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Arcane 2x03 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Thomas Corp

Messiness, messiness, messiness, that’s how this first act of this final season has concluded. Shared thing of not knowing the lore, hence I’m just as much in the dark as you are. Interesting reveal about Ambessa dealing with the... black rose witch lady. Said old black rose magic has now dug its roots into Mel. You are most curious for the explanation. The explanation is presumably at nine, film at eleven. Should be trippy as all fuck, seeing how that plays out. Likewise, Ekko, Heimerdinger, and Jayce got up to their hextech investigations. The discovery made me say, “Damn, my Ferngully theory about the tree was wrong! SHIT!!” And now they’re zapped away making you very worried about Ekko. Oh, and the other two, too. I hear you on how Vi and Caitlyn are the two who would have the best success in taking out Jinx. Even so, given their mental state, you question how good an idea it is for them to lead the charge. Well, Vi is not the person to make any sort of decisions of strategery in ANY circumstance. Hence, it really does speak to the extremity of the situation when VI of all people is the one urging restraint. It leads to the big damn kiss that you said it was sweet, and hearing you say that I awkwardly sipped my coffee in some dread. The sisters both continue their avoidance behavior/failure to fully own up to their crimes and sins. Just fuels the tragedy further. You spoke of Vi believing Powder now being dead. I think it’s more she needs to believe that as it makes it easier to then put a bullet in Jinx’s head, and as you say, when faced with the reality, she finds her certainty wanes. Hell of a fight between them and Caitlyn fighting Sevika, complete with all the hextech going all Gilliam on them. Jinx, as you observe being quite curious about all that. Her mind’s also full of trauma and demons that the displays of everything come across as comparatively mundane, all things considered. I know how she feels. In the middle of it all, Jinx loses the finger, so, now we have two characters played by Ella who have lost a finger, which isn’t a lot, but it’s really odd that the two instances both happened within the same calendar year. And yes, the tragedy is the loss of the ability to flip someone the double bird. Concur. Reaching the point when Vi has Jinx at her mercy. LOVE Jinx having the beyond emotionally sincere Paul Newman moment of saying, “I’m glad it’s you.” you summarized that part better than I could, and I loved how you loved it, Jess. Similarly, good way to describe it, what you said of the little girl being like a mirror between the sisters, reminding them of who they were, and the monsters that they’ve become. Leading to the big breakup. The heart does go out to both Vi and Caitlyn, particularly how both are holding onto the belief that the other is different than the barroom Benzedrine standards of this megalomaniac society. And to then be proven wrong in different ways, the heart shatters. Building up to Ambessa taking control, complete with the reveal that she orchestrated the earlier attack. You expressed some surprise, whilst noting it wasn’t too shocking. Me, I was a wiseass, saying, “Ahbuhjibuh, WHA!? WHO could have seen that coming after the so blatantly leading dramatic lingering shot on her in the first episode when they question how the attack could have happened!?” Seriously, that shot was so leading, both Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert would rise from the grave just to write about how blatantly obvious it was to predict the twist. Caitlyn is now propped up as the figurehead, as we observe: So, this is how liberty dies, with thunderous chest-thumping. You query about Caitlyn’s tragic ending, it’s coming, I’m sure. I haven’t seen the next episodes yet, though the internet’s GETTING LOUD, it would be nice for them to SHUT THE FUCK UP for a moment. But I don’t see anyone having a happy ending. Save for Ekko, mainly because that would make you happy, and I want the show to provide that. Only other serious prediction is that I’ll keep being reminded of my being an old man in a Millennial body every time they play a new song. Happy that you’re loving the songs. Again, I don’t even know the artist let alone the song. A comment I’ll keep repeating throughout the rest of the show, I would imagine. Regardless, thank you for these first set of terrific reactions to the final season of Arcane, Jess. I look forward to sharing with you what’s to come.

Ryan

The Gray was already bad enough, but now having confirmation that Caitlin deliberately pushed it into Zaun after her mother specifically made this system to save them from it tells more than anything else about what she's allowing herself to become. And usually these kind of "If you take revenge, you'll be just as bad" stories really piss me off, but this one takes the effort for us to see how true it is, even while we still fully get her point of view. By now it's just taken for granted that every episode will have a standout music video sequence, and this one may just be the best they've done. Both Jayce's group finding out they've meddled with the primal forces of nature and will atone, and the big four-to-five-way fight scene are marvelously unpredictable and beautiful, and the long distance effects on the Hextech means there's a purpose to showing it this way beyond just being arty for its own sake. One more big thing I've come to appreciate about this show, which may sound silly on its face but in comparison to some similar shows and movies does really matter, is that whenever someone gets hit, it looks like it hurts. And that holds most of all for Caitlin's attack on Vi, right in the same spot she once fixed that got them started falling in love. I knew something bad was coming when their big kiss was this early in the season, and this was about what I expected. I can't comment that much about the big "twist" at the end, both since I wasn't surprised at all and I've seen the next three episodes and don't really trust myself to not let that influence my thoughts. And if this was the kind of show that was entirely dependent on big twists and absolutely nothing else (see Lost) that would be a problem, but there's so much other amazing stuff here that it doesn't really matter and I can just keep going still just as happy to see more.

Thomas Corp
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It is pretty bad seeing Caitlyn go off the deep end with the gray. The “If you take revenge, you’ll be just as bad” stories, when done poorly, yeah, can be very infuriating. In this scenario, they do a good job with it with the nuance and balance. The tension builds when Jayce, Ekko, Heimerdinger discovering the full scope of the one holistic system of systems, the one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of hextech. Petro-hextech, electro-hextech, multi-hextech. It is the international system which determines the totality of life on this world of Arcane. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and sub-atomic and galactic structure of things today. That scene intercut and interconnected with the big fight was superbly well-done. That is true that it does feel like it hurts when the characters get hit, such as the scene you highlight. Doesn’t sound silly to me to hear you say that you’ve come to appreciate that aspect of the show. The big damn kiss does raise the alarms that things are going to end in tears, yeah. The twist about Ambessa orchestrating shit, I still hold complaint how easy that one was to call, though one, it does feel like the show anticipated that response, two, if that’s thus far the weakest part, it’s easy to give it a pass, aided by like you said, the show not being entirely dependent on big twists and absolutely nothing else. Plus, it’s not like the show’s building up some big mystery only to reveal that the mystery hooded woman leaving her newborn baby at the church’s big dramatic ominous point was just some convoluted way to name the kid, when she could have just as easily left a note. The other developments, we’ll reserve discussion for later. I just finished the second act myself, and without saying anything about that, I hear what you’re saying about not trusting yourself, leading comments-wise or influencing thoughts-wise. Plenty of good stuff to come, that’s for goddamn sure.