Arcane's Perfect Scene
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What is the best scene of Arcane? What makes Arcane so good? I bet we all have a few we can shout out, and most of us would have a hard time picking, but here are a few that made me feel the most. Arcane is so freaking good it was hard to pick.
viktor running jinx dinner party ekko vs jinx silco takes powder
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There are crows everywhere in Arcane. Jinx keeps shooting them, there are a "murder" of crows in the background during the scene where she kidnaps everyone for the table scene. Crows are a symbol of change and adaptability in literature. She keeps shooting them in previous acts, resisting change. She proves this resistance by lighting up the flare Vi gave her years ago, proving that even after all those years all she wanted was her sister to find her. In the table scene, though, the crows are all gathered on the roof of the building as if waiting for it to happen. Finally, she sits at the "Jinx" chair, which is decorated with the crow feathers she collected from the ones she shot. She finally accepts change, as Jinx, and the hope of getting Powder back is gone.
Nah that's fiddlestick.
@@Chudieu101 and Swain (Raum), both Demons
Crows symbolizes bad luck in other term "jinx". Also crows symbolizes an upcoming death.
Very nice analysis, but they're most likely related to 2 champions/characters from the game & its lore who utilize crows for nefarious reasons... and they're demonic characters at that.
Swain is ravens, anyway
My favorite line of dialogue from the season also came from Viktor: "We lost ourselves. Lost our dream. In the pursuit of great, we failed to do good." Though Silco's lines at the end are also incredibly powerful and memorable.
Love this line too. It's probably my favorite individual line in the entire show. Silco has so many great dialogue scenes; he's probably the character with the most "memorable sets of dialogue" in the show. But this one line from Viktor is my single favorite line in particular.
That is the line that can apply to real life the most. Even thought Silko's last words is my favorite line, deffinitely that Victor's quote is the best in a vacuum.
in the case of silco. "We lost ourselves. Lost our dream. In the pursuit of great, we realize its all perfect...you are perfect.."
You're missing the last thing he said there. He also said "... We need to make it right."
Viktor has all my favorite scenes, from him running to, his speech of not asking for permission to change the future
About the tea party/table/dinner scene: when Vi starts naming their old family (Mylo, Claggor, Vander and so), she thinks she is helping her sister come to her senses, bringing her back. But it’s the whole opposite: she doesn’t realize that she is naming the demons, the biggest fears and regrets that have tortured Jinx ever since. Vi triggers Jinx’s trauma and so, the roles are reversed: she was trying to help, just like Powder wanted to help her back then. This time, Vi triggered the bomb - Jinx. And Jinx went off, once again, killing someone she cared for.
A really f-d up situation.
that makes so much sense, thank you for putting your observation into words so brilliantly!!!💖
Jinx reacted to the sound of a gun being cocked. She is a fine tuned fighter and in her hysteria had a defensive moment at the sound of the gun. She didn't mean to shoot Silco to protect Vi.
I think as well Silco wasn't scared that Vi would take Jynx from him, but rather he could see she was in distress and wanted to stop Vi from tormenting his adopted daughter.
I never noticed that!
The more fucked up part was that Vi used to be the one chasing the monsters away when Powder got scared from their play time. Now Vi is the one creating them for Powder
Did you notice that Jinx describes exactly what she did as Powder through the grenade microphones when she blows up the enforcers to get the crystals? It is like she is describing herself in that scene.
"It is so hot, please, I am trapped ,I am a helpless little girl and I set the building on fire... by accident... totally by accident."
Oh... oh boy-
Bro you just wrinkled my mind
my heart hurts now thanks
I also noted that
Oh yeah, time to cry again
When a villain typically says "we will show them", they almost always mean "I" or "You". "I" will take the credit, and "You" will take the risk.
.
But when Silco says it to Powder, he means it literally... WE will show them. We who were thrown away. We who were betrayed. We who are hated. We who were weak. WE will show them all...that we are better, that we aren't weak anymore, and that we won't be thrown away...ever again.
Holy shit this one hits hard. This is the craziest part about arcane to me. There is no villain in this story. Just a bunch of antagonists who completely believe they are the heroes of their own story. Silco truly believed he could liberate his fellow people and Jinx truly believes she's fulfilling his wishes. After all this time someone finally did something for Zaun and it's a girl just trying to fulfill her father's wish.
What a masterpiece this show is.
I like to make the 666 mark
in my opinion there werent any heroes in the show....all of them killed children or were extremely disconnected of whats happening in th eundercity, Ekko was closest one to being a hero but even he made very bad decision on that bridge and he separated Vi and Jinx 2 times, why couldnt Ekko take care of Caitlyn and then Vi could have calm Powder down.... afterall she haas waited for her sister for soo long and on that bridge when Ekko almost illed her and Vi left her for Cait....she felt again abandoned, cant blame them ofcourse tehy are not psychologists but still...I didnt see anyone as a hero in the show, everybody were just eahothers enemies, their world was the one who had tear them apart
@@HK-gm8pe Ekko and Viktor are the closest thing to good guys in the show, and even they made a lot of errors. All other characters are different shades of gray.
i love this so much
I can not get over the brilliance of Ella Purnell’s voice, in every line, jinx’s voice has some kind of cracking, vulnerability in it, as if she would snap and burst at any moment. It just sells the character so well
Now i wanna she her meet another immovable crazy object .
That continues crack makes me think of a person that has cried a lot. and Powder did cry a lot for what she went through. It fits very powerfully.
she's rightfully winning awards for her amazing performance!
Has great emotional range, from cute and youthful, angry, sad, cracking in just the right way. Fits her so well, when she's lucid and when she's crazy.
Arcane is gonna create a ripple effect in the whole cinema industry
I have no idea it would...
But I know one thing:
It should
I definitely hope so. Especially with the Spider-Verse 2 trailer released recently, I hope more animated movies use similar styles as that and Arcane. It’s so much better than the smooth, rounded, “safe” styles of Disney and Illumination.
Cinema is pretty much dying a slow painful death thanks to Covid.
The show's revolutionary for the TV, animation and video game industries however.
@@chazjohannsen
Tbh Into the Spider Verse was considered an amazing piece of art/animation years before Arcane released on Netflix. If anything, Spider Verse set the pace for things like Arcane to appear nowadays
@@l.n.3372 fortiche has been making this for 6 years now so, maybe they swapped notes along the way to inspire each other. Who knows.
A moment in Viktor's "Run"
You'll notice as he kicks up into a run, his artificial/enhanced leg kicks him harder than he expects, and he launches forward, unable to stop running once he starts...
Wow. That is... deep when you think about it. Now I'm gonna cry again...
What I really love about the dinner scene is that it’s a masterclass in building tension. We know that Caitlyn and Vi won’t die, that it wasn’t going to be Caitlyn’s head under that cover or that Jinx won’t actually shoot Vi, but it doesn’t matter, because despite knowing they’d be fine, you still feel the tension. You’re still anticipating the reveal of the cupcake and sighing in relief that it’s not Caitlyn’s head or that Jinx didn’t shoot Vi.
I also love the tiny details they put in. Especially the fact that Jinx was able to use the depowered Atlas Gauntlet with ease, hinting the strength she now has thanks to Singed, and also the fact that her rpg Fishbones is a shark with a scarred eye, meaning Jinx made the weapon with Silco in mind, with his love of the sea monsters and scarred eye,
Fishbones may also be a nod to the monsters Vi and Powder made up while playing, but I do think that every time Jinx is talking to Fishbones, she's actually talking to Silco, just like the Mylo and Claggor dolls, Silco ended up being just one more additions to the voices in her head, but instead of him being another doll, Silco's "totem" or physical reminder is the rocket launcher.
"We know that Caitlyn and Vi won’t die, that it wasn’t going to be Caitlyn’s head under that cover or that Jinx won’t actually shoot Vi"
So, uh....I knew nothing about League of Legends when I watched this show. As in, I knew literally nothing. Zero, null, nada.
Three episodes in, I watched two teenage kids get brutally killed by an explosion. And in the last episode, I saw Jinx carry that dinner platter after kidnapping Caitlyn. Do you think it occurred to me even once that there was no way that she was going to reveal Caitlyn's decapitated head? I had no idea she was an important character from the video game and this animated tv show had already shown me some shit.
You better damn well believe I felt some real tension in that scene, haha.
@@TheKolboShow it was exactly the same for me. Now I regard any and all league of legends lore as spoilers for arcane
@@TheKolboShow To the OP's credit, I think he's pointing out that this scene is so masterfully crafted that even if you're of the group that knew who would die and who wouldn't, you still feel the tension all throughout this scene.
@@lockekappa500 I've seen plenty enough reactors that DID know Caitlyn was a champion in the game, still wonder if they'd pull the rug out. From what I understand (I'm not a League player nor do I know the lore but have been diving into learning a bit since Arcane) they actually did kill off a champion once and removed him from the game. The tension was real, whether you play or not. It was such a well crafted scene that just about everybody got Se7en callbacks in their heads.
I studied art for over 10 years, and the one thing every teacher has told me differentiates art from mere scribbles on a wall - art _touches_ you. If this piece manages to convey something, no matter what that might be, to someone, somewhere in the world: it is art. Arcane is art.
I've also often thought of art in the same way, as primarily conveying (or maybe phrased better: evoking) emotions. There are many different standards and opinions of what constitutes good or bad art, and who am I to disregard them all, but we as individuals experiencing art do in the end rarely care about its measure of (supposed) quality. The important question is often simply: Can we see something of us represented? Did it touch us?
Arcane served to reinvigorate my artistic drive after three years of dormancy. Thought I'd lost that piece if myself, but Arcane reminded me I hadn't... and that there's work yet to be done.
"Don't cry, you're perfect".
Could not agree more with your description of Arcane.
I’ll never forget what I felt when watching Jinx saying “I made her a snack” as she lifts the lid off of the plate. Even though this turned out to be a trick, my heart stopped when she put the plate in the table, I could only imagine what Vi was feeling.
i remember my brother and i got so worked up by that scene. when jinx revealed the cupcake, we paused the show and laughed like maniacs as if we just had a near-death experience.
we knew deep down that caitlyn wasn't gonna die, but my god, the suspense was too fucking much for our hearts
Also i think vi was afraid of 2 things, that it was possibly caitlyns head, but also, she was scared of what powder turned into. If it was caitlyns head, she wouldve been devastated because she loved her, but she would also be devastated at what powder had become. Truly a beautiful scene.
And that scene is only made more poignant when you look at the flip side--at Jinx's perspective. Jinx, while emotionally unhinged, is also pretty emotionally cognizant of what her sister wants from her. Vi wants "Powder" but she fears "Jinx," hates her even. The fear the audience feels mirroring Vi's fear shows how far apart Vi and Jinx have grown. How could they truly love each other like they used to, if Vi can't, even on a basic emotional level, tolerate Jinx's current state--that there is no Powder without Jinx? This is embodied in how Vi tries to fight for her sister at the final dinner scene, invoking all the ghosts of her past as a means to "kill" Jinx. Regardless, of how much it hurts her in the process. And Jinx understands this all implicitly. She knows that her sister can never love her in the same way as they did when they were kids, because Powder grew up and became Jinx and nothing can change that.
And that's why at the end she chooses to be Jinx. Because as flawed a parent as Silco was, he at least truly loved her. And from Jinx's perspective, the same could not be said about Vi.
@@ccasserole5267 and this is exacerbated by how Vi never stopped calling Jinx "Powder". Even when Jinx told her to stop.
That's something Vi does a lot. Jinx will tell Vi to stop, and she never does. We see it again when Vi is listing those names in hopes of helping Jinx. Jinx said "please stop". It's quiet but it's there.
Because of the way the scene is shot, I wasnt sure if I also was closing my eyes or not after the reveal happened for a sec. Very effective.
My favorite scene is in the last episode when Caitlyn says "drop your gun!" to Jinx.. and Jinx's facial expressions go from "innocent little girl" to "evil mastermind" in a matter of seconds.. the facial expressions, with the creepy music make everything feel so real.. I got chills..
Jinx after her shimmer treatment seriously went from being somewhat a mix of whimsical and slightly unhinged like Harley to being straight up slasher movie monster levels of creepy (her hanging around the corner of the screen during Catlyn's shower with her eyes glowing bright purple could have easily turned into the shower scene from Psycho)
And I loved how Caitlyn noticed that subtle change, but still couldn't fully anticipate that Jinx would do what she did and ended up getting clocked in the face. This show is so brilliant
I personally love the viktor dying vs jayce and mel getting it on scene, the way they contrast it, to show how viktor is pulling himself apart for their hextech while jayce drifts away from it into the world of the council and mel, how they both fell at the same time, the overlapping of mel's figure with Viktor's blood combining with the hextech, all of it was incredibly thought through and symbolic. i cried a little tbh
cried "a little", you are a damn liar and we all know it xD
Man everybody says how good that scene was and my uncomfy ace ass could barely look at the screen during it lmao
personally, i laughed at the scene (though it was more of a hollow, pitiful laugh) because viktor was dying, trying to revolutionise hextech, while jayce was out there doing sextech lmao
@@ViridianAubergine saaaaaaaaame
I love that there were so many parallels. These writers know what they are doing.
Jinx for years has been little more than Riot's Harley Quinn/Joker spin off character. They didn't do anything with her or give any real backstory. Now we see that was because they've be baking it behind the scenes for six years.
Jinx in Arcane is a walking calamity, a literary tragedy personified. Everything she does ends in failure. Even when she doesn't do anything everything around her goes wrong. Growing up she's treated like a cursed child, told she's a Jinx and that she's unwelcome. She craves validation, for someone to tell her she's in it worthless and for years that person is her sister. Her killing her entire family while "only wanting to help" is the epitome of her character.
But even later in the series nothing seems to go right for her. She screws up the Progress Day mission. She steals the hex gem but jeopardizes Silco's entire operation in the process and sets Piltover and Zaun on the path to war. Jinx loses the fight against Ekko and even when trying to take him out with a suicide attack she nearly kills herself while he escapes with just an injured leg. During the dinner scene it's a recreation of her family with Caitlyn being the outsider. By the end Jinx would lose more family no matter what she did. If she hadn't killed Silco he would've shot and killed Vi. Jinx is a character who cannot get a win or ever be happy. The world just won't let that happen. So now we at last have a character who just wants everything and everyone to burn, one whom we can actually understand and relate to even if we're screaming for things to go differently. Arcane is incredible.
Yeah you are giving Riot Games more credit than they deserve. They litterally botched a hero launch last year, and a big part of the failure was the Lore. To the point of having to immediately retcon the lore of the hero just after the launch. This version of Jinx definitely isn't the culmination of 6 years of work from Riot. But let's hope though that they do learn from that success.
👏👏👏
@@benjaminparent4115 They made Arcane season 1 over the course of 6 years, so yes, it is the culmination of exactly 6 years of work
@@benjaminparent4115 I hope Mel is actually Rel in the end and she will be in the season 2
Three scenes cemented Silco as not just my favorite Arcane character, but one of my favorite characters of all time: His pursuit of power and monster speech intrigued me, his flashback talking about drowning enthralled me and his final words to his daughter Jinx devastated me.
As someone who nearly drownd myself, I can say that his speech about it is pretty accurate.
@@dyeace only if your at the beach and a nasty wave caught you
i absolutely loved Silco. Part of me wished that he adopted jinx when the war ended. i think everything would have been perfect, if they just had each other before they were truly broken.
@@aj-sz8mu "What could have been" by sting.
I did not expect Viktor turning out to be such a loveable character.
Yeah, he could have easily turned him into cliched crazy scientist like in The Amazing Spider-Man with Lizard man trying to overcome his disability by creating a the drug that eventually turns him into the monster which he uses despite knowing the danger to himself and others, what makes Viktor unique is that he recognizes the error of his ways after what happens to Sky and stops (even trying to kill himself as a form of atonement for what happened to poor Sky, who the show suggests also was from undercity and probably a childhood friend of his).
The look Jinx gave Ekko at the end of their fight before she sets off the bomb breaks me every time...that one look says a thousand words. In my interpretation, specifically "I love you" and "I'm sorry". It hits even harder when you realise that she probably stopped him and set off the bomb because she knows what it's like to kill someone you love and didn't want him to go through what she did, essentially trying to kill herself
I also got a sort of "It's ok, you don't have to kill me yourself" vibe from Jinx in that scene. I also wonder if Jinx knew Ekko had a good chance of getting away from the explosion in time. She's shown to have an excellent sense of how long the fuses on her grenades are.
I think so too. When you look at it from jinx's perspectiv. Vi just left her with Cait. Again. I think she was ready to die.
Also when ekko and powder played that game as kids, you see powder shoot 4 times at ekko. But in the adult fight she only shot 3 times and when ekko was there in the air, right in front of her, no way to dodge the 4th shot. She didn't take it. Why? Did she want to die? Did she love ekko too and couldn't do it? Did her memorys of her childhood friend make her hesitate? Who knows. But when Ekko hesitated I think she was ready to end it all and gave ekko a loving little smirk that ment to me "it's okay you don't have to do it. I will."
@@tradicted aa i'm gonna cry this show is so sad :'(
@@wanderingpaladin4927 yea mate, at first this fight seems so cool, but once you think more into it, it is just sad :(
Just to add, the way I saw it is that Jinx wanted to die because it's the last time she felt like Powder. When Ekko pulled out the stopwatch, Jinx took the same stance as when they were kids and fired in the same pattern. She had no reason to do that, but that one watch brought back memories in her that made her play along.
The fight scene contrasted their older selves with their childish ones not only to show how far they've come, but also to remind us that deep down they are still those same children. When Jinx got overpowered and pushed to the ground, you could see in her eyes and face how fragile and panicked she looked. It wasn't a face of a deranged, psychotic killer. It was a face of a helpless little girl, and Ekko saw that as well which made him hesitate.
Ekko was more than ready to kill Jinx, but he wasn't ready to kill Powder.
Haylee Steinfeld's voice acting was so amazing. The emotion she carries through her voice as Vi was just impeccable.
That girl deserves to be an EGOT
Definitely conveys that hurt
Love the shot of Viktor running, the way the camera moves ahead of him before he starts catching up to it. Similar to his journey from discovering the possibilities of hextech to taking on the mutation and pushing it further. The way his human limp seems to hold him back until the hextech leg starts pushing him forward into a sprint. The idea of whether he is pushing forward, running faster because of the hextech or because of his own drive becomes blurred
I totally agree , but his leg is not Hextech it is Hexcore. There is a huge difference. Just ask Sky.
Also the ship on the background and he running past it as a parallel of a younger him being unable to catch up to his toy.
@@alfredorivera5764 That's a really nice parallel
That’s such a great moment. I could be completely wrong because these two different forms of media could not be more different from each other and they’re made for completely different audiences. But when I watched that scene, I was immediately reminded of a specific shot in the movie Rocky. Where he’s running to the left with boats in the background while gradually picking up speed as the music gets more intense. It’s in the movie’s famous montage. I don’t know if the Viktor scene was a sort of homage or it was a complete coincidence, but either way, the two scenes are pretty much identical in terms of shot composition. They’re symbolic about pushing yourself forward and triumphing through adversity. I feel like I’m the only one to notice the similarities between those two brief moments.
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Something I love about the end is the layered meanings it gives the song and episode title. Its personified in Jinx but thats just the surface. Yes the council was voting for peace, but only now and only after being forced into it. Only after every opportunity to make a better change had come and gone as they embraced the status quo they had benefitted from for so long.
That ending moment isn't just the result of one damaged girls actions. Its not the result of one big sisters momentary failure, or one twisted mans genuine but toxic love for an adopted daughter.
That moment at the end is the result of all the choices, actions and inactions of every character. The result of the institutional and systemic failures at the heart of this city that shaped these people. This final tragic moment, the consequence that could have been avoided so many times, is itself the monster they created.
Brilliant analisys.
Everyone in Zaun is “the monster you created”
Ugh, amazingly put. Love this analysis.
Ah yes. Just like the real world. There is no "them" against us, no illuminati. Just our big collective pile of crap reality that we all created. Sprinkled with masterpieces like Arcane.
Perfect. Just Perfect. That's why the best thing we can do is gain perspective, which is what Heimerdinger set to do. No ONE person can fix all the problem, but at the same time we ALL can, even through our own little actions. Until everyone doesn't come together to be the best we can be, our society will keep creating monsters.
Another sad thing about Piltover is that they don't really research psychology or societal studies, they focus on more profitable research, like engineering (just like real life). They don't have therapists and such, nor any medications for schizophrenia if they even know what that condition is, so even if they could capture Jynx there is no way they can cure her. They treat even sane criminals as irredeemable scum deserving of constant beatings, crazy little Jynx has no chance of being given... A chance. Again, a societal problem.
God this show is insane
Silco's end still has me sobbing
I know. It’s like I know he deserved it for everything he did, but I liked him he was a good dad. I still haven’t recovered the way he died, and his last words “don’t cry you’re perfect”, the look on jinx’s face when she realized that the last person who truly loved her for all that she is is gone. I’m still crying 😭😭😭
@@abuja6425 yea manipulating someone when saying jinx's sister is dead to saying vi only came for cait / the hextech crystal sure seems like a good dad to me
@@ItsEternum
Silco believed Vi was dead: Marcus lied to him. That wasn't a lie at all. He told Jinx that Vi was dead because he himself believed it too.
If you want to criticize Silco, criticize him for being slightly toxic and for being a mob boss. But he didn't lie to Jinx about Vi's death. He simply didn't know she was alive, and then he tried to have Vi killed once he found out. He never directly told Jinx that Vi was dead while knowing she was alive.
@@ItsEternum For the time and place, yeah, he certainly was a good dad.
Silco wasn't a villain. He was the father of Zaun. Arcane was his story.
As Viktor was running, it felt like I was flying. This scene was utterly beautiful, so poetic! And of course, Vi seeing Powder's blood on her palm... The flare scene (kiss your perfect day goodbye)... And the dinner party scene. Those are perhaps my favourite scenes. Words can't express the masterpiece this entire show is. This show is the "glorious evolution" of the video game adaptation. Thank you for these analyses!
Victor's scene is even more beautiful when you remember the flashack of him as a kid, where he is chasing after his boat but couldnt catch it. Then when he is running for the first time of his life, you can see the boats in the background as he runs past them. Its just beautiful, pure art.
Edit: Oh sorry he mentions it in the video. Didnt watch that far.
The Viktor scene is also a metaphor for the science(boats), when he was fragile the progress of science was outrunning him but now with his new tech he can outlive the science
So many good scenes.
My favourite has to be the Ekko vs Jinx fight. Flashing back to the past, to when they played a game as kids, so that Ekko can see the future.
So beautiful. And foreshadowing Ekko's future abilities.
I would add the JinxvsEkko fight in that list of wonderful scenes.
@@splinter4161 I like to think of it as Ekko's strategy. Throughout the show we've been shown that Jinx is a total powerhouse: heavy weaponry, superhuman reflexes, explosives, unpredictability, unseeming strength and speed. Heck the previous two times they fought it was Jinx vs 5 firelights and still Jinx held the advantage, and now Ekko has to face her alone. He knew it was a tall order. So first, keep the surprise factor by acting dead till the last posible moment. Keep speed advantage by using hoverboard. Take away the mini-gun, even in hoverboard he cpuld only evade that for so long. Then take away cristal. Then, to get her to not use the granades, keep her attention on him, give himself time to prepare, and make her actions predictable, he starts their childhood game knowing that crazy Jinx wouldn't say no to that. A brilliant plan with lots of calculated risks.
I feel like arcane deserves so much more popularity than it has already gained. I just feel like it isnt enough. I need the show to be number 1 on every netflix region.
And i dont even play lol. I simply watched it for fun and now im obsessed
Hopefully word of mouth will help is spread far and wide, I'm already trying to convince everyone I know to watch it ;)
The coolest thing ever from Silco:
"I never would have given you to them. Not for anything. Don't cry, you're perfect."
And the chem-barons were right. Silco was losing power, because “power comes from willing to sacrifice anything to achieve it.”
@@armandobelloso4802 those were just gangster talks. Silco was a high ranking officer in the previous rebellion. He sacrificed personally, he walks the walk and breathes the toxin. His diplomacy was backed by wisdom of 4 eras (pre rebellion, rebellion, peace under Vander, disruption under Silco).
His team didn't follow him out of blind loyalty, he's proven himself to them time and time again. That wasn't at all the case for the barons who came up as Street thugs
Looking through the comments of this video, you can really tell that when people say that "Every scene in Arcane is masterpiece", they really mean it. Every single episode, there is just so many scenes in the show that really speak to your heart.
The whole series is a masterclass in perfection. From the first episode to the last dying breaths of the finale. I gave literally every episode the highest ranking ever. I couldn't even pick out five things I didn't like.
I feel like this was a wasted opportunity to not include and talk about the torch scene in episode 6, for me it's probably one of the best scenes not only in arcane, but in media, compressing so many emotions in 2 minutes, and yet done perfectly, they even managed to seamlessly add some comedy in a otherwise very tragic, haunting and sad scene, it's so well done that even just listening the song by it self and remembering that scene makes you cry.
Totally agree-the torch scene is iconic, being seared into the viewer’s memory deeper than other scenes. (I don’t feel like I’m going to cry during the Ekko vs. Jinx music video.) So much going on as Woodkid’s Guns For Hire plays. If any one frame/scene encapsulates S1, IMHO, it is Jinx raising the torch.
@@ISpiers "If any one frame/scene encapsulates S1, IMHO, it is Jinx raising the torch."
This. So much this.
that scene gave me goosebumps
The scene is beautiful since it show how there still some powder in her , since she still waiting for her sister vi to comeback
I think the greatest singular scene in the show is when Jinx screams as she fires Fishbone. That scream housed 10 years of mental suffering, lack of love, torture, manipulation, loss...
It defined the entire series...in one cry out for it to all be over. Jinx wasn't trying to start a war, she was trying to end the cycle of her suffering...
The fight between Eko and Jinx is actually a game they played when they were kids. You can tell by how it keeps swapping from their adult characters to their kid characters, and kid Powder has a tin pot over her head and little Ekko has a protector over his chest. This isn't my theory, but they used to play a game where one would try to get to the other and smack them on the head without getting shot with a paint gun. Ekko proposed they play a game the way they did when they were kids when he dropped down the stop watch and Jinx accepted it and prepared her gun. That's why their stances are so playful and it looks like they're kinda having fun. Because it's a throwback for both of them and without words they've mutually agreed, they know the rules and the only thing left to do is to see who wins.
It's so interesting hearing people's reactions to Victor running. It was such a non-moment for me. I'm chronically ill, 24 and use a cane and a ton of old people medicine ect. and I was watching that scene thinking "great he's going to blow the world up so he can continue to run like that" You know, like every other disability-fueled-desperation villain. But he didn't, after seeing the damage that method would cause others, he gave it up. I first watched that scene waiting for hollywood to tell me who they think I am. Up until that point it was following in the exact footsteps of a hundred contrived stories that came before. But by the second watch I was able to put myself on the dock. I saw my friend running on that dock. Arcane let me do that because of their treatment of character.
Also this is just my own experience. Nothing makes you more jaded for an industry than working for it!
It was a non-moment for me too. In fact I think Victor is extremely overrated. I don't hate him or anything but I didn't feel much of a bond with him and wasn't really engaged during his scenes and I don't get how or why people are acting like he's as lovable as someone like Jinx. In fact, his first few scenes I barely registered him as a character, let alone someone of interest. And I figured the same as you, that he was headed for a villain arc or he was canon fodder for Jayce to have a moment where we're supposed to pity him.
@@sweeety969 i really liked viktor’s character actually, i enjoyed the contrast between him and jayce. he had so much potential, the best one-liners, and he brought out the most interesting aspects of jayce’s character. i just feel like his character arc wasn’t done justice and i wish they’d explored more, seen more about how far he was willing to go and how conflicted he felt about that. in the end, i think it just came down to him not getting enough screen time. that’s my opinion on viktor :)
also cute little thing i noticed. During jinx' tea party when she wears Vi's gauntlets as oven mitts you can see that she painted the gauntlets the way she paints her fingernails
Silco's last words too were multi-layered, which only adds to this scene as well as the show itself. "You're perfect" both acts as a term of endearment to Jinx, and that he doesn't blame her for doing what she just did....however it also vindicates what she has done and what she has become, which only solidifies her more, leading to her doing what she did next.
The line ‘I thought you could love me like you used to, even though I’m different’. Maybe one of the best delivered lines I’ve heard in voice acting. There was so many layers of emotion, it cut me deep like a knife wound
The scene where Jinx uses the blue flare that Vi gave her soo long ago... Holy hell... Owwww! Right in my feels.
I think silco has a great character arc, basically turning into his brother, finally realising why he did what he did and actually following in his footsteps
That Vander death scene was The Last of Us quality of voice acting for sho
Best Voice acting imo. When Jinx says ''You never left, I always heard you... Prickles on the back of my neck, whispers down the spine... See, Silco thinks he made J!nx... But he's wrong, he didn't make J!nx... you did''
You can just hear how she's holding back a flood of tears and how emotional it is.
And ofcourse child Powders scene when she parts ways with Violet. Both Powder & J!nx Voice actors were phenomenal in this series.
Best Voice acting I've ever heard in any of the hundreds of Animes, Cartoons & anything inbetween. Ever.
The other Voice actors were fantastic aswell, but J!nx & Power voice actors were in a whole other dimension with how well they portrayed their characters and truly sprung them to life.
Best scene emotionally.. My favorite would be when Violet makes it to the top of the tower when Powder lights the flare.
Best animated scene, Ekko vs J!nx.
Jinx didn't shot Silco because she wanted to protect her sister. She was in the middle of a full blown panic attack. Vi didn't even register to her at that point. Jinx shot Silco because she heard a gun being cocked in her direction and she respond instinctively to that threat.
That's more like Jinx. She chose her side on the bridge. Vi was already enemy by that point.
Silco was captive because she overheard Silco about the treaty.
Nah, you're wrong. There are two split second frames in that scene that tell us she did it to protect Vi. First, Jinx is curled up on the floor, but one of her eye's opens and she stares directly towards the source of the sound of the gun cocking and that's clearly Silco aiming at Vi, not her. The second scene is a single bullet piercing Vi's chair near her head at the same time Jinx fires her mini-gun.
Even her last monologue starts with "I wanted you to love me..." delivered with a crying voice. She still loves Vi the most (even if she also hates her the most) and that will never change. She doesn't even kill Cait in the end when it would be trivial for her and she is shown executing disabled foes constantly (she is unconscious on the ground and Vi is tied up) because she sees that Vi cares for her (in her mind even more than she cares for who Jinx has become). She was instinctively protecting her sister, there is not even a single doubt about it.
@@Pizvo Then why she run torwards to Silco to apologize and blew the counsil? She didn't chose Vi over Silco.
It was confirmed by one of the writers that jinx shot sikco to protect vi, look at Amanda Overton's twitter
OKAY BUT in the last episode when we hear Jinx say, "Are we still sisters" over a black screen because any visuals would destroy the tragic integrity of that moment????? soul crushing.
I cry literally every time I hear
"Don't cry. You're perfect."
The whole part in act 1, where Powder set off the monkey bomb, personally I think it was my favourite scene, it was one of the few times when a show (or any piece of media, really) got me very close to crying.
It's also the first time in the history of cinema that we see a couple of kids die in such gruesome detail. :'(
Close to tears?
bro come on...
That scene made me cry like a baby and it still does.
I feel like in that scene she felt relief in that explosion, worried that things would just explode off into the wrong direction but finally getting the chance to see that it worked and something right turned out for once, that SHE did right for once. I feel like in that moment she felt like she wasn't a jinx, for once in her life she did something that wasn't jinxed only for her to be heartbroken by the realization that she made things worse and instead killed everyone she loved, it's like her sister calling her a jinx was what finalized and cemented the fact that things no matter what she does, were and always are gonna go wrong whenever she was involved which is what finally made her to adopt the name jinx now that she accepted it as who and what she was.
It was a twist that I didn't see coming ..at all. Shocked me to the bones.
Zaun and Piltover were this close to peace. But, even in the end, Jinx lived up to her name and “jinxed” the chances for that. Such a beautiful way to end and to show her true character identity.
I think what makes the final scene even more tragic is that's it's not only Jinx's fault, everyone carries a small part of the responsibility, with their negligence of Zaun and trying to push for so much progress without stopping to see if somebody is being left behind or not, by the time they actually realize that ... it was already way too late, that's what makes that final scene so poetic, so tragic and so emotional.
The "peace deal" was always a mirage. Silco wouldn't have handed Jinx over to Piltover.
If you really think about it, it's actually Vi who "jinxed" any chance of peace by ratting on her own sister. Jayce wouldn't even have known who Jinx was if not for Vi. It's the same with the event in Act 1, Vi is the one who "jinxed" it all up by robbing Jayce's place. In the end, the issue is systemic and no blame can be assigned to any individuals (except maybe the governing council members).
@@exu7325 "ratting"? The matter was already bigger than family, civil war was brewing. Jinx was already public enemy #1 and Caitlyn brought the confirmation.
Powder having her breakdown when Vi walked away literally broke me! I’m actually crying right now thinking about it. The whole story is so damn powerful and covers every emotion possible.
I love Ekko vs Jynx. Only one line. Everything else told by imagery, microexpressions, and music. So beautiful.
Another scene that belongs in this video is the scene where Jinx lights up the flare. There’s so much desperation to find her sister again and it feels so human. I could go on longer, but how about a simple comment
Man there are so many amazing scenes in this show, but I gotta say that the one that still sticks with me is the first time when they show Zaun while descending in the elevator with Bea Miller singing- it captures the feeling of the huge, chaotic, grimy city that is Zaun, a city that has so much soul and is so utterly human, yet is cast off and undervalued.
Silco VA was born to do this role.
Bro the voice actress for young Powder knocked it out of the fucking Galaxy in episode 3
My favorite scene: "Vi, it worked! My monkey bomb finally worked!"
VI: Yeet!
When you are doing a video about Arcane's perfect scene and end up having to praise and recount several ones, while countless more go through your mind.
Awesome video and nice selection:
- Viktor's running is poetic in its meaning, artistic in its representation, humane in its simplicity, tragic in what is coming next.
- The Powder and Vi breakdown, after the monkey explosion, is a torrent of emotions, even after watching it 50 times, even if you get only the images, even if you get only the lines, even if you get only the music, you still cry.
- The Ekko and Jinx fight is an incredible mix, that should be ridiculous but works completely; between the bold and hype music, the backstory and lore references, the gorgeous art style and direction, the choreography, the emotional conclusion.
- The tea party is the grand finale, a drawn-out and tense dialogue, instead of an expected exciting battle, which builds on everything that happened before (gratz on highlighting Caitlyn's own progression being relevant in this scene, I had missed that!); it's a climax, with death, identity destruction and reconstruction, monstrosity and beauty, and finally a tragic and devastating conclusion. Not to mention several cliffhangers on what happens next and how all the characters are going to somehow move on from all that.
And for every scene you have to remember that it builds on and is magnified by all that came before. A scene might be fantastic even as a standalone, but it shines truly because of the rest of the show.
I am both talking without end and speechless after Arcane. Every scene, every picture, every line is full of meaning and art, and you can discuss each one for hours. There is no way they did that, and there is no way they did not. My favorite fiction ever is the Wheel of Time, it's a book series with many many memorable moments. It has 15 long books. Arcane has 9 episodes of about 35-40 minutes. What the hell. We are still fresh from it, and I personally do not have the largest range of shows or stories or art pieces to compare it with. But I will say it again: Arcane is an incredible masterpiece.
I want to say all that is true...but I've actually encountered several people in my personal life who not only don't cry, most just plain don't care. Others have far more...crude...reactions. One was convinced that Jinx deserved no mercy or consideration of any kind, even before she became Jinx.
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I had no idea I know so many psychopathic narcissists.
@@DoremiFasolatido1979 Well people have their own opinions and emotions. And we are talking about a subjective medium. I love Arcane both because I feel like it was made by talented craftsmen who loved it, because it's high quality, and because it ticks a bunch of my checkboxes.
I get that people may not like Arcane, or just anything in particular, that's fine, especially if they are able to give their feelings or criticism in a constructive and respectul way. I haven't seen particularly offensive takes just yet, mostly overwhelming praise. Some of my friends are probably the ones with the most lukewarm reactions that I found, and then you should see (or avoid rather) the drama people stir up around the Wheel of Time show... However, being rude about ostensibly emotional events, even when they are fictional, is not cool. Tolerance and empathy are qualities that all people should cultivate. Justice and punishment are something else, the measures we take to have a functioning society.
(Edited a bunch, anyway, sorry if that sounded patronizing or just that I took your comment too far ^^)
Now tell me about berserk .
The most powerful line, and the scene that hit me the hardest, came when Silco was sitting underneath the statue of Vander and struggling with his decision. Everything he ever wanted was in his reach, but it meant giving up the one person he ever truly cared about. And he looks at the it statue and says "I understand now, brother. Daughters can be our undoing."
Powder's facial animation during vander's death is way too good. Like absolutely perfect. Most of the time when shows try to animate kids it looks offputting, gross, or uncanny. Arcane matches the intricacy of a kid's expression and motion perfectly.
According to interviews, Vi and Jinx never actually did 1v1 voice acting- they did this on there own- no feedback other than the directors. That is next level when you watch the result.
I think that adds to the show so much actually in this particular case.
Go back and rewatch the Silco and Powder scene of their first meeting, and you'll notice that even then sound effect of the rainfall changes when he lifts his hand to hug her. It goes from rain hitting the pavement to the muffled sound of rain hitting an umbrella, showing how she's under his care now. This show legit thought of all the details.
This show literally have like.....a million scenes that you can pick up and analyze (and yes all are been Analyzed as we speak XD), since AVATAR the Last Airbender not other show I have watch, gotten this much devotion is such a SHORT TIME, this speak volumes of what Riot accomplished here and I hope they keep the spirit of this show burning strong in the future, season 1 of Arcane is probably.....my favorite first season of any animated and live action show I have ever watch, hardly can't wait for a season 2.
Honestly, I'm wary of Season 2. They did such an outstanding job with the first Season, so how are they going to surpass the already high expectations? Also, where does the story even go from here? I just really hope they don't screw it up.
@@oliversmith8098 Madarda(Mel's mother) presence, the Mage that saved Jayce, and Heimerdinger finally getting out his comfort zone and learning from Ekko and Zauns experience, signifies what's to come.
Arcane is the definition of a masterpiece. The best show I've ever seen.
Having never played LoL, I thought for certain that Cait’s head would be on that tray. God, it was so tense.
Everyone was expecting "cupcake" to be in that tray, and that's what it was.
Despite not knowing anything about LoL, I loved this show. So freaking beautiful.
Silco's voice is so soothing to listen to despite the character's motifs and such.
im a graphic designer and illustrator and this show took my breath away, i had to constantly pause it and rewind it cause i couldn’t believe what i was watching, it is so beautiful and full of life i really love this show, can’t wait for the next season and i really hope they make the first one justice
Did you know that in the title for arcane. Powders hair spells jinx. Even in the title, they put little details that make my mind to be blown. Just like how you talk about this scene, they put on little details that gives you information that tells you about the character past present and future.
Well thats their job you find this stuff in every animation series
Mhhh where i Cant find it
@@aliza4707 on the front of her forehead
need that "dont cry, you're perfect" on repeat
In my opinion ep 9 has to be one of the most perfect scenes
Seeing Vi desperately fighting for her sister to remember who she was, while silco is also shouting over vi getting jinx to stay on his side and to not remember powder, and wanting her to stay since he genuinely cares for her as if she were his own daughter (not saying silco was a good person, he wasn’t) and also wanting to finish the plan
Meanwhile jinx is hearing all of this overlapping shouting and hearing these voices creeping behind her shoulder and faces and scribbles completely taking over her vision, we see her lose it again and blindly shooting her gun and like you said, killing silco in the process, I love how they animated these emotions because you could read her face and it had so much regret and anxiety, and the voice acting for that clip was amazing, after silco goes “don’t cry, you’re perfect…” and he dies we see jinx’s face again, it captured how tired she was, how exhausted she was mentally and physically, and when she gets her weapon ready to shoot the tower, all you see on her face is regret again and sadness, as if she had no choice but to complete silcos plan.
And at piltover, they all finally agree on jayces proposal for peace with Zaun, oblivious to what’s about to happen.
Then when it cuts to Vi and Caitlyn, Caitlyn screams out, you can see all of her emotion in her eyes as it shows her mother is in that tower, most likely going to die
Mel looking over to Jayce with a smile, thinking everything is resolved, but then it cuts to Mel, she has armor if I’m not mistaken, looking back at the window, as soon as it breaks the screen goes black.
The colors, the song, the animation, how the blue rocket/bullet contrasts with the orange moon, all of the glowing colors and seeing everyone’s point of view of this possible war, episode 9 will always be my favorite episode of season 1
I think you missed something super important in the Ekko vs Jinx scene.
Ekko is challenging her to a game they used to play as kids, him lowering his clock was the cue to start the game, Jinx is surprised but realizes what he's doing so she takes position to play.
you just made me realise that arcane is one of few animated media pieces that actually uses camera movement like live movies and shows do, a lot of animated movies and shows (I can't name a single one that doesn't do this off the top of my head) has a static camera and something happens, then it changes to another static camera and something else happens, camera work is a key component for making a good scene and I wish more shows and movies in general would take advantage of it more
Powder's cry when she gets hit, when she says she only wanted to help, when she asks her sister why she would leave her. It's so real. As someone who used to have severe separation anxiety as a child, wow that scene hurts. I feel powder. It doesn't matter how long, it doesn't matter why. You left me. And you made it unsafe. The only thing that can FIX IT is never doing that again. Of course, I didn't have the possibly psychopathic tendencies or the actual threat of physical harm on a daily basis like powder did, but it's SO real. Its so real. MY GOD her va is amazing.
To the people commenting so many intricate details of the show:
where did you guys go to school? Like do you now work for the secret service or something? Damn! Hats off to you guys.
The thing about the council voting for peace has a caveat though, they were voting in agreeance to Jayce's negotiation with Silco. Namely that in order for the council to grant Zaun it's independence, Silco would have to give up Jinx. Knowing then that Silco never would have given her over, Jinx just does what Silco would have done anyway: start a war instead of give her up.
just finished arcane and yeah that last scene was something else. To me the saddest part is that Powder/Jinx above all want to be loved and respected for who she is. Yet the 2 people who cared to most for her in the both failed. Vi failed to love Jinx, were Silco failed to love Powder.
What also makes Arcana a masterpiece is how much they were able to fit in 9 episodes without feeling rushed. If i had to sum up what this series is about:
Responsibility, emotions, overcomming setbacks, family, acceptence, power, morality and change.
"using fanservice to serve the story is a really innovative idea"
Kill la Kill : first time ?
True. Probably the first time I saw that in anime lol. But thats pretty specific the whole plot revolves around it lol.
The entire voice acting in arcane is absolutely sublime, Powders voice crack during the line :"Why did you leave me...?" broke me..... I absolutely loved every characters voice in this series.
What I also love about this show is how they make scenes symbolic and tie them in with common expressions. I can't exactly remember when but when Jayce makes some sort of call by the bridge, the bridge literally catches fire. He just burned his bridges.
My favorite scenes are definitely Viktor scenes. The running one, and when the core kills that lady. The expression in his face was just heartbreaking.
Love that this video can’t decide on a perfect scene, so it just says fuck it and gushes over like four of them
“Don’t cry. You’re perfect.” I can’t think of a more earned and tear-inducing line from an animated series, let alone built over the course of a single season.
I really really really enjoy the Jinx vs Ekko mini music video. It took it from dope music and style, playful and colorful, with incredible colors to serious in a split second. Lovely animation. You just forget you're watching a battle between two people to "shit got real"
This is insane, the more arcane-related videos I watch the more I keep discovering more parallels and connections from the show, from visuals to dialogue. I already spend a copious amount of time in the subreddit and discord. Damn the amount of smart people hyper-analysing this show makes me love it even more
Yeah, it's a highly rewatchable show, there is so much depth here.
"Arcane drips..."
I agree
"emotion."
Oh yeah that too
Every scene in Arcane is perfect. Choosing one will always be favourizing. Perhaps the ones that show expressing feelings are the best because these are the most difficult to draw.
SPOILERS. I think that Sevika is a heavly underrated character who has her own arc told at various parts of Arcane. She doubts Vanders decision to lay low and betrays him for Silco, which is shown when she appears in the factory at the end of episode 3. Also, I didn't notice on my first watch, but the reason she has a mechanical arm post timeskip is because she takes the hit from the hextech crystal that powder set to explode, which Sevika did to protect Silco. In the scene where she pushes him away you can actually see her arm disintegrating and later on in the episode she is carried by one of silco's men as the explosion hurt her. Also, the disintegration of her arm is similar to how Viktor's assistant disintegrates much later in the story. Then there is also her having her loyalty to Silco questioned when Finn attempts to get her on his side, but unlike what she did with Vander, she actually decides to stay loyal this time despite the flaws in Silco's leadership. Finally I saw someone mentioning that she could take Silco's role as leader of the undercity now that he is gone. In the end scene (the one where the rocket is flying) we see various characters with foreshadowing taking place (Ekko and the clock for example), and in Sevika's case we see here alone in the office with an empty chair in the background, the one that Silco used to sit in.
Theories aside she is definetly a favorite of mine for the subtle developement of her character.
If the show made anyone cry, I just want to remind you........
"Don't cry. You're perfect."
Vi’s punch was probably the first punch Powder ever took too 😀. You know Vi never would’ve let anyone touch powder
Although I'm late to the party, I just wanted to say that I agree with you, how that one scene of Arcane you talked about here is truly perfect and flawless: the one that is six hours long.
wow the young viktor being outrun by his toy boat but adult viktor outrunning the boats on the river is great symbolism i didnt notice before
A fun thing I noticed with Viktor getting his walking back is the sound design of his footsteps. Before he used the core and the shimmer, his metal walking stick made his walk sound like a *clink thump thump* but afterwards, the clink doesn't go away, it simply replaces one of the thumps *clink thump* I'm not sure what that symbolises but it probably symbolises something
As the father of two daughters, that scene when Vi slapped Powder just crushed me. Whenever they would fight when they were young, I would always tell them how important it was to cherish their relationship. Luckily they grew out of the childish fighting and have a strong bond.
I would never want them to get into a an argument or have a misunderstanding that fractures what they have, like that scene captured so well.
all amazing scenes. but i think ekko vs. jinx is THE best scene. its a PERFECT scene. it blew my mind and melted my face. i've definitely watched it over a hundred times now. it does SOOOOOO much with so little. a mini music video showing how they played as kids. into the extremely quick and brutal fight, leading into the best facial animation i think i've ever seen. and then pulls the rug out from under you with the grenade.
The moment when Jinx looka at that red moon with Sting music in the background 👌
Thank you for talking about my favorite scene. Victor running made me cry.
What Could Have Been doesn't actually start when Jynx grabs the device, it starts when Jynx talks about how both she and VI have changed, and if they hadn't, they could have loved eachother. The song doesn't start with the end of peace, it starts with a wish.
The dinner scene in arcane is ripped straight from a batman comic called "death of the family"
The series starts off perfectly. Three minutes, no dialogue, but really immerses the viewer into what is going on.
But I have to give extra credits to every single fight in the series.
Iv been HANGING for more Arcane content from you 😂😂 THANKS!
You nailed this review mate, thank you
I'd love for this to be a series on your channel, "_____ Perfect scene" where you go through shows and discuss different scenes that peaked at a certain thing.
Silco said power is achieved by those who are willing to do anything to take it.
He lost his power as soon as he made the decision to never give up his daughter for anything.
All those moments aside, I adore Arcane and those particular scenes but if I take step back and think what make me emotional thinking about it is the moment Jayce offer Silco everything he was fighting for in exchange of Jinx. And we are burden with the knowledge who is she, what she mean for Silco and etc and we knew Jayce have no idea what he is talking and no matter how good your intentions are, this lack of information, this blind will (I will have the peace no matter what) ... this lead to the disaster in the end. Because Jayce NEVER ask who is Jinx, he never really try to understand the hole picture. He was thinking that only his good intentions matter. That he is more special and bigger than the hole conflict and just by his will everything will be better. But it was not. This is like the flaw in a good character, in good person. Its not always about you, its not always about your good will and action, there are burdens you are blind for because you dont want or cant see everything. And in his act of good will for peace he smuggle a little bit of arrogance ... enough for shit to hit the fan.
The child actors in Arcane are absolutely insanely talented
The whole episode one, Vi, Powder and the gang, running through Piltover, jumping from rooftop to rooftop, and being Aladdin-esque little artful dodgers is so endearing and such a perfect start and a perfect introductory scene. Pity it was skipped in the video.
We get to see the night and day juxtaposition between Piltover and Zaun. The way the Piltovians are so carefree and rich they're not even thinking twice about leaving whole plates of food out unsupervised, while Zaunites are so starved for resources that CHILDREN are willing to make a name stealing and even fighting for so little.
We get an introduction to a lot of characters -though some, like Jayce, we don't even know were there lol- from Vi and Powder, arguably the most important characters in the series, to characters that don't have the biggest roles but do have a huge impact later on, like Claggor and Mylo, and the other guy that got beat up by Vi (his name's escapes me rn)
But more importantly we get to see how Vi and Powder have matured and their dynamics and relationships and their sibling bond, which wasn't touched much in their first scene.
In all honesty the missile shot and the first hexgate reveal are my favorites. Jinx shooting the nuke shark feels so intense because you know all of the baggage the choice has and that it will bring. The hexgate reveal is simply just pure bliss, absolutely beautiful.
The sting song at the end of that scene was so perfect
"Why did you leave me" fucks me up even out of contest jesus
Ekko vs Jinx is my favorite moment in the series. The art and the soundtrack made it so cool and amazing and it hurts.
Also mad props to young Powder's VA during the "I only wanted to help" scene. My god, i felt that.