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night-triumphantt · 22 hours ago

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Someday I’ll stop reblogging arcane critical posts I’m sure but fjskdjsksjs my cousin finally finished and I was sent back into the hole that is ‘wtf was that I am actually so thoroughly dissatisfied with nearly every narrative choice they made now that I’m not being blinded by emotions’ and i fear I’m no fun to talk to ab it for her 😂

The tags for this got Crazy but I stand by them 😂 (tho none of it is polished so, yk, don’t come at me if some stuff is a lil underbaked ok, I only got 30 sentences)

#she was still in her grieving jinx era #tbf to her it took me a day for my feelings to go from man the visuals were so stunning and the emotional hurt from vi and jinx #to actually analyzing but like #on nearly every level for the characters I was dissatisfied #yes even echo #bc whERE were the firelights #and I KNOW all of it boils down to #they did not care to tell the story of a revolution #they just didn’t #so the characters have to drop every part of that until it becomes an afterthought #despite it being the driving tension of season 1 #Vi does not think on her actions at all which I’ve talked a bit more ab elsewhere so I’ll spare you #jinx has the most relation to that plotline but even then we don’t linger on it like I thought through isha we could go down and parallel #silco and vanders struggle.. silco wanting independence but not being able to trade his daughter vander putting down his gloves to make sur #they were safe #and jinx who really didn’t care that much ab the politics presumably channeling that same energy into fighting for independence for isha #could be so good… esp if it was combined w a storyline where Vi recons w her own identity outside just a protector of jinx #and then echo and his firelights building community and fighting for his ppl like #do u see what I’m saying #for sevika I think wld have been rlly interesting to show her shift from follower to leader bc she has always wanted what’s best for zaun #but has always simply backed whoever she thought would get it done #I think her taking more agency in it was a good choice I also think her and ekko shld have some sort of interaction #and Mel should have beat her mom with her own strengths. her political savvy. her cunning. and her ideals. and should have pushed for an #independent zaun bc I think Mel wants peace and I think if the story cared to go the revolutionary way she would have known what the right #thing to do was. also her mom shld not have suddenly been stupid. after pushing for the war and finally getting the weapon advancement rout #she wanted maybe she does something else. but also I think Jayce and Viktor realizing what they have created w their science was a good plo #it’s not the technology it is how you wield it and how you develop it and then realizing what they’ve done was always good. I hate the pivo #to oh yea it’s actually the magic is bad.. like.. ok. intrinsic magic good. magic to better the society and cure ppl badddd (tho that’s not #where they ended up but the story made it seem like yea the arcane is just bad nd it corrupts if you ask too much of it ??#arcane critical

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