#arcane act iii spoilers

[love-byers]

do you and bro ever just explode into a bisexual kaleidoscope

edit: apologies, i thought the butterfly pic was either official art promo or a frame i hadn't seen before. it's actually fan art which someone kindly linked in the reblogs <3

[babiedragons]

mayb i dont want that maddie blog theme ,,.. 🐌 mayb ill do vi or that alternative universe powder ,,. she was super duper silly and ep 7 made m cry

[pleaseberude]

No one talk to me, I don’t want to hear or talk with anyone until I die.

[hornetkun]

one thing i found fascinating upon rewatching; i believe jayce is the only one to have four prints of the herald across his forehead, and the other in his scalp.

while the rest of the world faced the herald, jayce was the only one to have viktor at his back.

[butchprose]

arcane is an allegory for grief and love persisting and how People and Love will save you over and over again & it is also an allegory for living with disability and radical acceptance. in this essay i will

[bluzebub19]

By God, Mylo and Claggor were attractive in THAT episode. Claggor had a whole ass glow up but since Mylo's my favorite from the start, seeing him grown up was so awesome. I'm sorry, I just love Mylo more, he's so silly. I got so happy he was alive in another universe, he was my one of my faves 🥹

Edit: IDC, I LOVE HIS STUPID MUSTACHE, OKAY?!

[jkriordanverse]

Just realized when rewatching s2 was "Is there anything as undoing as a daughter" but it went from Silco to Jinx to JInx to Isha-

[kaoskuantico]

I hate Act III, sorry. All the second season was too rushed and some characters that didn't deserve a happy ending got it, and those who have been suffering got the worst ending.

Acts I and II were good, but III is the worst.

I still think Arcane is one of the best shows we've gotten and will get for a long time, the art, animation, soundtrack, the characters...I love Arcane, that won't change. And that's exactly why I'm so critical with the second season, because I expected more and better, I know it could have been better. Maybe they only needed another season to not rush all the plot lines, or even discard some of them.

In case someone hasn't seen Act III yet, ARCANE ACT III SPOILERS

I made another post with the things I LIKED (click).

No one cares but here's a list of the things I hated:

Too rushed, I think we needed another season BEFORE this one

WTF Caitvi sex scene IN JINX'S CELL, RIGHT AFTER SHE LEFT. That's so disrespectful and stupid, Vi wasn't in the right state of mind, as much as I love Caitvi, putting that scene there was a mistake

I'm sorry but I also hate Timebomb (I'm a Lightcannon shipper, which is funny because Lux doesn't even show up in Arcane, but one can dream through fanarts)

Jinx surrendering (why we didn't even get a flashback scene?) and being imprisoned like a dog. Yet the enforcers were never punished

Vi not listening to Jinx telling her MULTIPLE TIMES to get out of there, and because of her, Jinx sacrifices herself (yes, I know she's most likely alive. But that brings my next point:)

Jinx not getting a happy ending at all. She lost everyone, right when she was about to get rehabilitated, Isha dies right in front of her. And we didn't get any Sevika dialogue with her, not even trying to save Jinx (Sevika surely didn't know, but at least a scene where she looks for Isha and Jinx???)

The final scene where Vi is only seen with Caitlyn. Yes, I knew they'd end up together and they deserve it, but what about everything that happened? Losing all her family? Learning to fight just to lose everything and everyone? Ekko not talking to Vi at all after the war? Vi not mourning Jinx?

Why make Jayce and Mel be together if they were going to forget about it and act like it didn't happen? (I prefer Jayvik, but that's another story)

Jinx saving Caitlyn, but apparently that didn't matter at all. Jinx killed her mother, yes. But enforcers killed countless of people, including Jinx and Vi's parents. Even if Jinx surrendered, why put her in that isolated jail? That was Caitlyn's grief acting

Honestly I don't know why Isha had to sacrifice herself, I feel it was too unnecessary, just to traumatize Jinx even more and kill Warwick again.

I wanted to see more of Vi, of her life in prison and before their parents died (besides Vander's memories). But they put too much focus on Caitlyn and the Caitvi. As if Vi's entire character is being Cait's girlfriend

Caitlyn (and every enforcer) didn't get punish at all for their crimes. Caitlyn became a dictator because Jinx killed her mother, but countless of children saw their own parents be murdered in front of them, and now they're the bad guys for attacking back? Mind you, at least Jinx aimed her weapon to the Council, the people who oppressed them.

But Piltover kills civilians like nothing, putting CHILDREN in jail. At the end, they end up like the good guys, giving Zaun a seat in the Council. When they should have fought for it, making Piltover pay for everything they've done. Which brings my next two points:

Zaun is never set free, it's still part of Piltover

Following the previous point: Caitlyn becomes a dictator, Viktor a cult god who almost destroys the world. But Jinx is so unredeemable???

Vi accepting Cait immediately, as if act I didn't happen. I understand they wanted to make Caitvi canon, but it was too rushed.

The 'good timeline' being like that because Vi died???? WTF the enforcers wanted a name, ANYONE to put the blame on, so the Council could 'make an example'. And now suddenly everything is okay? The abuse from Piltover is gone? But even if that were true, it's sad it would take Vi's death so peace could exist

Cait put Jinx, a traumatized, suicidal and schizophrenic girl in an ISOLATED CELL.

In a more relaxed note, I hate the design of Powder in the other timeline. I have to admit I absolutely love Jinx's design, with her bang and long braids but damn I expected a Powder with a single braid and a better sense of fashion xd

I understand Ambessa was behind everything, she was using Caitlyn recent grief to manipulate her. But she never apologized, her actions can't be erased, she said it herself.

Jinx giving 'her blessing' to Vi to be with Cait. Jinx has been feeling replaced by Cait since season 1 and right when we thought they could resolve this (before Act III), they do this. If anything, they confirm Cait replaced Jinx and that Jinx had every reason to feel like that

Jinx sacrificing herself (yeah, we know she isn't truly dead, but I'm talking about the symbolism) WASN'T REDEMPTION. IT WAS SUICIDE, A TRAGEDY. Just a few hours ago Jinx tried to kill herself five times, she just saw an opportunity to do it again and not making Vi fight for her, because Jinx feels she doesn't deserve Vi. It wasn't heroic, it was a suicide

Singed getting his happy ending. HIM, OF ALL PEOPLE. He created the Shimmer, made it a drug and created addicts in Zaun just so he could keep experimenting.

Dude, I get it, you want your daughter back, but at that point you should've just accepted she's gone. Vander is gone, Vi and Ekko are left alone (which brings my next point), Jinx killed herself, Jayce spent days, weeks or months alone in an apocalyptic world, Zaun is still under Piltover's power...And HE gets his happy ending? No consequences? No punishment for experimenting on dead bodies/potentially having killed them, for being in Ambessa's side????

Following point 7, why Vi is only seen with Cait at the end? Ekko is truly alone now, and Vi only has the enforcer who betrayed her and never apologized for her actions with her and Zaun. I get it, they wanted to please Caitvi's shippers, but shipping is not the only thing here (which why I hated Timebomb in the alternate timeline)

The whole Noxus thing. It took away the Piltover-Zaun conflict, and it felt too big to make it fit in the second season

Heimerdinger's death. It was so unnecessary and stupid

As I said in point 3, I hate Timebomb. But I expected they'd go this route. What I didn't like is how they made Ekko focus so much on the Firelights just to make it about Powder in the alternate timeline. As far as we were shown (in Arcane only, not counting LOL), Ekko maybe had a crush on her when they were kids, and since Powder went with Silco they were separated and even fighting.

Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't make sense to me why a childhood crush was so important that in the alternate timeline he doesn't hesitate to be with her. Why he doesn't look for the Firelight members, see if they're okay? AND HIS TREE???

Other fans say Ekko loves both Powder and Jinx, but I don't see it that way, even when he came back, he almost calls her Powder again. When he was the one saying she's Jinx now (back in season 1).

They didn't show the conversation after Ekko stopped her five suicide attempts, and even if the creators and writers say they did, I don't like when they don't show it but we have to make the scenes out of what they say afterwards.

Even if it's hinted in LOL, in Arcane there was not enough development to make it believable.

There are so many skipped scenes. Sevika went from leaving the room (not even saying a word, she didn't get any dialogue past Act II) to fighting along other Zaunites and Firelights against Ambessa. No reunion scene between Jinx and Sevika, no Sevika asking where the kid is, no them bonding a bit over the loss.

Maddie being a spy. I knew something was off with her in her first scene, but I feel her traitor reveal was so empty and meaningless.

As I said in other post: I liked how she was presented at first: a (probably) new and naive enforcer who wants to do better, who admires Caitlyn and because of that, she makes wrong decisions such as supporting Ambessa and the Martial Law.

Following in another post because I reached the character limit

[love-byers]

bisexuality demons were kicking his ass

[spicynectarines]

The alternate universe where hex tech wasn't invented implies that Jayce killed himself lmao

[tiredlylaughing]

Can we just pretend like it's the first time? Arcane S2E7 x S2E9

[pleaseberude]

I still had win because this dead gorgeous man had appeared in my screen

[theoutcastrogue]

A point about Silco's politics.

Silco somehow did the "nationalist noble" thing by reversing cause and effect. Traditionally, the local nobility (or the bigshots in any case, elders, landowners, rich fucks, warrior aristocracy, whatever's handy) of a subjugated region will happily champion nationalism in order to get rid of the overlords and rule in their place, while convincing the lower classes (and themselves, if they're not very smart and/or cynical) that they're on the same side.

Silco became the bigshot (heartwarming rags-to-riches story!) in order to champion nationalism. Obsessed with achieving power by any means, he used shimmer (and Vander's elimination) to establish the Chembarons [*] as the closest thing Zaun has to a local ruling class, separate from their Piltie overlords. Of course, it was more a mafia than a government – not that these two function that differently.

However, by viewing power as the necessary stepping stone to Zaun's independence, Silco completely lost the ball. Shimmer could have been a weapon, to be tactically employed in the veins of people who actually wanted to fight Piltover. Still extremely shady tbh, but clear in purpose. But that would require getting people to want to fight Piltover, and Silco seems to have… neglected that. Instead, he flooded the streets of Zaun with shimmer, the very place he was supposed to liberate, causing a hideous addiction epidemic (fastest way to kill a social movement btw), and only cared to weaponise it to wrestle more power for himself from other Zaunites. NOT from Piltover.

So something went extremely wrong there, and Silco ended up "an industrialist". The local strongman, the little big man, The Man, the Boss, the one the lower classes dread. For Ekko (whose assessments matter VERY much), he's the No 1 enemy and biggest threat to the well-being of his people, not because he's more powerful than the Council, but because he's closer, getting his hands dirty every hour at every corner. Whereas Piltover's systemic exploitation works from afar and in the background, and is often experienced as neglect rather than assault.

And THEN, Silco got to negotiate on behalf of Zaun because the Council went to him, after Jinx caused mayhem on her own. Jayce came waving a white flag, because he was also acting unilaterally. In short, through NONE of Silco's doing, Zaun's independence fell on his lap. And ironically he couldn't take it, because the price was his daughter.

Fantastic character btw (the depth, the pathos, the total lack of qualms) but damn. Some nationalist. Some liberator.

[*] It's unclear to me why there are several Chembarons when shimmer was basically commissioned by Silco, and therefore could be controlled solely by him. Did the others reverse-engineer it? Did he share? Did he need their facilities after his lab blew up? No idea.

[lady-griffin]

Act III Preview

"If you come, use all that explosive potential of yours for good, maybe we could rewrite your story."

In the preview for Act III, Vi presumably says this to Jinx and I probably shouldn’t feel this way, but I genuinely hope this doesn’t motivate Jinx in the slightest.  As bad as that may sound, I honestly hope this impacts Jinx in the complete opposite way Vi was intending; like she ended up making things so much worse.

Again, I know that sounds awful and it’s not like I want things to get worse, but I can't help but feel like Vi doesn’t understand Jinx nor is she really trying to. I find this line so frustrating and tone deaf, especially considering everything Jinx has recently gone through.

But maybe that’s just me or maybe I’m being way too harsh on Vi.

[butchprose]

(MAJOR ARCANE SPOILERS)

man they didn’t even say they’re a league of legends :(

[discoonthegrass]

There’s a huge time paradox with Arcane Act 3 that is really bugging me.

The mage that saved Jayce is Viktor after he succeeded in his glorious evolution and brought about the death of everyone. He succeeded in this because he was merged with the hex core, which was initially created by Jayce and Viktor as we saw in s1. After Viktor realized he fucked up, he decided to go back in time and give Jayce a rune in order to inspire all of this to happen, with Jayce being the only one who can bring Viktor from the brink. He does this infinite times until Jayce succeeds. Very romantic.

Except… how was Jayce even alive in the timeline that the mage is from? After all, in this timeline (I will call it the OG time), there was no mage to save him. In OG time, Jayce dies (or even if he lives, he is not inspired to merge magic & science), hence there was no Hextech, hence there was no Viktor Jesus, hence there was no Viktor fucking up the entire world, HENCE THERE WAS NO MAGE.

This is a massive massive plot hole since the Viktor in OG time who eventually becomes the mage (aka the Viktor that used Hextech to destroy the world & regretted it) literally could not have had hextech to begin with given that Jayce would be dead if not for the mage, but since this Viktor is the one who becomes the mage in the first place, there is no other mage to make Jayce into who he is. Essentially, the mage, as the Viktor-hextech person that we saw, cannot exist without Jayce being both alive & inspired to merge magic/science. By the same token, Jayce would’ve been neither of these things if not for the mage. It is a paradox. “What came first, the Jayce or the mage?” The answer is neither and both. It is impossible. It is, dare I say, illogical. 🖖🏻

Idk if I am making any sense. I can try to draw it out to help you visualize it but there is a plot hole here.