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The line "In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good." Is now one of my favorites.
I think that lines sums up the essence of the show. Everyone is so caught up trying to achieve their lofty goal they forgot the now.
I've always tried to live by the motto of "Don't allow the Perfect to become the Enemy of the Good" and that line resonated with me SO DEEPLY
Same here, it's so powerful and really, true.
"When your going to change the world, don't ask for permission"
I love this quote encompasses so much power and the drive towards progress, regardless of any thought that may hold it back
season 2 viktor: in pursuit of evil, we failed to do bad
I've said it elsewhere and I'll say it again: it isn't that Arcane had no business being this good, it's that Arcane is one of the only video game adaptations to really do the work to make a solid show rather than mindless fanservice or cash grabs. I just hope other major games franchises take note, since the bar has now been set obscenely high for them.
the interesting thing is, arcane was basically full of fanservice; in the sense that it hinted at old and retconned lore and gave a lot of tidbits to what might come based on current lore.
it's really a masterclass of telling a story in an established universe, but staying appealing to both newcomers and supernerds.
From Riot's cinematics, it would be a let down if this was bad, tbh
My take is that it was always possible to make these adaptations but the powers that be (read: TV and movie executives), don't give a shit about the property. They want to leverage the IP to get the fans to pay for it, buy merch and toys etc. Of course what that leads to is cranking out cheap steaming piles of shit where Mattel get producer credits.
All it takes is getting talented people that understand the property to make it great, rather than pay-check writers and directors that just tick the boxes and move on.
TL;DR: satire of wokeness in 2021.
2021.
['In-character']
TL;DR of essay: I look down on uninspired bland people without imagination or empathy* and blame them for everything. Big Corp gets mentioned, but from the perspective of uninspired bland people without imagination or empathy. Of course, _I'm_ better than those people, despite growing up in the same environment under the same circumstances.
I imagine the writing rooms of most adaptations to be
out-of-touch, statistics-gazing, uninspired, bland people who have been fired in the past because they were the last to get hired, the company needed to cut back on budget, their attempts at innovation were met with discouragement and disapproval by the static 'if it works 60% of the time, STFU.' whose work ethics are:
Management could fire me whenever they want for a half-heartened BS reason. Pouring private time and effort into it doesn increase my paycheck or prospects. Management cares about their criteria. Anything above that, they take for granted with maybe a 'wow, we are so lucky to have a hard worker like you.''
Based on: my IRL experience with my Mom and stepfather, who I've never seen pursue any personal projects or hobbies, and the ICT department of my current job. Who reacted to my 'hey, there's error X that shows up when criteria XYZ are met and it needs to be fixes' by screensharing meeting where they asked me to do the actions resulting in the error, yelled at each other in animated Spanish, looked at me and said: "Yes. We see. Error X appears when criteria XYZ are met. To prevent this error: Do not meet criteria XYZ."
My '95's 'if it isn't broken, improve it!' mentality is going 😟😩😫
There's just this high dissonance between what statistics are showing and what conclusions are drawn from them, combined with a lack of drive and ambition, indirectly caused by a lack of stimulation and encouragement, and
I spent an hour sitting on my bum yelling into the digital void. Like a bland, disillusioned uninspired gall who expects a conversation to grow out of A CZcams comment. 🥱🤦♀️
@@alechs but the most amazing thing is, you can enjoy the show even when you have no idea about the lol lore! It's fanservice but also stands on its own
Y’all are jumping to conclusions. Everyone! thinks about their friends naked in the shower🤣
Don’t forget the friendly intense lip biting.
Who hasn't, amirite?
Hey Sarcastic, have you watched Centaurworld S2 and are you gonna do a video on it? :D
Completely Platonic Kabedons are a staple of all friendships!
ah yes, i too lovingly caress my friend's face while i'm literally just a whisper away from their lips, completely platonic things :)))
Historical friendship
Fun Fact. The Ekko and Jinx fight scene is also a fantastic portrayal of his Ultimate move from the game. He can rewind time and know his opponents next move once he's hit.
Neat!
Is that a Jojo reference?
Also the very last scene in the series when jinx fires a rocket it's literally her ultimate ability in game. There are a lot of references to the in game abilities
@@moreblack For sure not as Ekko was a concept and character years before Jojo
@@monomakesmecrystill1252 lmao jojo part 5 manga has twice the age of league of legends
Vi calling Cait cupcake is actually a mild reference to the game. Vi calls her that in game as well, which is a further reference in that Caitlyn has an ability where she can place bear traps for enemies to get caught in. These traps have cupcakes on them as bait
I am new to the fandom and I appreciate you mentioning this! Thanks!!!
Wait so all the characters (or most) in the show are actual playable characters? I know a few things about the game and how there are champions, but I only knew Jinx/powder was one. I assumed Vi was one too, but I thought that was it.
@@MaddyPerez128 Vi, Jinx, Caitlyn, Jayce, Viktor, Ekko, Singed, Heimerdinger, and its alluded that Vander is one but under a different name. Plus easter eggs for a couple others are in the background
Reminded me of when they robbed Jayce's penthouse there were cupcakes near by, who knows, maybe they were from Cait
@@RGld-jg8rs They were most likely just a reference to the fact that the Kiramman house specialty are cupcakes (Caitlyn's family) so it could very well be their house
Honestly the fight between Ekko and Jinx is probably my fav scene of the series or just fav scene in a show ever tbh. The emotional connection between them by showcasing them as kids, plus the music, and the animation? Unmatched
Yes!! Times 10000! I'm surprised Netflix hasn't clipped it as a promotion gimmick yet.
Same
I liked the second vi fight when she got up after Vander talked to her.
There's also the one scene where powder gets rebirthed as Jinx and the shows theme song plays.
A few months ago I finally got past tearing up _every_ time I thought about the look in Jinx's eyes. What black magic did they use to do that???
The thing about this series is, even when you think you've found a shortcoming, if you think about it in a certain way you can usually find a reason for it. Like, a lot of people criticize the thing with Sky and Viktor, how she seemed to come out of nowhere with no buildup just to die. But the way I see it, we don't see her more because Viktor doesn't see her, either.
We know her as a background character, and that's all she is to him. Despite coming from Zaun, he overestimates his perspective and falls prey to the same myopia that makes progress dangerous. His determination to move forward with his research blinds him to those around him, and it's only at the very last moment when she literally hurls herself at him that he realizes (like we do) that there was a real, feeling human being literally under his nose. Someone who loved him just the way he was.
Jayce and Viktor both confront their hubris by accidentally hurting people they failed to notice until it was too late. For Jayce it was the people underground, personified in a child he blasts with his hammer. And for Viktor it was a lab assistant he took for granted, someone who thought the world of him, and who he didn't think of at all. Neither did we, and I think that's by design.
Apparently Skye is the girl in Viktor's flashback when the other kids are playing. So gives her even more of a personal connection to Viktor. Or at least that's the theory I've seen thrown around.
She is, she's watching him play with that boat and then other kids call out "Sky!" at her and she leaves. It's not so clear from the sound, but the captions clear it up. She wasn't lying when she said "everything you do inspires me".
It is not a theory. That is her.
Came down here to point this out myself
This also explains the choice of location where Viktor pour her ashes
It's pretty much canon so yeah
Still haven't recovered from Silco and Jinx. Literally woke up the next day with an overwhelming sadness. The show makes you care about every single character and in the end you realize how much hurt has just been caused, except my girl sky, rip sky.
silco is hands down one of my favorite complex villains on cinema since... a very long time. there's no question about his corruption and motives, even HE knows he's not a good man, but there's good in evil and silco displays this beautifully. he loved and cared for vander and the betrayal was incredibly deep that even to the point of his biggest heartbreak (giving up jinx for the nation of zaun), the one and only person he wants to talk to is vander.
and the evolution of finding this abandoned orphan and seeing himself in her to then loving and caring and nurturing her and finding a true daughter in her is some of the most beautiful story telling i've seen in a while. there's so much tenderness between silco and jinx. there's a lot he did wrong in raising her but there's also a lot he did right and at the peak of the conflict he finally understood vander's choice and reconciled that trauma within himself. as he was dying, he didn't waste a second thinking of his dream of zaun or all the things he still needs to accomplish or all the power there still is for him to grab. his ONLY THOUGHT IN THAT MOMENT was to make sure that when he's gone, jinx will know she was truly loved... so heartbreaking.
😭 you summed that up perfectly.. sob...
This comment … their relationship absolutely broke me. The unconditional love they had for each other was more beautiful than words could describe
Silco died a good man. No good man would give up his daughter for anything. He knows he saved her and he more or less raised her even if it was far from a proper upbringing it was better than none. Imagine what would've happened had vi been taken and powder had been left alone. Ok let's not even imagine that.
The whole idea about Skys death is to give you the feeling that there was someone close to you, supportive and loving every day and when we least expect it, they are gone, we can never see them, get to know them, learn more about them because we take people for granted.
They pulled no punches when it came to deaths. I felt so bad for Viktor when that happened
My takeaway from Viktor was that he always felt alone, even in his backstory Singed tells him "loneliness is often the byproduct of a gifted mind". Viktor felt like he didn't have anyone, he even stops trusting Jayce at one point and his whole struggle is about leaving behind a legacy for people to remember him by. He feels worthless and only creating something revolutionary will change that. Viktor wants to be accepted despite being crippled and from the undercity.
But when Sky dies, Viktor realizes he wasn't alone, he has worth outside his inventions. It takes losing the one person who was always by his side for him to realize that. Now he knows true loneliness. Even though he and Jayce make up, they'll probably never get back their old friendship.
In pursuit of acceptance, Viktor loses the one person always supporting him
I absolutely loved Arcane, but I laughed so hard when the show was like "Alright. We've got a rock show going on in an Undercity tavern. At least half of the people in this tavern have killed someone recently. Obviously these people are turning up for... Imagine Dragons with a Cyberpunk makeover!"
I honestly figured they did that because people would skip the intro (which I definitely did every time) lol
@@mayrarara I skipped that part too. Too much cringe.
@@mayrarara nah me and my friends never skipped it. You either love or hate it I guess
I feel like it wouldnt have broken the immersion if they didnt look exactly like the band.
@@lockekappa500 yeah I was watching it and then I saw a shot of the band and I was like "did they... did they arcane-ify Imagine Dragons?"
I can’t express how little I care about League BUT Arcane is an incredible masterpiece and really made me care about the characters in ways I didn’t think it could. Deserves all the hype and more.
i wasnt that excited about this series when they announced it, i dont know much about lol lore, i only play the mobile version, but im so glad i gave arcane a shot. it quickly become my fav show of this year
How is the mobile version? Does it compare to PC control-wise?
I'm hesitant about fast-paced mobile app games 😅
I do well in drawn-out, long-term pressure/stress, but pressure to do 100 things simultaneously in sporadic, short bursts... ya, you might as well spawn me in the world with a coffin ready to go 😂
@@paisleesheppard5629 The controls are difficult, even much harder than PS/XBox controllers. At lower ranks you can get by just by using thumbs as your main controls but as you progress your rank higher, players get crazier with their 3-5 fingers control configuration. Basically if you struggle playing FPS with controllers, you're going to struggle in mobile too. p.s I suck at mobile controls, I can only do PC and controllers lol
@@paisleesheppard5629 it's good same feels like the pc version except the pacing, not too fast and not too slow, it's a nice balance I think, match around 20min. About the control it's not difficult like some people said, just need some time to get familiar with the controls.
As a pc player its difficult, i have never tried any mobile mobas since most of them are copy cats anyway but when the mobile version was released i tried it...yeah its not for me.
@@paisleesheppard5629 for me mobile controls are really easy and intuitive, but ive never mastered playing on pc (i didnt have a good computer for years so i couldnt play)
I do not like Silco at all but his line about daughters really hit me. His whole relationship with Jinx is one of the best things in the show which is why it really frustrates me when people say he was such a good dad. He wasn't. He was loving but he wasn't a good father.
I know someone on another vid said something like he was the father Jinx wanted but not the father she needed
This. Just because a person trully loves someone (as parent, a lover or even a friend) it doesn't automatically make it healthy or the best for both parties.
He was
I get where you're coming from but I don't think I can agree to any definitions of "good fathers".
Silco's methods involved unconditional love with guidance based on his own life experience and principles.
We would've seen a completely different father figure in Silco if both him and Jinx were in Piltover. What we got is what he did his best with as an influential crime boss living in a shithole like Zaun where strength is paramount and betrayals are expected.
I'm just glad he's gentle with Jinx. I do not respect him as an individual, he has a factory where children are the workers. Sick dude.
Out of everyone's reviews for this show, I was looking forward to yours the most and then I got the notification and it has made my day!
As someone who went into it completely blind and not knowing a thing about League of Legends, I was really pleasantly surprised at how accessible it is for people who don't know anything else about it.
It's not going to make me want to play the games anytime soon but it's the first time I can remember being this excited for the second season of a show.
P.S - I too watched for the gay ladies and stayed for the immersive as heck storyline and the incredible animation, art direction and cinematography. But mostly the gay ladies.
😄👍
if you want to get into the world more without playing the games (even though no game really tells a lot of the story, they just hint at it), there's an official universe page with the lore of champions and places. some of it might go into possible spoiler territory, but arcane hasn't been 100% true to those stories and has no intention to be.
Am I the only one who watched without knowing about the gay ladies and was pleasantly surprised ❤ 😍
I feel obligated to point out Cait looked extremely uncomfortable with a man, but looked right at home while flirting with a woman.
the lesbianism is so strong
Yeah, and the way she tossed the bouquet Jayce brought her aside stuck out to me. I know she was very focused on solving her case, but the framing of that action was very deliberate-though i mightve been reading into it
@@dapper3160 Honestly, it seems pretty obvious to me. It’s a cavalcade of details that really builds up into letting us know just short of someone explicitly stating it to us.
@@dapper3160 not sure, I didn't really read it as a romantic gesture in the first place.
But yeah I don't think the show is subtle with her being into women lol
@@iapetes1 I didn't think it was romantic either. I assumed that it was a way to tell the audience that there isn't romance between them, despite their closeness.
Hailee Steinfeld really wakes up everyday and chooses to give the sapphics all we deserve and i love her for that
When I first saw that they were focusing on piltover and zaun for season 1 I was kinda disappointed but after watching it I realized why. It’s really the most grounded region in runeterra and it allowed them to tell a story of duality with some of the best characters in league, just regular humans. It allowed for a very character driven plot to start with and I actually really liked that. Sure they could have showed us the eldritch horror void monsters or the pirates robbing everything in sight or the literal gods toying with humans for fun, but they chose to show us actual human struggles and how they interact with each other.
Wow we have the same name only spelled differently (Abica)
yeaaah same, like i love all the lore in league but im def a bigger fan of other places like bandle city and ionia, but my god this was just so amazing it's given me a whole new appreciation for piltover and zaun, honestly i really do hope that with this as a base they will explore stories like this for the rest of runaterra as well once they're done here, just imagining what they can do...
Damn, wait till we get that illaoi, gp, miss fortune stuff!
@@maloneeI cant wait for samira honestly. Especially as she is a mercenary she would be an absolutely amazing wild card
It's very rare for video game adaptations to kick this much ass.
That's for live action adaptations. Animated adaptations are mostly good.
It's rare for ANY show to kick this much ass.
thats cuz sadly animation doesnt really do game adaptations
@@inventor4279 Castlevania was good. God Eater was also good.
@@gurentgc3546 I heard that devil may cry is getting a anime adaptation from the people who made castlevania
Really don’t get why people are calling Jinx “discount Harley Quinn” when literally the only thing they have in common is mental instability (which, btw, are due to different events in their life) and the excitable violence. Like Harley Quin ripoffs *do* for sure exist, but not every happy violent character is Harley Quinn. That’s like saying every skeleton character wearing street clothes is Sans. It’s just…irritating.
To be fair, jinx was originally made to basically be a discount Harley Quinn/Joker to oppose Vi and Caitlyn, who were Enforcers of Piltover. There was little backstory behind them all until Ekko hit the scene and dropped a bit of lore. It wasn't until now, with Arcane, we see their stories fleshed out and become their own characters.
Jinx was Harley, but now Jinx is Jinx.
For me Jinx always reminds me more of Tank Girl. When she first was released, i was kinda bummed at how it was a clear copy of her character. I was surprised to learn, that even the designers at Rito say she was inspired by Harley Quinn.
i would say the way she is/was presented in the game when she was released was very close to harley. Both utilise very similar humor, both have inanimate objects they treath as friends(jinxes guns and harley has taxidermy beaver), both are mentally unstable agents of crime and chaos and more or less both use toys either as a weapon or part of a weapon and both have tentendsy to go for uneven clothkng choises. haven't been in touch for years so cant say for the current state of jinxes ingame presentation but i dont think the reason for her madness was really told/shown before, so the nuances how she got where she is didnt differenciate her from harley and outside few voicelines maybe jinxes character was not really developed and the part that really showed was the quirky fun mayhem that also defines harley.
Most prominent differences come from their relationships to other characters i would say. So in vacuum harley is still a therapist and acrobat and jinx is crafty person with some mad scientist wibes to her nature. Which isnt too much of a difference in their core characteristics.
All in all arcane really made jinx her own but there is definitely a lot of harley in her in game and likely in arcane too when she really gets there.
Analysis post Arcane points out that Harley Quinn is now the superficial version of Jinx.
agree. if anything, jinx is what harley quinn couldve been if done right
Silco is one of the *very* rare villains that has character development DURING the story they are villains for. Far too often there's just some backstory thing that suggests why they are a villain, but during the plot they are basically static. Silco smashes through the glass of that normality.
Characterization of Sky was very subtle -- she and Victor knew each other in their childhood. She was the girl up on the ledge when Victor was sailing his boat down the river. Without the context of their interactions in adulthood, it's hardly an interaction at all, but once her attitude toward him is more fleshed out as an adult, that scene seems to imply that she's been aware of the ways that he isolates himself his whole life. The fact that she's still working with him as an adult, and looks up to him, (to me, at least) implies that she had always wanted to be closer friends with him, despite him always pushing people away when he felt vulnerable.
The fact that more people who don't play LoL are enjoying arcane makes my heart soar, because honestly, liking the story and characters but not playing the game, automatically makes a better person than someone who actually plays......like...by default lmao
Ah now cmon. It's a very good game. And I personal don't think it's actually more toxic than any other competitive team game like overwatch csgo etc
The whole league rep is pretty overblown
just a little tidbit, I cant remember where but in one of the flashbacks to Victor being a kid we learn that him and Skye (the girl who got vaporized by the hextech) both grew up in the undercity and that Skye and Victor were aware of each other but couldn't really play together since Victor had his crutch. So there was a little bit more backstory to her than just "scientist girl has a crush on Victor" although not as much as perhaps could have been to really get the gutpunch moment when she dies.
This show is truly amazing. There's so many details in every scene, like how the rifle that Caitlyn trades for Vi's potion to heal her is actually the rifle she used when she won in the shooting contest with the enforcer woman. All these details around Vi and Caitlyn made me search for their real game interactions in League and the crumbs do not disappoint. They're just straight up gay, for real. I hope in season 2 they'll become... roommates.
I'm really glad you also got to watch this show and did a video about it! I also knew about League but i suck at MOBA games, but this show truly stands up as its own regardless if you play or not.
I adored the show, it's probably my favorite thing thats come out this year. As for S2, I'm really hoping that Vi and Cait will actually be a core story pillar. Vi and Jinx's relationship as sisters was a focus in S1, but its actually mostly Powders story and its predominantly her issues in relation to Silco and Vi that get highlighted. Vi's trauma, not just what happened in act 1 but also the fact she was tossed into a prison hellhole to be abused and forgotten for years, is rarely directly addressed as she spends the majority of the season being a human wrecking ball trying to find and save Powder. Cait likewise had a lot of groundwork laid as a frustrated, sheltered idealist trying to escape the shadow of her parents, but her arc is definitely not focused on in S1. It feels like there's a lot of untapped potential there for a main S2 focal pair, which admittedly would also satisfy my basic ass need for more wonderfully gay moments with them.
Yes! More wonderfully gay Vi and Cait moments is what I'm hoping for too. I would be delighted to watch a whole episode of just the two of them outside of the overarching plot. A little romantic Vi and Cait time without the constant pressure of them almost getting killed every few minutes. I bet there's already some great fan fiction....
Strongly agree! It'd be great if we get a deep dive into Vi, her trauma, and internal conflict over everything that happened in S1. And Caitlyn will likely have a lot of emotions to work through after the finale both for herself and how it develops her future partnership with Vi. I'd love to see that play out instead of another timeskip or something.
Yea! I do think Amanda does call it right that Jayce and Viktor will be central. But I feel Vi-Cait should/would also be another especially exploring much much deeper the nuance of Cait really coming to terms with corruption and how she plans to deal with it, and Vi too what her new (if she moves on a little from Jinx) motivations will be. All the while ofc wrapped in a nice sweet coating of..ahem, I mean, all the while exploring deeper interpersonal relationships between the characters of the show. Right. Ahem.
I totally agree with you all. I didn’t really like how Powder changes and becomes Jinx because somehow it made her character less believable and more cartoonish (which is not a bad thing, but it didn’t work for me there). So it would be great if they concentrated more on Vi and Caitlyn, so that my heart can melt again even when they only look at each other. Also: why are we all obsessed with gay characters??
@@philipedef2024 I felt like Powder's descent into Jinx was handled exceptionally well. It doesn't really culminate until basically the final moment of the season and it does a remarkably good job conveying how she's struggled with a lifetime of constant trauma and repeated tragedy. It shows how everything she suffers just leads her down a self destructive path and she has no one in her life positioned to help her. Ultimately her own demons cause her to create a scenario where she cannot and will not win no matter which way it goes. It's an incredibly effective and very human tragedy despite the over the top trappings. To me anyway.
As for why we all get so obsessed with the gay? I honestly think it's just a matter of scale; There's thousands upon thousands of straight characters out there and that volume automatically means there's hundreds upon hundreds of well written, well crafted straight characters and couples. By contrast there's very few lgbtq characters out there, especially in big budget projects, which also means there's equally fewer well written and well crafted ones. So when we are given a gem like this, its like giving a starving girl a cupcake.
Now I just want a slice-of-life show of Caitlyn and Vi.
I am saying honestly that for me Caitlyn was the least interesting character in the show, I hope that they give her some depth next season
@@HK-gm8pe
Really? To me she was one of the most interesting characters (I'm probably biased because she's gay though). Sure, she didn't have a difficult or traumatic childhood like the other characters, but she still showed personality.
That's literally what I just said on another post! An episode devoted to Vi and Cait just hanging out and being gay. Yes please. I hope the Arcane writers are reading this comment section.
@@godhateseveryonewhodoesntr5977 I am bi :) and Ifor me the most interesting part about Caitlyn was her relationship with Vi :) I loved the fact that relationship wasnt "in your face "I am gay" " it was very natural and realtistic but yeah I couldnt relate very much to her and her storyline just wasnt very interesting to me, but I hope that they give her some depth in next season, I absolutely dont hate the charaxcter :) I have even been Caitlyn main _D
@@HK-gm8pe
I liked her. She was determined, ambitious, protective, proud, caring, a little naive, curious and she's an excellent shot- which makes her a bad@ss. I get that perhaps others had more interesting backgrounds, but she's supposed to have had an easy life. I do agree that her relationship with Vi was the most interesting thing about her, but in my very biased personal opinion, their relationship is more interesting than any character of the show lol. I also wouldn't mind if they go more in depth with her character, but I'm not sure there's that much more to say about her. We have her personality and we know how she grew up.
As a league fan, I actually appreciate a view that doesn't take the overly dense league lore into account and just takes the show on it's own merits.
Hell Amanda, as someone that played league and is heavy into lore.. This was an amazing watch and I am glad you gave it a shoot
I don’t care for League of Legends, and I definitely never will (not my type of game, plus the whole toxic reputation), but this show is a genuine masterpiece. It’s easily the best thing I’ve watched on Netflix and it’s probably my favourite animated show of all time.
The great achievement of the creators of the show is, that it is appealing for a large crowd and not just the LoL fanbase. No one expected this from the show and I as a League player want to tell you: Don't ever start playing the game... it's a nightmare and I love it.
The rep isn't totally wrong but it's pretty overblown. It's the same as playing any big competitive game like overwatch, r6, whatever
"Why is a videogame company so fkin good at everything else and not their own game, they should just be an entertainment company"
@@sin_wraith they say that like league isn't the most popular game in the world
@@iapetes1 and what game does the strawman think is the most popular? Didn't you know Crossfire is the most popular game in whole world? Even I never heard of it.
I remember watching Into the Spider Verse with this drooling excitement, adoring every single frame and aspect of it, and nothing had made me feel like that since a child. Then that happened TEN TIMES AN EPISODE WITH THIS SHOW!
It is an actual revelation. It deserves it's 100%, and this coming from someone who has no love for League.
I went at it blind and honestly, it floored me in ways I cannot express.
It takes the 'Every Frame a Painting' motif to new levels.
You could LEGIT pause any second of this show, print it out, blow it up and frame it,
and it works. Any frame.
Add to that some of the best female character acrs I have ever seen in fiction,
(the emotion Powder shows when she gets abandoned on the street after the bombing is soul-destroying to watch).
I honestly can't even believe this show exists.
We almost don't deserve stuff this good as humans anymore.
Agreed. Never been this invested in a show before. Never before have I truly been GLUED to the screen not wanting to blink because i didnt want to miss a detail (this was during the ep 9 final scene btw)
The way they achieved the Every Frame A Painting motif is by literally painting every single location and background. All of the background in the series is 2d painted, only the characters and some objects are 3d animated. And the effects are 2d as well.
Absolutely incredible concept.
had to google when into the spider verse came out after reading this and holy shit it's been 3 years already
Fun fact. The voice actress for Gwen in Into the Spiderverse is Hailee Steinfeld. Same voice actress as Vi.
@@mcslayer9796 It is so visually delicious that I can watch and episode and then watch it again and see frames and things I didn't first time through. You can watch arcane like 5 times and each time manages to still feel like the first time. It's mind blowing.
I’m not a psychologist or anything but I’ve been told several times now that Jinx basically matches up with every symptom of BPD and honestly, I think they did a great job representing that about her. It didn’t feel over the top at all for me, everything she did made sense. Definitely my favorite character in the show so far
The hex core actually seems fairly calmed and harmless after Viktor embraces it and goes full "GLORIOUS EVOLUTION!!!!"
The level of competency on every level of this show is so immense, from the art to writing to animation to voice acting. My post-season depression knows no bounds, especially since there’s no cryo pods I can escape into to wake me up when season 2 is released.
I feel like the Piltover’s Finest ship had the biggest crowd in attendance of its christening, and it’s well-deserved.
Everybody always memes Netflix adaptations, but it seems that they have the two best video game adaptations ever?
Arcane and Castelvenia really showed how to do it. Also, we need more animation of this quality.
Depend on what you consider a game, technically Steins Gate and some of the Fate are game adaptation, and IMO better. But as visual novel they're basically books with more pictures. Definitely are a whole lot easier to adapt than a MOBA or an action platformer.
Please don't give the credit to Netflix. They barely just host the show and had nothing to do with productions.
Yes dont praise Netfix. They only broadcasted it. Give it to Riot Games who did 100% made and produced this and Fortiche ofcourse.
Dota: Dragon's Blood was pretty good too (though not as good as the other two shows) and is getting a second season in January.
@@philtess3126 sure. But isn't that true for basically every show on there? Anyway, these shows still show how to do a good video game adaptation. So all the praise to the creative minds behind them.
I just love that they got Ray Chen for this project, his violin playing is legendary 😍
Someone who is really into the lol lore here! the lore community actualy are mostly asking for the original stories to be replaced for the arcane ones since they are so good, some characters like Jayce and Viktor are some of the most forgetable champions in the game, but they made incredible characters in the series wich is incredible. Riot actually said that they are thinking about making the Arcane lore the canon one in the lol universe or make it canon in it's own universe, kinda kile a lol cinematic universe
Wait, I thought Arcane was cannon already?
@@itsasquid for the most part, no. it was always theorized that Vi and Jinx were sisters but Riot waited years to verify it. same for Vi and Caitlyn being a couple. also in game lore Ekko's parent's are alive but they're never seen in Arcane or mentioned. Singed in game is practically a mad scientist linked to several other champions stories entailing human experimentation and massive bioweapons that take many, many lives. Heimerdinger in Arcane fears magic and takes progress slowly. In game he's also a semi mad scientist hextech weapons freak. Jayce is a cocky super narcissist in game and is almost the opposite in game.
Arcane essentially went and took all of these super quirky and out there characters and grounded them. which in some ways you could argue makes them more boring, but in others it makes them more real.
@@steffanhymer1285 I wonder if Heimerdinger might get corrupted by the power of hextech down the road.
Personally, I think it's fine that we didn't get to know Sky very well. For me, the gut punch was still hard, and we didn't know much about her because *Viktor* didn't know much about her. She's been in the background, pining for him, while he's been so laser-focused on his work and his own problems that he never saw her.
Arcane: "ACTION! DRAMA! GRIT! ʳᵒᵐᵃⁿᶜᵉ"
Amanda: "NOW KISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS GOD DAMN IT"
For anyone wondering, this entire show was written/storyboarded prior to this season even beginning production, so there isn’t that worry of them not having a plan for the story or anything like that. It’ll have a set number of seasons (like 3 or something), and then it will end. Having nailed season one it’s going to be very hard for them to fuck up the show
God, I really really hope that's true and that they stick to it and don't end up adding more seasons even if it's really successful. This season was close to a masterpiece, I really don't want it to drop.
Source? I want to believe that's true. But I'm very worried the shows popularity will hurt it's overall quality.
@@spartan1879 Ok gonna be totally honest, I cannot find where I read that originally. However, the first season was in production for 6 years, so I would find it weird if they didn't plan past season one. The writers and creative team behind the show put a lot of care into season one and Riot was willing to give them over half a decade for the first season, so I doubt their gonna not allow them to perfect the second season.
@@spartan1879 Bridging the Rift behind the scenes docuseries confirms that they had multiple seasons planned from production! Also gives some insight on how hard they're working on not letting season 2 disappoint, and it sounds like there will only be 2 seasons focused on Pilltover and Zaun and then they will probably start telling stories in other regions of the world :)
Even though there are a lot of interesting relationships and bonds in the show, the one between Vi and Jinx is truly the heart of the show.
@Daniel Hawkins bahahahah
@Daniel Hawkins you doing good man?
@Daniel Hawkins yeah winter is making us all want to stay in our rooms all day i guess, but at least we got christmas so its not that bad
@Daniel Hawkins i mean id rather not tbh
@Daniel Hawkins lmao
"In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good." One of the best lines ever
Not gonna lie, the openings had me HYPED every episode, I was Imagining those Dragons SO Hard
Same I really loved that opening
This show is unmatched, I don't think we were ready for this. Take away the gorgeous animation it's still a brilliant story and characters.
I just started watching it Bc everyone said it was good, but so didn’t know there were gay moments in it, so when I got to the “your hot, cupcake scene” it was a nice surprise that also gave me a heart attack
Edit: Also, I was so surprised when I understood everything in Arcane, I don’t know anything about League of Legends, and I’ve never played it. The only other game adaptations I’ve seen were boring because they didn’t bother to flesh out characters bc they assumes that everyone was already familiar with them and invested. They could’ve just done something cheap that people would’ve watched just bc it’s based off of league of legends, but no, they rlly went all out, and I love that. Also, I watched the scene where Vi punches powder with my own younger sister, and it just hit different, omg, it was so sad 😭
Later that night, she had a nightmare that I stabbed her so, uh-take that as you will
"The only other game adaptations I’ve seen were boring because they didn’t bother to flesh out characters..."
So you haven't watched Castlevania yet, then.
"I just started watching it Bc everyone said it was good, but so didn't know there were gay moments in it, so when I got to the "your hot, cupcake scene" it was a nice surprise that also gave me a heart attack"
no because SAME, i actually thought they were going to go with the "childhood friends to lovers" trope with caitlyn and jayce at the start but was severely (and pleasantly!) surprised with how it looks between vi and caitlyn instead
Actually Powder doesn't take on the full persona of Jinx in the second act, just wanted to mention that, but it's an amazing review, specially coming from someone who doesn't know about the League lore or anything, and I was waiting for you to make a review of Arcane and it's so good and am so glad you enjoyed it!
Incidentally, can we take a minute to appreciate how considerate it was of Jinx to make sure Caitlyn was dressed during her kidnapping?
Season 2 cannot come fast enough! I came for the lesbians that Twitter promised but stayed for the amazing animation, the complex characters and intriguing story. It's one of my favourite shows I've seen in recent memory
I didn't know about the lesbians before I started watching, but they were the reason I binged the show... Thank God for lesbians.
@@SimonWoodburyForget Nice try but I won't bite this doom and gloom narrative. Let me bask in the awesomeness of the show...
Seems like a lot of us flocked to Arcane bc we saw Vi and Caitlyn scenes on twitter 😭😭
@@SimonWoodburyForget saying LoL has never changed is straight up wrong
I don’t play League at all. My boyfriend does and he wanted to watch this and I am seriously obsessed. It’s so well animated it’s such a great style the story is easy to follow but still complex enough to be interesting. I really liked it
Arcane is so good, I watched it with my 68 year old Mother and she fucking loved it! Needless to say she knew nothing about league of legends, except for the fact that it was that game i lock myself for 8 hours at a time playing every 2 weeks or so.
She enjoyed it so much she actually asked me when season 2 was coming out :D
Yay, I also watched it with my mom! She is 63, and knew nothing about lol except small bits of lore we have talked about (the Ruined King, the existence of yordles and poros in universe). She thought she will hate it, but now we are genuinely excited about season 2.
I used to main Vi when I played LoL. I already had a thing for the punchy punchy lady with the pink hair and Arcane's gone and turned my simping up to 11 ❤
i've never played league of legends and don't know anything about it but i imagine that this show was written and directed by people who maybe started off as fans and really care about this world and these characters. i love to enjoy stories made by people who hold them precious to their hearts
when the show was being announced and teased I definitely started out with "it's another videogame movie/show, this is just gonna be as bad and dissapointing as every other one" and oh boy am I so happy with how incredibly wrong I was. this was one of the few shows I've ever watched that I felt, really, really felt when things happened, the first act's deaths took me back hard, and at the slap I reeled back in shock and emotional hurt. everything felt so real and deep that I appreciate it greatly, and I'm probably one of the few people who really felt Sky's death as her face reminded me of my best friend, who I, at the time, didnt know if she was alive or not (thankfully she is ok) and it absolutely broke me. this show really dug deep and left me with an empty, pained feeling at the end that I really do appreciate. I'm very excited for S2 of it, but I also hope they take however long they need to make is as great as the first season
The fight with the flashbacks to them as kids was jaw-dropping. I can't get over how beautiful this show is!
The show speaks volume when it made me (a half century old non-gamer housewife) a big fan!
FINALLY this fantastic show is getting noticed by non-gaming youtube channels I'm so happy. I never played LOL but god damn arcane was the most beautiful show I've ever seen.
I loved Arcane's art, it reminded me a lot of Dishonored and Arkane studios style.
Borderlands too. Jinx and Tiny tina has some sort of similarities and I love it.
Glad you mentioned Dishonored! It was one of my first thoughts watching the trailer. I seriously love this animation style. The studio who did Arcane is seriously talented.
Great video! And as someone who loved the show but knows very little about the game I'm right there with you! As for Vi and Caitlyn I very much felt like the small moments between them hit a lot of the subtle beats of a budding romance so I'm optimistic about what way they'll take that next season.
One of the writers pushed very hard for the intimate scenes for Vi/Cait, so I'm optimistic that they will follow thru on this stuff in season 2.
Not sure Jace is really the guy you want to put as a shining example.
Yes he does mean well, and want to do everything possible to help people.
But he’s also pretty classist agents Zaun. Was willing to bend the rules and get into dirty politics to grease the other council members hands. And worst of all, was going to give zaun to Silco, the very man that made it so much worst by flooding the streets with addictive mutagenic drugs!
Eco seems more like the guy you want as a paragon. Only problem I have with him, is that he’s pretty weakly set up in the first act. And doesn’t come back into the picture officially till act three.
One thing I liked about Act 3 is that it mirrors Act 1. An easy example of this is how Jinx snatches defeat from a hard-won and improbably victory through explosions.
That sort of mirroring is an impressive thing that we see throughout. I thought the show was very solid but not amazing (except for the art which is top-notch). However, what it does really well is taking good things we've seen in other places and executing them very competently and the mixture is mostly seamless. You have a little bit of She-Ra, little bit of Spider-verse, some MCU slow gathering of characters where they marinate in their own arcs before we see them mix with others, etc. Because of how every element is done very well, including just basic setup payoff things and mirroring within the larger continuity, it creates an extremely solid response that just makes you go "wow, I'm really satisfied."
Also, just wanted to say that it's always cool when creators are aware of their audience and are in a position where they can pause Patreon or similar. Way to be awesome :)
In the Finale when Vi has that flashback of Caitlyn lying in bed, if you stop the frame and compare it to the original one, you can see that in the flashback Caitlyn has fuller lips and bigger eyes (traits that make a person more attractive) which means that Vi is already seeing Caitlyn like someone she starts to have feelings for. It’s just really nice of how many details they have thought
Oow seriously? That's cool thanks for mentioning it
Never played LoL, so I went into this blind. First two episodes I was like, "This is okay so far, but I'm not sure what the hype is" then EPISODE THREE HAPPENED. I binged it from that point onwards, what a show.
Arcane is frankly one of the best shows I've seen in a really long time. It was so beautiful and I thought the plot was amazing
I've never played LoL, but I've always loved their shorts. Then, they started making music which was dope as hell. Now Arcane?? Amazing. Love it.
More video game companies need to make their own stuff. They keep handing out to Hollywood and they always butcher it, being made in house with people that actually understand the lore, the characters,and all the little details in between just works. Easily the best piece of content we've gotten in 2021 and It'll easily be in the top 5 of the decade. Just near perfect on every level.
Vi/Caitlyn, the most lesbian thing to exist since Sappho and the Island of Lesbos.
Fun facts, Vi has a poster of a busty woman hanging some cleavage over her bunkbed in Act 1. Vi's name, Violet, is the lesbian flower. Caitlyn's hair color and general outfit color in Arcane and in the games is Violet. There are multiple times throughout the season where Vi's eyes drop to either Caitlyn's breasts or butt. A full ref of Vi's back tattoo DOES in fact exist, which... the implications >.>.
And Caitlyn keeps the fuzzy cuffs at home (with Vi).
As someone who knows the lore and plays the game, I was worried that the series will only be interesting because I'm already a fan of the game or that it will cater to the non-players so much that they would change the lore completly.
But holy, I am so glad I was wrong! It was AMAZING for everybody. People that never played the game could also very much enjoy complex and well rounded character, the plot and the overall series. But it also had some super nice easter eggs for the players (that made everyone have different theories and guesses based on the game/lore).
The way they handle emotions in this show is damn near perfect. The crying alone looks really authentic fro an animation
My friend: you gotta watch Arcane!
Me: i really don't have time with work
Friend sends me a meme of Vi pinning Cait to the wall
Me: damn, ok maybe I got time for Arcane
I think jinx’s mental health is a very good representation for what it does. I thought they would just make it the quirky psycho girl and her mental health is just a personality. But no they didn’t shy away and they actually show how much her suffering truly affects her
all league players can agree that the game is hell but Arcane is a masterpiece and very worth watching going with zero knowledge of the lore or the game
I actually enjoy the hell out of the game, I love it so much xd (no, riot is not pointing a gun at me while writing this I swear!)
It took months of having my friends force me to play league with them before I started liking the game and at this point I'm not really sure if I like it or if I caught a case of Stockholm syndrome.
From stuns that last an eternity to the power creeping mechanic, it's like this game was scientifically designed to be as rage inducing as possible.
I would've enjoyed it more had I not know that some characters were gonna turn out predictably because of the fact that they're in the game
" The general veiwer based, that doesn't know shit, *my people* " best quote of the video.
I feel like the show would have benefited from 50min episodes. 30 min more in act 1 would have allowed for a little bit more development on powder's unstableness, and her relationship with ekko, as well as Jayce actually exhausting his options before trying to off himself. In act 2, 30min more would have been a good way to establish more of Viktor's and Jayce's obsession with magic (we can backfill that magic saved jayce and viktor needs saving, but I think they would benefit from more). It would also be great to establish why exactly Caitlyn is so adamant in being an enforcer and having a good impact on the world. And also do more for Skye. Act 3 would benefit from more on Mel and her mom, how they came to have that relationship, and also why Jayce is so quick to use hextech as weapons when he insisted for so long that hextech was only supposed to help people, an not to be used for harm.
30 minutes more would probably cost like 5 million dollars 🤣 I am sure some of the 3 acts structure was cost. This product took 6 years to produce. If they came in under 10 mil per episode, I'd be shocked.
@@TheDawnofVanlife Oh, no doubt about it lol. I was speaking purely based on narrative. But as a whole I think this did amazingly well and I wouldn't change anything.
To some extent sure, but there's also something to be said for efficiently helping you understand the characters connections without having to spend tons of time on it. I think Mel got the perfect amount of back story for example. And the pacing of the show means you never get bogged down
@@TheDawnofVanlife yeah, somewhere it was kinda officially mentioned (i think in some of the interviews surrounding Arcane) that the price was roughly 10 mil per episode (so 90 mil in total). Its an insane amount for sure. Not even GoT had this budget per episode in the early seasons, and only matched that in season 8 (which turned out to be utter garbage).
I made the mistake of initially avoiding this show because of the League of Legends name being attached, but finally caved and started watching it around 11pm yesterday. It's now 6pm, 19 hours later, and I still haven't slept because I can't stop thinking about how fucking good it is! I can't wait for season 2
Welcome to the misery😅
Despite having multiple monster characters, Singed is the most terrifying person in the League universe. We'll absolutely see him again, and when we do, we'll wish we hadn't. The end scene showed a bit of his next experiment, and that one makes what he did to Jinx look like a tea party
Literally tried to play league and hated it (i just dont like video games that aren’t completely story based or horror, not saying its a bad game) but im obsessed with the music videos they create and now im obsessed with arcane!! The animation is my favourite part, its so unique, its so gorgeous, the bright colors and the stylization are amazing. The story is really cool. im so excited to see the next season:
Edit: the way theyve designed violet is just… mm… the short red hair and her muscles… lemma just say as a woman whos attracted to women and men that characters hits all the right spots attraction wise
"There's gay in it!"
I'm listening...
"It has an Into the Spider-verse feel"
Alright I'm in
As a hobby writer. I found it inspirational and hopeful for the creative arts.
Caitlyn and Vi are the reason i watch this show and they will be the reason why i keep watching. i love them so much
Like, they’re the only reason?
@@theamazingwebhead6453 to start watching? yeah. but aside from them only, the show is great overall
Arcane is the best animated series I've seen since Gargoyles, and that was like... thirty years ago.
Can you imagine a gargoles reboot in this style?
I love Arcane, considering I've been reading up on League of Legends Lore(Even if it gets retconned once a year) it's nice to see Jinx to be given more depth and also have context for the Fear Demon, Fiddlesticks', line "Jinx, It's all your fault" which he mimics.
Can't get over how well written Jinx was. The biggest improvement over the LoL-lore by far IMO.
I know that people absolutely love the main characters like Jinx and Vi (I get it though), but I think I really liked Mel best of them all. She definitely has her own plans, and she does manipulate Jayce for her own goals, but overall she legitimately cares for the city and the people, and she just does whatever she can to make that seemingly impossible peace a reality.
Mel wants weapons to protect the city. Not because she wants to go to war like her mother wants, but to make sure they're strong so that peace can last. A "show weakness, risk war, or show strength, and the enemy will hesitate" scenario.
I don't know how to explain it. But I do find her to be a very compelling character overall.
I was mildly interested in Arcane and watched it on a whim and what was gonna be 1 test episode ended up me binge watching the whole show in one night
"I won't see it unless there's sapphics" is my MO since Steven Universe and I haven't been disappointed once so far
This show made me feel things I haven't felt in a while watching a TV show. It's SO GOOD.
I honestly think that what they did with Cate and Vi was perfect. I think if they paid off the tension by having them kiss or something, it would’ve given their interactions a completely different feel which could’ve hurt the show. Like the dinner scene wouldn’t have worked as well if they were properly in a relationship, but they go far enough to make it obvious and leave at a great point to pick up on in season 2
Truly, Arcane is a masterpiece! The story itself, character development, MUSIC, voice acting, the visuals and animation quality?!?? IT BLEW MY MIND! I wouldn’t consider myself a League of Legends fan prior to this, I was familiar with their music and watched a videos about them prior but that was about it. When I heard all the news of this new series it wasn’t that I was ‘intrigued’ but I saw their edits all over the place and figured, why not? The animation looked beautiful. LET ME TELL YOU. I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED. I fell in love with everything about the show, I now breathe, live and sleep through the show. 😂 but seriously, I couldn’t get myself to play League of Legends, however I found that Wild Rift and Legends of Runeterra are so cool??? They’re also so peaceful, I’ve been playing the two for a week or so now and I LOVE it. Legends of Runeterra specifically has these interactions and lil comics with the champions that I adore. It has been sort of soothing after watching Arcane. 😂 So, Arcane is INCREDIBLE and I’m so so thankful I gave it a chance. Side note, VI AND CAITLYN! oh my god…. I’m obsessed with them. 😳 the amount of edits I have of them may be slightly concerning but ya know, they’re SO CUTE. AH. ❤️
I remember seeing a comment from a guy who had psychosis (apparently what jinx has, the writers made it as accurate as possible), the guy was made uncomfortable by just how accurate what jinx was experiencing was, but he was happy that it wasn't being trivialised or made to be like a cute, fun thing like with Harley Quinn
I loved it, like you said the art direction is magnificent. Even tiny gestures that the characters do while displaying emotions are shown and it makes them feel so real despite the animation. It even made me want to play the game, which i've never wanted to before, so if it's a bit of an ad for that it's a really well done one!
I never played the game, but I've been subbed to their CZcams channel since the beginning because of their vignettes, and the whole time I've been begging and waiting for them to make a full movie or series. And then my Netflix flashed it at me out of the blue and I clicked sooooo fast and did nothing but watch for the next few days. Can't wait for all the other stories! OBSESSED with the animation style! Loved all the context and character dynamics. That love/transformation scene was legendary. Also I cried so hard during Ekko and Jinx's bridge fight.
when i first saw arcane blowing up and my friends watching it, i decided to see a bit for myself. couldnt finish episode one. few days later, skipped to episode 2. couldnt finish that either. few days after that i decided to continue episode two. one of the best decisions i ever made tbh, arcane is really the best thing that has come out of netflix
Currently working on my jinx cosplay because I loved the show so much!
ARCANE VID HELL YES
Love how Amanda is enjoying the moment from Vi & Caitlyn. As we can tell, good quality works can really fill people with joy, glad she took a rest on watching bad works for fan request. --Love & Peace from Chinese fan
'But then i catch a screenshot and i see GAY!!'
I never related so much to an statement as this one, that's how they catch us, they trow the crumes of gay and we follow and support, for the hope that the gay becomes canon some day. Sometimes (rarely) it pays of, sometimes...well if you know you know
That moment with Vi and Cait on the bed really feels like they cut the scene short. It was such an obvious moment for them to show some intimacy, maybe even kiss. I think that also would have added to the emotion in the Oil & Water scene not much later, where Vi leaves Cait behind.
I really hope we get more development of their relationship in the second season. I love the two of them together.
Hooray for season 2 already being confirmed so we know we'll get the aftermath of Jinx blasting the council chamber.
Also, Arcane is... possibly the best thing I've watched this year. Definitely is my /favorite/ by a long bit. Especially that fight with Ekko and Jinx on the bridge. Gets me in chills every time.
on the note of the assistant that was trying to help viktor but ended up dying in the process - we do get a little hint of her character and who she is! she's the kid from the fissures swimming around who notices viktor and his toy boat before he meets singe and rio. it's implied that like how heimerdinger helped viktor "escape" from the undercity to join the academy, viktor did the same for sky
Totally loved it! Can't wait for next season and I'm really happy you reviewed it!