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mollysunder · 26 days ago

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After seeing the bts clip of Amanda Overton describe the deleted Ekko and Powder reunion scene, I can confidently say they shouldn't have scrapped this for "Misfit Toys". The flashback could have given a brief glimpse of Ekko outside of Vi and Jinx's sphere and better establish his and Jinx's relationship later. And they want to establish this dynamic where Ekko and Jinx had this deep friendship but it can only be relegated to music video sequences. Those two have not a single conversation in all of s1, they just get mvs.

Nearly every episode in s1 got a flashback. Each flashback established an important trait for the cast members that was effectively used to further define their characters later in the episode, Silco is the best example of it. It feels like they went with style over substance with this one, because it's not like "Misfits Toys" adds that much to the story, maybe vibes, but not actual worldbuilding like a flashback would have.

#arcane #arcane meta #ekko arcane #i don't really get how the flashback would make the fight seem repetitive #aren't these people addicted to parallels and callbacks or domething!?!???!!#likewas jinx and ekko's friendship supposed to be a secret to the audience #technically there's more scenes IN-SHOW to establish Heimerdinger and Ekko's connection than there is for Jinx and Ekko #mvs are a great form of storytelling but they shouldn't be a crutch for actual dialogue and pacing #I'd gladly sacrifice misfit toys for the flashback #i also remember in bridging the rift overton stated that it was the animation team's idea to show ekko and jinx as children in their fight #so was it after seeing those storyboards did they decide they could scrap the flashback?#imagine if they did this to the other cast members #it'd be weird

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