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darrengrave · 4 days ago

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I think one of the funniest things about the Arcane writing team is that seemingly specifically because they didn't intend to write Viktor and Jayce as romantic they accidentally developed one of the most interesting and moving queer dynamics on television, and specifically because they were so into Caitlyn and Vi they completely forgot and failed to develop literally any chemistry between them at all before we were supposed to believe they had a thing going on beyond vague interest.

#arcane #as a writer i see exactly how this happened - you were too into it and skipped all the necessary steps to get to the meat of it but it was #way too premature to be at all interesting #whereas because they weren't distracted viktor and jayce are fully realized and developed #dont get me wrong i WANTED to like caitlyn and vi really badly #caitlyn and vi's shared portraits in league have a chemistry arcane cannot seem to get their hands on #i simply do not believe they like each other nearly as much as this script expected me to #they did the work to develop a sociopolitical interest in each other with a spark of attraction #and then they just completely dropped every single thing in between that and writing them as if they're married #i would've believed a developing situationship throughout s2 where they got together towards the end with the same prison cell scene #way more than a completely offscreen relationship then breakup & makeup #they simply weren't distracted with viktor and jayce and accidentally made their partnership basically the center of this universe #developing them as strong separate characters with deep flaws and the only thing that makes up for those flaws is each other...like???#i WISH caitlyn and vi had been that neatly character driven - the structure they set up to do it was right there!!#they couldn't focus on developing character to fill in the structure!! so they turned into a hollow plot-driven husk of a relationship #it just sticks out really sorely in an otherwise super solid character driven show and it's such an easy fix just give them more TIME #not even more screen time- literally just wait to establish them as a couple until the prison scene to give them time to cook #they're about to make the same exact mistake with jinx and ekko i can feel it

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