Television Can we talk about Arcane can we Please talk about Arcane (Netflix League of Legends animated series), update: Season 2 First Look video

[unogueen]

I love the way the show adores to embellish cliches to a keen shine. Also it's a masterwork of craft. Someone else pls say something.

[XxEvil AshxX]

What's Arcane?

[SimpleG]

Just now, XxEvil AshxX said:

What's Arcane?

A cartoon based on League of Legends

11 minutes ago, unogueen said:

I love the way the show adores to embellish cliches to a keen shine. Also it's a masterwork of craft. Someone else pls say something.

This would likely get more traction on the entertainment board

[unogueen]

Can a mod move or smthing?

 

[Keyser_Soze]

I think one person here likes league so this topic probably won't get much attention. I might watch it sometime, not a high priority though.

[SimpleG]

6 minutes ago, unogueen said:

Can a mod move or smthing?

 

Just delete it and post on the entertainment board

 

[skillzdadirecta]

46 minutes ago, unogueen said:

I love the way the show adores to embellish cliches to a keen shine. Also it's a masterwork of craft. Someone else pls say something.

My niece has been begging me to check it out.

[Rev]

I like it so far but I'm only a couple episodes in.

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I've heard so very many great things about this series that I will be checking it out soon!

[Brian]

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I think one person here likes league so this topic probably won't get much attention. I might watch it sometime, not a high priority though.

I have no interest in league but I enjoy a good animated series so I will be checking it out 

[Keyser_Soze]

16 minutes ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

I have no interest in league but I enjoy a good animated series so I will be checking it out 

 

Personally I've always thought the heroes were cool so that might be enough for me to watch.

[silentbob]

This is sort of on my radar to eventually watch after Hawkeye, Cowboy Bebop, Masters of the Universe and some gaming too. You should be happy to know that Netflix gave it a 2nd season order

[johnny]

i watched the first episode and i liked it. know nothing about league though 

[Mercury33]

I heard it’s fantastic. I’m assuming you don’t need to know anything about the game to enjoy the show?

[skillzdadirecta]

3 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

I heard it’s fantastic. I’m assuming you don’t need to know anything about the game to enjoy the show?

I don't think so.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

HOLY COW!  

 

This is BY FAR the best animated series on Netflix and dare I say one of the best series on Netflix PERIOD!

 

I'm utterly STUNNED! 

[TheLeon]

I just watched a tiny bit, but I’m definitely going to make more time to watch more. The animation is incredible. 

[Mercury33]

Yeah I’m like 5 minutes in and the animation is utterly spectacular 

[Moa]

I'm trying to get over my LoLphobia and watch this since people seem to be loving it, but starting with an Imagine Dragons song is killing my very limited goodwill.

[unogueen]

Getting over cliches is a choice.

[Mercury33]

Eh I don’t have any issues with Imagine Dragons. I like a few of their songs. 

[Greatoneshere]

2 minutes ago, Mercury33 said:

Eh I don’t have any issues with Imagine Dragons. I like a few of their songs. 

 

Same. 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

 

[Fizzzzle]

Imagine Dragons is like the pumpkin spice latte of music, taking the mantle from Coldplay. I do need to give this a watch, though.

[elbobo]

Watched the first 3 episodes, HOLY SHIT even it just maintains this level of quality through the rest of the series it will end up as something very special.

 

The animation is so good especially in the fight scenes, they are simultaneously super fluid while having tremendous impact to the blows, and a gritty scrappy realness to the choreography.

 

The world/mechanical design is top notch as well.

 

I am not even going to get into the characters or plot due to spoilers, rest assured they are also great. 

[Moa]

After six episodes I feel like the show is good but moves a little too fast for its own good. At this point with the exception of Viktor, I'm confused about everyone's motivation or exactly how they think their actions will achieve their goals. I'm getting strong "actually right" vibes from Silco, but I'm not sure whether or not the show is being coy about explaining his goals or if it thinks the vague flashbacks we've gotten so far are sufficient explanation. 

 

Also did I miss something or did they just never explain the leap in logic that lead Caitlyn to find Vi. As I understand it Caitlyn found that there was no reason for Vi's incarceration listed, so she assumed that Vi was somehow involved in the recent attacks? 

 

The animation is great and the fight scenes are surprisingly brutal considering the source material is a game made for intellectually challenged children. 

[unogueen]

The series tends to set up questions in a way that reveal as the next three released.Caitlyn

Spoiler

lucked out in finding Vi coincidentally beating one of Silco's henchmen, who is a interest for both.

 

[elbobo]

The hyper-stylized fight scene at the end of episode 7 is one of the best pieces of animation I have ever seen.

[Moa]

Full spoilers below, I'm ultimately pretty disappointed in the narrative.

 

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The ending just really took the wind out of my sails in a bad way. It felt like none of the actions that Vi or anyone else took to try to reach Jinx really had any effect, and her psychosis was ultimately more durable than reality. This just leads me to question why I should care about anything that happened in the show, if ultimately despite everything Jinx's personality and actions were set in stone in the blank space in the time skip, and nothing that happened afterwards altered her course from nihilistic destruction. She occasionally had moments of internal conflict but no real character development after the time skip. A good tragedy is usually a series of mistakes and misunderstandings that leads to tragic but avoidable consequences. At the end of a good tragedy, you should be left thinking of all the moments where catastrophe could have been avoided, but at the end of this show all I got was "Jinx gonna Jinx."

 

Also Silco was cool and right. He could've been cooler and righter if he wasn't determined to go about everything in the most evil way possible, often to the detriment of his own cause, but whatever. Silco for life.

 

 

[Fizzzzle]

I just finished it. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I do agree the narrative moved a little too quickly at times.

[elbobo]

18 hours ago, Moa said:

Full spoilers below, I'm ultimately pretty disappointed in the narrative.

 

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The ending just really took the wind out of my sails in a bad way. It felt like none of the actions that Vi or anyone else took to try to reach Jinx really had any effect, and her psychosis was ultimately more durable than reality. This just leads me to question why I should care about anything that happened in the show, if ultimately despite everything Jinx's personality and actions were set in stone in the blank space in the time skip, and nothing that happened afterwards altered her course from nihilistic destruction. She occasionally had moments of internal conflict but no real character development after the time skip. A good tragedy is usually a series of mistakes and misunderstandings that leads to tragic but avoidable consequences. At the end of a good tragedy, you should be left thinking of all the moments where catastrophe could have been avoided, but at the end of this show all I got was "Jinx gonna Jinx."

 

Also Silco was cool and right. He could've been cooler and righter if he wasn't determined to go about everything in the most evil way possible, often to the detriment of his own cause, but whatever. Silco for life.

 

 

 

 

Jinx was set in stone the second she killed her "brothers" and was abandoned by Vi, whatever Silco did with her during the time skip is completely secondary to that. She was a troubled girl from episode 1, tacking on about as a traumatic event that a person can experience and I don't have a problem with her not being ok in the end

 

[elbobo]

Finished it last night, yeah people need to watch this. This is probably the best animation ever done on a television series.

 

I've been thinking of this scene for the last 2 days

 

[Moa]

5 hours ago, elbobo said:

 

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Jinx was set in stone the second she killed her "brothers" and was abandoned by Vi, whatever Silco did with her during the time skip is completely secondary to that. She was a troubled girl from episode 1, tacking on about as a traumatic event that a person can experience and I don't have a problem with her not being ok in the end

 

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I didn't/don't really see it that way. In the first introduction to "Jinx" we see that she's clearly conflicted after killing the pink-haired woman. Throughout the rest of the show she continues to have small redeemable moments frequently enough that I don't think it's unreasonable to call the battle between Silco and Vi for Jinx's soul the primary thematic conflict in the show. Through that lens, I just found the finale so unsatisfying. It isn't that they went for a "nobody wins" finale, because those can be executed very well. It's that the specific way they did it doesn't make sense to me. Jinx is motivated primarily by a desire for belonging and the belief that the only way she will be accepted is to be useful. At no point does she seem interested in Silco's ideology or the nation of Zorn(?). She is loyal to him and acts in his interests because he has become a father to her. So after she kills Silco it just doesn't make sense that she would be interested in escalating his conflict.

 

[unogueen]

17 hours ago, Moa said:

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I didn't/don't really see it that way. In the first introduction to "Jinx" we see that she's clearly conflicted after killing the pink-haired woman. Throughout the rest of the show she continues to have small redeemable moments frequently enough that I don't think it's unreasonable to call the battle between Silco and Vi for Jinx's soul the primary thematic conflict in the show. Through that lens, I just found the finale so unsatisfying. It isn't that they went for a "nobody wins" finale, because those can be executed very well. It's that the specific way they did it doesn't make sense to me. Jinx is motivated primarily by a desire for belonging and the belief that the only way she will be accepted is to be useful. At no point does she seem interested in Silco's ideology or the nation of Zorn(?). She is loyal to him and acts in his interests because he has become a father to her. So after she kills Silco it just doesn't make sense that she would be interested in escalating his conflict.

 

Spoiler

Remorse is a weird emotion. Sometimes people want release through penance, some escape through vice. Silco was a ruthless man, and in killing him Jinx did fulfill his final requirement, complete self reliance.

 

[Greatoneshere]

Finally watched this - it was fucking awesome and gorgeous to watch. Ekko for life. Really dug the show, though I felt it made some narrative leaps in episode 6 and then the last three episodes kind of spun their wheels for way too long. Also Vi and Caitlyn constantly getting knocked out was annoying lol.

 

But overall, a fantastic show. I enjoyed the DOTA animated series DOTA: Dragon's Blood, but this was next level - I never would have expected such quality from a League of Legends animated show. I also hear great things about the recently released turn based RPG Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, and I'm now interested in playing that too.