#like as much as i enjoyed the scene itself the caitvi sex scene was in a bit of a strange place imo

[mydignityisinflames]

Overall I did really enjoy S2, in particular act 3, but I definitely think it should have been 3 seasons not two. They crammed too much in so some bits ended up being a bit underdeveloped and there were pacing issues throughout the series but the animation was stunning as always and they did well to pack it all in with the timeframe they were given

[oodlyenough]

I pretty much agree about arcane. I'm still enjoying it, but I feel like both acts so far would've been better suited for a whole season each tbh.

Yeah, there's a lot of story in all of their ideas and we're just kind of getting the cole's notes I feel. It's a shame. I remember thinking S1 felt breakneck sometimes, especially just from the pov of someone who loves writing fill-in-the-gaps fic and had a hard time finding gaps lol, but season 2 has the additional burden of having to be the final season and it's just not enough.

I'm not sure about act 1 was a season unto itself, but episode 6 could easily have been a season 2 finale leading into a third season. We should've seen more than a montage of commander Caitlyn, the black rose stuff started off cool to me but now feels like a huge sidequest in an already-packed season, Caitvi simultaneously needed more time together and more time apart, it's crazy that Jayce and Viktor's whole everything is happening over like a cumulative 15 minutes of screentime... Ekko wasn't even IN act 2...

AND Caitvi fans were/are still really hoping for a sex scene somewhere in there lmao 😭 there's no time for anything

From a purely practical standpoint I can see why Riot looked at the long development time for each season and thought "nope". But the product suffers for sure.

[jolynreblogs]

I've rebbogged some posts that express most of my thoughts already already but I thought I'll summarise it in a post myself.

Act 3 is dogwater actually imo. It's not the worst thing I've watched but for a show with such a strong season one and the 1st act of season 2 being really compelling, I am extremely disappointed. The only watchable/bearable episode to me was episode 7 and even that has it's own issues by itself.

Here are the things I didn't like:

Jinx deserved better. Jinx really did. I do not care about the theories whether or not Jinx is alive. You do not end a suicidal girl arc with a cheap sacrifice and vaguely hint at her being alive. Priorities people. (Imo it felt like they killed Jinx off to satisfy the criteria of one sister must be dead for the other to be happy as established in ep7)

If you thought Caitvi was rushed in act 2, it's WORSE here. There's no intimate charecter moments or apologies for how they treated each other. The most we get is a lesbian sex scene and while that was so cool I even had friends pointed it out on my discord status, people have already mentioned it before how forced it felt especially when Jinx just ran off to off herself. Sex is not the most important thing right now. Cait and Vi do somewhat care about Jinx too as evident by the previous dialogue.

Jayce and Vik have felt off charecter, I know that's the point but in this arc it's just especially bad. We don't even get Vik's League form as payoff for what they were trying to set up. (I'm a MelJayceVik shipper for context)

While ep7 is the favourite of mine and I enjoyed seeing Timebomb canon, the switch between Ekko and Hemi living their best lives and Jayce fighting for his life was also absolutely comedy gold, I just. Do not. See that alternate universe happening man. The Undercity DOES NOT gain independence through Vi's death, and it's cheap and gross and fake and honestly horrible even in fact that it does. The reason why Piltover and Zaun are so separated and horrible with each other is the prejudice, and it's even shown in the first few episodes that Vander and Grace were maintaining a very thin line of peace and once that broke, chaos wrecked havoc. Vi dying or not doesn't change that. Nothing is magically fixed because the other sister is dead. It took them YEARS to give Zaun independence for goodness sake, right before Jinx's blastered the entire council. Jayce arc made sense at least.

I do not understand why Viktor would just agree to work with Ambessa, their personalities are complete opposites. Vik chases for peace and freedom, Ambessa wants war every waking moment.

What's with the amount of killed champions man?? I did see a theory that they would be willing to kill off one but it was like. Almost every major playable charecter? And for what? Emotional value? Lazy writing? Ambessa literally just became a playable champion too to advertise season 2 and she DIES???

Honestly the only thing I liked about act 3 was Mel's arc, and the ending of Jayvik was sweet. CaitVi was nice, but it felt so unearned and undeserved. As Cait herself said, you can't erase the actions you've done.

The songs are still bangers at least.

I do not blame the people working on it, it's clear they were heavily rushed to try and pull off every story beat, it's just underwhelming that something with such a good season 1 with a 250 million budget ended up like this. They could've done so much better if season 2 was slightly longer, 15 instead of 10 episodes for example.