstina man...
Hindu??? It’s literally from Persian and Muslim language
@@zh9335 Isha is an Sanskrit word, and so the OC meant it to be of Hindu origins. It also means "goddess".
And secondly, Islam is not a language. But even if we don't take your words literally, Isha refers to the fifth prayer of a muslim. Doesn't sound much of a name, does it? And from when did Islam started acknowledging anything vaguely related to "gods" or "goddesses"?
@@zh9335
The comment above me explains it pretty well. In arabic isha can mean night or life by my understanding. But sanskrit is the older language which the writers were going for, for the implication. Sanskrit, persian and arabic do use some similar words. For example eid is derived from vedic sanskrit word idhi
It’s the tears that start as Isha is running that makes my heart start to race. Then the finger gun makes the tears roll. And her closing her eyes as she accepts it all. Ugh. This show. It all hurts but I keep revisiting it
The one moment that absolutely wrecked me. I applaud the creators and writers of the show, you got a grown ass man bawling his eyes out to a show based on a toxic game.
Imagine ur a little girl around the ages 8-11 and you run to a monster sacrificing yourself for your best friend and never seeing them again. I feel so bad for both Jinx and Isha, they were such a great duo and the fact Isha has the courage to make that decision for Jinx is amazing and heartbreaking! Great job to the actors and producers that made this series
what's makes this part even sadder is that in a way we can still see a bit of Vander in there after Jinx screams "No" at 1:47 he glances a bit at Isha and when Isha was about to shoot at 2:02 he had a very sad expression. Vander is still in there and was trying to fight it but he couldn't do anything because he was not in full control of his current body anymore 😢
Does ANYONE else notice Isha's pupils slightly enlarging and her eyes becoming only glossy at 1:47-1:51 when looking at Jinx??? Both the expression of bravery and love staring right back at Jinx. Save me the anguish! I was swallowed by it once Isha began running.
You'll be hearing from my therapist
ur going on my suicide note bruv
One thing I don't see a lot of people mentioning, and something I really love about this scene because it's exactly the little detail of emphasis that Arcane design & art team do to make things amazing, is that one, Vander's final motion towards 2:02 Isha is, yes, a beast about to claw at her, but it has been done in a manner to render him visually despairing, his face is elongated in a scream, but the aggressive shapes and features of directed anger aren't there, it communicates despair at what is happening more than this. And doubly so, all of the glowing 'lava' looking streams coming out of his body, in this moment, in this framing, they've made it so the streams are coming from his eyes and looking like tears. An echo of the small time of bonding Isha & Vander got to have beforehand, and knowing that Isha is connected to Powder.
I like a good breakdown but I feel like stuff like this just reads way too much into the process. The lava tears yes but idk about the rest. Seems pretentious imo
@@maxm2656 That's the consequence of having actual art & design - visual communication and means thereof specifically, not valued in education. They shape the way you see and craft the world around you.
All of this is extremely basic ideas of shape language and communicating via form and context. I say all of this because this is all things that myself and my peers actively do when creating. There's intent behind every decision - because that's what art and design is, active decision making - ESPECIALLY when we're talking about something like Arcane.
It's cool to just turn off and go 'heh pretty pictures these guys are good' but it's just a lowest denominator experience. Which is fine, what goes behind something like Arcane is lost on majority, even in your case here, the mere idea of fathoming that a team designs a scene in a specific way and gesture is lost.
@@ashryver3605 yeah still pretentious. You’re definitely the kind of person who thinks they piss excellence. I even agreed, Warwick has glowing red tears flow down to make it appear like Vander’s humanity is still there and he’s crying. But the stuff about anger not being there? The whole thing is that only a portion of Vander’s humanity is left, with Warwick having taken over and being a beast. The angry colors pretty clearly denote that. Saying that the shapes of anger have disappeared make no sense lol. Isha’s boutta get merc’d. You even said “I don’t see people talking about this” bc you wanted to be a special snowflake. Congrats you’re an annoying one lol
I WAS THINKING WHY NO ONE MENTIONED THIS- i kept seeing that and it hurt oh my god
I had to take a film class as an elective in college and you would’ve fit right in. They all loved to talk about how a specific shot and framing showed a power difference. To me, all that should be evident from the story itself.
I also agreed with you and just said you were stretching things. That shot of Warwick about to annihilate Isha is a reminder that he was once Vander but has been completely transformed. Your talk about the shapes and being elongated into a scream are stretches. The “tears” contrast the animalistic rage. And they’re more twisted because the colors around them give that angry war zone setting. You clearly like to sound smart “they’ve made it so the streams are coming from his eyes and looking like tears”. You don’t need the wordy, flowery language to say he has “tears”. “The mere idea of fathoming…” is just confirmation you want to sound smart. There’s a difference between being eloquent and being wordy and you’re definitely the latter. Even Microsoft Word could catch that and offer you a suggestion to cut down. But we all have the freedom of speech even if people use to act like they’re the next Tarantino or Nolan. You guys regurgitate what you hear on forums to sound smart for sub 100 likes on a TH-cam video. Congrats lol
I just want to say that this song is so amazing. Along with the beautiful pastel artwork of Jinx and Isha's adorable moments together, it somehow makes one of the saddest scenes in the show simultaneously incredibly pure and heartfelt and triumphant. Yes we lose Isha but this is also Isha's victory, she successfully protects her beloved big sister by sacrificing herself🥺
Isha... The one that protects her family.
Rest in power, little sister.
Edit: NAHHH. y'all wild in comments like that about powder,folks!😅
You were able to say more fitting words as a little Paow June was a heroine
Or you mean, rest in powder
@@yuanpengtang7843😂
@@yuanpengtang7843 Literally, cause that's what the gems turned her into 😭
@@Scaryanimall you like explaining every simple joke, bruh?
First time I watched this, the scenes of her dancing with jinx broke me. She was healing jinx by being in her life. How precious she was. How selfless. The music stabs me in the heart as well. Much as it sucks, this was perfect.
It’s crazy how Isha was saving Jinx the entire time they knew each other. Right up til the end.
1:05 amounts of chills i get on this specific shot...
Rightttt????😭😭😭😭
Nothing has ever made me cry on first watch and rewatch. Honestly for me one of the best moments in the show and one of my favourite moments in fiction full stop.
Me tooooo when I rewatch, I kept crying 😢
Can you see that in minute 0:45 the color of Jinx eyes change BLUE ? 😭😭💙💙💙
She came back for a split second.....god why does arcane do this to us.
That's definitely a blink, and you miss kind of moment
@@kristopherhayes1957Nah it happens twice. Second time is when they’re jumping in the air together. 1:15
@OfficialMZay is there any more?
@@kristopherhayes1957 I just realized I misread your comment as “that’s definitely a blink” meaning you thought it was Jinx blinking. My bad haha. But no I don’t know of any more times it happens
I just realize teh significance of Jinx and Isha painting reddish purple and blue streaks on the walls. Vi's signature colour in the show is the colour Jinx is painting with, and Powder's signature colour is the one Isha's painting with :c
When Jinx screams "no" she looks just like her mom. The animators in this series are God tier
I wonder how many people, as soon as this scene started, just said "Oh my god no no no no no no no no no no no no no
no no no no
no no no no
no no no no"
the whole time.
That's me. I was like. Oh no Isha, what's with all the flashback. No no no
Yes, absolutely. All through my tears and cracking, trembling voice.
Nah, I was cursing the next 20 generations of the writers' families
I started balling at the flashback of jinx dancing with Isha, it’s just such an emotional scene especially for jinx’s character and personality, and really shows how happy Isha made her
I think its beautiful how in the 1:09 running scene, Jinx uses pink while Isha uses blue. Just like how big sis Vi was pink and little Powder was blue.
2:08 vi is protecting jinx🥺
And despite everything, *they're still sisters.*
Fuck vi! Only jinx, sevika and isha 🩵
😢😢😢and there's still people that says Vi is not a good sister and doesn't care about her little sister
My favorite part of Act 2. I love when pop culture deaths mean something and it isn't just killing characters off for the sake of killing characters off.
The music, plus the flashbacks, plus the finger gun, plus Isha’s brave sacrifice absolutely destroyed my emotions and left me bawling my eyes out😭
1:32 The look of realisation
Underrated moment: Vi protects Jinx/Powder @ 1:52
For three years since s1 I never would have thought I'd see their sisterly bond repaired to that point
isha's pov and flashbacks are colorful when she's with jinx :'>
and we know none of the places in her flashbacks are that pretty. but they were colorful and lively and beautiful to her because jinx was there 😔
There is a reason this has been the highest rated epsiode in all of arcane. ISHA's sacrifice hit so many people and the facg the creator didnt acknowledged her post her death is saddening, atleast give something about here, a funeral..
well, the ending was kinda rushed, too much to fit in a short time, but it was kind of acknowledge in jinx balloon at the last episode
When Mel enters the camp, you can see Isha's grave.
@@Mateus-zs3itI also felt season 2 was rushed and would've felt more satisfied if it was split into two.
Vander: I am... Inevitable.
Isha: And I... am... Isha. *Fires*
😞
This child made us all cry without saying a word☹️
“Jinx wanted to save her little sister, Vi wanted to save her own.”
I always knew Isha was gonna die, but her death was still so damn painful to watch.
Isha had saved Jinx's life, twice. 😭😭
I'll never recover from this.
Same
This is exactly why Vi wanted Powder to “sit this one out”
Vi the drunk abandoned her sister 3 times 😂
@@mysteryace2129Vi never abandoned her sister, there's always someone or something out of Vi's control that separates them
@@user-me4nm7qg3u 2 Critical times were in season 1 after the explosion and the season 2 jail cell scene. There's no excuse why that scene took place there after the conversation they had before. If they had more time like they wanted you can add that scene in ep 9 and at least have Vi attempt to locate Jinx and fail to keep the same plot points.
This show literally broke me.
Thats how its suppose to be, a show with no pain isnt real and has no soul.
@@frozzytango9927 This show is nearly all pain and has too much soul lol
What really makes Isha memorable is that she loved Jinx for who she was and slowly started turning Jinx to her old self(Powder)❤😭😭
1:00
This is where I started crying
Isha is a little badass in this scene no doubt, but that scene just reminded me that she really IS just a kid.
She's so excited to get her hair dyed the same way as her Idol/sister-figure, she can't contain herself. Combined with the style of drawing, what she was about to do hit me all at once like a truck.
😭😭😭😭
Did anyone else notice...Jinx's eyes turned blue a couple of times during the flashbacks...I'm going to have strong words with the writers 😤😤😭😭
Powder fell down a well and Isha pulled her out. Isha was the one who never left her. Isha was the one who saved her.
Whats crazy is that Warwick survived 3 of those gemstone explosions simutanously.
She didn’t speak a single word, but her willingness to sacrifice herself spoke volumes.
I love the way that they wrote this show in English but gave a mandarin song to the 1 mute character knowing that 70% of the viewing of the show wouldn’t understand the lyrics but still understand the emotion behind the song. That’s art.
As a Chinese, I'm so touched that they chose a Chinese song for this scene! ❤❤❤
Same. I also love that it’s pissing off the sinophobes
The song is beautiful, despite not knowing the language. Music can cross so many boundaries.
Best song of the show
I thought it was an odd choice for such a sad scene, it sounds more like a triumphant song
Looking back, I now realize that Isha was the only one to quickly realize that Warwick was on a rampage that could not be stopped like the previous incidents. He posed a deadly threat to everyone around him. As a result, she willing chose to sacrifice her own life to stop him. She was essentially acting as a last resort to save the others from certain death.
Jinx "IT SHOULD'VE BEEN ME! NOT HER! IT'S NOT FAIR!"
Jinx wouldn't say that, because it would be too selfish. Protecting her family, and finally dying are the only two things she has truly wanted.
Seeing Isha die took everything from Jinx, even the cold comfort of her own suicidal ideation.
Imagine she's Stills alive but saved by Viktor's Glorious Evolution, that would be Joy and Sadness at the dame time
Or better yet, Ekko's time machine.
1:15 that single frame where jinx eyes was shaded blue:
For that little moment Jinx remembers what's like to be Powder again.
Isha smiling as she cried while running killed me
the song made this scene 10x sadder, it held so much emotion 😭❤
Silco himself said it... There's nothing more undoing than a daughter, and Isha was that for Jinx
it shows small detail of when they are entering and theyre forced to hand over their wepons. isha looks over at vi's gloves . it seems that she took the hextech crystals from her gloves and used them to overload jinxs wepon in the end . she uses 3 crystals , the same amount powder uses when she uses hextech for the first time.
The tears she sheds while running shows she didn’t want to die but knew she needed to make the sacrifice for the person she loved most. Which brought her to a smile while running as well because she knew she would save Jinx…. Pure Love
When I saw the flashbacks of their happy moments, I knew "Oh shit" she's gonna die isn't she. That's why they're showing us her happiest moment in her young, brief life." Then we saw her put more gemstones in which would obviously be too much power. And I knew it was over. This was Isha's last moment. And we didn't even know much about her, why was she chased, where were her parents, what her life was before meeting Jinx. All we know is that she was happy being Jinx's little sister. And that she loved her big sis so much she would sacrifice herself for her.
this still has me bawling, even just hearing the song gets me in tears i will never get over this 😭😭😭 none of them deserved this
the fact that Isha died in a similar way as to when she accidentaly killed milo and clegor, with a weapon of hex crystals malfunctioning, is gonna be so traumatic for her. Poor girl doesn't deserve this
1:51 this moment has the same exact energy as when jinx ignites the flare. just the way it lines up perfectly with the music and the orchestra gets the loudest ughhhhhhh flawless.
I can’t watch this and not cry holy shit. The song and visuals kill me every time 😭
You know, this is emotional and all and it is a genuinely beautiful scene… but to be completely honest she did not need to do that. Vander would have taken out a bunch of Noxians before going down himself; all the girls needed to do was leave and Isha would have been fine. I do see the reasoning that she probably did what she did so she could basically put Vander out of his misery, but it honestly didn’t work. Vander’s body would go on to be used by Singed to restore Viktor and bring him to his Glorious Evolution. Had Vander sustained more damage, he may not have been able to be used one last time. I feel like if Isha just ran, things would have been at least moderately okay.
True but why do people get so hung up on what characters “need” to do and every choice they make has to be the right one when it comes to movies and shows. People do a lot of unnecessary things in real life and make terrible choices. Plus this is just the same as young jinx with the monkey bomb, kids are dumb and make stupid decision.
@@Fantisma7 I get where you’re coming from but I don’t think this is the same as powder with the monkey bomb at all. And I don’t think he’s being hung up or saying that characters have to make the right move in shows/movies. Even irl when people make stupid/unnecessary decisions that’s sometimes fine but doesn’t mean that it should be normalized and stuff
@@henry.-.2183 it’s already normal, so it’s impossible to normalize it. And how is it not the same as the monkey bomb, it’s two young kids who think they’re making the best decision to save their loved ones, but end up failing.
You can see an interesting parallel in season 1 episode 1. Powder was scared in the slomo shot, she ran away. Here Isha was the same but instead of running away, she run towards them to save them. "Thinking one day it could all go pew"
this broke my heart, especially after having jinx come back a little back to powder with isha at her side, and then to have the flashbacks
Literally bawled my eyes out when i saw this scene 😭
“What’s wrong with you, why did you write that?”
Straight tears and chills😭😭😭 0:59
Isha is a representation of jinx second chance at powder. Shes what powder would have been had she not been subjected to silco or the guilt of vanders death. If shed had a sister instead of a hard nosed protector.
Jinx gave isha what powder should have had and isha was a fucking selfless hero.
Its brutal to know what powder became in the abscene of these things and its even harder to watch isha be everything we so desperate want jinx to fufill in herself and that the loss pf isha moved powder farther from that fufillment.
We didnt deserve this. Its better than what we deserve.
So far we've seen how Powder had a sister who gave up on her just cuz she's different than she "should be"., but also Jinx being the sister Isha never had, and who apparently did a great job raising her. 2 cases where the same person was on the receiving and providing end of the parenting treatment. 2 different scenarios.
We've seen how the rage of jinx made her create weapons, and how her actions lead to Isha's death. Isha saw how jinx behaved, and took her as an example, and she does for jinx what jinx would do for her, or at least what she would want jinx to do for her. Jinx's rage and pursue for destruction lead to the death of the closest person to her. You reap what you sow.
Connecting all this, Jinx had a bad childhood, she has baggage, and she became a better sister to isha than Vi was to her. She wanted people to accept different, and the only way she saw was destruction. She lost a bigger sister, a family, and she had nothing else to lose. Now with Isha, she plotted everything differently as she stopped seeking destruction for a while. |f you don't know, her workshop was redecorated to be a good place for Isha to stay, and a safe one too. Now she loses another sister when she did everything BETTER (behavior wise) than we expected from her. She was becoming a better person. Now what will become of a person who lost everything TWICE?
I cry everytime I watch this. I blame rito
Also, is this the only song that is not English in the series? It'd be funny, cuz even if it's just the only asian song, it's the song of Isha. That should mean something right?
@mohamedmarzouq I'm not sure, really. Isha never really talked except for a few words or grunts. Isha was able to (or seem to) understand jinx and jinx understood nonverbal cues.
@kristopherhayes1957 I wasnt trying to indicate that she was chinese. she was mute, and it just fascinates me that her song was the only non english song, as if that means something.
@@mohamedmarzouq oh OK. Maybe that does make some sense.
Isha never spoke a word, but Jinx understood her quite perfectly, and we the viewers did stumble in trying to fing the meanings of those non-verbal cues. She "communicated perfectly in her own way",but we, the able-bodied viewers lacked something (inspite of having all the both parts) and werw unable to understand her communication. Even in her death, Isha communicated "perfectly" via the song, and yet again we weren't able to understand her (assuming most of us don't understand Mandarin). So, even at the end, we are the one who are incomplete, not her...
Sorry, if I don't make any sense....
Even knowing something bad was probably going to happen to Isha, I completely fell apart when I first saw this scene. Seeing them bring out the childlike innocence of each other makes Jinx's loss so much more devastating.
The fact that this show uses cartoonish animation for memories become the fact that Isha is now a memory
Netflix, I told you I didn't want these onions around me! 😭 🧅
that song arrangement is perfect; strikes right in the heart.
Damn, a child from an animated series, with such courage made me feel overwhelmed. She's the bravest
This was one of the hardest scenes to watch, but at the same time, so beautiful, so full of passion and love and dedication - most of all, appreciation for Jinx and all her love for someone when the audience thought she could not love again (and was full of hate). I've whatched it a couple more times after and it stills bring me to tears, it's incredible.
What gets me so much in this scene is how horrible Isha's little life had been and how happy she finally was with Jinx that it was worth to her sacrificing everything. It really gets you this scene.
YOOOOOO I don’t cry much at movies and shows but this had me sitting in silence with a tear rolling down my cheek 😢
I have to say, you gave an immense amount of willpower and self-control, that you had a tear rolling down.
Most of us ended up bawling for minutes, and in shock for hours.
@ and I wouldn’t blame you for a SECOND. This was so…left field and a punch in the gut. Who told them to break us like this?? 😢
for real man, it made me teary eyed, probably the first of any kind of media to do it.
every time I watch this I sob uncontrollably. Isha was my favorite character
Isha must've watched Hamilton, because she didn't throw away her "Shot." 😅
I've seen people here touching on every single beautiful and artistically flawless creative choice made during this scene aside from the music. I encourage all of you to watch the lyric video + translation of Isha's song from Eason Chan. The lyrics are some of the most beautiful I've ever read. The essence of the song is Isha telling Jinx to keep running, keep living, keep flying as a "carefree bird" and that Isha is at peace with herself and her choice. A couple lines listed below:
"There was a time that, while we still looked and acted like children in a field amongst millions, we yearned to bloom with fragrance and splendor"
"We are all bounded by nature, to bloom and to wither, Yet, even the most obstinate stone and rubble bloom with flowers."
I think it's very much intentful that the writers chose to add a piece in mandarin here that most would not understand, yet would still convey the strong emotions throughout the scene. Isha is mute and we cannot understand her either, yet through her actions and facial expressions she becomes one of the most well-written and loved characters in the show. Words aren't needed for Isha to convey her sisterly love for Jinx (and seemingly vi and caitlyn as well to some degree.).
This literally broke my heart when I watched this scene
RIP Lil Isha, you will never suffer anymore 😔