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Viktor: 'leans on his pure metal cane, and breathes through the mask on his face' That night was... not the best, but i knew in my non metallic heart i had to save him. Part of me wishes i didn't, but yet 'sigh'
Vi started the teamfight properly, Pinned down the assasin and Jinx still did nothing and messes up the objective just like in my games...(the kids brawl scene)
@@TheKurama00 I think at minimum they are going to be reluctant accomplices but possibly more. I think at least one of the trailer scenes showed vi fighting back to back with Jayce. Also…well she probably has to get her gauntlets from somewhere.
I knew it was gonna happen based off fiddles quote which just made it so much worse to see tbh, watching her come out happy and then realize what she did
Yea, they almost made it out, but poor little Powder Jinx(ed) it. That's so sad. Violet and Powder had such a beautiful relationship. Any fan of the game knows it gets ripped apart, but seeing how it happened had me so tearful.
I also winced at how she literally could have just THROWN a crystal and exactly where she wanted the explosion. Those things are amazing at being grenades, and she instead uses way too many of them, and puts them on an unreliable timer involving an unreliable toy…
@@mrmistah5126 I loved the game but toxicity has many forms and only one type gets punished which is arguably the least impactful although annoying. They literally only punish players who abuse chat. I could literally hard int down mid for 100 games in a row and the only thing you lose is lp. You will never get banned inting which gives alot of power to people who want to control a situation. Their balance can be funky at times for sure but they just don't address major issues and try to show they care by putting bandaids rather than fixing it at the core. I will agree cinematics are outrageous, music is hit or miss for me.
@@madMILL3R The fact they disabled /allchat shows the absolute broken state of the game. I stopped playing League seriously back in 2018. My main excitement for League comes from the extra media. You seem very invested into the game which is your own detriment.
@@mrmistah5126 yeah why change the game. you see the client it works . yes not that good but why change a system that has no costs and provides you with stuff
After years of waiting, this is all I have ever wanted. It was a show of passion and love and care, not just another cash-grab series to sell merchandise. I can die in peace now
Never thought the day when league actually turns into a series happens, although arcane did take years so guess we'll have to wait another decade for the next series lol
Riot balance team: In order to stay consistent with Jinx’s lore and character identity, we decided to replace Jinx’s Chompers with a hextech grenade that one shots both her teammates and enemies
What blew me away is how every emotion was so perfectly conveyed to the public. The very first scene where Vi sees her dead mother and breaks down in tears moved me, which is a feat! Usually, this sort of very early exposition doesn't really work beause you're not attached to the characters and you're just like "eh, typical 'protagonist with dead parents' trend", but here you already felt for Vi and Powder. Also, the strong symbolic when Vander drops his gloves. The mix of fury and despair in Vander's last stand, Jayce's resignment as he's about to jump... And also all the subtle expressions: Powder scoffing at Mylo after her target shooting, Vi showing her "shut up" look to Mylo, Viktor cringing when Jayce asks him if he's sure about his theory... And of course, the last scene which was absolutely heartbreaking: "I only wanted to help... I only wanted to help!" from Powder. I also liked the foreshadowing and the nods to the future champions: Mylo saying Powder jinxes everything, Vi saying Powder is a jinx, Viktor making fun of Jayce's pride because he signed every single page of his notes, Viktor and Jayce mentionning a Crank to harness magic (Blitz means storm in german, which is kinda appropriate to the Arcane storm they create later on), and also Caitlyn's brand new theme playing when Jayce metts her under the rain! And yes, the pace was perfect.
Do u play league? cuz if so i think that might influence the fact that u feel emotions so powerfully, because even if u don't necessarily like the characters that are displayed, u still sometimes play with/against these characters (or champions) and that already gives u some kind of link. Risky but powerful move by the creators of the first scene. (theres a lot of ppl saying they can feel the emotions rly powerfully, the same goes to them). If u don't play league, than its and even more powerful (yet even riskier), because they immediately managed to instil empathy.
Thank you so much for cataloguing all of the insanely emotive displays of emotion. You articulated perfectly what I was feeling and I'm so happy someone did this. I think I may even store this somewhere on my PC so i can reference it in the future.
@@bossyboots5705 I never play League, and I emoted with the characters massively. The expressions of anguish felt by vy, jinx and vandar were so relatable that I wept whilst watching this more than once.
The facial animations and raw emotions are so insane. You can tell how these characters feel without them even speaking. I've waited 9+ years for this, I'm so happy.
Its true, there is so much happening both visually and just in the writing that says things without even SAYING them. I think Necrit said during the stream, but I agree that there is barely any expositional talk, and when there is, it is interwoven with character moments or done visually. So good...
@@theprofessor2403 Thats not how it happened , at least in the lol universe page , jayce refuses to speak up to the injustice that was giving the credit of creating blitz to another dude instead of his real creator viktor and after viktor trying to help others with machines it was exiled because of the ethical implications, in zaun viktor tried to help people and stole a hextech crystal from jayce. jayce then killed those innocents, so jayce is a fool in that story. (dont think the story quite match with arcane)
Fiddlesticks: "All your fault! ALL YOUR FAULT!" Swain: "Faces... fading in the flames.... It was all her fault..." I'm not crying. What are you talking about.
How Necrit figured out it was Singed: "You can see the fires burning his face, that must be singed!" Me an intellectual: 'Oh the caption says he's singed, that's neat.'
HERE'S A LIST OF ALL HINTS POINTING TO VANDER BECOMING WARWICK - Vander being called the "Hound of the Underground" - Silco calling him a "lapdog" of the up-siders - When he was being dragged in by Silco to their hideout you can see metal claws being forged similar to WW's - When Silco dragged him to be tortured unto a chair you can LITERALLY hear WW's blood-scent skill theme playing in the background - His transformation, it seems the syrums effects is different depending on the person, Deckard never growled like an animal when he transformed instead he sounded more screechy while Vander made more animalistic and wolf-like growls when he took the syrum. - If you followed WW's old lore Vander literally said a line to Vi that goes "You have a good heart, don't ever lose it" which is a call back to his retconned lore where he was supposed to eat Soraka's heart to complete his wolf transformation. - This is a quote in WW's lore "Warwick struggled to recall a single memory from his past... All he could see was blood. But then he heard a little girl screaming. Screaming something he couldn’t understand. It sounded like a name" (if you know, you know.) - In Greek Vanders name means "Good Man" or "Family Of". In WW's lore there's a quote that goes "Singed would reveal his subject’s true nature-the deadly beast hidden within a “good man.” - Vanders flexor muscle on his right arm was cut by Silco, hence why he wasn't able to choke Silco to death. And when Vander transformed he used his left arm to kill Deckard, my theory is that the "prototype" syrum doesn't heal past injuries but only the more recent ones. WW's right arm is also the arm that was mechanized by Singed. - When Silco stabbed Vander in the back we see Vander turning to him with an incredibly feral look, so full of rage, hate and probably fear on what's to come if he's not able to kill Silco, this is a quote in WW's lore "A chemical chamber was installed on Warwick’s back and integrated with his nervous system. Whenever he felt rage, or hate, or fear, it would drive liquid fury deeper into his veins, fully awakening the beast within." (If you've seen the WW cinematic the chemical chamber basically stabs him in the back and drives in the "liquid fury" into his nervous system.) - WW's quote to Vi in game "The fear in your eyes. I've seen it before." (When Vi saw Vander transformed by the syrum at the end of episode 3). - WW's quote to Jinx in game "You were there..." and "Let me forget...". (Yeah you know). - WW's quote when taunting in game "I ran these streets - now it's your turn to run." (Vander ran the streets of the Lanes). - In the events of act 2 we see Singed repeatedly saying "the mutation must survive". Vander in all sense of sorts had the most drastic mutation when he took in the syrum, Deckard and those shimmer addicts at the last episode of act 2 turned out to be more like screeching zombies. And basing on Silco's reaction when he saw Vanders transformation during act 1 it was unlike anything he's ever seen in Singed's trial experiments.
Spoiler-ish, but Deckard is not dead tho. Dead-brained junkie with rotten teeth and eyes facing elsewhere, but alive. He had just beaten his ass to a pulp.
SPOILER in later episode, when viktor(or silco to heal jinx, i forgot) visit singed we can see an arm in the ceiling with claw, it looks like WW arms, and it make sense that singed started working to make WW already as the time is limited since vander died/dying.
Hold up so u have been in ur friend's house in 1,30 am in the morning watching and screaming about how awesome it is while everyone trying to sleep NICE
In the scene where Silco’s goon is dragging Vander to that chair, right after the burly woman puts out her cigarette, you can hear a metallic groan that’s pulled right out of Warwick’s theme!
I loved how Silco took Powder in after he glanced at Vander's corpse. That tiny detail that he saw himself in her cuz a man he called brother left him too.
Things I absolutely love. -The consistency between the show, and the lore we've been provided. Just look at Warwicks lore and compare it to Vander. -How unbelievably hilarious Viktor is. The scene at the door just had me and my friends laughing so hard.
@@finnheisenheim8274 That's because time changes people. After gaining a technological handicap, he stopped being a literal handicapped person haha. It goes to show you how people can change their behavior after getting a bigger status, or becoming richer.
@@roughnegg6615 to be fair, Viktor didn't change with status according to his lore. He was thrown out of piltover because he believed removing human error from processes is what saves lives, piltover people considered his work unethical and in violation of human rights, believing that this "error" is where humanity gets its creativity. The even bigger change to him happens when he tries his premises on himself, altering parts of his body and brain in order to remove pesky emotions and human error from his work. Which is when his vision became a lot more obsessive and fully became the "glorious evolution". If anything Viktor changed after he lost everything and was thrown back to Zaun. Where he decided the only way others would follow his vision is if they saw it at work, so he gets to work on altering himself. He's kind of the prime example of "living your work". Jayce is more of a what power and money does to you character. P.s. I also think that choosing to work on himself speaks to his character a lot, instead of just doing experiments on more unfortunate people in Zaun as a lot of other do.
@@mordecaiissad8529 I agree, Viktor is a selfless individual, who tends to go all in if it benefits to the progress of humanity. Tragical part of this behaviour is that one turns to become less and less human afterwards...
My mom was a league player since 2019 and I played around 2016. We watched Arcane together and at the very end of Episode 3 I remembered her saying "I wanna marry the writter of this story!" I was like, I can't agree with you more. 🤣
"Jinx? Stands for Jinx" a reference to "Vi? Stands for violence" I always thought they were secretly sisters. Leave it to Arcane to give us the casual reveal.
@@mitchellscanga747 I dont keep up with the lore but played league on and off since 2013 but wasnt jinx and vi always meant to be sisters? im sure i remember when they released jinx she was meant to be vi's sister didnt know it was a secret
@@mitchellscanga747 I don’t know about the official lore tbf but I just thought it was always assumed when jinx mentions her sister it was vi it’s too long ago to remember how people came to that conclusion but Yh
Honestly, this series is perfect, but it had me so goddamn heartbroken. Both Jinx AND Vi deserved better and none of them deserved the grief and trauma. This is the first time i´ve ever sat in front of my screen and just wanted to hug two fictional characters and tell them that it´s gonna be all right.
This series has made a few things crystal clear in my mind. 1. I REALLY want jinx and vi to have some kind of closer with each other. 2. Viktor is a mother fucking real one for saving Jayce from what he was going to do. 3. I might not enjoy the game as much but the world of runeterra is by far, above and beyond, my all time favorite universe and the team that did this hit a homerun. P.s. I really mean it, I hope to God that video and jinx get some kind of closure but I know its probably not going to happen. 😔
@@stealthyremote7424 I’m a lil excited and worried about what Jayce is gonna do to fuck viktor up (according to old lore) but maybe the producers will retcon it and act make jayce and viktor stay as good friends
If you look deeper Jinx actually creates alot of champs other than just singed. If you think about it, she was responsible for Jayce and Viktor aswell because if she didnt blow up his room, Jayce would never have teamed up with viktor and its possible he would never have made that breakthrough for hextech. Also, Because of the arcane explosion mixing with the purple chemicals The seeds of chemtech were planted, and BECAUSE of that singed, WW, and possibly urgot will be created n their current LoL champion form. Oriana was also possibly created if you read her lore about a mysterious explosion that happened in zaun. And of course there is Vi becoming an Enforcer and Ekko's motivation to become who he is now. I could be overstretching a few things, But Jinx importance and that explosion in particular is what interested me most about this series. Of all the things they could have done for Jinx it was a pleasant surprise that this was their direction with her, and most importantly she has no idea what she has done and neither does she care(atleast not post powder as her character of Jinx). Very Joker esque without blatantly being the Joker with a backstory just as tragic, i love it. I alway's hoped for ages now that Shaco just became the joker of league and Jinx was the harlequinn, but here Jinx might just be Piltover's/Zaun's Joker instead.
You forgot to mention camille. Jayce‘s break through together with viktor will allow not only orianna and viktor himself but also camille to become a cyborg.
@@SunsetTwist As a normal person or possibly partly augmented (don't know if they already did this in Piltover before Hextech) but she doesn't have the Hextech Heart yet, Hextech literally doesn't exist yet apart from one device at the end of Act 1.
my favorite part of the plot is how in Zaun (the default "lower" city) everything goes downhill as plot progresses while in Piltover ("higher" city) everything improves, which in its own makes the difference between two so unmanagebly huge that it leaves the outburst to be a matter of "when", not "if"
I wouldn't say everything improves over the course of the plot in Piltover. Jayce almost commits suicide because the council doesn't approve of his research, Caitlyn is disallowed from seeing him because her parents are stuck up, etc. But things do ultimately turn out better in Piltover while everything gets worse in Zaun.
And thank you fortiche productions for just bringing quality as they have always done with every project Riot has assigned them for. Back from the: "Get Jinxed" music video, to "Warriors" with imagine dragons, The "Rise" music video, K/DA. They're so incredible, and the production is in a "league" of its own. Absolute legends.
Piltover/Zaun was absolutely the right setting for this series. It's a lot like New York as a movie setting. It's a crossroads for so many different stories to overlap. Nowhere else in Runterra could you have this many characters all focused on the same events without making it a vast nation-spanning war between Demacia, Noxus, and Ionia which would absolutely lose the personal connection of this story. Maybe for season 2, though...
Mage rebellion is something they can actually make a series about for seasons 2, there's quite a few characters involved and is pretty similar to the present setting
I thought about this, and I believe without having big wars and conflicts and whatnot, Bilgewater would probably be another great setting for stories that are pretty self contained.
This series was truly worth the wait. Everyone has been begging for Riot to create a movie or a series and now that they have, they absolutely killed it. The people behind the show 100% deserve all the praise they are getting. Edit: also the fact that Warwick now has a very tragic and emotional backstory gives him so much more depth as a character.
as someone who's been a part of that crowd since 2013, it was so goddamn fulfilling to watch, and as someone who was part of the Advent Children hype way back, it's so goddamn cool to see how far we've come 2005: video game makers make a movie with zero knowledge of filmmaking outside of cutscenes, and it's great 2021: video game studio gets so big that they can hire entire cast and crew to make a fully fledged series the "right" way what a time to be alive
Remember when Warwick is just a random wolf? Now, you know that wolf had family, but lost it. I read Warwick's lore once, and I never thought the voice of the little girl in his mind is Vi. Her scream when he died. I mean, bruh... Arcane is so awesome, everything is so connected.
@@celfhelp till this day advent childre is still one of the best animated action films imo The cloud vs sephi with the metal sephi theme was perfection But arcane as a product has a level of its own
To say it was good is an understatement. If the ruination got the same treatment it would have been so cool. But let's hope we'll get more sides of runeterra in this format.
I never got how people could say "I was literally in tears after seeing *insert show here*". But after watching Arcane today, I am not exaggerating when I say that seeing Jinx breaking down and crying after that happened actually made me shed a few tears. The animation and the voice acting really sold the sheer heartbreak of the moment. Well goddamn done, Rito.
I feel rewarded as a lore geek with all the easter eggs. I have been playing league for the past 7 years. it is a love hate relationship but watching the lore being explored like this is amazing.
I just love how every character has FLAWS. Its my favorite part of every good series, the flaws is what makes characters interesting. But lately it seems like the Hollywood big budget stuff has adopted this weird fear of going in hard on the flaws. And this show goes HELLA IN, so mucho so the structure of the series is based around it. Makes for a very engaging watch.
"Hollywood big budget stuff has adopted this weird fear of going in hard on the flaws." Huh. That's a really strange take. Plenty of blockbusters have flawed protagonists.
@@SuperHongTay That is correct. My comment doesn’t really refute that, it just says flaws are no longer the priority on character building , hence the “weird fear of GOING IN HARD on the flaws”. I don’t necessarily mean there are no longer any flawed characters in Hollywood stuff, just that they are afraid of making flaws the core of their writing. It’s more of a subjective take tho, feel free to disagree.
The best thing in this series is the fact that my expectection was REALLY HIGH and they still made it sooooo much better that I thought it's even possible!!! It's so clever, so beautiful and well written; RIOT AND FORTICHE MADE AN AMAZING JOB
This series, or at least the first chapter or arc, it really is Perfection isnt it. It does everything it wants to do, it does it perfectly, it does it with style in its ambition, passion with its wide strokes, attention to small details, it twists our expectations and lets us see and experience all the emotions in all of its scenes and moments, the pacing is perfect for the story and plot. The animation, the voice acting, the presentation, it all reeks of talent and passion. I can legit not come up with a single negative thing to complain about in chapter/arc 1. Even in the best shows and movies you can find something that you think could be done a little bit better or something to be changed. Arcane is something special. We all knew that lol could have a great story, and that it had potential. But this surpassed even the most hopeful of expectations. And to think that Arcane was made by the same company that did the Ruination Event. That is actually baffeling to me.
Necrit is desperately clinging onto Glamour at this point. There hasn't been one reference to it since the Jinx comic and yordles have been in a weird lore limbo until the recent bandle city drop in LoR. And basically every yordle + human meetup references them being cute, short, and furry.
I think it stems from before riot started updating lore. I don't remember exactly, but I always thought part of the glamour was looking cute and fluffy or whatever they wanted to look like because they were fighting otherwise. At the time though, I think it was used to explain why the yordles look different but they haven't been touched lore wise since. Hopefully after the success of arcane, they feel bold enough to do some work there. I'd love to see some stuff regarding the war mentioned in teemo's lore
I think it comes from the fact that they are scared of magic, and yordles are magical, so it is a lil illogical for him to be accepted there without the glamour
JUST A THEORY: THEY are going to retcon where Singed found the man (Vander). I'm picking that after what happened Singed is alive and finds Vander in human form bearly alive. He takes Vander to his lab and makes him go through so much pain that Vander gains couniousness. which is like the other way round normally, because we have seen that Vander can take a serious amount of pain/damage already. Then Singed does his experiment and turns Vander too Warwick. ITS JUST A THEORY.
I dunno if anyone noticed, but while watching the series with english captions it was shown, that the second sciencist working with Silco is Singed, they were having a conversation and on screen you could not see their faces, so the captions have shown the names of the them. So good job Necrit with deducing that the second sciencist is actually Singed
In the league lore, Singed was supposed to be a Piltover scientist that left for Zaun because he hated the discovery of Hextech. However in the show Jayce and Viktor just discovered it, so how is Singed already in Zaun, working with Silco ? Is Riot breaking the lore a little bit or am I missing something
@@rile3903 Well, you saw how the council view "Risky experiments" with just the crystals causing a little magic explosion and wanting to exile Jayce from Piltover, now imagine what would happen if Singed showed them hes "Muscle mass enhancer"? Killing him would be mercy. He being in Zaun sincec there is more "liberty to experiment" there and lots of "voluntaries" is not too far fetched, but he would embrace Zaun even more when Hextech is discovered.
My girlfriend who only knows of league as i play, watched it and thought it was brilliant. Compared it to the captivation of studio Gibley in world building. Im so proud to be a League of Legends fan
Honestly, as much as LOL sometimes blunders, *cough, cough* Seraphine *cough, cough* they are honestly spoiling their fans at this point with how much content they pour out, they actually deliver.
In addition to the fire on the other scientists face (singed), if you look at the credits for the first 2 episodes where that guy talks, it straight up says Singed in the voice actors area. Add that with Warwicks lore that says he was found nearly dead when singed experimented on him, and the fact that they're both in the same area, I think that sets up warwick really well.
This series is a masterpiece so far. The attention to detail a constantly giving us bit of insight for what should come next is incredibly well done, doesn't feel obvious and it's constantly changing. The notorious different of piltover progressing with Viktor and Jayce's invention and zaun were everything is going downhill very fast... It's totally not required, but having played the game also gives you some insight for who the characters are and their future but that is done in such a good way that it's doesn't spoil the story or anything like that. In game quotes involving VI, Jinx, Warwick now make a lot of sense, because there is no way Vander isn't WW. Also the googles that VI wears on her head in game are painfully similar to Clager's
last night was the very first time i watched a longer than 10 minute twitch stream. i slept 2-3 hours just so i can tolerate being awake for long. i woke up at 4:30 AM, started my PC, did logins, played a match of TFT to update my client, watched both world premier and Necrit's stream and after almost 35 minute, finally watched all 3 episodes there. and then Necrit's small rant and review before ending it because he was super mind blown. i even went and watched episode 3 on another stream of a stranger just because i wanted more Arcane. and i eventually slept in at 10 AM. not gonna lie, i woke up at 5 PM and super tired as if i ended a mountain hiking but it was completely worth it. great interviews with Linke(?). didn't get to watch others like Trynd. on my other tab i was watching world premier and that was nice too. thank you Necrit. great first time Twitch with you and Arcane. cant wait for more great content, either from you or Riot. keep up the good work. wish you well. P.S : #TeamJinx
For Riot/Fortiche to create something that blows the mind of League fans AND a general audience alike is a stunning achievement. With respect to League of Legends and its community the crossover potential here was TINY! It’s NOT the same as the established Western ‘superhero’ tradition where crossover is already long established and its inner lore is much more grounded to our own world and experience. There were enormous hurdles in order for Riot/Fortiche to make that crossover but somehow they did it! It’s a remarkable achievement and that aspect should not be overlooked.
0:56 “It was so brilliant, if I ever tried to explain it, I could never do it justice.” This is exactly how I feel! I love the irony, tragedy, narrative symbolism, aesthetic symbolism, and more.
To add about the series making foreshadowing on Vander being Warwick: When Silco says "I'll show you what you really are" in episode 3, there's the start of the Warwick chasing theme (not exactly the same but close) Also after when Vander drinks the purple stuff, he makes very growling-like sounds
I actually cried multiple times watching the first 3 episodes. I wasn't extremely sad about *SPOILER* any of the characters' deaths or anything like that, the scenes were just filled with so many emotions and it was all so beautifully portrayed.. I loved it so much, I'm so glad we waited all this time for this.
Legend of Runterra card game The Monkey bomb is called "Get Excited!" Jinx's passive is "Get Excited" And Powder blew up something and got people killed with the monkey bomb She "Got Excited"
Jinx's Get Excited! "To play, discard 1. Deal 3 to anything. Create a Jinx in your deck." weren't.. 3 crystals used ? & you could say 'jinx' would have been made as a result of the explosion- "What'samatter, Fishbones?" "I'm worried about you, Jinx! Every time you get bored, you..." "...want to blow something up! Great idea, Fishbones!" she was left alone to do nothing & made a bomb- "It's all just fun and games until something gets blown up - then it's a PARTY!" E
@@TR_18 well yeah but i'm just saying the explosion would have really kicked off what would eventually lead to her being jinx what with meeting silco & vi being taken to piltover. if it wasn't for the explosion & what resulted afterwards, things could have gone differently.
Dude, the attention to detail and emotions. Powder's tantrums and crying was so great! The tears and saliva or whatever the liquid stuff flowing off her face as she rips off stuff and throw them. It's like actually looking at a real life kid throwing a tantrum on a mall after not getting what they want or when their parents leave them for work abroad.
Except her adoptive father got taken by people who murdered another man, and the rest of her family is going off and will probably die. Like, I get what you mean, but the context matters.
Necrit, did you realize that silco hugs jinx back because what happened to him(vander grabbing his neck and choking him) kinda happened to jinx(vi aggressively almost choking jinx)
yeah the singed reveal is actually given away the 2nd time he's on screen (episode 2), when they give deckard the glimmer if you have subtitles on when silco asks "will he live" and the doctor replies "long enough" it has [singed] as the speaker, so in lesson subtitles will spoil the characters before the show does also when silco and gang are leaving the building singed isn't with them meaning they left him to die or didn't think he survived, maybe?
I think the mage was Ryze for two reasons. One, there were the runic tattoos on the inside of his hand and numerous runic crystals on his person; and since we all know there’s really only one character whose design and lore fits those descriptions, I feel that it MUST be Ryze. Secondly, Ryze’s role in the League Lore is very much like Doctor Fate’s in the DC comic universe. In that Ryze almost always, ALWAYS, makes his presence known before or does things that directly CAUSE massive world events in the lore. I think Ryze saved Jayce and his mother because he knew Jayce would be the only one to unravel the secrets of the Arcane and contain them into what we now know as “hextech.” To me, all the pieces fit together to identify Ryze as the mage.
And the teleportation magic was 100% Ryze ult and ryze DOES use runes. So if he's using a magic crystal of some kind it's probably the one he might use for his ult.
Ryze is blue tho. That's always been a huge part of his character design. Be weird to remove it just for the show unless they wanted to make Jayce an unreliable narrator and make Ryze a big reveal for later.
I instantly got the vibe of the mysterious mage being the aspect of the traveler. I feel like it is quite a major character for the role, but the targonian esc magic, and also his clothes remind me of the person in the LoR card before they ascend to an aspect.
Dang like for real, Vander's body frame after he was mutated is a similar build to Warwick's even (and the growl there too when he jumped back onto the platform) I think Singed is gonna retrieve the bodies in the explosion site including Vander's body and then try to improve and mutate it even further and revive him to eventually turn him into warwick ALSO!!!! I think the purple stuff is something that the doctors of whatever institution Mundo was held in used for their experiments (which we could see in the end of the series)
I was shocked to see Singed's name on the credits of Episode 2 so I rewatched it and the only one that could be singed was the guy who made Shimmer, the purple liquid, after watching Episode 3 I guess I was right.
Now when you realize why Riot WANTED everyone to stream and share first 3 episodes... they were really confident in this series and it really paid off!
At first I was sceptical about this. And I don't watch a lot of movies and stuff. But this... This blows my mind and I want to see more. I'm excited about the next 3 episodes. Also, I love heimerdinger here. I can't wait to see braum, taric, alistar and some others that I like.
Vander might be Warwick. His lore had stated that he saw a little girl crying (Powder), then he got experimented by Signed (he might be brought by Singed to his personal lab), and as Warwick in the end he fights criminals while also remembering the little girl he forgot her name. He also has wolf motifs. I hope Mundo will be on Arcane because of the purple goo. He might be Marcus the enforcer who turned to mundo (Mundo's lore mentioned Mundo was formerly an enforcer). Idk....
Did anyone notice when Vi is talking to Jinx/Powder about the doll thats stuck on the high place? And she says "i keep hoping some wind or a bird will knock it down" was that a Janna reference?? Since Janna is a wind spirit with a bird elemental? I kinda thought it was a reference or something
And Powder aka Jinx's Eyes turned purple when she embraces Silco. The Biggest Revelation is that Jinx deep down in her mind she is Crazy since her childhood and if somehow the Purple will force it out.
The opening music to this video hits different after watching this show. My body just experienced that shit, and I've listened to that soundtrack a lot.
9:52 I find it amazing how within 30 seconds of seeing the council for the first time, we already know enough about each member to know what kind of person they are, without any needless exposition. This is how you introduce characters.
Last night i got a dream about my mom and dad and anime music starts playing (Re zero - stay alive) and when i wake up i was crying. I was thinking watching a sad anime but i watch arcane instead. And episode 3 almost make me cry. Arcane just made my day. Riot exploded my mind too.
With knowing nothing about League of Legends, I very much enjoyed the first 3 episodes. The animation is absolutely gorgeous, the characters are not dull and one dimensional, and the story keeps you hooked. All in all very well done.
Marvel likes to do the bait trailers too. They even change the scene or the background or dialog to trick you into expecting something and when you watch the real thing it’s entirely different.
The moment i heard Vander, He IS Warwick. I read all his lore, 100% voiceline volume, HE IS WARWICK. This kind wholesome guy "will show everyone the monster that they want"
Could the mage be pre-void malzahar? Purely speculating based on a very loose resemblance, I don’t know much about malz’s lore or whether the time would line up, but I’m sure you all can help me out
Honestly, I think the most impressive thing in this series so far is how compelling and sympathetic Jayce is. Jayce has always been a contentious character and it's always felt like Riot never knew what to do with him, and it always felt like he could never be a fan favorite. But here they give him some compelling motivations and interesting relationships. He's actually someone I want to watch and even root for!
I cant wait for his reaction when viktor becomes what we know him as. It will such a heavy moment, his partner becoming a machine from technology they invented
I think its good so far but if they keep him oblivious about the wrongdoings his stuff did to zaun, it'll be right back to contentious. His plea where he talked about how good piltover was made him seem like a good guy at heart but super uninformed.
Jayce is the reason I got to diamond. I used to spam Tryndamere and when he got hard countered by the likes of Quinn and Vayne, I started using Jayce to level up the playing field. After that I broke my platinum plateau. Always been my second fav champ after tryn.
It was 6 years, but it seems a lot of that was set up. hopefully as things progress, they can put out more stuff at a faster pace when they find their groove
Where did they say it was a 6 year project? Genuinely curious i wanna see the source lol. Also THEY BETTER WORK ON ANOTHER ONE FOR 6 YEARS! Or get more people to work on it and do it quicker (if that's possible without making it worse). My worry is that the stupid marketing people will ruin it. They will come up with some avengers Thanos shit (ruined king) where all champs have to fight together or some shit. I get so mad when I think about how they treat the talent in their company...
@@bingobangini I remember them saying it was a 6 year project in the interviews right before the premiere of Arcane on twitch, but I don't think there are any legal vods.
I KNOW RIGHT HOLY SHIT Spoiler in read more Also holy shit I did not expect them to have a gruesome death put in there What? Even my spoilers will try not to spoil
@@dizzyheads SAME Spoiler below! Be warned! Be warned! . . . . . . . . . . . . . I also didn't expect them to die in the first three episodes, cuz wtf that's so sad, I really liked their characters, I thought they're gonna grow up with Vi and Jinx:") Also if Vander is really warwick, he's going to return again in the future episode.
Notice the parallelism between the hextech working for Jayce but destroying jinx's family confirming Heimerdinger's point that the magic crystals can lead to destruction.
@@anon6187 there's lots of symbolism in Arcane and I love it. Another great parallel is when Wander told Vi about responsibility and goes to show how to uphold it by sacrificing himself when he turned himself in, but then Jinx does the opposite of what Wander was trying to teach Vi where she destroyed everything that mattered to her because of her selfish desires to feel useful. I think Arcane in general keeps balancing messages about selfishness and sacrifice like this, and it keeps the characters and their choices constantly interesting, such as Jayce on the one hand striving for progress and wanting to save Viktor but also understands that hextech can be dangerous and needs to be regulated. I also love how the story humanized Vi, Viktor, Jayce and Caitlyn. They're all incredibly likable and I really enjoyed the relationship so far between Caitlyn and Vi. Jinx is turning into a villain so she's obviously becoming more unlikable, since as opposed to the other main characters except maybe Viktor, her characterization develops her negatively. I'm sure we'll see the same happening to Viktor eventually. Another thing I like is how the characters are all so incredibly strong and keep finding ways to solve their situation without external interference. Deux ex machina do happen, but they don't at the point you expect it to. I agree with Necrit. This is actually one of the best series I've ever seen and I'm not even a huge lore buff. It's probably better if you know League, but even if you don't I think not knowing anything beforehand can also give a freshness to the experience which also can't be replicated.
The variance of level between ruination and Arcane is so massive that it seems impossible that Riot could make such an insane flop before such a completely mind-blowing animated series.
@@5frogfrenzy That's not really the problem here. Even a week is enough to write a better plot for ruination. The way they let Akshan, someone no one knows before, be the main protag all just because of 'marketing strategy' is just plain stupid.
Absolute favorite part in the end is when Jinx hugs Silco, he gets confused, Jinx tells him that Vi betrayed her and is no longer her sister and Silco realizes that this is exactly how he felt when Wander betrayed him, immediately symphatizing with her and embracing her. Embracing her not as "hurr durr I am evil and will use you in my evil plans of evil muhahahaha", but as a person, who experienced the same exact pain in practically same fashion as she did. T H I S I S I N C R E D I B L E . I put all 10s on iMDB for this show, and I didn't even had an account there before.
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Jayce: *almost kills himself*
Necrit: PERFECT
Viktor: 'leans on his pure metal cane, and breathes through the mask on his face' That night was... not the best, but i knew in my non metallic heart i had to save him. Part of me wishes i didn't, but yet 'sigh'
Vi started the teamfight properly, Pinned down the assasin and Jinx still did nothing and messes up the objective just like in my games...(the kids brawl scene)
Also Jayce saw Vi was in there when the explosion happened before passing out. I wonder if he is going to hold a grudge...
@@TheKurama00 pretty sure he wouldnt recognize her unless she tells him about it and wont hold it against her
@@TheKurama00 I think at minimum they are going to be reluctant accomplices but possibly more. I think at least one of the trailer scenes showed vi fighting back to back with Jayce. Also…well she probably has to get her gauntlets from somewhere.
The moment Jinx put SO MANY hex crystals into the machine, I said "Oh no."
I was think the exact same thing, but when I saw that monkey necklace...oh god I really wanted to close my eyes...
I knew it was gonna happen based off fiddles quote which just made it so much worse to see tbh, watching her come out happy and then realize what she did
Yea, they almost made it out, but poor little Powder Jinx(ed) it. That's so sad. Violet and Powder had such a beautiful relationship. Any fan of the game knows it gets ripped apart, but seeing how it happened had me so tearful.
I also winced at how she literally could have just THROWN a crystal and exactly where she wanted the explosion. Those things are amazing at being grenades, and she instead uses way too many of them, and puts them on an unreliable timer involving an unreliable toy…
I saw her smile wildly when its exploded and I thought..."Holy shit!!"
The series almost makes you proud to have spent a decade playing this game... almost
There's no doubt Riot does everything great...except when it comes to their game.
The cinematics, the comics, the music. All great! The game? Meh
@@mrmistah5126 I loved the game but toxicity has many forms and only one type gets punished which is arguably the least impactful although annoying. They literally only punish players who abuse chat. I could literally hard int down mid for 100 games in a row and the only thing you lose is lp. You will never get banned inting which gives alot of power to people who want to control a situation. Their balance can be funky at times for sure but they just don't address major issues and try to show they care by putting bandaids rather than fixing it at the core. I will agree cinematics are outrageous, music is hit or miss for me.
@@madMILL3R The fact they disabled /allchat shows the absolute broken state of the game.
I stopped playing League seriously back in 2018. My main excitement for League comes from the extra media.
You seem very invested into the game which is your own detriment.
Almost....
@@mrmistah5126 yeah why change the game. you see the client it works . yes not that good but why change a system that has no costs and provides you with stuff
After years of waiting, this is all I have ever wanted. It was a show of passion and love and care, not just another cash-grab series to sell merchandise. I can die in peace now
Karthus: 'opens Casket' ok get in.
Lol, it was worth the wait eh?
@@imfunkingivincible886 Walks in with my cane - "is this yours?" - Shows of a note with a Date of November 13th "We still have work to do"
Never thought the day when league actually turns into a series happens, although arcane did take years so guess we'll have to wait another decade for the next series lol
wait 2 more weeks for the other 2 acts
Riot balance team: In order to stay consistent with Jinx’s lore and character identity, we decided to replace Jinx’s Chompers with a hextech grenade that one shots both her teammates and enemies
Except for anyone playing vi
hell i would absolutely play jinx, killing enemy, yea ok nice, but killing toxic teammates, hell yea
F
This is acceptable
So 50/50 a main champion dies.
What blew me away is how every emotion was so perfectly conveyed to the public.
The very first scene where Vi sees her dead mother and breaks down in tears moved me, which is a feat! Usually, this sort of very early exposition doesn't really work beause you're not attached to the characters and you're just like "eh, typical 'protagonist with dead parents' trend", but here you already felt for Vi and Powder. Also, the strong symbolic when Vander drops his gloves.
The mix of fury and despair in Vander's last stand, Jayce's resignment as he's about to jump...
And also all the subtle expressions: Powder scoffing at Mylo after her target shooting, Vi showing her "shut up" look to Mylo, Viktor cringing when Jayce asks him if he's sure about his theory...
And of course, the last scene which was absolutely heartbreaking: "I only wanted to help... I only wanted to help!" from Powder.
I also liked the foreshadowing and the nods to the future champions: Mylo saying Powder jinxes everything, Vi saying Powder is a jinx, Viktor making fun of Jayce's pride because he signed every single page of his notes, Viktor and Jayce mentionning a Crank to harness magic (Blitz means storm in german, which is kinda appropriate to the Arcane storm they create later on), and also Caitlyn's brand new theme playing when Jayce metts her under the rain!
And yes, the pace was perfect.
Do u play league? cuz if so i think that might influence the fact that u feel emotions so powerfully, because even if u don't necessarily like the characters that are displayed, u still sometimes play with/against these characters (or champions) and that already gives u some kind of link. Risky but powerful move by the creators of the first scene.
(theres a lot of ppl saying they can feel the emotions rly powerfully, the same goes to them).
If u don't play league, than its and even more powerful (yet even riskier), because they immediately managed to instil empathy.
The acting at the end actually blew me away, jinxes acting felt so real.
Btw... Blitz does not mean storm in German. A more accurate translation would be "Lightning". That works also very well with the effects.
Thank you so much for cataloguing all of the insanely emotive displays of emotion. You articulated perfectly what I was feeling and I'm so happy someone did this. I think I may even store this somewhere on my PC so i can reference it in the future.
@@bossyboots5705 I never play League, and I emoted with the characters massively. The expressions of anguish felt by vy, jinx and vandar were so relatable that I wept whilst watching this more than once.
Jinx: She left me😭
Morgana : First time?
hahahhahahhahahahaha
ROFL WHYYYY HAHAHAHA THIS IS SO FUNNY
best comment xD omfg
@@biyelplays6987 HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHA AHHAHAHA HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH THIS IS SOIO FUNNY HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHHA HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The facial animations and raw emotions are so insane. You can tell how these characters feel without them even speaking. I've waited 9+ years for this, I'm so happy.
Ive waited for this since i read the lore of every champion and its soooo good
Its true, there is so much happening both visually and just in the writing that says things without even SAYING them. I think Necrit said during the stream, but I agree that there is barely any expositional talk, and when there is, it is interwoven with character moments or done visually. So good...
Fr tho when jinx was crying i can feel the emotions too.
Dude I used to be so meh about Jayce now I want to hug him
I love Jayce holy shit
You'll love him even more if you play with his arcane skin then go dark harvest on URF.
Just wait until Viktor betrays him and steals all the research for himself and turns into a machine.
@@theprofessor2403 I thought it was Jayce who betrayed Viktor?
@@theprofessor2403 Thats not how it happened , at least in the lol universe page , jayce refuses to speak up to the injustice that was giving the credit of creating blitz to another dude instead of his real creator viktor and after viktor trying to help others with machines it was exiled because of the ethical implications, in zaun viktor tried to help people and stole a hextech crystal from jayce. jayce then killed those innocents, so jayce is a fool in that story. (dont think the story quite match with arcane)
exactly the same
Fiddlesticks: "All your fault! ALL YOUR FAULT!"
Swain: "Faces... fading in the flames.... It was all her fault..."
I'm not crying. What are you talking about.
Warwick: "You were there, let me forget"
@@flyby1629 nooooo
OMG that Swain line, it makes sense now.
Also Warwick line "you were there that night" or smth like that all but confirming Vander being Warwick.
How Necrit figured out it was Singed:
"You can see the fires burning his face, that must be singed!"
Me an intellectual:
'Oh the caption says he's singed, that's neat.'
SAME, saw that in the first episode.
I only get the see that he's Singed at the end (spoiler)
when he got blown up
I had him pegged as Singed when I saw a scientist with a tall, spindley frame, and a funny shaped head.
this mad scientist guy looks like singed.. And when i read the end credits, OH WAIT ITS ACTUALLY SINGED!
I saw the credits. I don't have captions on.
HERE'S A LIST OF ALL HINTS POINTING TO VANDER BECOMING WARWICK
- Vander being called the "Hound of the Underground"
- Silco calling him a "lapdog" of the up-siders
- When he was being dragged in by Silco to their hideout you can see metal claws being forged similar to WW's
- When Silco dragged him to be tortured unto a chair you can LITERALLY hear WW's blood-scent skill theme playing in the background
- His transformation, it seems the syrums effects is different depending on the person, Deckard never growled like an animal when he transformed instead he sounded more screechy while Vander made more animalistic and wolf-like growls when he took the syrum.
- If you followed WW's old lore Vander literally said a line to Vi that goes "You have a good heart, don't ever lose it" which is a call back to his retconned lore where he was supposed to eat Soraka's heart to complete his wolf transformation.
- This is a quote in WW's lore "Warwick struggled to recall a single memory from his past... All he could see was blood. But then he heard a little girl screaming. Screaming something he couldn’t understand. It sounded like a name" (if you know, you know.)
- In Greek Vanders name means "Good Man" or "Family Of". In WW's lore there's a quote that goes "Singed would reveal his subject’s true nature-the deadly beast hidden within a “good man.”
- Vanders flexor muscle on his right arm was cut by Silco, hence why he wasn't able to choke Silco to death. And when Vander transformed he used his left arm to kill Deckard, my theory is that the "prototype" syrum doesn't heal past injuries but only the more recent ones. WW's right arm is also the arm that was mechanized by Singed.
- When Silco stabbed Vander in the back we see Vander turning to him with an incredibly feral look, so full of rage, hate and probably fear on what's to come if he's not able to kill Silco, this is a quote in WW's lore "A chemical chamber was installed on Warwick’s back and integrated with his nervous system. Whenever he felt rage, or hate, or fear, it would drive liquid fury deeper into his veins, fully awakening the beast within." (If you've seen the WW cinematic the chemical chamber basically stabs him in the back and drives in the "liquid fury" into his nervous system.)
- WW's quote to Vi in game "The fear in your eyes. I've seen it before." (When Vi saw Vander transformed by the syrum at the end of episode 3).
- WW's quote to Jinx in game "You were there..." and "Let me forget...". (Yeah you know).
- WW's quote when taunting in game "I ran these streets - now it's your turn to run." (Vander ran the streets of the Lanes).
- In the events of act 2 we see Singed repeatedly saying "the mutation must survive". Vander in all sense of sorts had the most drastic mutation when he took in the syrum, Deckard and those shimmer addicts at the last episode of act 2 turned out to be more like screeching zombies. And basing on Silco's reaction when he saw Vanders transformation during act 1 it was unlike anything he's ever seen in Singed's trial experiments.
I didn't agree with the 'Vander = Warwick' theory before, but I think you just convinced me
Big brain
Spoiler-ish, but
Deckard is not dead tho. Dead-brained junkie with rotten teeth and eyes facing elsewhere, but alive. He had just beaten his ass to a pulp.
Finally someone heard his growling while choking Deckard. It sound just LIKE Warwick to me!
SPOILER
in later episode, when viktor(or silco to heal jinx, i forgot) visit singed we can see an arm in the ceiling with claw, it looks like WW arms, and it make sense that singed started working to make WW already as the time is limited since vander died/dying.
Weirdly my favourite line is;
"It's Viktor"
I just love that whole dynamic
I totally didn't see that coming. I dont know why but that was a goose bumps moment
@@kilianivanka5637 Join the glorious evolution
@@alexm2369 If he still had that pretty face I would sign in immediately 😔
@@suzannahart wait till he gets his tech glow up once he gets that third appendage you will all regret that decision
Dammit. I watched with captions so I missed the whole gravity of that scene 😭
Went to a friend's house to watch Arcane together, the three of us enjoyed every second of the series and spent hours theorizing stuff after. 10/10
Hold up so u have been in ur friend's house in 1,30 am in the morning watching and screaming about how awesome it is while everyone trying to sleep NICE
@@DiVA-xl6tp it was morning for me tho
@@nininho4964 yh it's the same 😄 watching with a friend will make it go onnnnnn
Before Jinx blows everyone up, they were about to leave, it was so gutwrenching. I love the series so far
Such pain, but "Beautiful".
@@TheFetus132 Okay, Jhin.
In the scene where Silco’s goon is dragging Vander to that chair, right after the burly woman puts out her cigarette, you can hear a metallic groan that’s pulled right out of Warwick’s theme!
I loved how Silco took Powder in after he glanced at Vander's corpse.
That tiny detail that he saw himself in her cuz a man he called brother left him too.
Imagine a Fiddlestick story... if you think all the blood splattered across the screen is gruesome? Imagine what they can do for Fiddlesticks.
I wanna see a Darius story or even one in the arena
Fiddlesticks story would purely be a thriller/horror with fiddlesticks' prey as the main character.
I REALLY want to see the fight with master Yi vs the like 3 noxian battalions. That would be INSANE.
I really hopped for there to be a crow in there.
@@OnzeQubit a league of legends horror film would be so awesome. They could release it near halloween
Things I absolutely love.
-The consistency between the show, and the lore we've been provided. Just look at Warwicks lore and compare it to Vander.
-How unbelievably hilarious Viktor is. The scene at the door just had me and my friends laughing so hard.
@@TR_18 Can't believe this is the same guy who shoots death rays while ranting about glorious evolution
@@finnheisenheim8274 having a great sense of humor is part of the GLORIOUS EVOLUTION
@@finnheisenheim8274 That's because time changes people. After gaining a technological handicap, he stopped being a literal handicapped person haha. It goes to show you how people can change their behavior after getting a bigger status, or becoming richer.
@@roughnegg6615 to be fair, Viktor didn't change with status according to his lore. He was thrown out of piltover because he believed removing human error from processes is what saves lives, piltover people considered his work unethical and in violation of human rights, believing that this "error" is where humanity gets its creativity. The even bigger change to him happens when he tries his premises on himself, altering parts of his body and brain in order to remove pesky emotions and human error from his work. Which is when his vision became a lot more obsessive and fully became the "glorious evolution".
If anything Viktor changed after he lost everything and was thrown back to Zaun. Where he decided the only way others would follow his vision is if they saw it at work, so he gets to work on altering himself. He's kind of the prime example of "living your work". Jayce is more of a what power and money does to you character.
P.s. I also think that choosing to work on himself speaks to his character a lot, instead of just doing experiments on more unfortunate people in Zaun as a lot of other do.
@@mordecaiissad8529 I agree, Viktor is a selfless individual, who tends to go all in if it benefits to the progress of humanity. Tragical part of this behaviour is that one turns to become less and less human afterwards...
My mom was a league player since 2019 and I played around 2016. We watched Arcane together and at the very end of Episode 3 I remembered her saying "I wanna marry the writter of this story!" I was like, I can't agree with you more. 🤣
I imagine watching the show with someone you like. Awesome that you could do that.
“If you think I’m crazy, you should see my sister,” makes a lot of sense now.
"Jinx? Stands for Jinx" a reference to "Vi? Stands for violence" I always thought they were secretly sisters. Leave it to Arcane to give us the casual reveal.
@@mitchellscanga747 Right?? I always had my suspicions too.
@@mitchellscanga747 I dont keep up with the lore but played league on and off since 2013 but wasnt jinx and vi always meant to be sisters? im sure i remember when they released jinx she was meant to be vi's sister didnt know it was a secret
@@jrwar12 I never knew about them specifically saying anything about it. Or it being available in any lore.
@@mitchellscanga747 I don’t know about the official lore tbf but I just thought it was always assumed when jinx mentions her sister it was vi it’s too long ago to remember how people came to that conclusion but Yh
Honestly, this series is perfect, but it had me so goddamn heartbroken. Both Jinx AND Vi deserved better and none of them deserved the grief and trauma. This is the first time i´ve ever sat in front of my screen and just wanted to hug two fictional characters and tell them that it´s gonna be all right.
I cant wait to see Vi becoming friends with Cait and how that will mess with Jinx when they finally meet
This series has made a few things crystal clear in my mind.
1. I REALLY want jinx and vi to have some kind of closer with each other.
2. Viktor is a mother fucking real one for saving Jayce from what he was going to do.
3. I might not enjoy the game as much but the world of runeterra is by far, above and beyond, my all time favorite universe and the team that did this hit a homerun.
P.s. I really mean it, I hope to God that video and jinx get some kind of closure but I know its probably not going to happen. 😔
@@stealthyremote7424 I’m a lil excited and worried about what Jayce is gonna do to fuck viktor up (according to old lore) but maybe the producers will retcon it and act make jayce and viktor stay as good friends
@@ilse_22 it's either Jayce going overboard or Victor going overboard with the experiments if they retcon their lore
@@wackjack5667 Yeap either jayce’s ego or viktor’s all consuming obsession with the Glorious Evolution
If you look deeper Jinx actually creates alot of champs other than just singed. If you think about it, she was responsible for Jayce and Viktor aswell because if she didnt blow up his room, Jayce would never have teamed up with viktor and its possible he would never have made that breakthrough for hextech. Also, Because of the arcane explosion mixing with the purple chemicals The seeds of chemtech were planted, and BECAUSE of that singed, WW, and possibly urgot will be created n their current LoL champion form. Oriana was also possibly created if you read her lore about a mysterious explosion that happened in zaun. And of course there is Vi becoming an Enforcer and Ekko's motivation to become who he is now. I could be overstretching a few things, But Jinx importance and that explosion in particular is what interested me most about this series. Of all the things they could have done for Jinx it was a pleasant surprise that this was their direction with her, and most importantly she has no idea what she has done and neither does she care(atleast not post powder as her character of Jinx). Very Joker esque without blatantly being the Joker with a backstory just as tragic, i love it. I alway's hoped for ages now that Shaco just became the joker of league and Jinx was the harlequinn, but here Jinx might just be Piltover's/Zaun's Joker instead.
You forgot to mention camille. Jayce‘s break through together with viktor will allow not only orianna and viktor himself but also camille to become a cyborg.
Honestly Shaco has no place in the lore and should be completely reworked imo. Jinx is a way better "joker-like"/trickster character.
Nah man it was jinx’s dad.
@@Warrend0 camille should already be around because she’s supposed to be like 60 in current lore (at least last time I checked)
@@SunsetTwist As a normal person or possibly partly augmented (don't know if they already did this in Piltover before Hextech) but she doesn't have the Hextech Heart yet, Hextech literally doesn't exist yet apart from one device at the end of Act 1.
my favorite part of the plot is how in Zaun (the default "lower" city) everything goes downhill as plot progresses while in Piltover ("higher" city) everything improves, which in its own makes the difference between two so unmanagebly huge that it leaves the outburst to be a matter of "when", not "if"
Its probably gonna be way worse for zaun in act 2.
No vander to keep the order. And that purple drug thing being addictive.
@@nininho4964 Also, way better for Piltover. As we all know, brackern soul juice makes shit go brrr.
I wouldn't say everything improves over the course of the plot in Piltover. Jayce almost commits suicide because the council doesn't approve of his research, Caitlyn is disallowed from seeing him because her parents are stuck up, etc. But things do ultimately turn out better in Piltover while everything gets worse in Zaun.
@@100organicfreshmemes5 pretty sure the latter is what they were referring to
And thank you fortiche productions for just bringing quality as they have always done with every project Riot has assigned them for. Back from the: "Get Jinxed" music video, to "Warriors" with imagine dragons, The "Rise" music video, K/DA. They're so incredible, and the production is in a "league" of its own. Absolute legends.
Piltover/Zaun was absolutely the right setting for this series. It's a lot like New York as a movie setting. It's a crossroads for so many different stories to overlap. Nowhere else in Runterra could you have this many characters all focused on the same events without making it a vast nation-spanning war between Demacia, Noxus, and Ionia which would absolutely lose the personal connection of this story. Maybe for season 2, though...
I think shurima would be good for season 2 to explain the rune wars and ascended before going into season 3 with targonians
If they made this for lux story line id watch it even if i turn 70!!!!
Mage rebellion is something they can actually make a series about for seasons 2, there's quite a few characters involved and is pretty similar to the present setting
I thought about this, and I believe without having big wars and conflicts and whatnot, Bilgewater would probably be another great setting for stories that are pretty self contained.
@@antony3096 ionia will be good too
This series was truly worth the wait. Everyone has been begging for Riot to create a movie or a series and now that they have, they absolutely killed it. The people behind the show 100% deserve all the praise they are getting.
Edit: also the fact that Warwick now has a very tragic and emotional backstory gives him so much more depth as a character.
as someone who's been a part of that crowd since 2013, it was so goddamn fulfilling to watch, and as someone who was part of the Advent Children hype way back, it's so goddamn cool to see how far we've come
2005: video game makers make a movie with zero knowledge of filmmaking outside of cutscenes, and it's great
2021: video game studio gets so big that they can hire entire cast and crew to make a fully fledged series the "right" way
what a time to be alive
Remember when Warwick is just a random wolf? Now, you know that wolf had family, but lost it.
I read Warwick's lore once, and I never thought the voice of the little girl in his mind is Vi. Her scream when he died. I mean, bruh... Arcane is so awesome, everything is so connected.
@@tripleD2301 Ikr !
@@celfhelp till this day advent childre is still one of the best animated action films imo
The cloud vs sephi with the metal sephi theme was perfection
But arcane as a product has a level of its own
To say it was good is an understatement. If the ruination got the same treatment it would have been so cool. But let's hope we'll get more sides of runeterra in this format.
Ruination 😔😭 My 2013 LoL schmuck heart hurts.
I mean, it is called "Ruination" 😂
I never got how people could say "I was literally in tears after seeing *insert show here*". But after watching Arcane today, I am not exaggerating when I say that seeing Jinx breaking down and crying after that happened actually made me shed a few tears.
The animation and the voice acting really sold the sheer heartbreak of the moment. Well goddamn done, Rito.
That explained Fiddlestick's quote to Jinx "All your fault, all your fault"
I feel rewarded as a lore geek with all the easter eggs. I have been playing league for the past 7 years. it is a love hate relationship but watching the lore being explored like this is amazing.
I just love how every character has FLAWS. Its my favorite part of every good series, the flaws is what makes characters interesting. But lately it seems like the Hollywood big budget stuff has adopted this weird fear of going in hard on the flaws. And this show goes HELLA IN, so mucho so the structure of the series is based around it. Makes for a very engaging watch.
Every character has flaws and all of them are really believable, that's so awesome.
Yup they are neither good or bad.
"Hollywood big budget stuff has adopted this weird fear of going in hard on the flaws."
Huh. That's a really strange take. Plenty of blockbusters have flawed protagonists.
@@SuperHongTay That is correct. My comment doesn’t really refute that, it just says flaws are no longer the priority on character building , hence the “weird fear of GOING IN HARD on the flaws”. I don’t necessarily mean there are no longer any flawed characters in Hollywood stuff, just that they are afraid of making flaws the core of their writing. It’s more of a subjective take tho, feel free to disagree.
It's refreshing to say the least. This show actually makes you feel something and the characters act and react like real personalities.
The best thing in this series is the fact that my expectection was REALLY HIGH and they still made it sooooo much better that I thought it's even possible!!! It's so clever, so beautiful and well written; RIOT AND FORTICHE MADE AN AMAZING JOB
This series, or at least the first chapter or arc, it really is Perfection isnt it.
It does everything it wants to do, it does it perfectly, it does it with style in its ambition, passion with its wide strokes, attention to small details, it twists our expectations and lets us see and experience all the emotions in all of its scenes and moments, the pacing is perfect for the story and plot.
The animation, the voice acting, the presentation, it all reeks of talent and passion.
I can legit not come up with a single negative thing to complain about in chapter/arc 1. Even in the best shows and movies you can find something that you think could be done a little bit better or something to be changed.
Arcane is something special.
We all knew that lol could have a great story, and that it had potential.
But this surpassed even the most hopeful of expectations.
And to think that Arcane was made by the same company that did the Ruination Event. That is actually baffeling to me.
Are we sure that Heimer using glamour is still canon? Seeing the LOR cards, videos and Arcane it doesn't seem so tbh
Necrit is desperately clinging onto Glamour at this point. There hasn't been one reference to it since the Jinx comic and yordles have been in a weird lore limbo until the recent bandle city drop in LoR. And basically every yordle + human meetup references them being cute, short, and furry.
I think it stems from before riot started updating lore. I don't remember exactly, but I always thought part of the glamour was looking cute and fluffy or whatever they wanted to look like because they were fighting otherwise. At the time though, I think it was used to explain why the yordles look different but they haven't been touched lore wise since. Hopefully after the success of arcane, they feel bold enough to do some work there. I'd love to see some stuff regarding the war mentioned in teemo's lore
He also casually says that he's 300+ years old. All that glamour stuff is clearly not canon anymore.
I think it comes from the fact that they are scared of magic, and yordles are magical, so it is a lil illogical for him to be accepted there without the glamour
If I may ask, what's this glamour?
JUST A THEORY:
THEY are going to retcon where Singed found the man (Vander). I'm picking that after what happened Singed is alive and finds Vander in human form bearly alive. He takes Vander to his lab and makes him go through so much pain that Vander gains couniousness. which is like the other way round normally, because we have seen that Vander can take a serious amount of pain/damage already. Then Singed does his experiment and turns Vander too Warwick.
ITS JUST A THEORY.
A LOORE THEORY
Also that yordles use glamore. Cause in the current time now, hextech, literal magic crystals are commonly used in piltover...
I'm pretty sure there was a splash art somewhere with singed experimenting on warwick
I honestly don't think the Vander-theory being true would be good for the plot.
@@Samuel-th6fw why not?
Respect for necrit to wear unusannus merch. It was such a great time
I dunno if anyone noticed, but while watching the series with english captions it was shown, that the second sciencist working with Silco is Singed, they were having a conversation and on screen you could not see their faces, so the captions have shown the names of the them. So good job Necrit with deducing that the second sciencist is actually Singed
The credits also revealed that too, btw
thx for the info. I was kinda unsure about that one even though I got a strong feeling after the explosion
real lore nerds watch stuff with captions on for hidden texts. You budd are a real one.
In the league lore, Singed was supposed to be a Piltover scientist that left for Zaun because he hated the discovery of Hextech. However in the show Jayce and Viktor just discovered it, so how is Singed already in Zaun, working with Silco ? Is Riot breaking the lore a little bit or am I missing something
@@rile3903 Well, you saw how the council view "Risky experiments" with just the crystals causing a little magic explosion and wanting to exile Jayce from Piltover, now imagine what would happen if Singed showed them hes "Muscle mass enhancer"? Killing him would be mercy. He being in Zaun sincec there is more "liberty to experiment" there and lots of "voluntaries" is not too far fetched, but he would embrace Zaun even more when Hextech is discovered.
My girlfriend who only knows of league as i play, watched it and thought it was brilliant. Compared it to the captivation of studio Gibley in world building. Im so proud to be a League of Legends fan
Honestly, as much as LOL sometimes blunders, *cough, cough* Seraphine *cough, cough* they are honestly spoiling their fans at this point with how much content they pour out, they actually deliver.
In addition to the fire on the other scientists face (singed), if you look at the credits for the first 2 episodes where that guy talks, it straight up says Singed in the voice actors area. Add that with Warwicks lore that says he was found nearly dead when singed experimented on him, and the fact that they're both in the same area, I think that sets up warwick really well.
There is a teemo refrence in the series after Jinx shots with the purple gun and goes over to a machine and teemo is drawn on it.
This series is a masterpiece so far. The attention to detail a constantly giving us bit of insight for what should come next is incredibly well done, doesn't feel obvious and it's constantly changing. The notorious different of piltover progressing with Viktor and Jayce's invention and zaun were everything is going downhill very fast... It's totally not required, but having played the game also gives you some insight for who the characters are and their future but that is done in such a good way that it's doesn't spoil the story or anything like that. In game quotes involving VI, Jinx, Warwick now make a lot of sense, because there is no way Vander isn't WW. Also the googles that VI wears on her head in game are painfully similar to Clager's
last night was the very first time i watched a longer than 10 minute twitch stream. i slept 2-3 hours just so i can tolerate being awake for long. i woke up at 4:30 AM, started my PC, did logins, played a match of TFT to update my client, watched both world premier and Necrit's stream and after almost 35 minute, finally watched all 3 episodes there. and then Necrit's small rant and review before ending it because he was super mind blown. i even went and watched episode 3 on another stream of a stranger just because i wanted more Arcane. and i eventually slept in at 10 AM.
not gonna lie, i woke up at 5 PM and super tired as if i ended a mountain hiking but it was completely worth it.
great interviews with Linke(?). didn't get to watch others like Trynd. on my other tab i was watching world premier and that was nice too.
thank you Necrit. great first time Twitch with you and Arcane. cant wait for more great content, either from you or Riot.
keep up the good work. wish you well.
P.S : #TeamJinx
For Riot/Fortiche to create something that blows the mind of League fans AND a general audience alike is a stunning achievement. With respect to League of Legends and its community the crossover potential here was TINY! It’s NOT the same as the established Western ‘superhero’ tradition where crossover is already long established and its inner lore is much more grounded to our own world and experience. There were enormous hurdles in order for Riot/Fortiche to make that crossover but somehow they did it! It’s a remarkable achievement and that aspect should not be overlooked.
0:56 “It was so brilliant, if I ever tried to explain it, I could never do it justice.”
This is exactly how I feel! I love the irony, tragedy, narrative symbolism, aesthetic symbolism, and more.
To add about the series making foreshadowing on Vander being Warwick:
When Silco says "I'll show you what you really are" in episode 3, there's the start of the Warwick chasing theme (not exactly the same but close)
Also after when Vander drinks the purple stuff, he makes very growling-like sounds
I actually cried multiple times watching the first 3 episodes. I wasn't extremely sad about *SPOILER* any of the characters' deaths or anything like that, the scenes were just filled with so many emotions and it was all so beautifully portrayed..
I loved it so much, I'm so glad we waited all this time for this.
Legend of Runterra card game
The Monkey bomb is called "Get Excited!"
Jinx's passive is "Get Excited"
And Powder blew up something and got people killed with the monkey bomb
She "Got Excited"
HOLYSHHHH it all makes sense now what her trigger may actually be-
she got excited because she got a triple kill kappa
Ah yes get excited in LoR "Discard your loves ones, deal death to anything"
Jinx's Get Excited!
"To play, discard 1. Deal 3 to anything.
Create a Jinx in your deck."
weren't.. 3 crystals used ?
& you could say 'jinx' would have been made as a result of the explosion-
"What'samatter, Fishbones?"
"I'm worried about you, Jinx! Every time you get bored, you..."
"...want to blow something up! Great idea, Fishbones!"
she was left alone to do nothing & made a bomb-
"It's all just fun and games until something gets blown up - then it's a PARTY!"
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@@TR_18 well yeah but i'm just saying the explosion would have really kicked off what would eventually lead to her being jinx what with meeting silco & vi being taken to piltover. if it wasn't for the explosion & what resulted afterwards, things could have gone differently.
Dude, the attention to detail and emotions.
Powder's tantrums and crying was so great! The tears and saliva or whatever the liquid stuff flowing off her face as she rips off stuff and throw them. It's like actually looking at a real life kid throwing a tantrum on a mall after not getting what they want or when their parents leave them for work abroad.
Except her adoptive father got taken by people who murdered another man, and the rest of her family is going off and will probably die.
Like, I get what you mean, but the context matters.
Necrit, did you realize that silco hugs jinx back because what happened to him(vander grabbing his neck and choking him) kinda happened to jinx(vi aggressively almost choking jinx)
There is so much world and lore building in these for the new MMO!
yeah the singed reveal is actually given away the 2nd time he's on screen (episode 2), when they give deckard the glimmer if you have subtitles on when silco asks "will he live" and the doctor replies "long enough" it has [singed] as the speaker, so in lesson subtitles will spoil the characters before the show does
also when silco and gang are leaving the building singed isn't with them meaning they left him to die or didn't think he survived, maybe?
Ima amazed at how good they could make this show literally blew me away. Felt like how I felt first seeing star wars.
I actually agree that they're cutting it up in Arcs.. cause that was so dramatic and heavy, I need a week to absorb all that
I love the scene was going crazy before she realizes that the hex crystals triggered the explosion on the lab.
Man I feel so sad ive been waiting so long to watch this stream and i just couldn't keep up and slept in the last hour before it started
I think the mage was Ryze for two reasons. One, there were the runic tattoos on the inside of his hand and numerous runic crystals on his person; and since we all know there’s really only one character whose design and lore fits those descriptions, I feel that it MUST be Ryze. Secondly, Ryze’s role in the League Lore is very much like Doctor Fate’s in the DC comic universe. In that Ryze almost always, ALWAYS, makes his presence known before or does things that directly CAUSE massive world events in the lore. I think Ryze saved Jayce and his mother because he knew Jayce would be the only one to unravel the secrets of the Arcane and contain them into what we now know as “hextech.” To me, all the pieces fit together to identify Ryze as the mage.
And the teleportation magic was 100% Ryze ult and ryze DOES use runes. So if he's using a magic crystal of some kind it's probably the one he might use for his ult.
Counterpoint: Ryze doesn't like anyone meddling with magic. He's containing the world runes for the sake of keeping them out of the wrong hands.
Ryze is blue tho. That's always been a huge part of his character design. Be weird to remove it just for the show unless they wanted to make Jayce an unreliable narrator and make Ryze a big reveal for later.
U make me want to re-watch again. Can't wait for act 3! Totally worth it to subscribe to netflix just to watch this
This show is on another level! Absolutely amazing!
I instantly got the vibe of the mysterious mage being the aspect of the traveler. I feel like it is quite a major character for the role, but the targonian esc magic, and also his clothes remind me of the person in the LoR card before they ascend to an aspect.
Dang like for real, Vander's body frame after he was mutated is a similar build to Warwick's even (and the growl there too when he jumped back onto the platform)
I think Singed is gonna retrieve the bodies in the explosion site including Vander's body and then try to improve and mutate it even further and revive him to eventually turn him into warwick
ALSO!!!! I think the purple stuff is something that the doctors of whatever institution Mundo was held in used for their experiments (which we could see in the end of the series)
I was shocked to see Singed's name on the credits of Episode 2 so I rewatched it and the only one that could be singed was the guy who made Shimmer, the purple liquid, after watching Episode 3 I guess I was right.
Now when you realize why Riot WANTED everyone to stream and share first 3 episodes... they were really confident in this series and it really paid off!
At first I was sceptical about this. And I don't watch a lot of movies and stuff. But this... This blows my mind and I want to see more. I'm excited about the next 3 episodes. Also, I love heimerdinger here. I can't wait to see braum, taric, alistar and some others that I like.
Vander might be Warwick. His lore had stated that he saw a little girl crying (Powder), then he got experimented by Signed (he might be brought by Singed to his personal lab), and as Warwick in the end he fights criminals while also remembering the little girl he forgot her name. He also has wolf motifs.
I hope Mundo will be on Arcane because of the purple goo. He might be Marcus the enforcer who turned to mundo (Mundo's lore mentioned Mundo was formerly an enforcer). Idk....
Did anyone notice when Vi is talking to Jinx/Powder about the doll thats stuck on the high place? And she says "i keep hoping some wind or a bird will knock it down" was that a Janna reference?? Since Janna is a wind spirit with a bird elemental? I kinda thought it was a reference or something
I would like to note smol jinx almost commits war crimes in the beginning by putting nails in her homemade grenade.
Then she grows and commit more successful war crimes :)
Tbf you cant break Geneva conventions if theres no Geneva and no conventions
Yea, she was dead set on kiling someone since ep1
And Powder aka Jinx's Eyes turned purple when she embraces Silco. The Biggest Revelation is that Jinx deep down in her mind she is Crazy since her childhood and if somehow the Purple will force it out.
Its going to be a masterpiece
If you turn on subtitles it confirms that was Singed speaking off screen when Silco first gives Deckard the purple sauce.
The opening music to this video hits different after watching this show. My body just experienced that shit, and I've listened to that soundtrack a lot.
Maybe the Mage is an allegoric figure of "summoner"?..
LOL that could be
The traveller from legends of runaterra...
@@TheKurama00 also thought 'bout that x)
Summoners aren't cannon anymore I'm pretty sure
@@wediscoit1989 sure they aren't, but that could've been a sweet curtsy towards players xd
9:52 I find it amazing how within 30 seconds of seeing the council for the first time, we already know enough about each member to know what kind of person they are, without any needless exposition. This is how you introduce characters.
Warwick says '' you were there '' and '' let me forget '' to jinx (as i remember). so vender probably IS warwick
sry those lines are for kindred mb
15:35 in the poster we can see Vi pink hair, i think it's more like a symbolic contrast of "befor/after" of Powder to Jinx
After the explosion, parts of the purple shimmer interacted with the blue hex crystals and you can see that some of it turned green (=Chemtech?)
Last night i got a dream about my mom and dad and anime music starts playing (Re zero - stay alive) and when i wake up i was crying. I was thinking watching a sad anime but i watch arcane instead. And episode 3 almost make me cry. Arcane just made my day. Riot exploded my mind too.
In the last episode you can see Warwick,a glimpse of him.
I'm convinced Vander is Warwick
look at how Vander moves his right arm at ep3 as he strangled and broke Deckard's neck. It screams I'm Warwick
Ahaha at the end he seemed so happy while I was just quiet and empty. It was so sad... but I agree that it was so well made
With knowing nothing about League of Legends, I very much enjoyed the first 3 episodes. The animation is absolutely gorgeous, the characters are not dull and one dimensional, and the story keeps you hooked. All in all very well done.
Marvel likes to do the bait trailers too. They even change the scene or the background or dialog to trick you into expecting something and when you watch the real thing it’s entirely different.
people have been begging Riot to make a movie for like 6-7 years and we got a whole series.
The moment i heard Vander, He IS Warwick. I read all his lore, 100% voiceline volume, HE IS WARWICK.
This kind wholesome guy "will show everyone the monster that they want"
Warwick laso has a "thing" on his right forearm
Could the mage be pre-void malzahar? Purely speculating based on a very loose resemblance, I don’t know much about malz’s lore or whether the time would line up, but I’m sure you all can help me out
I don't think it aligns with malzs lore, no
I JUST NOTICED HES WEARING UNUS ANNUS HOODIE :D
Watching episode 3 with subtitles, it does in fact say that when singed talks, it is actually singed
Hearing Lakshmi-2's voice from a human enforcer felt really strange... I am so used to her playing The Exo, Future War Cult leader in Destiny.
basically the opposite of the mihoyo anniversary incident
now we know where the ruinations budget went.
*i can see the jacket you have and its good to see that you're a man of culture as well*
Honestly, I think the most impressive thing in this series so far is how compelling and sympathetic Jayce is. Jayce has always been a contentious character and it's always felt like Riot never knew what to do with him, and it always felt like he could never be a fan favorite. But here they give him some compelling motivations and interesting relationships. He's actually someone I want to watch and even root for!
I cant wait for his reaction when viktor becomes what we know him as. It will such a heavy moment, his partner becoming a machine from technology they invented
No no no. I cannot WAIT for the Jayce regression arc. The only Jayce that deserves my headspace is the cocky brat version so I can hate on him again.
Wait untill Jayce gets all the glory from the research
I think its good so far but if they keep him oblivious about the wrongdoings his stuff did to zaun, it'll be right back to contentious. His plea where he talked about how good piltover was made him seem like a good guy at heart but super uninformed.
Jayce is the reason I got to diamond. I used to spam Tryndamere and when he got hard countered by the likes of Quinn and Vayne, I started using Jayce to level up the playing field. After that I broke my platinum plateau. Always been my second fav champ after tryn.
I honestly didn't think they would do such a good job with viktor. He has been warming the bench for so long I am so happy to see him in action
Can't wait to see how he develops, the character is super cool
Tbh, I kinda dig his look in this! Pretty sad that he won't get an Arcane skin; I would definitely have started to play him!
Now I'm afraid that people will compare anything Riot produce with Arcane forgetting it is a 6 year project
It was 6 years, but it seems a lot of that was set up. hopefully as things progress, they can put out more stuff at a faster pace when they find their groove
Where did they say it was a 6 year project? Genuinely curious i wanna see the source lol.
Also THEY BETTER WORK ON ANOTHER ONE FOR 6 YEARS! Or get more people to work on it and do it quicker (if that's possible without making it worse).
My worry is that the stupid marketing people will ruin it. They will come up with some avengers Thanos shit (ruined king) where all champs have to fight together or some shit. I get so mad when I think about how they treat the talent in their company...
@@bingobangini they talked about it during the official stream during the premier
@@bingobangini I remember them saying it was a 6 year project in the interviews right before the premiere of Arcane on twitch, but I don't think there are any legal vods.
@@bingobangini they said it in the pre-release show I believe (where they walk around on the campus). The writer said he started 6 years ago.
I FINALLY understand where fiddlesticks' voice line "it's all your fault" comes from.
don't forget swains "faces fading in the flames...it was all her fault"
Dont forget warwick “The explosion make me forget” or “you were there”
(Dont know the exact line but its close to that)
yesssss
I KNOW RIGHT
HOLY SHIT
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Also holy shit I did not expect them to have a gruesome death put in there
What? Even my spoilers will try not to spoil
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I also didn't expect them to die in the first three episodes, cuz wtf that's so sad, I really liked their characters, I thought they're gonna grow up with Vi and Jinx:")
Also if Vander is really warwick, he's going to return again in the future episode.
Notice the parallelism between the hextech working for Jayce but destroying jinx's family confirming Heimerdinger's point that the magic crystals can lead to destruction.
Heimerdinger said magic is dangerous at the wrong hands
@@anon6187 there's lots of symbolism in Arcane and I love it. Another great parallel is when Wander told Vi about responsibility and goes to show how to uphold it by sacrificing himself when he turned himself in, but then Jinx does the opposite of what Wander was trying to teach Vi where she destroyed everything that mattered to her because of her selfish desires to feel useful.
I think Arcane in general keeps balancing messages about selfishness and sacrifice like this, and it keeps the characters and their choices constantly interesting, such as Jayce on the one hand striving for progress and wanting to save Viktor but also understands that hextech can be dangerous and needs to be regulated.
I also love how the story humanized Vi, Viktor, Jayce and Caitlyn. They're all incredibly likable and I really enjoyed the relationship so far between Caitlyn and Vi. Jinx is turning into a villain so she's obviously becoming more unlikable, since as opposed to the other main characters except maybe Viktor, her characterization develops her negatively. I'm sure we'll see the same happening to Viktor eventually.
Another thing I like is how the characters are all so incredibly strong and keep finding ways to solve their situation without external interference. Deux ex machina do happen, but they don't at the point you expect it to.
I agree with Necrit. This is actually one of the best series I've ever seen and I'm not even a huge lore buff. It's probably better if you know League, but even if you don't I think not knowing anything beforehand can also give a freshness to the experience which also can't be replicated.
This show became my favorite ever overnight, an I'm pretty confident to assume I'm not the only one.
indeed you are not!
fucking awesome
Yea so epic
same honestly lmao
who doesnt? Arcane is EPIC
The variance of level between ruination and Arcane is so massive that it seems impossible that Riot could make such an insane flop before such a completely mind-blowing animated series.
One has years behind it while the other had less than a year with covid. Sad really, since the Ruination would have been very epic.
@@5frogfrenzy They should've delayed it, everyone I know didn't enjoy it that much.. or just ignored
@@odedzrubavel if they would delay ruination they would also have to delay arcane
@@itsgonnabeokay9341 That sacrifice might be worth, so far so good!
@@5frogfrenzy That's not really the problem here. Even a week is enough to write a better plot for ruination. The way they let Akshan, someone no one knows before, be the main protag all just because of 'marketing strategy' is just plain stupid.
Absolute favorite part in the end is when Jinx hugs Silco, he gets confused, Jinx tells him that Vi betrayed her and is no longer her sister and Silco realizes that this is exactly how he felt when Wander betrayed him, immediately symphatizing with her and embracing her. Embracing her not as "hurr durr I am evil and will use you in my evil plans of evil muhahahaha", but as a person, who experienced the same exact pain in practically same fashion as she did. T H I S I S I N C R E D I B L E . I put all 10s on iMDB for this show, and I didn't even had an account there before.
Stop man I'm crying already!!!
I actually saw it as him immediately realizing the potential in manipulating and using her as a tool for his ambitions, a la Palpatine with Anakin.
That's exactly what I pointed out when I watched it! However still having intent on manipulating her.
@@ClandestineMerkaba Same I saw it like Silco found another tool to use
Holy shit didn't even realize this but you're right. My god this blew me away