@@foreveruseless1292 It only makes us think, what could've happened if Vander didn't betray Silco? If Silco would've learned of the price of sacrificing a daughter then? What could've been?
In the end silco understood what it means to have a daughter, why Vender couldn't do what silco asked, because he's a father 😭😭😭 No matter what his family comes first 😭😭😭😭😭
That's such a great take! I've seen the "nobody is black or white" cited a lot but I agree with this one way more. Really, even the most well-meaning characters are blamed for someone else's misery. Except poor Sky, she really did nothing wrong
Thats spot on. You should go back and look at Zaun in the 1st 3 episodes then compare it beyond that. The economy and infrastructure of the city is much better and overall quality of life improves the extremes are there with drug abuse of course. Shimmer is a fuel source in chemtech and tradable commodity he was smuggling out of Piltover to give Zaun more financial stability. Vander was like a rock weathering the storm unchanging but safe in its stagnation Silco was like water moving forward but with force eventually with change the land around it for good and bad.
The parallel between Vander and Silco is astonishing to me. They both sought to free Zaun from it's Piltovin oppressors. Both led a bloody revolution. But the greatest commonality between the two, is that they both lost sight of the cause in favor of saving their daughters. For Vander it was Vi, for Silco it was Jinx. The cycle of oppressed to revolutionary to father figure is quite impressive. Well done Riot, well done.
the thing is Silco called vander weak for not being able to sucrifice Vi for the cause and hated him for that, but when he needed to do the same with Jinx he found out he can't do it neither. in this scene where he sits near Vander's statue he understands he treated Vander wrong, and that's what makes him the best character of the series imo. THAT is how you make character development
@@itayker22 agreed. After watching a trailer fo the first time I saw Silco as a typical scarecrow 1 dimensional villain... I ended up respecting the character so much, I was astonished. And people complain about the ending... chesus, the characters are written and displayed in such a detail it blew my mind. I mostly see that in great books, I dont know when last i saw an anime/ a movie such as Arcane.
@@KaiReel23 my ppl. I found you. The lyrics are the story too. And i need more time to discuss its impact. The show leave’s me stunned into silence while my insides explode with rage and emotion. I am not the same. And these characters are somehow more human than some actual ppl.
For Vender it was all of them: Vi, Powder, Mylo and Clagg, Benzo, Ekko, his people. He reminded Vi to protect the family, because all of them were their family. Silco founded a family when adopting Jinx.
i actually started to cry at this moment. Silcos last words hit me so hard. Then the music started and i was like "oh hell no,no sad song pls, i am already crying" Q_Q i cried to the very last moment of the show.
"But worst of all for me to live I gotta kill the part of me that saw that I needed you more" This show broke me and put me back together over and over. This song is seared into my soul.
Dang, I always thought that he said "and I need you to mourn." Either way, the song is so tragic (yet the elegant vocals make it so enticing to learn how to sing)
A couple things that were utterly heartbreaking: - The weapon Jinx fires at the end was built for Silco, but now it sort of /is/ Silco to her. Silco likened himself to a sea monster because he was almost drowned, but managed to fight back and escape. It's part of his personal mythos that he was held down (Either in the undercity or beneath the water) but had the will and ferocity to claw his way above. Jinx made the weapon because it represented him. It even has a left eye motif as Silco does. - Both Vi and Jinx now have weapons that represent their respective father figures and are placed in opposition exactly like they were. Jinx even feels that Vi betrayed her for Piltover, just like Silco did to Vander. - Both Vander and Silco lie to their respective daughters, who ultimately forgive them and side with their father's beliefs.
@@Xerguel13 Vander keeps a deal with topside behind everyone's backs to keep the peace, Silco doesn't tell her about Vi being back and also agrees to slightly different peace talks with topside.
@@padawan7756 I mean, by that same logic they both "withheld" information rather than outright lying. Vander just didn't mention what he was doing to keep the peace, and Silco didn't mention that Vi was back to protect Jinx.
I think he said that because he knew she felt guilty about the deaths of Mylo and Claggor and therefore didn't want her to do the same thing about him too.
@@reyrey4673 Powder/Jinx have signs of bpd essentially a deep fear of abandonment. It usually leads to a lack of self worth and being overly critical of oneself. With her guilt added on top it manifested as mainly Mylo criticizing and belittling Jinx about her failures and weaknesses at every turn. Silco probably had some idea and was always a supportive voice in the storm.
I adore the decision to cut the music before the final line. I can still hear the cracking window whenever I listen to the song as it cuts to just Sting's voice. Gives me shivers
They did the same with ekko Vs jinx, the music stops when the flashback stops, you just get the fight in silence, much more impactful, no fun, no holds barred, just two old friends fighting to kill eachother
@@ragnarian yeah!! They use music really well, even when they're not using it. It's really effective and speaks wonders of the skill of the editors who put it all together
The musics, the soundtrack, the dubbling, the foley, the art style, animation, humor... Cinematicaly speaking, this show has flaws, but ffs I don't care, it's THAT good.
The freedom they had with animating and the way they animated it was amazing. Most Animated series/movies stick to the same kind of animating throughout but they had bits and parts change animation style, like jinx vs ekko, mel and Jayce sex scene or the firelights introduction. Really amazing series.
This song is absolutely insane. This entire show is absolutely insane. I can't believe all this came out of League of Legends of all things, but I am so grateful I got to see it and hear this soul crushing piece of music. Hats off to Sting, Ray Chen, and everybody who worked on Arcane. This show is truly something special.
While Jinx went crazy and become a monster through the show, Silco become closer to Vander that he used to blame for being soft. Now, the last thing Silco did was reassure his daughter. The ending is just had me shock, but boy I love the show so much. The visual was so beautiful.
He still created a monster in trying to give Zaun freedom. In the end he lost and had to abandon his daughter. Silco and Jinx are such tragic characters - and to create them in 9 episodes is just beyond talented.
@@bernhardstil6128 he didn't create a monster. He reasudred and accepted a child who displayed symptoms of mental instability even before Vi abandoned her. Like Jinx tells Vi. "Silco didn't make me. You did."
@@nonamegiven19xx True - but we all know what comes next. Silco tried but failed. He needed Jinx to be let out - but he did not know to put the lid back on. Maybe "created" is the wrong word - he watched her going mad, fully aware of what she would become.
@@nonamegiven19xx Vi never abandoned Powder, though. She walked like 30ft away to be alone after everything that just happened, then was knocked out. Vi would have always accepted Powder, and I believe she still does.
@@bernhardstil6128 I think one can argue that the violence of his methods tilted Jinx towards violence, but its not like the lanes are really peaceful anyway. There's no question Vander would have been the best influence, but between a mad, defenseless Powder and a mad but well-defended Jinx, Silco made his choice and I am not sure it's the wrong one.
Imagine being criticized by your flaws your whole life and then you are hit by "Don't cry, you are Perfect" by someone who loves you. That feeling is indescribable
@@theamazingwebhead6453 Somehow Zaun doesn't strike me as the kind of place where one can get therapy, unfortunately. Maybe lockup-for-life, if not an outright grave.
@@hereticmantra Heimerdinger is pretty much the only one with any actual responsibility, but he seems like the kind of person who've genuinely tried to help in the past. Medarda is too young to have anything to do with it, or at least anything impactful, and Jayce for obvious reasons has nothing to do with it. We don't really know much about the other black woman on the council, but the bearded guy just seems to go along with whoever he seems to like the most. The elvish looking guy I have no idea about. Kiramman (or however you spell it) doesn't really seem like the type to have ulterior motives either. Yeah, they were all outraged at the prospect of making the undercity an independent nation, but it seemed more like an issue with breech of protocol than a reluctancy to do it, as they quickly changed their mind.
@@krillep280 those in power (and especially those in power who are exploiting the poor under them) have an obligation to make the lives of those they have power over better. if they fail to do that, or make their lives worse (like how the council has had all this time to stop actively oppressing and exploiting zaun) then they are actively hurting those people. like it or not, their inaction on anything that matters (or direct, violent action like what jayce does) caused silco to be able to gain power, which is what killed vander. shimmer and the like wouldn't have had to be created if the undercity were supported at all (or just not horrifically oppressed) by the people that are supposed to care for them.
The sad reality that I'm starting to accept is that season 2 probably has no way of being as good as season 1, even more if we take into the account how hyped people will be, season 1 surprised most people with its quality, season 2 will have a lot to live up to in the public's mind.
It probably won't, especially when they focus on other characters who are not in such a tragic relation to one another. The show hit that hard because of the tragic relation of the two sisters. This is so very tough to recreate, I would be surprised if they deliver the same quality with the story this time.
The sad thing about this scene that many people miss is that the rocket launcher looks like a shark with a evil eye like Silco. Remember how Silco had sharks and thought that they were beautiful? Jinx probably made that rocket launcher to gift to him. Now that he is gone the rocket launcher represents Silco, so whenever Jinx is talking with her rocket launcher she is actually talking to her father. Same thing goes with her gatling gun Pow Pow that's named after the nickname Vi called Powder. So she is talking to her old self whenever she is talking to her gatling gun.
Fishbones, the name of the rocket launcher is based on one of the monsters Jinx or Vi made up when they were playing their game, which we learn through Vi and Cait's conversation after they get back to Piltover. We know this because we see a drawing of the launcher in her workshop next to a crayon scribble of the shark monster from her childhood, unless I saw something wrong. But yes she probably did add the evil eye as a reference to her father
True. I've watched 1000+ anime by now, and Western cartoons never come close to most of them. But this was a masterpiece. It deserves a place alongside the very best anime I've ever watched. I was truly surprised and in awe.
@@AniMageNeBy agree. The only thing that can touch the best anime for me alongside Arcane is Star Wars the clone wars... and that show had a budget of 1 million dollars per episode!
I love that this song can be interpreted as not only Jinx talking to Vi, but also Silco talking to Vander, and even maybe Viktor to Jayce. It really applies to a lot of characters and thats beautiful.
And city to city. Heimedinger and "Little Man" may represent the "what could've been" for both cities and I hope the writers will go in that direction with them.
@@mhiyamusic5769More like the other way around. Zaun was the poor section of the city, forced to do the menial work and live in squalor, with Enforcers sent down to brutally crush any dissent or unrest, while Piltover lived off the riches, the troubles below out of sight, out of mind. Silco's big plan was to have Zaun force Piltover to recognize what it's done and accept Zaun as an equal. Between the raids and the tit-for-tat violence, both sections of the once-united city are willing to go to war with each other. Jinx' last action in the season made that all but inevitable, even if it didn't kill anyone in the Council.
in Arcane, nothing is either black or white, everything is different shades of grey. God this show deserves to be called a masterpiece. They've done everything right. The pacing, the music, the animation, the art, the fights, the political, the psychological and more. When a show makes you cry for the main villains of the story (Silco, and in the later stages, Jinx, although it's kinda hard and painful to call them villains), you can be damn sure that the show is good. They probably retconned a few, or a lot things from the lore. But, I think, it's much better that way. The fact that nobody is a villain for the fun of it, and that everybody is actually human to some extent, and not purely evil or good, is something hard to accomplish, and a much more impressive feat. I also love that kind of concept.
@@CoreZeroPH Speaking who which, I guarantee we're gonna see Camille next season or in Season 3 and it's gonna be another highlight, if you know the lore, you know
Not really in all honesty. As a lore fan, I can say they got a lot of stuff right and since we didn't know much about the champions' past, we can't say they were wrong there either. One thing to note though. In the lore Jayce stole the Hextech invention as something he made on his own. While that's not what happened (both in Arcane and the Lore) Viktor never got recognition for his part in the invention so that's still very accurate to the lore. We just don't know how they became bitter enemies yet but that's something for the next seasons.
@@phoenixflamegames1 Jayce was still the creator of Hextech in the lore.... in fact Viktor and Jayce had their falling out well before Jayce even got his hands on the crystal so Viktor had no hand in the creation of Hextech. The only thing that changed was Jayce in his original lore didn't care about magic. He was also extremely arrogant because of his intelligence and was confused why anyone had difficulty with anything (since he never faced any challenges). It wasn't until he found the crystal that he realized his arrogance because the crystal was something he struggled to understand.
And in the near future that is also the point of Noxus and Demacia. One portrays itself as the pinnacle of honor and humanity while enslaving and torturing magic users ignoring the hypocrisy of their own city. And the other is portrayed and the cruel and unforgiving kingdom of conquest, that in reality has liberated many from underneath the thumbs of blue blood royalty however their methods are questionable.
On some thought, I realized what I think makes Silco such an amazing villain. Most villains in-story arc fall into one of three categories. They're either evil because EVIL, and just are that way (static), are good and then something corrupts them (dynamic, corruption arc), or are evil and then something changes them for the better (dynamic, redemption arc). Silco is...not really any of these. Or at least, the story doesn't follow these arcs for him. His arc is actually conveniently summarized in one of the show's best lines, "Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?" His character arc is vulnerability. We watch his goals collapse, and ultimately die. Not because of anything the "good guys" did to stop and vanquish him, but because his love for Jinx, his daughter, had him dropping more and more guards. We didn't watch him become "good", guy was willing to let basically anything but Jinx burn and rot. We didn't watch him "become" loving, he was already loving. That's why betrayal hurt him so much. What we watched was him become "vulnerable". Started as a hug from a desperate little girl, ended as a gunshot from the young woman he trusted more than anyone. And even in death, he held that vulnerability and softness for her.
Personally I never really saw him as a villain but more of an anti hero, a man who once started as a hero along side Vander that who only wanted to do what's best for their ppl, but simply lost his way as time went on. That is until he met powder and finally understood why Vander made the decision to throw everything out the window to protect the ones he loves. He may be portrayed as a villain in the show but is none other but a broken man who lost his way. Damn I rambled there for a bit😂
Not only that. In one of his very first scenes, he tells the guy who he's about to turn into a monster that power comes from those who'd do anything to achieve it. Throughout the episodes after the first Act, we see him slowly lose that power he fought all his life to get by showing that he wasn't ready to do anything for his cause anymore. He had something holding him back : his love for his daughter, Jinx. At the end, his very last words, he mutters that he would have never given up on Jinx. That's where he lost. His power crumbled because he wasn't ready to do anything for it anymore. In his selfish rage and fear of losing Jinx to Vi, he made a move that the old Silco would have never done : by trying to kill Vi for his selfish need to have Jinx by his side, he undid everything he'd worked for his entire life. By this simple action, he singlehandedly destroyed his ambition to create the Nation of Zaun he so desperately wanted. The old Silco would have manipulated his way out of this situation differently. He would have lied if he had needed to. He wouldn't have felt the need to pick up the gun and try to shoot Vi whilst she was trying to talk sense into whichever was left of Powder. His love for Jinx was his undoing, in the end. And that's a powerful message. This series wins on so many levels.
As Deibido said he is an antihero. Who in the end ends up being the same as Vander, who he originally saw as weak and flawed. Its a self fulfilling cycle. Thats why the scene where Silco drinking to Vander is a tear jerker. Because he recognises that he shouldn't have done what he did to his brother, because his brother was doing the exact same thing he is doing now.
Sting and Ray Chen, I really want to thank you for this song. In the last 4 years my life fell completely apart. I was left almost completely alone. Many times even though I was around people who have known me for most of my life it felt like I was surrounded by no one who could have any idea of what I've been going thru on a daily basis, even to this day. This song was able to do something I couldn't, put into words, into an experience that comes close to what I have felt all these years, every day including in my dreams.
I don't play League, but hot damn that is one of the best written and animated stories coming from a game adaptation. As bad as Silco is, he was the only one accepted Jinx for who she is and understood why Vander went soft for his kids, while Vi had time stopped for her by being in prison and still wants her Powder back, wanting to make up for the moment they were separated, not realizing Jinx is Powder. This is one of the best written tragedies I've seen for the modern audience.
It's a masterpiece, it blew my mind. It's been a while since the last time a book or a movie moved me like that - i think that's what i live for... masterpiece
The parallel between Vi and Jinx is amazing. Vander in his last moments told Vi that she has a good heart reassuring her, while Silco in his last moments reassured Jinx telling that she is perfect, and that he would never have betrayed her. Throughout the show their arcs went in opposites as well, Vi met people and gained friends and loved ones, while Jinx lost trust, and met old friends and fought and nearly died to them. Vi had a clear goal of stopping Silco, while Jinx felt lost and tried to find her way throughout the show, in a way after the two father figures said their last words Vi and then Jinx later on found out who they were and moved forward more confidently afterwards. Yes this show truly is a masterpiece.
@@padawan7756 That's a lot of blame to put on a singular teenager, a child. You're also removing any and all agency from Jynx and Silco and everyone else who got Jynx to the state she's in. To also say that Jynx's problems began when Vi returned would also imply that she was fine before that. When she was, y'know, a murdering loonatic having psychotic breaks whenever she ran across a girl with pink hair and huddling in her den with its shrine to the dead. What's Vi's return did do was throw those problems into very stark relief
Vi still has to grow imo, the second season we might see her growth and closure with jinx hopefully. That said, she was too young in episode 3 and spent all the time in between arc 1 and 2-3 in prison, what sort of growth do you expect her to have? The only thing she learned in prison is to fight, and when she got out and met jinx she literally had no time to think things trough. Some people seem to ignore the fact that like 3 days have passed in act 2 and 3, she had to run all over the place with injuries and keep fighting, she didn't have the experience or expertise nor enough time to actually think about how to help jinx. It's easy for you guys to criticize ger, i want to see you in her place, first seeing your brothers and father die and then being tied to a chair and asked to kill your friend, i really want to see if you would be able to keep cool and think about the right thing to say to a person with unknown and serious mental issues.
One thing I noticed when scrolling through this comment section is that everyone has their own interpretation as to what the song means and who it's about, and _every one of them_ makes sense and is really meaningful and deep. That's the signature of true art. The creators may not realize this, but they're going down in history.
It really does. Some of the lines feel odd to be coming from Jinx, but all of them from Victor to Caitlin fix in some regard. Which.. yeah. That final scene is a perfection coalesence of "What could have been".
@@davidnighten5553 arcane is no doubt coming to my "greatest/favourite of all times" list with aot star wars and undertale. (Why the heck do I like tragedy so much)
@@arranli579 Sting is one of those artists who will venture into other genres of music. You should really check out his work with shaggy- especially Angel and It wasn’t me
@@cazonirobert3621 This Series is much more than just the animation. The writing, the music, the general source material, all of these have different people behind it. It's an enormous collaboration of a ton of talented people, everything being orchestrated by Riot. But yeah, Fortiche, the french studio behind the animation, is a big part of it, and they did a mind-blowing job.
I think Enemy is a great song but I love how many other great songs there are in the series. They also fit the moods displayed in the episodes perfectly!
Everyone relates this song to Jinx and Vi but I think it could also be about Zaun and Piltover. Zaun and Piltover were once one city but split apart coz of excavations meant to build canals. "I hope you know we had everything", they were literally one people who prospered together but Piltover "broke" Zaun and "left these pieces". (It also explains why the air and water in the undercity are so toxic). Piltover's negligence and apathy towards the city led to living conditions that only monsters could survive in. Also, there are sooo many bright and resourceful minds in the undercity! If Piltover had treated them as equals, perhaps they could have thrived together. It's "what could have been." Lines like "I am your ghost, a fallen angel" and "I was meant to be yours" also add to my theory. And Zaunites definitely want Piltover to 'hurt' and 'lose' like they have
@@raro344 no it's not 😭 the title of the song is "what could have been". The lyrics are talking about how Vi left Jinx, and Jinx is asking why Vi doesn't love her for who she is. This is not about Zaun and Piltover.
i get chills every time i hear this. I just see caitlyn screaming "No" as she sees the bomb, the bomb flying past the full moon, the lights going up in the council as they finally, finally were going to give Zaun its freedom... Easily for me one of the best sequences and showcases of cinematography EVER.
I thought she was gonna blowup the moon, what a twist arcane did and the cliffhanger brooooo like I need more, now I'm curious if Jayce survive that blast
Here's the thing they wouldn't have gotten freedom or peace anyway because Silco was never going to give Jinx up to them. Since that was one of the stipulations for independence it would have never been achieved thus leading to more conflict. It was a lose lose situation.
I don't know if I'm overthinking things, but I always interpreted it at as the motivation behind everyone: Jayce and Viktor wanted to prove the power of Hextech. Sevika wanted to prove that the Undercity wasn't weak. Jinx wanted to prove she wasn't weak. This line is kinda about everyone when you think about it.
The fact that it’s the last thing you hear before she pulls the trigger and forever destroys all chance of the peace that had become Silco’s final wish is just heartrending.
@@OneBiasedOpinion There was no chance at peace: the deal required that Silco hand over Jinx, and Silco was never going to do that. Even if Silco had lived, the council's vote would've been for nothing. For me, what makes the line all the more heartrending is the implication that Jinx is thinking back on those words when she pulls the trigger, as it lines up with her shedding that tear and pulling the trigger; my guess is that the tear she shed when pulling the trigger was a tear shed for Silco, and her pulling the trigger was for Silco.
@@Chromedbustop I think even if he lived, Silco would’ve fought for Jinx. It’s clear he genuinely cared about her. I think initially it was “Oh, here’s a kid I can mold into my own creation” which he did do but I think it began to run deeper than that as time went on. We saw how agonized he was when Jinx was beaten half to death. I don’t she was just a pawn anymore.
I don’t know how they’re gonna continue this. For the first time in my life, I think a cliffhanger is somehow the best way to leave a show. I want to see more, but the season ended so perfectly as well.
im going to assume its going be about the war jinx pretty much started it right then and there but they could go anywere with it they can show what its going on in noxus theres alot of characters over there they can show
I completely agree. I will watch a second season if it ever comes out, but I'm sceptical they can match the quality of the first one. Westworld should have been stoped after the first one, too.
Just finished ACT 3 and I am completely shook. Thank you Riot Games Music for elevating this amazing series with Epic and Phenomenal Soundtrack and Songs. Entering post-series depression now...
@@Ben-rz9cf learn about the lore. discover the deep storys behind the scenes of this great world they created. find ur own explanations of what special morals mean to u. theres so much so find in the depths of runeterra. if u really want to, u can make the time till S2 pass effortlessly
Yeah, I didn't pick that up until the end of episode 3 because I actually listened to the soundtrack before I watched the show, but I didn't REALIZE it until Jinx said the line, "He didn't create Jinx. You did." Like... DAMN such an awesome show!
@@juliogomesdesouza9035 Not if you listen to it before watching the last act, that's what i was referring to because ny brother used to play it and having watched only first 3 eps, I always thought it's about Silco until the realization came while watching the last episode.
@@TimelessWolves I tried LoL two years ago, played literally 5 minutes and then uninstalled it. Still, I decided to watch Arcane and it was one of the best series I've seen to this day. It's really incredible. Give it a try, even if you don't care about LoL. It's worth it
it's the same thing i felt when i was playing through Red Dead 2's Epilogue and Cruel Cruel World started playing. like i knew Rockstar had money but i didnt think theyd be able to get Willie Nelson lol.
RIP Silco. He was such a fleshed out character with incredible depth and personality. I loved him as a mob boss, mayor of a lawless city, a vengeful enemy, and a father trying to do his best for his daughter. The way he carried himself based on what he was doing, as if he put different shoes on, down to the way he talked based on who he was talking to. He was incredible in every aspect. His voice actor did an amazing job and so did whoever designed/created him. Now that's how you make a villain, although it you understand his character well enough, it's hard to call him that.
He's definitely a villain, there's no question about that given totality of his actions. But they had a point to them, you could understand his perspective enough though his methods oft crossed several lines on just a humanitarian level. Albeit, you understood where his ruthlessness came from. So, a villain he definitely was, the trope he'd fall under is that of an "Anti-Villain", the inverse of the "Anti-Hero" trope. An Anti-Hero being a heroic force for good that will use questionable methods, whereas the Anti-Villain an antagonistic force that has few scruples or lines they won't cross but will show that they are not just some mustache twirling evil-doer, but has a reason--even a very human and sympathetic one for why they do what they do even if they use ultimately cruel methods to achieve their goals.
@@Apillis124 You make a lot of good points! I suppose with objectivity in mind he certainly does classify as a villain even if some of his goals were righteous. I just find it difficult to classify him as a villain due to the circumstances Piltover put him in. Rather, the circumstances Piltover forced upon Zaun. It's hard to say if there could have been an entirely moral way of solving the issue with all things in mind, although I think that discussion has been applied to politics for as along as they have existed. Perception, far reaching consequences, etc etc. That's kind of why cancel culture has had a field day with the legacies of historical leaders. Their methods and decisions were not infinitely moral, despite having achieved something great. I digress.
@@Zii_Vii Well, it wasn't Piltover that made him use live human test subjects to maladjust their bodies to the point of deformity and addiction en mass. It wasn't Piltover that made him decide to use child labor to mass produce Shimmer. It wasn't Piltover that made him raise a severely PTSD suffering child with severe schizophrenia and psychotic episodes to further embrace her psychosis worsening her condition. It wasn't Piltover that made him seek the murder of that girl's sister who was child themselves. He had a warped view and philosophy, there's no denying it. His cause for wanting more for the Lanes to become Zaun was not wrong, even extremely sympathetic given its conditions, but what he sought to do to get it was undeniably horrific by any standard. That's what makes it easy to call him a villain, but seeing and understanding why is what makes him an Anti-Villain.
The best villains are ones whom you can understand, and even empathize with when you consider their perspective, along with them having complicated morality. I don’t know how anyone could hear Silco’s last words to Jinx and not have their heart break.
Here I am. Crying because I finally decided to watch the show after months and now I'm broken to pieces. And I literally can't stop crying now because listening to this song gives me real shivers. This is a masterpiece and I'm willing to wait as long as it takes to watch a new season. It was just perfect ❤️
Same for me... I watched it months after it came out since I didn't like LoL, but after all back then I wanted to give the show at least a chance and ended up watching it all through one day and since then are waiting for the next season to finally come out
This ending had me in tears. How the fuck are they just going to leave me like that?? How am i going to wait for season 2 now with this hole in my heart?
If they leave it that way and moved on into a different region in the next season, then that's how the history why Piltover truly hates Zaun thus peace no longer becomes an option between two nations.
I doubt Season 2 will focus on Piltover and Zaun. This is pretty much how the story goes. Silko and Markus were the only ones who kept the peace after Vander died. It was far from perfect - more like dystopia for the Undercity and bliss for Piltover but it was peace. What would follow is even worse. And now Jinx is truly lost. Maybe thats how it is supposed to be.
@@bernhardstil6128 there's no way they'll move out of the Zaun and Piltover storyline. The only thing that was concluded was Jinx's and Vi's arc. They teased too much in the final act for them to not make a season 2 about them, how Viktor would be augmented, Warwick and Singed, Heimerdinger's possible involvement in Ekko's creation of the Z-Drive, Mel's mother and even the foreshadowing of Swain with all those crows and his in game quote against Jinx.
@@RikuHarada6996 Yeah they will return but I doubt it will be with the next Season. Why do I think that? Because this baby was 6 years in the making. While they worked on this they will most certainly have been writing the script for other characters and nations. Those are probably not to far behind in development and will get greenlit in the next few days - if it hasn't happened already. Even if they speed up the process for Season 2 of Arcane it would take years to get it right (which I hope they will aim for). But you are right they will come back to tell the story of Warwick and Singed, Viktor and ofc Jinx and Vi (there is still enough in the Lore to return with all of the characters) It will be worth the wait but I doubt it will be anytime soon.
One of the saddest moments in the final episode was how Silco realized after all those years that his brother was doing the right thing all along. He couldn't understand Vander for giving up on their dream until he had a daughter himself.
My Cousin Always wanted to see a League of legends Movie but he passed away in 2018, This song made me cry cause After watching Act 3 I realized my cousin Didn't made it to see Arcane
sorry for your loss mate. i have been fortunate enough to not lose any close friends or relatives so far, but i can still sympathize with the poor souls who couldn't make it to watch masterful pieces of Media like Arcane and others that meant a lot for them in their life.
I am the monster you created You ripped out all my parts And worst of all, for me to live, I gotta kill the part of me that saw That I needed you more I hope you know we had everything And you broke me and left these pieces I want you to hurt like you hurt me today and I want you to lose like I lose when I play what could have been Oh, what could have been Why don't you love who I am? What we could have been I am your ghost, a fallen angel You ripped out all my parts I couldn't care what invention you made me 'Cause I, I was meant to be yours I hope you know we had everything And you broke me and left these pieces I want you to hurt like you hurt me today and I want you to lose like I lose when I play I want you to hurt like you hurt me today and I want you to lose like I lose when I play What could have been
@@khoinguyen5004 i do imagine why: like, you got arrested for, idk, 5 or more years in a prison, and then you got free amd see you little sister is a totally diferent person
@@deboracosta5270 yup, and because of the image of the young Powder Vi had in her mind, she didnt want to believe Jinx is the one Powder would grow up into
It’s such a tragic show. To think all of the characters have backstories this deep… geez, I’d play league if it wasn’t so terrible and toxic. Poor Jinx lost not only her siblings (including Vi because of how they strayed apart in ideals over the years) but TWO father figures in addition to her birth parents. I could never imagine losing my family, but three times over? That’s soul-crushing. That leaves a person empty inside. I understand why she pulled the trigger, I just wish she could’ve been given the chance to see the good in Piltover and people like Caitlyn.
It's almost 2 in the morning and this is hitting way too hard. Not only is it Sting, but... that self-acapella is just so gorgeous. And the beautiful violin... I can't- It's just wonderful. Edit: Correction, self-harmonization.
When i just got divorced this song was released. During that period I never listened to this song without crying out loud. Now we’re friends with my ex-husband for our little girl, but after almost a year and a half we had a deep, open and honest conversation about our faults and awareness. I was sure I was over everything and there were no feelings left for him, but I realized that I still love him, with all my heart. I can’t tell him about this. He’s interested in other girls. Well, today I can listen this song without crying, just with a little sadness on my face. I’m stronger and more mature than a year and half ago :) And this song it’s just a reminder of this.
It's crazy that this show had so much hype and expectations surrounding it, and it still managed to completely surpass anyone's wildest dreams of how good and successful it would be. Truly a masterpiece
For real, i even raised expectations even higher after how banger act 1 was and act 2 still surpassed those with ease no need to mention act 3 it was a masterpiece
Im so sad Silco died. He was such a good character, had a great development. Him willing to throw away his dream, everything he ever wanted, for Jinx, such love.
Silco was finally able to empathize with Vander as he experienced fatherhood by raising, caring, and loving Jinx like a daughter. Silco was met with a difficult decision - save his daughter or save his people. He chose his daughter.
Oddly enough I felt that he lied to Jinx, in order to "seal the deal," as it were, and ensure she took the path he wanted, instead of possibly letting Vi help. You can see his desperation as he counters Vi over and over; he's losing Jinx, losing his own dream, losing an ersatz daughter, wracked with shame and regret and staring death in the eye. I agree his character was very well done, but while he tried to care for her, he wanted his Jinx, not a real and healthy Powder/Jinx, and if she solidified that identity then his plans might work regardless of his death. He is a deeply selfish character. All that being said, I can certainly see the other side of it. I'd like to think he changed in those last moments, but I don't think he did. I think he used his last breaths on manipulation.
@@BenKingEagles Imho Silco is more sincere that this scene would make us believe. His scene at the vander statue just before was just pure despair of a man torn between his beloved daughter and the dream of his life. If Silco was selfish and breathing manipulation, I don't think he would have been so troubled by it. Silco is the perfect cas of character begenning as completely black, then going lighter shades of gray every minute
@@matthieuzglurg6015 I can certainly see that scenario in the show, I'll grant you that. I just think that a manipulator, murderer and drug lord is unlikely to not continue just because he realizes in his final moments what was always important. It's easy to say you love someone when you don't have to, or can't, follow through. And let's be honest about Silco ... He murdered lots of people, some of them his own men, and while wanting to rule a new free state, he was also murdering and destroying people with shimmer. That doesn't just take a back seat cus you are dying, if anything it would likely cause a last gasp attempt to win. But I do see the other angle. Cheers
This song is a 3.5 minute knife turn in what is already such a tragic circumstance at the end of the season. Every tear this show squeezed from the audience is so well earned.
@@lucianjones4727 exactly because she's completely crazy in the post arcane lore or at least from what we know. Silco's death and losing Vi again in another way might have broken her more than we know in S2. That being said, this will forever be her theme to me because of what we now know, Jinx's backstory can never be unheard once told.
"I thought...maybe you could love me like you used to". The emotion in this one line is so strong, it sets up for the song perfectly. Hats off to the VA's, production and Sting.
The way that it's sung really highlights Jinx's plea and desperation. She wanted nothing more than to be accepted by Vi as she had become. Different, but stronger for it, just like Vi told her all those years ago. But Vi couldn't, she only wanted Powder.
Try to listen this song with a twist. Imagine that instead of Jinx's point of view, you listen to it from Jayce's perspective. Because if Jayce survives the blast and loses Mel, this song might very well tell what will go through Jayce's head. He will be filled with rage and start a sanguineous war. He will become the monster Jinx created.
It's speculated that Mel will be a future champion. Riot has already mentioned some Arcane folks will get turned into champions already. I believe there's talk of a new support or something like that, but I wouldn't know too much considered I left that garbage game in the dust lol. I suspect given what we see from Mel in the VERY end that she'll be okay.
Jink fully embraces her personality, cait desperately seeing her city about be destroy, vi realizing her sister is no longer the one she knew. And this damn sad ass song, thank you riot best movie company ever
"I thought... maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I'm.... different." Those words from Jinx are gonna stick to me for a while. That's Jinx fully embracing her new persona when coming to the conclusion that Vi chose Caitlyn over her.
Because Vi essentially did. She couldn’t take two seconds to look at who her sister is now. She isn’t Powder and hasn’t been for years. Yet Caitlyn was somehow more valuable to her than her own blood. I’m fine with them being a couple but she JUST MET Caitlyn. Like less than a few weeks ago at this point.
When you say she chose Caitlyn, are you referring to when Vi said they'll both alone will go far away? Because I assumed she meant her and Jinx go away not Caitlyn
My conclusion is that Jinx thinks that shes too messed up to be loved and that Vi changed so much that she cant love her. On the other hand vi sees her sister as powder all the time, she cant accept the fact that this is not her lil sister
Since when she choose Caitlyn over Jinx?, she never chose Caitlyn, remember that she's said they're never meant to be... Vi changed so much these past few years, so it might be why Jinx dissapointed...
@@astrea4020 i believe what vi said to jinx is that both of them vi and jinx get away from pnz and go to another place faraway, and with that of capacities they have noxus will gladly embraces them to they empire as a capable pawn to make empire grow more.
I have to say, I doubt anyone from the music team will see this, but like usual you KILLED it with the music of this show. Especially your ability to get artists to work on something original for the show too. So much pure talent. So much care for works of art and it shows. Every ounce of the dedication, respect and passion to create art whether it be the writing, the visuals, or the sound shows. Seriously, fantastic work. This show and everything it accomplished will be remembered for a very long time.
Man Stings slightly raspy voice is so incredibly fitting for this song. It's incredible they got him for the finale song. And Ray Chen too! What a collaboration
I know some people will be somewhat disappointed with the ending, but it's an amazing cliffhanger for a 2nd season, and I'm 150% sure we're going to get it
Forget about that in like...6 years, that was the time they spend doing the show LOL (no complaining but, leaving it like that doesnt give me hope for a second season)
@@wadfanclub Im pretty sure were getting a season 2 and while I don't think itll be anytime soon, I also don't think itll be another 6 years, planned way too meticulously
@@wadfanclub maybe they spent 6 years because they were unsure if the show was ever going to succeed , but now that they realize it has made such a positive impact , it won't be a problem of how or when the second season will be made (they have all the material and money to keep at it). They already showed some Noxus vibes in the last act and the lore of league of legends is massive (piltover is just a chapter of the whole story) , characters were well developped and the open ending is just perfect, after that rocket explodes what will happen to jayce and victor ? , is Noxus going to invade piltover ?, what about the new bond between heimer and ekko ?, vi and caitlyn ?, what will become of zaun and singed ? and for league players like me who know the lore we are just waiting for new characters to appear too like warwick or blitzcrank (im sure vander is warwick xD ) or other yordles like heimer :)
I think they're already working on season 2. I mean some netflix or riot executive must have had the foresight to greenlit a season 2 before they even aired season 1. I would like to believe they knew what an incredible show they made. At least I hope.
"Wrath must be met with wrath". I didn't expect Noxus to factor in this heavily. From the trailer, it looks like Mel's mom will be an important character.
Sting is still the fuckin' man This is heartbreaking in all the right ways, Riot, Fortiche, the voice cast, the artists, the musicians, the writers, honestly - you absolutely smashed expecations, thank you to all of you. This show is so equal parts beauty and tragedy and this song is just perfect. Cannot wait for Season 2!
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Silco: "... Oh, it all make sense now, brother."
I love this line.
Chills
That whole scene when silco is sitting next to Vander's statue is amazing
@@foreveruseless1292 It only makes us think, what could've happened if Vander didn't betray Silco? If Silco would've learned of the price of sacrificing a daughter then?
What could've been?
@@Karanthaneos "what could have been" indeed
In the end silco understood what it means to have a daughter, why Vender couldn't do what silco asked, because he's a father 😭😭😭
No matter what his family comes first 😭😭😭😭😭
"I never would have given you to them. Not for anything."
*Lies down. Tries not to cry. Cries a lot.*
I. Have. Never. Thought. That Silcos death would be so sad... ;-;
"You are perfect"
Silco is making it hard for people to hate him
We all have mixed feelings for Silco
Lol Silco is word player. He literally fucked up Powder, made her become what she is now. She has messed up brain and now she just a psycho.
Arcane is the definition of "We are all villains in someone else's story"
That's such a great take! I've seen the "nobody is black or white" cited a lot but I agree with this one way more. Really, even the most well-meaning characters are blamed for someone else's misery. Except poor Sky, she really did nothing wrong
Thats spot on. You should go back and look at Zaun in the 1st 3 episodes then compare it beyond that. The economy and infrastructure of the city is much better and overall quality of life improves the extremes are there with drug abuse of course. Shimmer is a fuel source in chemtech and tradable commodity he was smuggling out of Piltover to give Zaun more financial stability. Vander was like a rock weathering the storm unchanging but safe in its stagnation Silco was like water moving forward but with force eventually with change the land around it for good and bad.
It's the opposite of the dragon prince where everyone is a good guy that just made mistakes
Word bro, word
Except Ekko, he is perfect
Everyone out here talking about the lyrics but damn did that violinist really put all his emotion into this.
ray chen is truly the goat ❤
I think the violinist is a reference to the concert that the counselors witnessed a few episodes ago...
@@_Harmony_ Well the violinist's visual in the concert in the show is based off Ray Chen.
My man ....exactly
Ray Chen is a god-tier violinist. Probably the best we will ever see in a few generations.
I never thought Jinx's silliest ult would make me feel so much. Riot really created a masterpiece
She even went for the Pentakill (at least :D)
@@bernhardstil6128 If we count all the councilors and viktor she went straight for the octakill
@@andreipoplauschi180 Damn, girl is greedy. Leave something for the team.
@@bernhardstil6128 i mean, she's the adc so it's fair
Gonna have ptsd when jinx ults in game for a few weeks now
The parallel between Vander and Silco is astonishing to me. They both sought to free Zaun from it's Piltovin oppressors. Both led a bloody revolution. But the greatest commonality between the two, is that they both lost sight of the cause in favor of saving their daughters. For Vander it was Vi, for Silco it was Jinx. The cycle of oppressed to revolutionary to father figure is quite impressive. Well done Riot, well done.
the thing is Silco called vander weak for not being able to sucrifice Vi for the cause and hated him for that, but when he needed to do the same with Jinx he found out he can't do it neither.
in this scene where he sits near Vander's statue he understands he treated Vander wrong, and that's what makes him the best character of the series imo.
THAT is how you make character development
@@itayker22 agreed. After watching a trailer fo the first time I saw Silco as a typical scarecrow 1 dimensional villain... I ended up respecting the character so much, I was astonished.
And people complain about the ending... chesus, the characters are written and displayed in such a detail it blew my mind. I mostly see that in great books, I dont know when last i saw an anime/ a movie such as Arcane.
@@KaiReel23 my ppl. I found you. The lyrics are the story too. And i need more time to discuss its impact. The show leave’s me stunned into silence while my insides explode with rage and emotion. I am not the same. And these characters are somehow more human than some actual ppl.
Witch makes it all the more sad to see they would have succeed in the end. Zaun could have been freed. Untill Jinxed messed up, what could have been.
For Vender it was all of them: Vi, Powder, Mylo and Clagg, Benzo, Ekko, his people.
He reminded Vi to protect the family, because all of them were their family. Silco founded a family when adopting Jinx.
"Don't Cry, you're Perfect." - SILCO
i actually started to cry at this moment. Silcos last words hit me so hard. Then the music started and i was like "oh hell no,no sad song pls, i am already crying" Q_Q i cried to the very last moment of the show.
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Now, i can't hate silco since he had talk with vander statue 😓
@@yosh3837 I couldn't hate him any time he looked at or spoke of Jinx. He really did love Jinx.
Cried so hard
"But worst of all for me to live I gotta kill the part of me that saw that I needed you more"
This show broke me and put me back together over and over. This song is seared into my soul.
Dang, I always thought that he said "and I need you to mourn." Either way, the song is so tragic (yet the elegant vocals make it so enticing to learn how to sing)
In my humble opinion one of the strongest lines of this song.
I misheard it as "But worst of all, for me to live, I gotta kill the part of me that's sore, and I needed you more."
A couple things that were utterly heartbreaking:
- The weapon Jinx fires at the end was built for Silco, but now it sort of /is/ Silco to her. Silco likened himself to a sea monster because he was almost drowned, but managed to fight back and escape. It's part of his personal mythos that he was held down (Either in the undercity or beneath the water) but had the will and ferocity to claw his way above. Jinx made the weapon because it represented him. It even has a left eye motif as Silco does.
- Both Vi and Jinx now have weapons that represent their respective father figures and are placed in opposition exactly like they were. Jinx even feels that Vi betrayed her for Piltover, just like Silco did to Vander.
- Both Vander and Silco lie to their respective daughters, who ultimately forgive them and side with their father's beliefs.
I like your work, good thinking
What do you mean when you say that vander and silco lie to their daughters?
@@Xerguel13 Vander keeps a deal with topside behind everyone's backs to keep the peace, Silco doesn't tell her about Vi being back and also agrees to slightly different peace talks with topside.
@@padawan7756 I mean, by that same logic they both "withheld" information rather than outright lying.
Vander just didn't mention what he was doing to keep the peace, and Silco didn't mention that Vi was back to protect Jinx.
Did you ever notice his front teeth resemble those of the sea monster swimming by his lair?
"Don't cry, you're perfect."
I will cry and this masterpiece is perfect 😭😭😭
Sameee
I think he said that because he knew she felt guilty about the deaths of Mylo and Claggor and therefore didn't want her to do the same thing about him too.
@@reyrey4673 Powder/Jinx have signs of bpd essentially a deep fear of abandonment. It usually leads to a lack of self worth and being overly critical of oneself. With her guilt added on top it manifested as mainly Mylo criticizing and belittling Jinx about her failures and weaknesses at every turn. Silco probably had some idea and was always a supportive voice in the storm.
Yes.
@Feta how dare u to write this here
The ending scene was just phenomenal. Riot has made history
Not even the sixth sense ending gave me the feels as much as this did.
Bro one of the best endings ever to a season
they become standart setters for the generations to come....as simple as that
It was simply amazing
indeed they have. Woke is down, and passion is the new black.
I adore the decision to cut the music before the final line. I can still hear the cracking window whenever I listen to the song as it cuts to just Sting's voice. Gives me shivers
They did the same with ekko Vs jinx, the music stops when the flashback stops, you just get the fight in silence, much more impactful, no fun, no holds barred, just two old friends fighting to kill eachother
@@ragnarian yeah!! They use music really well, even when they're not using it. It's really effective and speaks wonders of the skill of the editors who put it all together
Hahaha me too!!! I'm heard the glass breaking
true, seriously can't listen to this song without hearing a crack before "what could've been" lol
This song was the perfect piece for the ending of episode 9.
This song getting approval from the CEO of Travis Gafford Industries™ means it must be good!
Yes T^T
Play the goodbye from ep3 and think about silcos last words to jinx and it eill hit you different
well all their music was custom made for the scenes so itd be weird if it didnt fit
the man travis
Arcane is probably the best show I have seen in a long time..... Not only the story, but the animation, the sound, the feel..... Im devastated...
Yes me too... :"
The musics, the soundtrack, the dubbling, the foley, the art style, animation, humor...
Cinematicaly speaking, this show has flaws, but ffs I don't care, it's THAT good.
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+1
The freedom they had with animating and the way they animated it was amazing. Most Animated series/movies stick to the same kind of animating throughout but they had bits and parts change animation style, like jinx vs ekko, mel and Jayce sex scene or the firelights introduction. Really amazing series.
"You cannot make a masterpiece based on a video-game"
Riot: "We'll show them, we will show them all!"
Lol
*Procceds to release it
@@AmericanIlluminati nice
Together with Castlevania
we'll show them all
This song is absolutely insane. This entire show is absolutely insane. I can't believe all this came out of League of Legends of all things, but I am so grateful I got to see it and hear this soul crushing piece of music. Hats off to Sting, Ray Chen, and everybody who worked on Arcane. This show is truly something special.
Hi~
lol toxic? what??? no way!!!
Every piece of lore in runeterra is made with love and it shows it 100X in arcane
@Rance your comment combined with a Klee pfp worries me
@Rance well if it's a serious question I'd say either like any normal human or like fire.
While Jinx went crazy and become a monster through the show, Silco become closer to Vander that he used to blame for being soft. Now, the last thing Silco did was reassure his daughter. The ending is just had me shock, but boy I love the show so much. The visual was so beautiful.
He still created a monster in trying to give Zaun freedom. In the end he lost and had to abandon his daughter. Silco and Jinx are such tragic characters - and to create them in 9 episodes is just beyond talented.
@@bernhardstil6128 he didn't create a monster. He reasudred and accepted a child who displayed symptoms of mental instability even before Vi abandoned her.
Like Jinx tells Vi. "Silco didn't make me. You did."
@@nonamegiven19xx True - but we all know what comes next. Silco tried but failed. He needed Jinx to be let out - but he did not know to put the lid back on. Maybe "created" is the wrong word - he watched her going mad, fully aware of what she would become.
@@nonamegiven19xx Vi never abandoned Powder, though. She walked like 30ft away to be alone after everything that just happened, then was knocked out. Vi would have always accepted Powder, and I believe she still does.
@@bernhardstil6128 I think one can argue that the violence of his methods tilted Jinx towards violence, but its not like the lanes are really peaceful anyway. There's no question Vander would have been the best influence, but between a mad, defenseless Powder and a mad but well-defended Jinx, Silco made his choice and I am not sure it's the wrong one.
Imagine being criticized by your flaws your whole life and then you are hit by "Don't cry, you are Perfect" by someone who loves you. That feeling is indescribable
And then you realize they say that just as they bleed out. And it is truly indescribable 😔
But like logically speaking, any criticism she’s received is valid, she needs like 20 years worth of therapy
@@theamazingwebhead6453 Somehow Zaun doesn't strike me as the kind of place where one can get therapy, unfortunately. Maybe lockup-for-life, if not an outright grave.
@@nonamegiven19xx Yeah, I’d have to agree with you there, Zaun definitely doesn’t seem like the place that offers therapy.
And that person is killed by you..
The last thing Powder did was to kill Jinx’s father
The first thing Jinx did was to avenge him
What a brilliant show !!
And now both of them are abandoned and lonely. That's just heartbreaking
Avenge him? Who in the council was responsible for his death? lol
@@hereticmantra Heimerdinger is pretty much the only one with any actual responsibility, but he seems like the kind of person who've genuinely tried to help in the past. Medarda is too young to have anything to do with it, or at least anything impactful, and Jayce for obvious reasons has nothing to do with it. We don't really know much about the other black woman on the council, but the bearded guy just seems to go along with whoever he seems to like the most. The elvish looking guy I have no idea about. Kiramman (or however you spell it) doesn't really seem like the type to have ulterior motives either. Yeah, they were all outraged at the prospect of making the undercity an independent nation, but it seemed more like an issue with breech of protocol than a reluctancy to do it, as they quickly changed their mind.
@@krillep280 those in power (and especially those in power who are exploiting the poor under them) have an obligation to make the lives of those they have power over better. if they fail to do that, or make their lives worse (like how the council has had all this time to stop actively oppressing and exploiting zaun) then they are actively hurting those people. like it or not, their inaction on anything that matters (or direct, violent action like what jayce does) caused silco to be able to gain power, which is what killed vander. shimmer and the like wouldn't have had to be created if the undercity were supported at all (or just not horrifically oppressed) by the people that are supposed to care for them.
This is the moment Walther White became Jinx
Totally down to wait another 6 years if season 2 hits just as hard as season 1. Absolutely worth it.
But 18 years for 3 seasons in total would be too much.
The sad reality that I'm starting to accept is that season 2 probably has no way of being as good as season 1, even more if we take into the account how hyped people will be, season 1 surprised most people with its quality, season 2 will have a lot to live up to in the public's mind.
@@Henrique-wv9xq Yep. It won't be about the second season anymore. It will be about the hype around it.
It probably won't, especially when they focus on other characters who are not in such a tragic relation to one another. The show hit that hard because of the tragic relation of the two sisters. This is so very tough to recreate, I would be surprised if they deliver the same quality with the story this time.
Just over a year now!
The sad thing about this scene that many people miss is that the rocket launcher looks like a shark with a evil eye like Silco. Remember how Silco had sharks and thought that they were beautiful? Jinx probably made that rocket launcher to gift to him. Now that he is gone the rocket launcher represents Silco, so whenever Jinx is talking with her rocket launcher she is actually talking to her father.
Same thing goes with her gatling gun Pow Pow that's named after the nickname Vi called Powder. So she is talking to her old self whenever she is talking to her gatling gun.
Man this comment just gave me chills, Riot really made a masterpiece
Damn I didn’t even connect fishbones with silco…
Yes, the rocket launcher was the gift, and the weapon she made for Silco that could utilise the hextech ball
Great ... Thanks for this comment. Now I can cry even more listening to this song and thinking about these scenes ; . ;
Fishbones, the name of the rocket launcher is based on one of the monsters Jinx or Vi made up when they were playing their game, which we learn through Vi and Cait's conversation after they get back to Piltover. We know this because we see a drawing of the launcher in her workshop next to a crayon scribble of the shark monster from her childhood, unless I saw something wrong. But yes she probably did add the evil eye as a reference to her father
People show their true colours in their last moments.
Silco: “don’t cry, you’re perfect.”
Grammar police here: you're
@@Nevenblue No grammar police, just common sense...
@@Nevenblue thank you for being somewhat polite, I’ve changed it.
The death is often the moment where a character "pays for his sins" and, as such, is often the most beautiful
Y'oure so right
You're telling me this is sting? Like Sting Sting? Like every breath you take, shape of my heart Sting? Wow. Phenomenal
Yes, he’s 70…and still sounds absolutely incredible…his music is perfect.
Dude I've just found out and I'm impressed as well!
Whaaat? Incredible
And my music teacher once played with Sting... Incredible
Shape of my heart is my fave song
coming back to this after watching the first three episodes, it never gets simpler does it :(
i think they got another song like this with much more emotions.......
@@jo829 fr
@ i think you mean “i can’t hear it now” 😔
@@cassiiidmn series aint done yet. ig they got more.
1:15 "why dont you love who i am?" always hits me hard no matter how often i listen to this.
Right there with you. 😢❤️
The best part 🥰🥰🥰
Same
If I was an actor, I can cry on command if I just think of this part or Silco's quote to Jinx.
"You changed too..........here's to the new us." Powder now Jinx
"Don't cry, you're perfect." The final scence, broke me. This series is a masterpiece. Good job, Riot Games.
Yes
And fortiche
I wish Silco didn't die but it was needed for jinx🥲
@@Rei-tm3so yeah tbh theres a fuckton of development there for him but we needed Silco to have Jinx as Vander is to Vi
@@BeardedWolfKing fax, but i still believe riot has better ideas tbh
This is why ladies and gentlemen, why you need patience in making things! 6 Years in the making of Arcane and the result was masterpiece~!
I agree with that, by taking the time they created a masterpiece and I loved every moment of it, that I rewatched it, and this song is so perfect
True. I've watched 1000+ anime by now, and Western cartoons never come close to most of them. But this was a masterpiece. It deserves a place alongside the very best anime I've ever watched. I was truly surprised and in awe.
This also a great example of a studio just letting the writers do their thing without demanding they do things to try to appease certain groups.
@@AniMageNeBy TRUUU, IVE FOUND NOTHING AMERCIAN MADE HAS MATCHED ANIME except this
@@AniMageNeBy agree. The only thing that can touch the best anime for me alongside Arcane is Star Wars the clone wars... and that show had a budget of 1 million dollars per episode!
I love that this song can be interpreted as not only Jinx talking to Vi, but also Silco talking to Vander, and even maybe Viktor to Jayce. It really applies to a lot of characters and thats beautiful.
Just what I was thinking
And city to city. Heimedinger and "Little Man" may represent the "what could've been" for both cities and I hope the writers will go in that direction with them.
Piltover to Zaun
@@mhiyamusic5769More like the other way around. Zaun was the poor section of the city, forced to do the menial work and live in squalor, with Enforcers sent down to brutally crush any dissent or unrest, while Piltover lived off the riches, the troubles below out of sight, out of mind. Silco's big plan was to have Zaun force Piltover to recognize what it's done and accept Zaun as an equal. Between the raids and the tit-for-tat violence, both sections of the once-united city are willing to go to war with each other. Jinx' last action in the season made that all but inevitable, even if it didn't kill anyone in the Council.
@@shadiafifi54 yes, the other way around, you're right i mixed them up :)
The violin proven to be the ultimate instrument once more.
I dunno man, the hurdy gurdy is something otherworldly, even if not used in most media. The violin here absolutely was amazing though.
@@NazzyDragon ngl that slaps too
Ling Ling approves
its a great instrument but i wouldnt say its better than many others. they all have their strengths. and here its shown how strong a violin can be.
Ray mfing Chen
in Arcane, nothing is either black or white, everything is different shades of grey. God this show deserves to be called a masterpiece. They've done everything right. The pacing, the music, the animation, the art, the fights, the political, the psychological and more. When a show makes you cry for the main villains of the story (Silco, and in the later stages, Jinx, although it's kinda hard and painful to call them villains), you can be damn sure that the show is good.
They probably retconned a few, or a lot things from the lore. But, I think, it's much better that way. The fact that nobody is a villain for the fun of it, and that everybody is actually human to some extent, and not purely evil or good, is something hard to accomplish, and a much more impressive feat. I also love that kind of concept.
Such a Camille take on things. Very Piltovan. Very Arcane.
@@CoreZeroPH Speaking who which, I guarantee we're gonna see Camille next season or in Season 3 and it's gonna be another highlight, if you know the lore, you know
Not really in all honesty. As a lore fan, I can say they got a lot of stuff right and since we didn't know much about the champions' past, we can't say they were wrong there either. One thing to note though. In the lore Jayce stole the Hextech invention as something he made on his own. While that's not what happened (both in Arcane and the Lore) Viktor never got recognition for his part in the invention so that's still very accurate to the lore. We just don't know how they became bitter enemies yet but that's something for the next seasons.
@@phoenixflamegames1 Jayce was still the creator of Hextech in the lore.... in fact Viktor and Jayce had their falling out well before Jayce even got his hands on the crystal so Viktor had no hand in the creation of Hextech. The only thing that changed was Jayce in his original lore didn't care about magic. He was also extremely arrogant because of his intelligence and was confused why anyone had difficulty with anything (since he never faced any challenges). It wasn't until he found the crystal that he realized his arrogance because the crystal was something he struggled to understand.
And in the near future that is also the point of Noxus and Demacia. One portrays itself as the pinnacle of honor and humanity while enslaving and torturing magic users ignoring the hypocrisy of their own city. And the other is portrayed and the cruel and unforgiving kingdom of conquest, that in reality has liberated many from underneath the thumbs of blue blood royalty however their methods are questionable.
On some thought, I realized what I think makes Silco such an amazing villain.
Most villains in-story arc fall into one of three categories. They're either evil because EVIL, and just are that way (static), are good and then something corrupts them (dynamic, corruption arc), or are evil and then something changes them for the better (dynamic, redemption arc). Silco is...not really any of these. Or at least, the story doesn't follow these arcs for him.
His arc is actually conveniently summarized in one of the show's best lines, "Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?"
His character arc is vulnerability. We watch his goals collapse, and ultimately die. Not because of anything the "good guys" did to stop and vanquish him, but because his love for Jinx, his daughter, had him dropping more and more guards. We didn't watch him become "good", guy was willing to let basically anything but Jinx burn and rot. We didn't watch him "become" loving, he was already loving. That's why betrayal hurt him so much. What we watched was him become "vulnerable".
Started as a hug from a desperate little girl, ended as a gunshot from the young woman he trusted more than anyone. And even in death, he held that vulnerability and softness for her.
Personally I never really saw him as a villain but more of an anti hero, a man who once started as a hero along side Vander that who only wanted to do what's best for their ppl, but simply lost his way as time went on. That is until he met powder and finally understood why Vander made the decision to throw everything out the window to protect the ones he loves. He may be portrayed as a villain in the show but is none other but a broken man who lost his way.
Damn I rambled there for a bit😂
Not only that.
In one of his very first scenes, he tells the guy who he's about to turn into a monster that power comes from those who'd do anything to achieve it.
Throughout the episodes after the first Act, we see him slowly lose that power he fought all his life to get by showing that he wasn't ready to do anything for his cause anymore. He had something holding him back : his love for his daughter, Jinx.
At the end, his very last words, he mutters that he would have never given up on Jinx. That's where he lost. His power crumbled because he wasn't ready to do anything for it anymore. In his selfish rage and fear of losing Jinx to Vi, he made a move that the old Silco would have never done : by trying to kill Vi for his selfish need to have Jinx by his side, he undid everything he'd worked for his entire life. By this simple action, he singlehandedly destroyed his ambition to create the Nation of Zaun he so desperately wanted. The old Silco would have manipulated his way out of this situation differently. He would have lied if he had needed to. He wouldn't have felt the need to pick up the gun and try to shoot Vi whilst she was trying to talk sense into whichever was left of Powder.
His love for Jinx was his undoing, in the end. And that's a powerful message. This series wins on so many levels.
As Deibido said he is an antihero. Who in the end ends up being the same as Vander, who he originally saw as weak and flawed. Its a self fulfilling cycle. Thats why the scene where Silco drinking to Vander is a tear jerker. Because he recognises that he shouldn't have done what he did to his brother, because his brother was doing the exact same thing he is doing now.
@@raldrid8264 Exactly. In fact, we have all the reasons to believe Vander could have gone through the same process as Silco.
@@Zedem0n given the lines Silco spoke to Vanders statue I agree. And the Silco we see at the end, is the Vander we see at the start.
Sting and Ray Chen, I really want to thank you for this song. In the last 4 years my life fell completely apart. I was left almost completely alone. Many times even though I was around people who have known me for most of my life it felt like I was surrounded by no one who could have any idea of what I've been going thru on a daily basis, even to this day. This song was able to do something I couldn't, put into words, into an experience that comes close to what I have felt all these years, every day including in my dreams.
I feel you bro
Sting has the ability to touch emotions that we were not aware are even inside us. Keep the head up! You’ve got this! The dark days will pass one day
Same for me!
im going through the same thing too. hope we can heal one day
nice to see that no one is really alone.
even if it feels like that
I don't play League, but hot damn that is one of the best written and animated stories coming from a game adaptation. As bad as Silco is, he was the only one accepted Jinx for who she is and understood why Vander went soft for his kids, while Vi had time stopped for her by being in prison and still wants her Powder back, wanting to make up for the moment they were separated, not realizing Jinx is Powder. This is one of the best written tragedies I've seen for the modern audience.
Just a warning my man... dont play it , we all wish the balance team was a 10th as good as the team that made this masterpiece
You could say it's THE best fiction story from a game adaptation.
Only tragedy better written is the house in fata morgana
Same feeling exactly
It's a masterpiece, it blew my mind. It's been a while since the last time a book or a movie moved me like that - i think that's what i live for... masterpiece
The parallel between Vi and Jinx is amazing. Vander in his last moments told Vi that she has a good heart reassuring her, while Silco in his last moments reassured Jinx telling that she is perfect, and that he would never have betrayed her. Throughout the show their arcs went in opposites as well, Vi met people and gained friends and loved ones, while Jinx lost trust, and met old friends and fought and nearly died to them. Vi had a clear goal of stopping Silco, while Jinx felt lost and tried to find her way throughout the show, in a way after the two father figures said their last words Vi and then Jinx later on found out who they were and moved forward more confidently afterwards.
Yes this show truly is a masterpiece.
@@padawan7756 That's a lot of blame to put on a singular teenager, a child. You're also removing any and all agency from Jynx and Silco and everyone else who got Jynx to the state she's in.
To also say that Jynx's problems began when Vi returned would also imply that she was fine before that. When she was, y'know, a murdering loonatic having psychotic breaks whenever she ran across a girl with pink hair and huddling in her den with its shrine to the dead.
What's Vi's return did do was throw those problems into very stark relief
@@padawan7756 vi was a child too. Y’all forget that. Like everyone of these characters made mistakes and suffered for it.
@@padawan7756 you are so lost omg
Vi still has to grow imo, the second season we might see her growth and closure with jinx hopefully. That said, she was too young in episode 3 and spent all the time in between arc 1 and 2-3 in prison, what sort of growth do you expect her to have? The only thing she learned in prison is to fight, and when she got out and met jinx she literally had no time to think things trough. Some people seem to ignore the fact that like 3 days have passed in act 2 and 3, she had to run all over the place with injuries and keep fighting, she didn't have the experience or expertise nor enough time to actually think about how to help jinx.
It's easy for you guys to criticize ger, i want to see you in her place, first seeing your brothers and father die and then being tied to a chair and asked to kill your friend, i really want to see if you would be able to keep cool and think about the right thing to say to a person with unknown and serious mental issues.
@@nomecognome6595 Vi literally didn’t sleep since when she left the prison. I bet anyone wouldn’t be able to process anything at this state.
This song is so perfect because is not aimed to some specific character, but to ALL of them
One thing I noticed when scrolling through this comment section is that everyone has their own interpretation as to what the song means and who it's about, and _every one of them_ makes sense and is really meaningful and deep. That's the signature of true art.
The creators may not realize this, but they're going down in history.
It really does. Some of the lines feel odd to be coming from Jinx, but all of them from Victor to Caitlin fix in some regard. Which.. yeah. That final scene is a perfection coalesence of "What could have been".
I feel like that’s Jinx who sings…
It could be literally the alternative theme song of the show besides Enemy.
@@davidnighten5553 arcane is no doubt coming to my "greatest/favourite of all times" list with aot star wars and undertale. (Why the heck do I like tragedy so much)
Still can't believe they actually got Sting in this. I know a lot of people probably don't know him, but for those of us who do..... WOW.
You really think people don't know who Sting is?
@@satyrdietrich Most people I meet don't know who Sting is. The Police? sure, they know a song or two by them, but Sting himself? No.
@@satyrdietrich i don't know him, actually xd
@@satyrdietrich sorry for even more bad news, but I didn't know him either...
I only know sting because of dune.
I hope Sting gets an emmy for this song, even if he didn't write it alone, his voice carries the whole song and with the finale the whole series
dude the violine hit hard aswell
@@jokerssjokess4857 Yeah Ray Chen is great, top of his class.
Haven't heard Sting for years
@@arranli579 Sting is one of those artists who will venture into other genres of music. You should really check out his work with shaggy- especially Angel and It wasn’t me
you mean grammy right? arcane should get the emmy.. sting should get the grammy
I don't think I've EVER loved a show as much as I do this one. Bravo, Riot. Bravo.
I know right? Its fucking perfect.
bravo Fortiche more like, they're the animation studio behind this series
for real man
@@cazonirobert3621 This Series is much more than just the animation. The writing, the music, the general source material, all of these have different people behind it. It's an enormous collaboration of a ton of talented people, everything being orchestrated by Riot. But yeah, Fortiche, the french studio behind the animation, is a big part of it, and they did a mind-blowing job.
@@cazonirobert3621 There's nothing to animate if characters and lore weren't made, hence, bravo Riot.
Fortiche IS the shit tho!
Everyone talks about Enemy and forgets about this powerful tearjerker
Seriously, what a perfect song to end the season on. Perfect choice.
I think Enemy is a great song but I love how many other great songs there are in the series. They also fit the moods displayed in the episodes perfectly!
@@beurtalvarez True, but still a song that will entertain for a little while!
@@beurtalvarez yeah that is totally understandable. It is fun to hear about songs and such from a different perspective through comments
@@beurtalvarez u2 mate!
It's because we neED THE ARCANE VERSION WITH THE ORCHESTRA AND STUFF
Everyone relates this song to Jinx and Vi but I think it could also be about Zaun and Piltover. Zaun and Piltover were once one city but split apart coz of excavations meant to build canals. "I hope you know we had everything", they were literally one people who prospered together but Piltover "broke" Zaun and "left these pieces". (It also explains why the air and water in the undercity are so toxic). Piltover's negligence and apathy towards the city led to living conditions that only monsters could survive in.
Also, there are sooo many bright and resourceful minds in the undercity! If Piltover had treated them as equals, perhaps they could have thrived together. It's "what could have been." Lines like "I am your ghost, a fallen angel" and "I was meant to be yours" also add to my theory. And Zaunites definitely want Piltover to 'hurt' and 'lose' like they have
In the docu series on Riot games bridging the rift the one who wrote this song said this song is essentially Jinx singing to Vi.
This isn't about piltover and zaun. It's jinx singing to vi.
@@yekairan_5695 it is also about zaun and piltover.
@@raro344 no it's not 😭 the title of the song is "what could have been". The lyrics are talking about how Vi left Jinx, and Jinx is asking why Vi doesn't love her for who she is. This is not about Zaun and Piltover.
@@yekairan_5695 you do realize it can have more than one meaning right?
i get chills every time i hear this. I just see caitlyn screaming "No" as she sees the bomb, the bomb flying past the full moon, the lights going up in the council as they finally, finally were going to give Zaun its freedom...
Easily for me one of the best sequences and showcases of cinematography EVER.
I thought she was gonna blowup the moon, what a twist arcane did and the cliffhanger brooooo like I need more, now I'm curious if Jayce survive that blast
Even until the end, Jinx still jinxes everything
Here's the thing they wouldn't have gotten freedom or peace anyway because Silco was never going to give Jinx up to them. Since that was one of the stipulations for independence it would have never been achieved thus leading to more conflict. It was a lose lose situation.
The council in wich her Mom works btw...
Chills.
The Part Where They Throw back silco's Words: "We'll show them, We Will Show Them All"
Gives me Chills Every Single Damn Time
Perfect Song
when do you hear them ?
@@overthinker6446 9 ep final scene
I don't know if I'm overthinking things, but I always interpreted it at as the motivation behind everyone: Jayce and Viktor wanted to prove the power of Hextech. Sevika wanted to prove that the Undercity wasn't weak. Jinx wanted to prove she wasn't weak. This line is kinda about everyone when you think about it.
The fact that it’s the last thing you hear before she pulls the trigger and forever destroys all chance of the peace that had become Silco’s final wish is just heartrending.
@@OneBiasedOpinion There was no chance at peace: the deal required that Silco hand over Jinx, and Silco was never going to do that. Even if Silco had lived, the council's vote would've been for nothing.
For me, what makes the line all the more heartrending is the implication that Jinx is thinking back on those words when she pulls the trigger, as it lines up with her shedding that tear and pulling the trigger; my guess is that the tear she shed when pulling the trigger was a tear shed for Silco, and her pulling the trigger was for Silco.
This song and "i never would have given you to them" literally gave me chills
Not for anything.
Well he can say that since he's dying and doesn't have to prove it.
@@Chromedbustop I think even if he lived, Silco would’ve fought for Jinx. It’s clear he genuinely cared about her. I think initially it was “Oh, here’s a kid I can mold into my own creation” which he did do but I think it began to run deeper than that as time went on. We saw how agonized he was when Jinx was beaten half to death. I don’t she was just a pawn anymore.
Don't cry... You're perfect.
@@Chromedbustop His conversation with Jayve and later his monologue with the statue of Vander perfectly show that he was not willing to give Jinx.
I don’t know how they’re gonna continue this.
For the first time in my life, I think a cliffhanger is somehow the best way to leave a show. I want to see more, but the season ended so perfectly as well.
im going to assume its going be about the war jinx pretty much started it right then and there but they could go anywere with it they can show what its going on in noxus theres alot of characters over there they can show
I completely agree. I will watch a second season if it ever comes out, but I'm sceptical they can match the quality of the first one.
Westworld should have been stoped after the first one, too.
Yeah part of me wishes they would leave it there and do a new story on another part of the map, like an anthology.
@@AndyBestHPimposible, anunciaron oficialmente la segunda ya xd
I'm ready for more, but if they botch the second/later seasons I'm legit going to be devastated
Just finished ACT 3 and I am completely shook.
Thank you Riot Games Music for elevating this amazing series with Epic and Phenomenal Soundtrack and Songs.
Entering post-series depression now...
Ayy Samuel the goat. Expecting some Act 3 remixes!
You are not the only one being shocked
withdrawal is hard my guy.
Ngl silco’s death really made this song hit 10x harder
@@dragonslayer3631 I never thought I was moved by his death
Sting and Ray Chen: "Are you depressed?"
Fans: "No"
Sting and Ray Chen: *starts playing What Could Have Been* "Would you like to?"
would you like to be would work better, but funny nonetheless
@@dimyell *Would you like to depressed?*
@@dimyell Nah, it doesn't. What OP has wrote is already perfect
@@rexfiends6460 in terms of English, it's not perfect
@@dimyell In terms of comedy, it is perfect
“We’ll show them… we will show them all” that hits hard
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When I am asked how music can be art, this. This is what it is. Pure art. Like I have never heard before
I'm speechless. How do we go back to our lives after that ?
Ikr… I hate shows or movies that are this good sometimes. It’s so hard to watch anything else lmao
They gave us a film that we can't anticipate what is the next scene or cliche that shocked the whole body
Great job Riot
[insert sad pablo escobar meme]
Right???? How am i gonna wait for season 2 with this giant hole in my heart
@@Ben-rz9cf learn about the lore. discover the deep storys behind the scenes of this great world they created. find ur own explanations of what special morals mean to u. theres so much so find in the depths of runeterra. if u really want to, u can make the time till S2 pass effortlessly
,,Here's to the new us." - Riot Games, Fortiche, and everyone who worked on this project - I applaud your excellency.
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Thanks a lot !
It hits you when you realize after finishing act 3 that this song isn't meant for Silco, it's meant for Vi.
"What could have been" deffinetly applies to all the main characters, just not every line.
That song doesnt apply to any Character perfectly.
Yeah, I didn't pick that up until the end of episode 3 because I actually listened to the soundtrack before I watched the show, but I didn't REALIZE it until Jinx said the line, "He didn't create Jinx. You did." Like... DAMN such an awesome show!
Yes, I realized it the second it played. That's obvious man
Honestly I think its about Jinx and her finally embracing herself while mourning the death of Powder
@@juliogomesdesouza9035 Not if you listen to it before watching the last act, that's what i was referring to because ny brother used to play it and having watched only first 3 eps, I always thought it's about Silco until the realization came while watching the last episode.
everyone is, rightfully, talking about arcane
but wow the emotions and picture this song paints even without that context
its just... wow
The only word to describe this show is MASTERPIECE. Nothing short of a masterpiece
That's the exact word I used! One of the most beautiful and well done shows I've watched in a long time!!
Trueee
Would've watched it but it's tied to a game i really don't care about LoL
@@TimelessWolves it has nothing to do with the game except couple of names
@@TimelessWolves I tried LoL two years ago, played literally 5 minutes and then uninstalled it. Still, I decided to watch Arcane and it was one of the best series I've seen to this day. It's really incredible. Give it a try, even if you don't care about LoL. It's worth it
I actually can't believe they got Sting for this... The lineup of artists featured in Arcane is so stacked.
That's what I thought. Sting is one of the true greats. I would really like to know how they came to collab.
@@UchihaNoMadara With money my dude everthing is about it lol
@@UchihaNoMadara With Tencent's money lol.
@@exu7325 Sadly the one thing that makes me always doubt Riot. The Tencent corpo money.
it's the same thing i felt when i was playing through Red Dead 2's Epilogue and Cruel Cruel World started playing. like i knew Rockstar had money but i didnt think theyd be able to get Willie Nelson lol.
“I want you to hurt like you hurt me today” this words hit me like a knife in my heart. Amazing song. Amazing show.
I wanna use these words on someone who hurt me in the past.
I want you to lose like I lose when I play -my thoughts playing non ADC against enemy ADC
Vocal stabbing
Ironically Jinx brought that to herself that day
0:11 this line hits so hard
"I want you to hurt like you hurt me today..." woah.... :(
Damn when Silco said "you are perfect" that hit real hard
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ye, even after he killed Vander and fucked up a lot of things in act 1
@@AdmiralDes y e s and Vander is not dead yet the doggy boi gonna be in Season 2 bet
😂😂😂@@AdmiralDes
getting Sting to jump on this project is the cherry on top. didn't need more reasons to love this series but here i am
You mean the hextech on top 😉
@@maximfayez true.....
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@@maximfayez just realized what you meant, too soon haha
RIP Silco. He was such a fleshed out character with incredible depth and personality. I loved him as a mob boss, mayor of a lawless city, a vengeful enemy, and a father trying to do his best for his daughter. The way he carried himself based on what he was doing, as if he put different shoes on, down to the way he talked based on who he was talking to. He was incredible in every aspect. His voice actor did an amazing job and so did whoever designed/created him.
Now that's how you make a villain, although it you understand his character well enough, it's hard to call him that.
It's cool how Silco mirrored Vander. As Vander wasn't willing to give up the kids in Act I, Silco wasn't going to give up Jinx in the end.
He's definitely a villain, there's no question about that given totality of his actions. But they had a point to them, you could understand his perspective enough though his methods oft crossed several lines on just a humanitarian level. Albeit, you understood where his ruthlessness came from. So, a villain he definitely was, the trope he'd fall under is that of an "Anti-Villain", the inverse of the "Anti-Hero" trope. An Anti-Hero being a heroic force for good that will use questionable methods, whereas the Anti-Villain an antagonistic force that has few scruples or lines they won't cross but will show that they are not just some mustache twirling evil-doer, but has a reason--even a very human and sympathetic one for why they do what they do even if they use ultimately cruel methods to achieve their goals.
@@Apillis124 You make a lot of good points! I suppose with objectivity in mind he certainly does classify as a villain even if some of his goals were righteous. I just find it difficult to classify him as a villain due to the circumstances Piltover put him in. Rather, the circumstances Piltover forced upon Zaun.
It's hard to say if there could have been an entirely moral way of solving the issue with all things in mind, although I think that discussion has been applied to politics for as along as they have existed. Perception, far reaching consequences, etc etc. That's kind of why cancel culture has had a field day with the legacies of historical leaders. Their methods and decisions were not infinitely moral, despite having achieved something great. I digress.
@@Zii_Vii Well, it wasn't Piltover that made him use live human test subjects to maladjust their bodies to the point of deformity and addiction en mass. It wasn't Piltover that made him decide to use child labor to mass produce Shimmer. It wasn't Piltover that made him raise a severely PTSD suffering child with severe schizophrenia and psychotic episodes to further embrace her psychosis worsening her condition. It wasn't Piltover that made him seek the murder of that girl's sister who was child themselves. He had a warped view and philosophy, there's no denying it. His cause for wanting more for the Lanes to become Zaun was not wrong, even extremely sympathetic given its conditions, but what he sought to do to get it was undeniably horrific by any standard. That's what makes it easy to call him a villain, but seeing and understanding why is what makes him an Anti-Villain.
The best villains are ones whom you can understand, and even empathize with when you consider their perspective, along with them having complicated morality. I don’t know how anyone could hear Silco’s last words to Jinx and not have their heart break.
Here I am. Crying because I finally decided to watch the show after months and now I'm broken to pieces. And I literally can't stop crying now because listening to this song gives me real shivers.
This is a masterpiece and I'm willing to wait as long as it takes to watch a new season. It was just perfect ❤️
Same for me... I watched it months after it came out since I didn't like LoL, but after all back then I wanted to give the show at least a chance and ended up watching it all through one day and since then are waiting for the next season to finally come out
I am right here with you, also watched it about 2 weeks ago and i am STILL in pieces, truly a masterpiece
"Don't cry, you are perfect." - Silco
I still cry every time I listen to this song. It is just something else! Wow.
It's all so incredible. The whole soundtrack is insane
This ending had me in tears. How the fuck are they just going to leave me like that?? How am i going to wait for season 2 now with this hole in my heart?
I absolutely agree that's terrible
If they leave it that way and moved on into a different region in the next season, then that's how the history why Piltover truly hates Zaun thus peace no longer becomes an option between two nations.
I doubt Season 2 will focus on Piltover and Zaun. This is pretty much how the story goes. Silko and Markus were the only ones who kept the peace after Vander died. It was far from perfect - more like dystopia for the Undercity and bliss for Piltover but it was peace. What would follow is even worse. And now Jinx is truly lost. Maybe thats how it is supposed to be.
@@bernhardstil6128 there's no way they'll move out of the Zaun and Piltover storyline. The only thing that was concluded was Jinx's and Vi's arc. They teased too much in the final act for them to not make a season 2 about them, how Viktor would be augmented, Warwick and Singed, Heimerdinger's possible involvement in Ekko's creation of the Z-Drive, Mel's mother and even the foreshadowing of Swain with all those crows and his in game quote against Jinx.
@@RikuHarada6996 Yeah they will return but I doubt it will be with the next Season. Why do I think that? Because this baby was 6 years in the making. While they worked on this they will most certainly have been writing the script for other characters and nations. Those are probably not to far behind in development and will get greenlit in the next few days - if it hasn't happened already.
Even if they speed up the process for Season 2 of Arcane it would take years to get it right (which I hope they will aim for). But you are right they will come back to tell the story of Warwick and Singed, Viktor and ofc Jinx and Vi (there is still enough in the Lore to return with all of the characters)
It will be worth the wait but I doubt it will be anytime soon.
I finished it...dear god I wish I could watch it again for the first time, this show is way better than anything I could have imagined Riot making.
Wish to watch it again first time? .. I could not handle that much again.. broken my heart into pieces.
@@adamszalai6797 thats what we want tho, we want to feel the emotions for the first time all over again, it was soooooooo good
@@germytv yeah.. mee too but it would be like a heavenly hell..
@@adamszalai6797 Heavenly hell really is the best way to describe it-god to watch it for the first time agian.
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One of the saddest moments in the final episode was how Silco realized after all those years that his brother was doing the right thing all along. He couldn't understand Vander for giving up on their dream until he had a daughter himself.
“We will show them….we will show them all.”
Chills. Silco’s voice is just so good
My Cousin Always wanted to see a League of legends Movie but he passed away in 2018, This song made me cry cause After watching Act 3 I realized my cousin Didn't made it to see Arcane
I'm sorry for your loss. Your cousin was probably watching it with you.
❤️
sorry for your loss mate. i have been fortunate enough to not lose any close friends or relatives so far, but i can still sympathize with the poor souls who couldn't make it to watch masterful pieces of Media like Arcane and others that meant a lot for them in their life.
I'm sorry for your loss friend.
Whatever the nature of our existence is I'm certain he was not denied watching it.
I'm sorry for you loss may the Lord give him peace 😔🙏
The fact that they got STING to sing this is phenomenal.
Yep, it just feels so right!
Friggin amazing!
i got chills!
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Exactly!! No to sound like and old hag, but i feel like all the zoomers watching this show don't understand exactly how significant that is.
2 minutes of physical recovery,
5 years of emotional recovery
6 years it took them to make, 3 of those years was trying to find Vi and Powder/Jinx
@@thejanusproject32 You mean voice actors?
I am the monster you created
You ripped out all my parts
And worst of all, for me to live, I gotta kill the part of me that saw
That I needed you more
I hope you know we had everything
And you broke me and left these pieces
I want you to hurt like you hurt me today and
I want you to lose like I lose when I play what could have been
Oh, what could have been
Why don't you love who I am?
What we could have been
I am your ghost, a fallen angel
You ripped out all my parts
I couldn't care what invention you made me
'Cause I, I was meant to be yours
I hope you know we had everything
And you broke me and left these pieces
I want you to hurt like you hurt me today and
I want you to lose like I lose when I play
I want you to hurt like you hurt me today and
I want you to lose like I lose when I play
What could have been
❤❤❤❤
not trying to be rude, but what's the point in posting this if it's already in the description?
Some of us aren't native English speaking, so we miss few words here and there
@@thylakoto tbh i didnt saw it in the description then i put it in , so i can sing with :D
@@SphinxMusic that’s fair enough :)
Don't rush the next season, Arcane. You're perfect.
Edit: Holy shit didn’t expect this to blow up. Gosh darn it I made another pun.
+1 my friend
@@Fanatyk1010 thanks man!
You'll take your time Riot. We'll show them. We'll show them all.
Look at little goblin junior
I can wait 6 years for another 3 episodes of pure ART...
"Silco didnt create me. You did." Heartbreaking.
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In a sense, Vi did. But not intentionally. She still loves Powder to death, but she cant accept Jinx
@@khoinguyen5004 i do imagine why: like, you got arrested for, idk, 5 or more years in a prison, and then you got free amd see you little sister is a totally diferent person
@@deboracosta5270 yup, and because of the image of the young Powder Vi had in her mind, she didnt want to believe Jinx is the one Powder would grow up into
It's technically jinx's fault too
She was immature and dumb
"I would have never given you to them, not for anything"
"Don't cry. You're perfect"
- Silco
This series really is something else.
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It’s such a tragic show. To think all of the characters have backstories this deep… geez, I’d play league if it wasn’t so terrible and toxic. Poor Jinx lost not only her siblings (including Vi because of how they strayed apart in ideals over the years) but TWO father figures in addition to her birth parents. I could never imagine losing my family, but three times over? That’s soul-crushing. That leaves a person empty inside. I understand why she pulled the trigger, I just wish she could’ve been given the chance to see the good in Piltover and people like Caitlyn.
Try ruined king game
Legends of Runeterra or The Ruined King are great ways to experience the league world and characters without having to suffer trough the actual game.
just enjoy coop vs IA, it's not the same atmosphere
the actual game doesn't even have any lore, so LOR and Ruined King are really the only ones you gotta worry about
@@vyllix8546 LoL Lore evoolved a damn lot, they even have a good interactive map to use
It's almost 2 in the morning and this is hitting way too hard. Not only is it Sting, but... that self-acapella is just so gorgeous. And the beautiful violin... I can't- It's just wonderful.
Edit: Correction, self-harmonization.
that was a great cry
I agree.
I just finished the series and it’s 5 am here haha wow what a finale
Took 6 years to make Arcane. Waiting for second season is gonna kill me
4 in the morning and I still can't get my head around the ending
When i just got divorced this song was released. During that period I never listened to this song without crying out loud. Now we’re friends with my ex-husband for our little girl, but after almost a year and a half we had a deep, open and honest conversation about our faults and awareness. I was sure I was over everything and there were no feelings left for him, but I realized that I still love him, with all my heart. I can’t tell him about this. He’s interested in other girls.
Well, today I can listen this song without crying, just with a little sadness on my face. I’m stronger and more mature than a year and half ago :) And this song it’s just a reminder of this.
Wow, stay strong, wish u the best 💪
I’m happy for you but this is too much information to tell strangers on the internet.
@@sebastiankristiansen8852 I think it's okay to tell. It helps to relief. Helps even more if someone listens.
What a beautiful story
@@sebastiankristiansen8852 She gave away zero personally information that could identify her. Therapists are also strangers when you first meet them.
Such moving music... this was honestly the most perfect playlist to a series, with this song topping it off beautifully
First comment lmao how does thos have none
This music makes me cry every time I listen to it
Indeed
Facts. These songs are too perfect
They saved the best for the last episode.. Its like a dessert after meal.. loved this song..
It's crazy that this show had so much hype and expectations surrounding it, and it still managed to completely surpass anyone's wildest dreams of how good and successful it would be. Truly a masterpiece
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For real, i even raised expectations even higher after how banger act 1 was and act 2 still surpassed those with ease no need to mention act 3 it was a masterpiece
"I thought maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I'm.. different. But you changed too. So, here's to the new us."
I'm not crying - you're crying.
Those damn ninjas cutting their onions...
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Months later and this song still hits the hardest...
Thank you Sting and Ray Chen
Im so sad Silco died. He was such a good character, had a great development. Him willing to throw away his dream, everything he ever wanted, for Jinx, such love.
He finally understood what it was like to be in the same spot as Vander
Silco was finally able to empathize with Vander as he experienced fatherhood by raising, caring, and loving Jinx like a daughter. Silco was met with a difficult decision - save his daughter or save his people. He chose his daughter.
Oddly enough I felt that he lied to Jinx, in order to "seal the deal," as it were, and ensure she took the path he wanted, instead of possibly letting Vi help. You can see his desperation as he counters Vi over and over; he's losing Jinx, losing his own dream, losing an ersatz daughter, wracked with shame and regret and staring death in the eye. I agree his character was very well done, but while he tried to care for her, he wanted his Jinx, not a real and healthy Powder/Jinx, and if she solidified that identity then his plans might work regardless of his death. He is a deeply selfish character. All that being said, I can certainly see the other side of it. I'd like to think he changed in those last moments, but I don't think he did. I think he used his last breaths on manipulation.
@@BenKingEagles Imho Silco is more sincere that this scene would make us believe. His scene at the vander statue just before was just pure despair of a man torn between his beloved daughter and the dream of his life. If Silco was selfish and breathing manipulation, I don't think he would have been so troubled by it.
Silco is the perfect cas of character begenning as completely black, then going lighter shades of gray every minute
@@matthieuzglurg6015 I can certainly see that scenario in the show, I'll grant you that. I just think that a manipulator, murderer and drug lord is unlikely to not continue just because he realizes in his final moments what was always important. It's easy to say you love someone when you don't have to, or can't, follow through. And let's be honest about Silco ... He murdered lots of people, some of them his own men, and while wanting to rule a new free state, he was also murdering and destroying people with shimmer. That doesn't just take a back seat cus you are dying, if anything it would likely cause a last gasp attempt to win. But I do see the other angle. Cheers
This song is a 3.5 minute knife turn in what is already such a tragic circumstance at the end of the season. Every tear this show squeezed from the audience is so well earned.
As much as I love "Get Jinxed", this is Jinx's real theme song.
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Young Jinx yeah, she'll probably transition into the Jinx that's known before the series in S2 imo.
@@lucianjones4727 exactly because she's completely crazy in the post arcane lore or at least from what we know. Silco's death and losing Vi again in another way might have broken her more than we know in S2. That being said, this will forever be her theme to me because of what we now know, Jinx's backstory can never be unheard once told.
This is Powder's theme song Q_Q
This song shows what all this going on. What has been gone through. What this MEANS
"I thought...maybe you could love me like you used to". The emotion in this one line is so strong, it sets up for the song perfectly. Hats off to the VA's, production and Sting.
1:17 "Why don't you love who I am?"
I can't explain how it just hit me hard.
Hi~
The way that it's sung really highlights Jinx's plea and desperation. She wanted nothing more than to be accepted by Vi as she had become. Different, but stronger for it, just like Vi told her all those years ago. But Vi couldn't, she only wanted Powder.
that part is my favorite
Try to listen this song with a twist. Imagine that instead of Jinx's point of view, you listen to it from Jayce's perspective. Because if Jayce survives the blast and loses Mel, this song might very well tell what will go through Jayce's head. He will be filled with rage and start a sanguineous war. He will become the monster Jinx created.
Omg, this amazing
Well jayce created jinx too you know,THOSE DAMN CRYSTAL
@@woe7532 any so the cycle continues. Creating further branches to be repeated.
It's speculated that Mel will be a future champion. Riot has already mentioned some Arcane folks will get turned into champions already. I believe there's talk of a new support or something like that, but I wouldn't know too much considered I left that garbage game in the dust lol. I suspect given what we see from Mel in the VERY end that she'll be okay.
The lyrics also fits the warwick imo. How everything got taken from him and how he got rebuild bij singed and got seperated from his loved ones.
Jink fully embraces her personality, cait desperately seeing her city about be destroy, vi realizing her sister is no longer the one she knew. And this damn sad ass song, thank you riot best movie company ever
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I think Cait is crying because she knows her mother is in the building that got shot at.
@@vexedlex8230 poor jink
jink
Still can't believe they got Sting for this. What a heartbreaking performance. Legendary.
_"I thought... maybe you could love me the way you used to. Even though I'm... different. But you've changed too. So... here's to the new us."_
Hi~
@@mobysound3726 lol
"I thought... maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I'm.... different."
Those words from Jinx are gonna stick to me for a while. That's Jinx fully embracing her new persona when coming to the conclusion that Vi chose Caitlyn over her.
Because Vi essentially did. She couldn’t take two seconds to look at who her sister is now. She isn’t Powder and hasn’t been for years. Yet Caitlyn was somehow more valuable to her than her own blood. I’m fine with them being a couple but she JUST MET Caitlyn. Like less than a few weeks ago at this point.
When you say she chose Caitlyn, are you referring to when Vi said they'll both alone will go far away? Because I assumed she meant her and Jinx go away not Caitlyn
My conclusion is that Jinx thinks that shes too messed up to be loved and that Vi changed so much that she cant love her. On the other hand vi sees her sister as powder all the time, she cant accept the fact that this is not her lil sister
Since when she choose Caitlyn over Jinx?, she never chose Caitlyn, remember that she's said they're never meant to be...
Vi changed so much these past few years, so it might be why Jinx dissapointed...
@@astrea4020 i believe what vi said to jinx is that both of them vi and jinx get away from pnz and go to another place faraway, and with that of capacities they have noxus will gladly embraces them to they empire as a capable pawn to make empire grow more.
“Mylo’s wrong, Powder. You’re stronger than you think. And one day… This city’s gonna respect us.”
- Vi, episode 1
Damn right it will. Amazing show.
“I thought maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I’m…different. But you changed too.”
Man the fact they got Sting to do this is just... Stellar.
get it?? ..stellar?! like... star guardian.. meh, whatever.
exact thoughts bruh, a legend singing for a masterpiece
@@HunterBelkiran underrated
is this the one from police?
@@kristen0009 yes
I have to say, I doubt anyone from the music team will see this, but like usual you KILLED it with the music of this show. Especially your ability to get artists to work on something original for the show too. So much pure talent. So much care for works of art and it shows. Every ounce of the dedication, respect and passion to create art whether it be the writing, the visuals, or the sound shows. Seriously, fantastic work. This show and everything it accomplished will be remembered for a very long time.
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@@thejazzchops Jeez. It isn't a big deal. I listened to it and it's pretty cool. Overdramatic much?
@@lyonsyde7721 this song is so fucking good though
This series has left a LEGENDARY mark, an unforgettable one.
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You can almost say it "Stings" heh
Man Stings slightly raspy voice is so incredibly fitting for this song. It's incredible they got him for the finale song. And Ray Chen too! What a collaboration
I’m a grown ass man,...been to prison,fought for my life more times than I care to remember,.....this series made me cry.
I know some people will be somewhat disappointed with the ending, but it's an amazing cliffhanger for a 2nd season, and I'm 150% sure we're going to get it
Forget about that in like...6 years, that was the time they spend doing the show LOL (no complaining but, leaving it like that doesnt give me hope for a second season)
@@wadfanclub Im pretty sure were getting a season 2 and while I don't think itll be anytime soon, I also don't think itll be another 6 years, planned way too meticulously
@@wadfanclub maybe they spent 6 years because they were unsure if the show was ever going to succeed , but now that they realize it has made such a positive impact , it won't be a problem of how or when the second season will be made (they have all the material and money to keep at it). They already showed some Noxus vibes in the last act and the lore of league of legends is massive (piltover is just a chapter of the whole
story) , characters were well developped and the open ending is just perfect, after that rocket explodes what will happen to jayce and victor ? , is Noxus going to invade piltover ?, what about the new bond between heimer and ekko ?, vi and caitlyn ?, what will become of zaun and singed ? and for league players like me who know the lore we are just waiting for new characters to appear too like warwick or blitzcrank (im sure vander is warwick xD ) or other yordles like heimer :)
@@wadfanclub most likely they are already working on season 2
I think they're already working on season 2. I mean some netflix or riot executive must have had the foresight to greenlit a season 2 before they even aired season 1. I would like to believe they knew what an incredible show they made. At least I hope.
Vi may have been the hero of Arcane, but hell if it wasn't Jinx's show
For me at least, no one became a hero, just characters fighting for what they believe in...
@@justanotherexistingperson4377 that's how you wrote a good character
This was Jinx's show. Her Arc went from start to Conclusion.
Vi barely did anything past ep 3 lol, ekko who barely appeared is more of a hero than her
Nahnahnah it was my boy viktors show
Can't believe we will see the aftermath of this soon.
ikkk it's gonna be insane
"Wrath must be met with wrath". I didn't expect Noxus to factor in this heavily. From the trailer, it looks like Mel's mom will be an important character.
Sting is still the fuckin' man
This is heartbreaking in all the right ways, Riot, Fortiche, the voice cast, the artists, the musicians, the writers, honestly - you absolutely smashed expecations, thank you to all of you. This show is so equal parts beauty and tragedy and this song is just perfect.
Cannot wait for Season 2!
Lol no kidding for a second I didn't even realize it was THE Sting. Just mentally I wrote it off as some zoomer band name
I've listened to this song so many times now. it's absolutely haunting.
70 years old and delivers this performance. Nice.
Sting and Abba both in 2021. WTF is going on?
@@WangFire Yeah I thought it was a cover used in the movie...but it's a new song!