#i think ekko and mel were done dirty in the way characters like lucas in st were. but i won’t get into that rn | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

evie-doesnt-write · 1 month ago

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I feel because of Jinx and Viktor’s popularity in fandom (having some of the most annoying fans in Arcane fandom) and the attention they receive in the show itself, people forget/don’t realise how bad they were done by the writers in s2

#saying this as someone who had thought jayce was reasonable for killing viktor in s2 #the way they stripped all nuance from viktor’s actions and made jayce 100% right and the arcane/glorious evolution instead of highly flawed #and morally dubious/neutral #into just bad and wrong(tm)#was weird. it was weird.#i don’t want to compare to league because i do think adaptations should be judged on themselves for the most part #and i’m not too familiar.#but i think the ending should have been left open. like let piltover and zaun still be at war and the characters finding their place in that #also escalation from misguidedly transforming unwitting but willing people to viktor just deciding to turn everyone into an emotionless robo #was weird too #someone smarter than me do a deep dive idek #everyone became a centrist when faced with the true enemy; extremist zaunite (but like not even for zaun)#its not that i wanted viktor to be innocent. his actions in act 2 were morally dubious and he was destined to become darker and more extreme #but the way they did it was weird #and the way they resolved his character. it just feel so half-assed if you look past how emotionally charged and beautiful it was #do not even get me started on jinx… the ‘jinx is alive’ theory better be real because that’s the only way to salvage her character #but like i think they handled her character terribly for all of act 3 #i think ekko and mel were done dirty in the way characters like lucas in st were. but i won’t get into that rn #jayce and vi also kinda felt reduced to their relationships…#arcane s2 act 3 #arcane critical #arcane criticism #arcane #arcane season 2 #arcane s2 #viktor arcane #viktor #jinx arcane #jinx

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