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mollysunder · 8 days ago

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I notice a lot of people (rightfully) complain about the Black Rose arc coming out of nowhere. I think the bigger problem was the Glorious Evolution arc. Once Viktor shows up in space with white hair, his and Jayce's story and the Anomaly practically bulldoze any grounding the plot has to the rest of the cast. It was so beautiful, but just as unnecessary in its execution too.

I firmly believe s2 should have stuck with with Act 1 with 3/5ths to 3/4ths of its runtime and keep that trajectory. Would that have made s2 infinitely better? No. The writers have weird priorities that bias them against actually examining the implications of their story. But they would have been forced to keep the cast together and are less likely to send them off to alternate timelines/pocket dimensions to learn lessons that didn't need to be learned in alternate timelines/pocket dimensions.

#arcane critical #i think it's fair to say the glorius evolution happened to happen #the minute i say viktor with white hair i was like “what are we even doing”#i had to force myself to take it seriously #and then by act 3 i was like yh viktor and jayce are the creators' real special boys as they wax on almost offensively #everyone else is irrelevant #mel killing ambessa and jinx and vi's final confrontation with vander are almost afterthoughts #like they were checkmarks on a list #s2 is a really expensive visualization for a story skeleton

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