#but everyone in Piltover is culpable for wronging zaun and escaping any real accountability no matter how vulnerable the victim was
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I just can't turn my brain off for episode 7 because it's foundations are so contradictory. How can we believe that Piltover decided to change it's ways because one Zaunite kid died when Piltover has collectively proven throughout season 1 and 2 that they don't care about those kids?!!??
In season 1 enforcers regularly harassed and assaulted children in Zaun. In Act 1, Marcus tried to fire his pistol at Powder when she tried to escape him, he only stopped because she was out of range. Vi was a teenager when prison guards regularly beat her as she was falsely impropisoned in Stillwater by the same enforcer without question. Caitlyn didn't care that a child as young as Isha (probably 8) got thrown into Stillwater and neither did any of the guards. Jayce felt guilty that he killed Renni's son, but he never apologized for what he did, and chose to leave his body in the same place, in the same position he died for Renni to find her boy.
Remember that one scene where the camera lingered on that one Piltovan kid who has hurt when Jinx diverted the Grey back on Piltover and Ambessa wiped a tear from his eye? It's sad to know a child got hurt by the Grey, but do you know what other child was hurt by the Grey? VIKTOR. He was hurt by the Grey as a child, to the point that it was killing him by the time he was an adult, but Piltover, including Heimerdinger NEVER saw that as a wrong to be righted. I could keep going on about the ways the Piltovan cast have harmed children in one way or another, but that would get repetitive. The point is Piltover and it's cast have consistently proven that they don't care about children in Zaun in any way that matters, so to assume that Vi's death would bring about change is just dishonest to the story that's been told up until that episode.
#arcane critical#that episode really just fully showed their hand that the writers really saw all the strife they have zaun in is just aesthetic#i remember seeing people say that when marcus found vi's body he was probably a new father and it must have shaken him#clearly being a new father didn't shake him that much when he tried to SHOOT powder and no one#not even grayson was particularly mad about it#the only person that hasn't in some way in piltover directly or indirectly harmed a zaunite child on screen is Mel#and she’s not even from Piltover obviously blah blah blah she's apart of the system blah blah blah#but you get my point#the show's buggest weakness is that it wants to pretend the failures of piltover are out of ignorance#but everyone in Piltover is culpable for wronging zaun and escaping any real accountability no matter how vulnerable the victim was#does no one remember how the enforcers pointed their guns in those kids faces during the shimmer raid... and that was fine??????
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