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littlebigmouse · 1 month ago

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Same. I sincerely believe the introduction of their mother is the worst scene in season 2 so far, not only because the scene itself is pretty bad, it makes very little sense in context (in terms of the characters emotional states) and retrospectively harms S1Act1.

I fucking hate this, what do you MEAN it explains it, did Season 1 not already explain it?? Did Season 1 not make you understand it already?? Did Season 1 not focus on Vander's corpse and the emotions on Silco's face when Powder tells him Vi left her? Did you not get that Silco empathized with her because he knows how it feels to be abandoned by an older sibling? Did he not spend the entire season comparing Vi to Vander and his past to Jinx's? Were there not already multiple scenes depicting Silco and Jinx's bond and how he came to fiercely love her after years of taking care of her?? You stilI needed another hamfisted justification for his love for her?? He needed to be her godfather and friends with her dead mother for you to understand Season 1? I despise takes like this so muchhh

#s1act1 is my fav bit of arcane #and the flashback undid silco and vander as characters in 2 minutes flat #not to mention #did the mum need to be there?? what is her purpose??? the flashback is supposed to be vander rediscovering and reconciling #his past self and the love for his family #but we only get the love for his kids framed via using the mother as a proxy?#weren't these oprhaned kids lovable enough as strangers #did he suddenly need to have known them before?#same for silco #because they wanted to force that dumb powder/jinx 'accidentally ruining family' theme so hard on him they had to bring him back #and assassinate his character too while they're at it #at least arcane is consistent and does it in two shots #fucking hell i hate these changes so much #tbh the focus on these parallelism and i'm call it the 'storytelling aesthetic' is tearing apart the plot and it's really obvious #i have no idea what was going on in the writers room that we got two extensive vander flashbacks only one of which was kinda about him #the other introducing a character no one needed to reframe already perfectly wrapped up story beats #but no context on why jayce suddenly wants to kill viktor #oh we get implications #like with ekko and jinx #we get implications and vibes #and ekko and jinx kind of work in that one ep (and bc their relationship is never relevant again but that's a diff rant)#frankly the writers priorities this season are driving me up a wall #like hey maybe you wouldn't have to keep introducing new characters if you kept the ones you have around #and maybe a plot that doesn't have time/space for half it's main cast and rather has them out of the way needs some more work #i'm sorry for the tag spam #i am chidi anagonye pointing at the mum flashback muttering 'this. this broke me. i'm done'#arcane #arcane season 2 #arcane s2 spoilers

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