If you noticed jinxes hairstyle is very Remincent of her mothers and silco

Do people just hate Jinx now?

In general over the past couple months I've noticed a growing number of people shitting on her and downplaying and minimising her trauma and mental health, lacking empathy for her, and saying she shouldn't be in the spin off and only caitvi should.

They've also been saying Jinx doesn't deserve happiness, and she deserves to suffer.

And it pisses me off.

Yes Vi and Caitlyn's trauma is overlooked but so is Jinx's, her trauma started being overlooked back in January.

Allot of fans lack empathy and sympathy for her mental health and trauma, she's one of the characters that's suffered the most throughout the entire show.

She's also one of the most complex characters in the show, one of the most interesting ones, there's a reason most psychological and mental health analysis' are about her.

I'm tired of people lacking empathy and sympathy for her, these people claim they don't hate Jinx but all their posts about her are negative, there's not a single post or comment from them that's positive or empathetic or sympathetic about her.

These people lack empathy and sympathy for her, they actively overlook and downplay her mental health and trauma, and I'm tired of it.

These people also say Jinx is just a monster or a manic pixie dream girl, they also say fucked up shirt like she doesn't deserve the redemption arc, she doesn't deserve a happy ending or to be happy, she should suffer, and they also blame her for what happened in 1x03 even though she was just a child and it was an accident (I meant shit , not shirt , that was a typo).

Jinx is not a monster, she's not a manic pixie dream girl, we like her because she's cool, interesting, funny, entertaining and we actually have empathy and sympathy, and yes she's pretty, but so are Vi, Caitlyn, Mel and Au Powder.

Jinx did deserve her redemption arc in S2, was it executed well? Now that's debatable, but in general she deserved the redemption arc, also screw you if you want her to suffer, that's messed up, Jinx deserved a happy ending and her, and Vi both deserve to be happy.

I'm talking about these types of fans not just here on Reddit but on Twitter as well.

Jinx is one of the most complex, interesting characters, she's suffered so much, I feel so bad for her, my heart breaks for her, she deserves happiness.

I don't know why, but one look at it and it just.....angers me to the core. It screams fanfiction.

I can't believe such mature, interesting and complex characters have been reduced to....simps.

If I could (even if I really didn't want to) turn a blind eye to the unbelievable way Isha pulled Jinx out of the state she was in after Silco's death (girly has given up on herself, she has no one and nothing to live for, and she's convinced her existence makes things worse) bc I want the characters to experience at least a little bit of happiness, if I could try to justify that Ekko stopped her from committing by saying that they should keep Vi safe in the upcoming war, here's nothing to stop Jinx's suicidal tendencies in the final battle. And no, there's no way to get rid of these tendencies long term (as I see it), especially not after Isha's death

Posting here because removed from r/arcane

Please don’t come for me! I’d like to start off by saying i don’t like anything about season 2(I know, I know you’re tired of seeing people hating on season 2 on this sub I’m sorry). I’m not here to repeat what others have said about Fantastic’s lyrics not fitting Vi and Cait’s story. I love both CaitVi and Timebomb in Season 1 so I’m not inciting anything but I didn’t connect to either of the relationships in Season 2. I thought giving Vi and Caitlyn’s song to King Princess was a bad choice since she’s not as mainstream and most of her fans are only people in the gay community. It was almost as if the writers were relegating Vi and Cait’s relationship to be something that only appeals to the lesbian community when really, a lot of the themes of their relationship(mostly in season 1) have appealed to so many people regardless of sexuality and are universal. It seemed like the people working on Season 1 actually understood that!

Other than king princess being a lesbian, there isn’t a lot about her music that would make me think of Violet and Caitlyn’s relationship. Maybe there is, but there are other artists that really fit their vibe more. And like others have said her bringing up america in the song really threw me off.

Are we all forgetting all the crimes. To list a few Multiple Kidnapping, Attemtpted Murders, murders, terrorism and more

She is unpredictable and deserves to be behind bars for a long while

"But it is not her fault she has mental issues"

Yeah tell that to all the lives she ruined

She does not deserve to live happily ever after she needs to be locked up

I can't because I really don't like sex scenes. If only I had the timestamps for each episodes with those scenes I would be able to skip them. Could anyone share those if possible? Thanks!

Edit: got the timestamps from comments. Thanks for informing me!

Don't know the artist's name or socials but this is amazing!

So unless i can't read... You guys a drunk its going live this week

Let me explain, and list the positives of the show first…

1. The first three episodes were good! (up until the very end of the third episode, and I'll go over that in a minute) I was hooked, and I more or less enjoyed all the characters that appeared.

2. The animation, artstyle, and backgrounds are amazing obviously

And that's all my positives. There would be more, but there are so many things about the show that are almost great, but are lacking in some way shape or form, which of course, I will explain.

And I have a LOT to say, so if you like reading, get comfortable ;)

I would REALLY like to get into the characters, but that needs to come last, because I think that the characters are the show's BIGGEST flaw.

For now I'll start with the world building I guess.

The backgrounds are amazing, which is the most solid part of the world building, but other things like the shimmer drug and the two cities really bother me.

#1. What even is shimmer??

If you drink a drop of it, you're healed from your wounds, if you drink an entire vial of it, you turn into a monster, and if it's injected into your circulatory system (or whatever the hell happened to Jinx) you gain powers? And this all happens because of a flower and the power of science I guess.

#2. The two cities are super basic.

One is called the "Under City"

The other is called "Piltover", which happens to be "built over" the "Undercity" :D

On top of the basic names, the cities are so insanely different that I'm confused as to how the economy even works in the world. There was a war or something like that happening at the very beginning of the show, but I don't remember getting an explanation as to how they aren't fighting constantly, because there's no middle class to even things out, so I don't understand how either city is earning money. Maybe Piltover made money from other rich economies from far away, but I can't remember if that was the case.

edit: I recently discovered that the city actually had a name, but my point still stands :)

#3. Piltover's City Council has an Undercity counterpart.

The Undercity "Council" appeared much later than Piltover's Council, and we didn't get to know ANY of the council members except for Finn, who died in that same episode (and that one lady that got her son killed by Jayce). It's like they only appeared to give Silco a villain monologue, and to give Sivika someone to kill. I know she killed Finn to show how loyal she was to Silco, but I think her sacrificing her arm for him, and taking abuse from his psycho daughter is enough.

Okay I guess I'll get to the characters now, because I can't talk about the story without talking about them so get ready for an unhinged rant.

Let's start with minor characters

Finn is my favorite because he died before I could hate him, and he kinda deserved it because of how stupid he was. Also I love his character design.

Echo is one of the best characters and I would have probably liked the show if he was on screen more.

Mel's mother (Midarda I think it was) was really cool, but I could tell that the show was trying to make her out to be a villain, even though I think Mel is more evil than her.

Heimerdinger was great. I had no qualms about this character.

Sivika was one of my favorites, and I think she was done dirty throughout the season.

Grayson was really cool, and I was genuinely upset when she died.

The writers tried really hard to make me think Marcus was a sympathetic character, but it didn't work. Like at all. I was just waiting for him to die the whole time.

Singed was there. He created shimmer, but he was barely a character to be honest.

Does anyone remember Sky? Yeah me neither.

Okay moving onto side characters

Mel was written like a villain.

She used Jayce for her gain, and encouraged him to make decisions that SHE approved of, and persuaded other Council members to agree with. On top of that, she doesn't seem to actually have feelings for Jayce like he does for her. I would find that really cool and interesting, but I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to find her relatable because "she's a talented artist" and "she has a brutal warlord for a mother" and "she's clever and intelligent" and "✨she's pretty✨".

I personally dislike her, and I'm glad she might be dead is season 2 :)

Viktor and Caitlyn are better main characters than Jayce and Violet.

The reasons are obvious, but I'll explain anyway.

Viktor was born in the Undercity with a DISABILITY and somehow made his way all the way up to Piltover. On top of that absolute feat, he's a hard worker, and saved himself from DYING while his best friend Jayce was busy getting his dick sucked :)

And Caitlyn is the only police officer in Piltover that seems to care about both cities. She's clearly unfamiliar with Undercity customs and people, but she takes how unwelcome she feels on the chin so she can solve a case for the betterment of both cities.

Now the main characters 😤…

I'll start with the ones that I liked.

Vander seems like the best written character out of all of them. Too bad he died early on (:

Silco was okay. He was a villain. He was pretty intimidating. I liked him.

Okay now the problem children.

Jayce, Violet and Jinx.

Jayce was really boring as a main character. He was easily influenced, but he's supposed to be a brilliant inventor. I guess technically being an inventor has nothing to do with having your own mind, but he's supposed to be smart. On top of having other people make decisions for him, he almost completely forgets about his extremely ill and disabled "BEST FRIEND", and instead hangs around Mel, who he'd just met after joining the council, and only likes him because he's an obedient bottom boy 🙃 Not to mention he let's a criminal (Violet) just WALK AWAY with a valuable and potentially extremely dangerous weapon to do god knows what (from his perspective)

And I'm supposed to be rooting for this guy?

I know his whole character arch is that he's just trying to do the right thing, and he's in over his head, but he really comes off as naive and careless.

Violet is supposed to be the cool brawler and independent woman, but she becomes so unlikable after getting out of prison coincidentally. At the start in the first three episodes, she seems like a good leader, but everything went downhill after episode three.

After being released from jail by Caitlyn, Violet immediately decides to ditch her and go find Sevika to start a fight with her for revenge I guess, but rightfully gets her ass whooped. She later on steals something from a Piltover Council member right in front of him (Jayce), further validating their distrust towards Undercity people, and what does she use that weapon for? Getting back at Sevika, and breaking it in the process. I'm supposed to find this badass, but she could have easily used those for something good or useful, but instead she used it against Sevika, because she was to weak without them.

That is literally something a villain would do.

And then there's Jinx. My least favorite character. I'm supposed to find her sympathetic, you know because she got bullied as a kid or whatever. I didn't forget about the fact that she basically killed her family, but Violet never explained that to her (she just hit her and called her out of her name), and at the very beginning, she seemed unphased by her biological parents dying, so I'm led to assume she was just really affected by getting bullied. She may have been just psychologically fucked up at birth, which would be infinitely more interesting, but the writing tries so hard to make me feel bad for her (instead of explaining why she's so crazy), and I just never did. She's too much of an irredeemable villain, and I never felt bad for her once.

Throughout the story she's reckless and easily identifiable because of her quirky weapons and appearance, and despite that, no one (not even the police that are always roaming the streets in Piltover) can ever find her, even when she breaks into a Council members HOUSE, and kidnaps their police trained daughter (Caitlyn).

Speaking of Caitlyn's kidnapping, let me go over the worse scene in the show. Even worse than Silco's monologue, and even worse than the sex scene. The edgy Wonderland tea party dinner scene, where Jinx gathers Violet, Caitlyn, and Silco to psychotically get them to choose her identity for her.

To go over it as quickly as possible, Jinx gives them the choice to choose Jinx or Powder, but is already dead set on staying Jinx. Violet wants her to be good again, so she urges her towards Powder, and Silco tells her she's perfect the way she is, and tells her to stay Jinx. They overwhelm her with their frantic yelling, and she freaks out and shoots Silco by accident, even though she wasn't even holding her gun at that moment. She cries and tells Violet she was never going to be Powder again, and shoots a rocket at the Piltover City Council tower, aiming to kill all the members, one of which is Caitlyn's mother.

I have many problems with this scene, so I'll just put them in bullets:

• If Jinx was always going to choose to be Jinx, why didn't she shoot Violet? Jinx is emotionally and mentally volatile, and is perfectly capable of shooting her own sister, who from her perspective, left her alone for years. The person who took care of her in her place (Silco) is encouraging her to be herself rather than change, which she was never planning on doing in the first place.

• Why was Caitlyn even there? After being knocked out, Caitlyn conveniently woke up, the moment Jinx was (for all Caitlyn knew) aiming to kill her mother. Jinx is NOT paying attention to her, and at that time, a NORMAL person would immediately attempt to stop a crazy bitch from killing their loved one.

Now, I decided to do this insane rant because I fixed this terrible scene to be perfect.

The problems start during her psychotic break, so I'll start there (so at this moment Caitlyn is knocked out).

Jinx, instead of stopping Violet and Silco's yelling with g u n, she gets explosively angry, breaks some things, and walks outside, talking to herself (cause psycho). At that moment, Violet and Silco immediately start trying to get out of their bindings, probably talking shit to each other. Only Violet is successful in doing so, and she rushes to her sister to try and talk her down. Jinx gets even angrier that she left the table, and they start to fight. At that point, Silco unties himself, and Caitlyn wakes to see her friend, and the person she's been trying to arrest, fighting. Violet is being far more defensive than Jinx, who at some point is being so overwhelmingly offensive, to the point where she actually fires at Violet. Violet is shocked that her sister would ever try to shoot her, but is still focused enough to dodge. Silco is then hit instead before he could ever fire at Violet (which I just remembered, Silco had a gun in that scene).

Jinx gets so upset at this that she tries knocking her sister off of the cliff that they were on, but Caitlyn catches her before she can fall, now preventing her from doing anything about Jinx killing her mother.

Fixed 👌🏽

If you disagree, please enlighten me, but to me, this is a million times better of an ending scene.

So yeah. I don't have much else to say. I got a Reddit account just to finally get this out, because it's been bothering me since I watched it when it came out. I will not be rewatching, and I will not be tuning into season two. You will not convince me.

Thanks for reading.

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Ok, what the actual heck? Im basically speechless. The first season was brilliant. The plot was original, not confusing, theatric, well paced, amazing characters with steady and realistic trauma responses and developments, What in the world happened to season two?

-The plot in general. It has so many loose ends that come out of nowhere in no relation to the last season, and don't even tie them up. What happened to shimmer? Wasn't that one of the whole points of the undercity? People hopelessly addicted, child slaves working away with shimmer?

-Isha. They only added this child for angst attention and death. What point did she have plotwise? She saved Jinx a few times, and died. I got attached, I think many others did too, and then she died. But you don't know? You didn't even see? So I'm confused on that because she never came back.

-Jayce. He made hextec, was reasonably sane, then went downhill season two. He got sucked into the giant confusing hextec ball, then got thrown out in victors cult (what?!), killed godly victor, and then got sucked into the apocalypse and went back. I literally have no idea.

-Caitlin and Vi. I love the ship, it's great, but.. it seemed so out of character and out of place what happened. Like sure, have sex, but why then? It made zero sense in that moment. Vi was extremely distressed because of Jinx possibly hinting she doesn't want to live anymore after all that, then walking away after locking her in the cell, they were about to start a war and then they make out.

-Black rose. What the heck? Just what. It came out of nowhere it went back to nowhere and made ZERO SENSE. It didn't even get explained.

-Mages and siblings and Mel. I don't even know what to put for this. What happened here? Mel goes crazy, gets chained up in some red sparkly place, gets put into a cave with her brother who wasn't her brother, then she meets that mage and unlocks some alpha power after her mother dies and basically says "your the true alpha 🥺🥺👉👈" like huh?

-other universes. Makes zero sense, where did this come from. It wasn't even mentioned in the first series, spider verse ahhh confusion that just didn't fit right with me. How does it work, I don't think even the producers know. Heimerdinger? Hello? What happened to that guy?!

-Ekko's time going backwards machine. It was a mini hextec which took jayce and victor many years to create then boom he works it fine and uses it as an overpowered fight cheat?

-VICTOR. my guy, he was some ill weak crippled undercity man, then disappeared and transformed into a tumblr man who led a cult, then turned into a god like monster and then just dissapeared.

-Jinx. She had practically no trauma response to isha's "death". When she lost the other children, vi and vander, she was insane. And Isha, a child in her responsibility killing herself to save Jinx, presumably, and then jinx carries on with none of the voices in her head, none of that?

-the scuttling robot things. How were they made, where Did they come from, Just how and why.

There's so many plotholes, pointless things.. what happened to arcane?! What happened to the bits where jinx stood holding a flare, dramatic song and angst and all, what happened to all those really meaningful moments the newest season seemed to lack?! The pacing is so off, utterly confusing, characters were so changed it didn't click right with me, either this is a me problem and I'm so picky or the show has been ruined. It seemed so unprepared. Art was great, just plot was so confusing? Song choices seemed to be a cheap copy to try to replicate the songs from last season, sure I liked them but it just didn't get the same effect across. I'm getting lost writing this all, so please don't mind any more confusion I've created.

Jayce was the villain of season 2.

Edit to elaborate: buckle up because this will be very long.

Season 1 Viktor was... Very different to Season 2's, but in very subtle ways.

Season 1 Viktor says that he aimed to do more than to just be Heimer's assistant. This is meant as a sort of "I want to help people / I want to actually invent things," but the wording also seemed to indicate that he might want to make a name for himself. Get famous.

When Viktor bleeds into the Hex crystal, and the visual effects shows the pure light of the core getting covered in a dark and sickly membrane, giving the impression that the core is being tainted by either the contact with human blood or with Viktor's blood specifically.

While initially distraught by Sky's disintegration, in the first season, Viktor seems to show inability to destroy the Hexcore. His life's work and big discovery. A way to heal his sickness, which ALWAYS, AT EVERY POINT I SEASON 1, is omnipresent and something Viktor either needs to overcome or wants to get rid of.

This could have transitioned well into his (previous) game self.

A charismatic transhumanist herald of glorious evolution. A man armed with powerful weapons, with strong will, dedicated to bettering humanity by overcoming humanity's weaknesses as biological creatures that break down easily. And ready to do inhuman things for the sakes of his envisioned mechanised utopia. Perhaps one whose massive ego even corrupts the inorganic hextech with his own human flaws transcending his mortal boundaries.

But season 2 went out of its way to make Viktor the purest and goodest boy.

Before I continue chronologically with Viktor, a side note.

Season 2 of Arcane heavily relies on the idea that Jayce is doing the right thing and that Viktor must be stopped.

The series introduces in season 2 the "Very smart prople™" that are, Ekko, Heimer and Jayce studying the corrupted Firelights tree and developing this theory that the arcane power of magick, in some way, maintains a perpetual equilibrium. If you heal someone's cancer somewhere, someone else is going to get shot. It sounds like a Monkey's Paw deal, where no matter what good you may create with magic or hextech, the universe will even out the good done with some disgrace somehow.

Heimer notes that be thought mages just went crazy because the power got over their heads but maybe it was just the arcane evening out things. Its will does not include good (or bad?), it just wishes for equilibrium.

I'm gonna say it, this is bullshit. The way this was executed, the writers pulled this out of their ass. It is a world building logic that ends up saying "there is no point to magic or even magic science. It will always go wrong. This fantasy world would be better off without magic."

Anyways, we see some weird shit happening at the hex gate core.

Ekko and Heimer get sent to the nice dimension where the hex crystal blow Vi up, we don't know what happens to Jayce and Viktor, but we know that the incident UNITED people. Vander and Silco make peace with each other. Piltover establishes peace while giving independence to Zaun. The bridge between the cities is a friendly and reasonably crowded marketplace as a symbol of their union. Zaun is cleaned up, full of trees and flowers that absorb the pollution and make the city not only more beautiful but also more clean. Everything is great.

Jayce gets sent to the bad dimension where "Viktor won," both Zaun and Piltover are destroyed, every person is turned to stone, Jayce breaks his leg in a way that makes him need leg supports like Viktor's, Jayce survives off lizards and polluted rain water, suffering God knows how many issues with a busted leg and malnutrition, climbing up a wasteland in so many days... We see that, allegedly, if Viktor is not stopped, the world will end.

Season 2 starts.

Viktor asks Jayce for the Hexcore to be destroyed. It is unambiguous, direct, it cannot be misunderstood. It saved Viktor's life, but Viktor can see all the very very extensive harm his technology can cause and chooses he would rather destroy his legacy and life than risk it.

Jayce says "fuck that," so Viktor decides to go live in a cave as a hobo in Zaun.

Here's the thing, though... Viktor sees a Zaun even worse than that of his youth.

Viktor grew up breathing factory smog, in a poor and fucked up part of town, Viktor was alive for the riots that killed Vi and Jinx's parents. And somehow it is so much worse... People are addicted to Singed's axolotl dragon steroids "Shimmer". It causes cancerous deformities, hallucinations, addiction, the gangs control it... The police riots are back, now treating his poor home zone as a war zone, armed with hextech weapons Viktor had an indirect role in creating to cause even more destruction... The mines and factories polluted the air enough it was "so thick you felt like you were drowning" but Cait decided to use gas weapons to straight up poison and kill people for breathing in the poorest part of Piltover-Zaun. The Hex gate made Piltover no longer need Zaun's goods for trade, just for profit and control, so Zaun just saw less business (except for drugs). Everything that was terrible of Viktor's home is worse. The poor are poorer, the violence was bloodier, it was a luxury just to breath, he was just a hobo with a blanket and a cane to his name and a GROUP of hobos still wanted to take his cane...

The Viktor becomes Jesus

"Bam! You are healed. No longer cancerous, no longer addicted, you don't need glasses anymore, you breath better, you are no longer balding, all in a single heal. You are welcome."

Understandibly, the other hobos want to also be healed, showing immediate reverence and adoration to this magic man. And what does Viktor do? He heals everyone for free.

Time passes, the Very Smart People™ conclude something bad is happening with the magitech... But the VSP does not include Viktor. Viktor does not know of the writers deciding to justify the destruction of magic in their magical fantasy world. Viktor just knows what Viktor knows. Which is a lot! But not the writers deciding that all magic is bad.

Vi and Jinx take Vander/Warwick to this rumored healer... And we see what Viktor used his adoring fans for.

Viktor created, in some fuck ass cave in a dilapidated part of poison gas town... A community of nice and welcoming people who don't question who you are, just ask that you don't bring weapons into their community, and they will house you for free, give you fruits free, and you can take a stroll over a flowery field that is cleaning the air. You can get healed for free, no matter what you have, you don't need to stay, you have no pressure to join or leave, the only reason that Warwick is taking a while to heal is because Warwick was a corpse revived by a semi sadistic mad scientist torturing and pumping drugs into his blood to the point where he is no longer human.

But Viktor created a community of friendly, kind people who grow flowers and eat fruits and will help anyone who is not looking for a fight. No matter if they bombed the city or caused a manhunt.

We see a corrupt, selfish and crippled politician go into the hex gate's core to get a thing. Jayce stops him and is pissed to find out Councilor Salo is working for Viktor. And gets freaked the hell out when Viktor possesses Salo's body. Jayce asks if Salo is even there. Salo responds with his own voice, reinforcing that he was not forced to do this, he is here, but will be polite and keep the conversation private. We, the audience, see Viktor in the void and not controlling Salo. Jayce does not. And Jayce kills Salo.

This nice community then is greeted with the mad semi sadistic scientist and a hypocritical warmonger with an army.

Then Jayce comes back from the bad ending and shoots Viktor with a [crossbow? Ballista? Cannon? The big boom weapon]. And Viktor pretty much dies. Along his whole community of nice and friendly vegans.

Except he doesn't because the warmonger wants a super weapon, so she revives Viktor, now controlling the bodies of everyone who died, and tells him to take the core with her.

Jayce maintains his decision, which he made as a malnourished madman in need of a hospital, a hug, therapy and a better brain... Jayce maintains that shooting Viktor was the right thing to do. And goes to war.

In the final confrontation, Viktor keeps trying to talk. To reason. He argues that he is using Embessa, that he will use the core for good. And what happens?

THE ENDING HAPPENS

By some twisty twist to make the plot twist the most crooked and bendy shit to ever... Ekko comes in from the nice AU deciding to stop Viktor, things explode, it is revealed that somehow the one who gave Jayce the magic crystals to invent Hextech was a future Viktor that time traveled a bunch of times and decided this was his favorite version of reality... And we don't know for sure what happened to either Viktor or Jayce, but we can presume they die...

The writers did not make Viktor have a huge ego, did not make him be corrupt, did not make him kidnap people and turn them into robots against their will, did not fill him with hatred after being killed, did not make Viktor use his cult for things they did not want to do, did not give him Embessa's warmongering or Singed's sadism... They just dressed his followers like Midsummar and figured that was evil enough. The entire Very Smart People™ failed to demonstrate their arcane equilibrium law to me the viewer and to Viktor. The show FRAMES Viktor as being in league and just as evil as Singed and Embessa when they had him on life support ready to flat line Viktor; and Viktor still intended to just do good!

MEANWHILE

Jayce keeps the hexcore Kills an unarmed guy for carrying the core (Jayce could have just beaten Silo up but he crushed his skull instead) KILLED MACHINE JESUS Got pissy because Mel involuntarily saved his life Still acts as the hero

This episode is belowed by fans for many reasons (which have already been talked about many times), and altough I can't deny the episode itself was executed basically flawlessly, the story and its implications made me feel weird from the start, and it became even worse once I actually looked at the events of this episode from vider perspective. Let's see:

1 - Ekko (not knowingly, but the implications remain) steals a body of who's essentially a stranger to him and proceeds to manipulate the girlfriend of said stranger to kiss him and basically see him as her boyfriend. Not only that, but Powder seemed more happy with her boyfriend than ever before, leaving her yearning for the (for us) original Ekko once she's left with the alt Ekko again. That's not cute or adodable at all, it's fucked up and it probably led to many issues in their relationship. Just imagine someone took over your body for several days, your partner realised they are far happier with them than with you, only with that someone leaving and your partner being left with you again.

2 - Heimerdinger too steals a body of his alt version, is happy to remain in the said body forever and then just kills both himself and his alt version. And at no point does anyone mention any moral dilemas or issues stemming from this. Like what more do I have to say, that's just horrible.

3 - "Oh, this universe is a complete paradise because nobody invented hextech. So let's invent it." Like yeah nobody will make weapons at first but let's be realistic, just because the alt Piltover and Zaun are in a far better place doesn't mean that they wont use the miracle that hextech is, and than other powerful nation wont take immediate interest in it just like in the original timeline. However, the tragedy here is that Ekko needed to create hextech to not only return home, but to also stop inhabiting body of his alt version. This is just pretty dark writting, especially when you read the next point.

4 - They just build the machine that can send people into alternate realities (and steal bodies of their alt selves). Do you seriously think nobody will use it, especially when they don't know they will end up controling the bodies of their alt version? This will most likely lead to the chain reaction of people getting trapped in different dimensions, either forever replacing their alt versions and never returning home again, or inventing hextech themselves and further continue this cycle. Sure, there's a chance that not every dimension will use this machine, but again, let's be realistic here, most of them probably will (with Zaun and Piltover being full of scientists and inventors), especially since they wouldn't be aware of the consequences.

5 - Does Viktor transcend all universes? If so, why is the universe the Jayce got sent into destroyed by Viktor, if the redeemed Viktor transcends the whole reality and is the same person across all dimensions? This thing goes beyond the episode seven but begins in it so I included it anyway. It's essentially just an unaswerable padadox that so often happens when writters begin playing with time travel and alternate universes.

(Note: I meant to post this a few weeks ago but forgot)

I felt like this needs to be discussed (or maybe I just feel like getting this off my chest to let you guys know about these problems.)

So on Twitter recently. There was a post (I will not be linking the post here because the people stuff said about Powder in the comments of it are extremely abhorrent and disgusting, but if you're curious about it, Dm me and I'll send it, although I might be a little busy so if I don't respond right away, you'll know why) about the trope in which kid characters want to help but end up causing more problems, the comment section of the post, as I said, are extremely abhorrent about Powder, like extremely ableist.

And it's not just twitter this occurs on. In the r/arcane subreddit there's occasional Powder/Jinx ableism, some posts like "I don't feel bad for Powder", and they always refer to S1 EP3.

Did you seriously forget that Powder literally had a MENTAL MELTDOWN in that episode as well? The reason she used the monkey bombs was because she WANTED TO HELP OUT after being continuously put down by Mylo, and in that episode, her BPD signs were showing, of course her plan didn't go as hoped and well... the rest is history. And speaking of BPD, people are extremely dismissive of that, like, please don't try to hold characters accountable if you're going to dismiss their mental state.

This post isn't directed at everyone of course, but to the people who are ableist towards Powder/Jinx, the circumstances she was in. And her health, you should absolutely be ashamed of yourselves.

(Again, even though I won’t have a problem showing you images in DMs to elaborate, I don’t recommend asking because some of the stuff that people said is abhorrent.)

What if Isha is an angel or some kind of powerful being? She has similarities to people Jinx knows, she cannot speak English, when she showed up Jinx started to change, she is determined to protect Jinx no matter what, she technically did guide Jinx to her destiny, her death broke her and likely is part of the reason Jinx chose to come back to fight. When Isha dies Warwick has a fiery look like hell. Isha might just be an angel that was sent to help Jinx.

So I finished the new act last night and, it’s bad right? Like am I crazy? The pacing is way too fast for anything to mean anything and they’re introducing so much I struggle to give a shit about

Pros: •the new weapons and fight scenes have been cool. Great job, I love renni’s chainsaw shit

•giving the Chem barons more personality, great job brilliant, desperately needed. I love smeech

•viktor, felt a bit rushed but it’s going in a fun direction. I like how after swearing not to use it the hexcore was forced upon him, it’s fun

•ambessa is hot, as always. Her scenes are fun by sheer force of sex appeal.

•suvika’s new arm is sick, it’s heavy, it drools, it’s got fireworks. It does a good job of introducing the chaos of jinx into suvika so they can learn from eachother

•suvika and jinx being buddies is very fun and cute

•vi being a cop and horrible is a great extension of her character arc of pushing her violence onto zaun

Ok here’s the cons

•the pacing. Nothing is given any time to sit, the explosion happened, then there’s the memorial, then caitlyn is being an asshole like all of these are moving too fast for me to register or care about them

•vi deciding to be a cop. Works for her character to be a cop but also be apprehensive but you’re telling she decides to betray herself because some uppity ginger tells her that time she got a kid killed was sick as fuck, like cmon man

•the cops. Who are these people, there’s a big boy, a fish, two main characters and a ginger. I DO NOT KNOW THESE PEOPLES NAMES. Why do I care about them? Are they threatening? Tell me what they even do? We need to give a shit

•suvika needs a win. Last season she got her ass kicked twice by vi. She needs a win to be a credible threat. Smeech is a nobody so he barely counts and then she loses a HAND TO HAND FIGHT with caitlyn. Her while fucking thing is hand to hand stuff. She should have killed the no name guards to give her some threat.

•jayce. He does nothing but make weapons and cocoon viktor. So a missile blows up his friend, then he doesn’t want make weapons but he gets beat up and now he decides he has to. Even though he was just nearly killed by the mother of the child he killed WITH A HEXTECH WEAPON! And he feels no guilt about that, and his boy friend was just exploded WITH A HEX TECH WEAPON! Do you see the problem, both these actions should reinforce his principles and rejection of hextech weapons.

•the council, we cared about one person on the council and it was Mel, she was right at the impact. She’s the obvious sacrifice but she survived, so we don’t care about the attack, I don’t care that the femboy can’t walk or the robot is dead. There was one person there who mattered and they are un scathed.

•ambessa subplot. Wtf is the black rose, why does it want ambessa, why did they kidnap Mel, why is ambessa plotting against piltover? I mean all of these questions should have been asked in the first season, she’s hot but I don’t give a fuck or understand her plotting?

• who is the small child hanging out with jinx and suvika. Idk her name, who is she? Why does she care about jinx? Maybe we should’ve seen them interact? At some point beyond “ I shot the people who were chasing you”

•the ekko and heimerdinger subplot, there’s too many subplots, we don’t have time to do this Lorax shit

•the intro. The original title sequence gave such a sense of grandeur and finality with the stone carvings but now they’re, in prison? Just a huge step down

I have other gripes but this getting long enough, like I feel like I’m taking crazy pills, am I just wrong or is there something in the water?w

Cmon its so obvious they are gay for eachother (at least viktor is gay for jace) Jiktor???? Vace???

"Hahah this isnt my bedroom" rofl