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mollysunder · 2 months ago

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I know Heimerdinger's Christian Linke's favorite character, and I sort of tolerated it in s1, but now it feels like things are a little too indulgent. Heimerdinger gets to team up with Ekko to launder his reputation through Ekko and the Firelights. Heimerdinger gets the first narrative game and second character teaser in the promotional cycl. Heimerdinger gets to SING A SONG that's included on the s2 Arcane soundtrack (Spin the Wheel).

Maybe I'd be less annoyed if the show at least did more to acknowledge Heimerdinger's failings as a leader, but his character description can't even do that. This is how the official Arcane website describes Heimerdinger:

"Heimerdinger warned the Piltover Council about the dangers of using magic without tangible solutions for safeguarding its use. Learning from his mistakes with Jayce, Heimerdinger inspires Ekko to keep looking for a solution and works with him to solve the problem, instead of just offering advice."

That's not Heimerdinger's main problem! The problem is the fact he's the person most singularly responsible for the state of Zaun and Piltover. It feels like the show and the cast are just dancing around the fact that Heimerdinger technically has the highest body count in the show (Day of Ash, pollution, extreme poverty, etc). The one time someone puts him to task (Jayce), the show makes it seem like Jayce is wrong or overstepped, and yeah he did do it for Viktor's sake, but Jayce was right! Heimerdinger's bad at his job, he shouldn't be in a leadership position if he's a bad leader.

#arcane #arcane ramble #heimerdinger #they probably didn't include heimer in the scene where the council gives the greenlight for enforcers #to shakedown zaun #but inaction is still a choice it's still a failing politically and morally #it still makes him look bad and i don't know if the showrunners really get WHY #that's why the decision to have Ekko be paired with Heimerdinger is so baffling #it ignores the weight of the Heimerdinger's impact as a leader and is frankly a disservice to Ekko's character #and really any character from zaun or even piltover that cannot take the 2 nanoseconds it requires to recognize how heimerdinger failed them #and the explanation that ekko respects heimerdinger as an inventor and they connect as such is kind of ridiculous #does that mean if silco had an engineering degree suddenly he and ekko could be bffs?#alright I've said my piece about this oversized troll doll #maybe I'll say more after s2 #almost definitely #also I'll always be on Jayce's side for kicking heimerdinger out #he was objectively rught that heimerdinger shouldn't be there #Heimerdinger's still president of the Academy he's just not council member #why work in policy if you're uniterested politics?

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