#while isha is just an accessory that doesn't really act in ways that would make it difficult to raise her

[eerna]

While we're at it, I also think that the Jinx/Powder and the search for love concept has been very watered down, be it by the audience interpretation or the show. In s1, Violet insisted her sister should go back to being Powder, while Silco insisted she should forget Powder and become a new person, Jinx. The show made a big point to show that both of them were wrong. They both offered unconditional love, as long as she acted according to their ideas who she should be. But she couldn't be Powder, because she couldn't just pretend none of her trauma or her sins ever happened, nor could she cut away all her emotions and love and isolate herself into a toxic island of being Jinx. She is stuck because she believes unconditional love is the only true love, and in the end she chooses Jinx because Silco proves that he loves her unconditionally. The CORRECT answer would have been to treat her as BOTH Jinx and Powder, because they are both part of her reality, and to focus on healing and redemption from this point onward.

So why is unconditional love suddenly a good thing in s2. Why is Isha written as a one dimensional baby Jinx fangirl, who doesn't really exhibit Powder features aside from being small and not listening to her big sister, and yet somehow makes Jinx stable and no longer homicidal. I agree that letting Jinx take care of her inner child while following Silco's path could help her make peace between the two sides of her existence, but the fact that she is ONCE AGAIN searching for unconditional love and this time IT IS NOT A PROBLEM makes me truly baffled.

Truth be told, when I realized Ambessa was for some reason super duper invested in Vi and wanted to kill her personally with no one around because she made Caitlyn "weak", and that THAT was somehow the big distraction that would save everyone. I had to pause the episode for a moment and stare at the wall asking myself who tf kidnapped the writing team and replaced them with aliens who have only the barest idea of what the show is about

[bubblesandpages]

#arcane liveblog#''jinx was healed by unconditional love'' WHAT#THAT IS. VERY MUCH THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT S1 WAS TELLING US#silco truly loved her unconditionally AND IT FUCKED HER UP SO BAD#i won't get into isha writing but god it was so badly written. she was such a nothingburger#she was introduced and i was immediately like ''oh here's the sacrificial lamb of the season''#i wish she exhibited some separate inner life and defied jinx properly. the way jinx did for silco.#sure they were connected but she was a problem to him as well! and he still loved her! that was missing from this relationship#''you're lucky. i never got to do stuff like this with my sister.'' ya bc YOUR sister was trying to KEEP YOUR STUBBORN BUTT ALIVE#while isha is just an accessory that doesn't really act in ways that would make it difficult to raise her#''i won't get into it'' 5 mins later: ''AND ANOTHER THING-'' @eerna

I think my biggest gripe overall with these middle three episodes are how they gloss over the sister's individual storylines and dynamic together—what about the last 12 episodes gave anyone the idea that their healing would be this seamless and easy? From the things go from bad to worse show? I'm not even opposed to things going well at some point—but where was the effort!?

Truth be told, when I realized Ambessa was for some reason super duper invested in Vi and wanted to kill her personally with no one around because she made Caitlyn "weak", and that THAT was somehow the big distraction that would save everyone. I had to pause the episode for a moment and stare at the wall asking myself who tf kidnapped the writing team and replaced them with aliens who have only the barest idea of what the show is about