#Actually Arcane season 2 Lorris

[jenakaine]

… Is that you, Harry?

[1864th]

ARCANE RANT INCOMING sorry its just this fucking show.

they really did need an extra season or even maybe 2-3 more episodes even wouldve been good everything was so rushed not a lot was resolved and i know the show would have ended up being abt the arcane/magic anyway but i wish the conflict between zaun/piltover was resolved first? before introducing noxus/ambessa as proper villains. s1 had really good setups and but the direction they went with some of these characters is just???? SEVIKA DIDNT EVEN HAVE A SINGLE LINE IN S2 ACT3 like are they fucking kidding me. even LORRIS who i never thought would show up ever again had a bigger impact on the story i fucking swear to god...i cant even talk abt vi like i didnt even like her that much in s1 and yet i feel really bad for her bc her character was done so dirty by the writers. there was. honestly nooo way they could have written her arc in a way id like anyway because she has to be an enforcer by the end as per actual league lore but this was like one of the WORST possible ways they couldve done it. caitlyn doesnt even apologize/reflect on anything i actually hate this. mel jinx ekko are like superstars when theyre on screen theyre easily the best parts of the whole season act 3 especially was carried by ekko. will fucking admit that i get GIDDY everytime i heard 'machine herald' viktors voice like the voiceacting/audio work on that or whatever was sooooo awesome. i have no complaints abt jayvik tbh like idk i feel like they had just enough screentime although i will say, their ending and how they got there felt kinda like the writers were definitely trying to cram too much in one episode...which they were. idk why they (netflix) had to keep the eps under 1 hour esp the finaleee of THIS show its a streaming site like theres no timeslot its taking like with tv like i truly dont get it. i only know the most basic of league viktor lore but i wish i watched the show that went that direction instead of...this but it doesnt bother me that much/idrc. when the jayvik reveal happened my brother and i both went woah "this is just like orv" at the same time so thats cool i still think its kinda dumb though aksjdjsjk. i WISH WISH so much that mel had more screentime but her story honestly went fine. just felt so side quest-y. bringing up s2e7 because as much a cliche it is i really loved it so much. an AU episode like that somehow didnt even feel that out of place despite them literally introducing this concept 15 episodes in on an 18 episode total show. its also the only ep that felt close to what i loved abt the early acts of arcane so... also brooo they dont even bring up isha like what the point of introducing her just killing her off like that and JINX. she deserves better like wtf do these writers have against her 😭. i wish that they kept vi&jinx as the core of the show like its why i even liked it at all....atleast we'll always have s1 & s2 act 1 vi&jinx. overall arcane s2 is like 7/10 i still honestly enjoyed it. just mad abt like every decision done with caitvi & jinx and the overall plot i guess.

[arcane-ish]

I think some of these questions can be explained (ie like Mel liking puzzle boxes).

For some other cases it's an intentional change in approach. Like Jayce popping out the portal and going crazy is supposed to shock us, but it likely will be covered later.

That said, I fully agree about a lot of the new characters not feeling like characters. And I have been mulling over why that is. I think we have basically the same list.

Lorris, Maddie, Steb and Isha don't feel like real characters.

Rictus is slightly better, but I would still put him closer to the "feels like a prop" category.

(and I think with some slight redefinition one could even put Syke and Huck into this category. Now both of them are from season 1 and both of them are kind of a position of "well it is their job that Huck loses his identity and Skye just is a figment maybe". I just feel if this was season 1, I feel like something like Huck stopping to be his own person would have been accompanied by more hints of what is being lost)

I guess we could even put Vi and Jinx's mom in here, but then again, she basically is supposed to be just a memory and not a real person. So again "can we really hold that against her that she doesn't feel rooted in the world when she just flatout isn't". Same goes for Kino.

So I thought maybe this goes for all characters and for them season 2 is just the "blow shit up" or "we are not doing new characters anymore" season.

Then I thought about new or minor characters that don't fall into this category to me.

When it comes to the genuinely new characters, it's actually mostly Lest. From the ones that were already established but not majorly characterized before, I would put Sallo and the chem barons and Mel's assisstant.

Also the chembaron's accountant.

They work all work because they follow the logic of "they feel like they have their own shit going on". They often express frustration over things they have to do and they don't overstay their welcome.

ETA: I think a big problem is that season 1 had very human antagonists and season 2 for one has issues picking a main antagonist AND I would argue that the real main antagonist of season 2 is shaping up to be the non human unknowable entity The Arcane which just infects a lot of things around it with "well, if is non human and unknowable and so the things interacting with it or acting in its interest now are like that as well"

what made season 1 so stunningly good was that every scene could be explained with stuff that happened on screen.

Why did Vi know where to find Vander after Silco took him? well of course because of Ekko who was established in the first few minutes of the first episode to be the character to be on look out.

Why did Powder follow the others to the abandoned building? why because she wanted to feel useful, she wanted for her stuff to work and she wanted to help. She wanted to not be the Jinx. This was all established through character moments that were natural and normal human interactions.

Why did Mel invest in Jayce? Why because first of all her own mother sent her away so seeing Jayce's mother stand up for her son must've hit her. And we see her talking about having to find new investments. Of course she would. He sounds interesting enough. Why not try it? If it doesn't work banishment is still on the table.

Why did Viktor help Jayce? Because he didn't want to stand in Heimerdingers shadow as just an assistant anymore. He was sick and knew the problems of the undercity first hand, he wanted to help. Of course he would, if there was a chance hextech could do it.

Why did Marcus continue to help Silco even after Graysons death? Why, because of his daughter or course. He could be threatened, molded and used. He wanted to establish big things, and was hasty in his youth, and we see 1. Silco exploit that and 2. Marcus regret that.

Why did a shimmer induced Huck help Caitlyn out? Why because as early as the very first episode in Vanders first speaking scene he gets help from Vander and well why wouldn't he then show that help for Vi, knowing he can?

literally every scene makes sense, everything can be explained with stuff that we SEE in the show. There isn't anything "off screen" or just not there.

Now tell me

Why did Caitlyn suddenly switch sides again in season 2 act 2? Why and how did Mel know that her brother wasn't actually her brother? Why did she know how to solve the puzzle? Why is Viktor suddenly floating in the universe? Why does Ambessa just ignore her daughter being abscent outside of that one throw away line? Why do Maddie, Loris and Isha exist? Every chatacter existed for a reason that wasn't just Plot even if they sometimes were just for Plot in season 1. But Maddie, Loris and even ISHA for gods sake, really are just Plot. Isha not as much as Maddie and Loris and thank god for that but still, her character, while I still hope it isn't true, existed to die and further Jinx's pain.

it's just so ugh