Arcane S1 E7 REACTION
Added 2025-01-21 17:58:02 +0000 UTCComments
Such a heartfelt comment, I third it? haha But yeah I also like that he adds these disclaimers, it kinda grounds the reaction and everything that gets said.. Hope that makes sense.. also I like the Psycho Education that kinda flows into the Nerd talks, that actually helped me alot when I talked to a Psychologist this week, they got very engaged during the appointment, it helped my progress alot!! Apparently it is Psycho Education when they share knowlege? That's what she said at least I dunno
Arcane Fan
2025-01-26 23:36:35 +0000 UTCThe image in the scene when Jaycee meets his mother to make a decision regarding building the weapon, is a drawing he made when a kid of the mage who saved him and his mother. That was a pivotal event in Jayce's life where he build and entire mission and identity. He was struggling with the desicion about using power for the good or to protect innocent people. The problem is that Jaycee sees all the under city as dangerous.
Jehan Sandra@sandrasalem
2025-01-25 14:18:26 +0000 UTCnot sure if anyone else pointed this out already, but the girl with pink hair in the mural is still Vi. Ekko (and Silco and practically everyone else except Marcus, may he RIP), thought she was dead, hence her presence in the mural. the animators made it so those with features on the mural were characters the series already introduced properly. If anything the girl with pink hair who Jinx shot might be the one without facial features to the right of Powder. in-game lore had provided Ekko to be close with ALL the Firelights, so it tracks that those who died would certainly be painted on the mural, but since it's too much to name/introduce every member to the audience they're just feature-less.
donglordthe3rd
2025-01-25 13:34:25 +0000 UTCCompletely agree with this and second it. This truly has been a gem of a channel that we've stumbled upon đ
Mr. Chapsta
2025-01-24 03:22:20 +0000 UTCthere was a moment, a very clear moment, where jinx could have shot ekko during their game/fight, but she didnât bc she doesnât really want to hurt him, her alleged âboy saviorâ đ„čđ
Kayla Brunton
2025-01-24 01:04:31 +0000 UTCThe doctor Viktor goes to is Singed he is one of the champions for the game
Crystal Raeth
2025-01-23 07:22:22 +0000 UTCI added a couple of other comments but I really just wanted to say as well in a separate one that I deeply appreciate you and your reactions as is. I know you often leave disclaimers about what you do and donât say during a reaction. Whether your viewers take everything you say to heart, disagree with your very initial thoughts, or have any other sort of averse reaction that would cause you to hesitate or feel like you arenât being received how you would like to, or perhaps feel pressured to âperformâ a certain way as either a therapist or viewer according to peopleâs expectations, please do not worry too much about any of it. You have a uniquely strong appeal and the traction on both your channels and Patreon is proof of it. Arcane is a heavy show both in thematic material and detail. Audio cues, visual cues, subtle movement and expressions, complex dialogue hints, a full cast of characters with their own fully-fleshed out perspectives and paradigms, Arcane is what I would call a truly rich and decadent show, and some people donât care for that or pay as much notice to it. And honestly, sometimes it really can feel like a bit too rich, especially if people expect you to shovel it all in at once and immediately grasp and share the full scale of your findings in one go. I personally love the way that you do these reactions, not because you catch every single detail and nuance and plot point in the very first second it comes on the screen (if your viewers are pointing things out that youâve missed please remember they are likely on their 5th or 10th or 30th rewatch, and they have been engaging with the media surrounding the show and having conversations about these scenes for years since the showâs release, so their level of engagement is completely unrealistic and unattainable for you to reach in these videos), but because you actually understand the showâs goal and recognize the depth of material there is to work with. Whether it is geeking out and taking a psychoanalytical approach to a characterâs behavior in one scene, or silently taking in the complex and action-heavy fight sequence in another, or posing fun and interesting questions as a viewer, you are engaging with the material with interest and attentiveness that rivals any other reaction channel I have come across, and thatâs just for your Arcane reactions alone!! Your thought process, however it shows up, however it may differ from day to day, is what I am excited to be here to see. You could come on and say absolutely nothing and I would still completely enjoy the reaction because I already know that you welcome the opportunity to think critically and feel deeply about whatever it is you are watching, and that translates across the screen, and results in âConnection through Reactionâ. That being said, thank you for these videos, and I really hope that you ENJOY making them. The magic of something like this is sharing in joy with other people, and I would hate to see you feel stifled after all your efforts, especially while balancing family, working full time, and getting a doctorate degree. And as someone who has been in therapy for some years in my early teens and saw many different doctors and therapists, I cannot imagine what an amazingly caring and supportive therapist you are and what a difference you have surely made for your clientsâ life experiences. Iâm so glad to have stumbled across your channel! Youâve done an amazing job with it.
Jelly Shelly
2025-01-23 01:17:00 +0000 UTCAlso to add I definitely think youâre right about the fight between Ekko and Jinx - we can see that they played similar (although decidedly less violent) games in their youth and I think Ekko believed, likely due to his familiarity with her, who was once his closest friend, that Jinx would be vulnerable when entranced by a memory and experience from the past. While she was occupied with the game and the childlike feelings associated with it, he was able to pull from his prior knowledge of her moves, as you said, and dodge every bullet. Meanwhile, Jinx was too caught up in the game to realize that this was his angle. When the fight was Ekko vs Powder, Powder won by landing one of her shots in the end. Knowing she was likely to go for the same strike present-day, Ekko dodged one final time and instead diverted into a new attack. Itâs clear this surprised Jinx - we can see by her expression as heâs jumping above her in slow motion. What I find interesting about this dynamic is the loyalty the show has to Powder/Jinxâs qualities. Of course, in a high stakes moment, Jinx would be highly susceptible to the distraction of a childhood game. Of course she could be strung along like that - we see her giggling and enjoying the moment as if they had truly gone back in time. I donât know if this is the right or even applicable terminology for her but we have seen a sort of age regression at times with Jinx and so it makes a lot of sense to me that Ekko would know to use that against her in a one-on-one setting. UGH I just love Jinx and all the care put into the details surrounding her
Jelly Shelly
2025-01-23 00:28:16 +0000 UTCThe âfirelightsâ that explode on the bridge are not actually firelights, theyâre created by Jinx to mimic the look of firelights but ultimately for the attack. I remember seeing the metal butterflies in the episode âHappy Progress Dayâ in Piltover. My interpretation is she sees them and takes some when she steals the hextech crystal originally, and then you see her tinkering with them and in the background on her desk in later scenes when sheâs in her room. To me thereâs a lot of interesting use of butterfly symbolism throughout Arcane. And here Jinx kind of morphs together her own bombs and art, and uses Piltoverâs âprogressâ (these mechanical symbols of change) against it while under the guise of firelights Edit : you see this episode 4 around the 4 minute mark and the 32 minute mark Hope that makes sense đ
Kathleen D
2025-01-22 23:42:06 +0000 UTCIâm new to the Patreon and really enjoying the content and thought I would chime in on something. I think that when Jinx is watching on the bridge and says âLiarâ as Vi is running back to Caitlyn, sheâs likely referring to Vi as the liar. When Jinx and Vi first found each other after Jinx lit up the blue torch, thereâs a moment when Vi tells her âI am not going to abandon you again.â I feel like in the scene on the bridge, Jinx is observing Vi making the choice to return to Caitlyn, which makes sense to us as Caitlyn and Ekko have just been shot at, so of course she should head over to help, but Jinx has come to view Caitlyn as Viâs replacement for her, and so to her this choice reads as a rejection; sheâs choosing to return to Cait instead of choosing to go back and continue searching for Powder. Perhaps this can be viewed for Jinx as another moment of abandonment. Up until this point, Jinx had trusted in Viâs promise to not abandon her again. This is evident even in the scene where Jinx is stapling her leg and arguing with Mylo, insisting that âI didnât lose her, they took her!â So itâs clear she was uncertain but willing to believe Vi âwouldnât do that againâ, which Jinx also says while watching on the bridge. Of course itâs open to interpretation I just felt personally that she was calling out Vi on lying about not abandoning her again, and that added some emotional weight to the scene for me.
Jelly Shelly
2025-01-22 23:40:42 +0000 UTCThere are lots of breakdowns of the Jinx vs Ekko fight but my favorite points out that by framing the fight in the context of a game they used to play as children that Ekko managed to do something that no one else has, made Jinx *predictable*. He remembered how she used to do it so he knows what to dodge this time. He's learned from their past and made adjustments while baiting Jinx into repeating it.
AmbushIntheDark
2025-01-22 14:12:00 +0000 UTCSilco is obviously a bad dude but I love that he cares about Jinx enough to know how to talk to her while shes having an episode and still trusts her to do his injection, like this isnt the first time something like this has happened.
AmbushIntheDark
2025-01-22 13:51:52 +0000 UTCA detail I really like in this episode, when Ekko holds back his final punch on Jinx and their eyes meet, narratively you could say he's recognizing that maybe there's still some bits of Powder left in Jinx. That despite all the posturing that Powder is dead and gone and all that's left is Jinx, he finds that being actually face to face with her it's harder for him to accept. But an interesting artistic detail here is that when he gets a good look at her eyes in that moment, they look grey in the dim light of the bridge. Powder's eyes, back when Ekko last really knew her, were fully grey as a child, and only after their separation and her growing up did her eyes turn to a brighter grey-blue. You can even see in his mural that powder's eyes aren't painted blue, but greyish-green(the green is just a painterly thing), but Vi's(which is the one below powder) eyes are clearly a vivid blue so Ekko could've but didn't, which I think goes to show to how Ekko remembers her eyes as grey. So in any of their encounters over the years, like the one at the start of act 2 or their face to face here, Ekko's inability to recognize the person who she's become but once knew literally manifests by her having a different look in her eyes then the one he used to know. And so in the bridge scene, not only is he being confronted emotionally with having to accept "is she really a lost cause or could I still save her?" as he holds that decision in his fist above her head, not only is he looking down at the pained bloodied face of a once friend now bitter enemy something that would obviously be emotionally hard, but there's a small brief moment there where he literally gets a glimpse of the familiar face of his childhood friend through her eyes, which I think is the main reason he freezes in that moment. The shock of seeing the "ghost" of Powder. For anyone who wants, I'll see about posting an image in the chat group kinda showing this comparison of Powder and Jinx's eyes.
Git
2025-01-22 03:53:23 +0000 UTCAnother amazing reaction! Like I said before you get the things very fast ! Yes Ekko has a time âpowerâ is his main ability in the game, but as some comments already mentioned this piece is about how much Ekko knows powder and knows how she is going through the battle, thatâs why he avoids âfinishing â her ⊠he still see powder there !!!
Carol Grein Ericson
2025-01-22 02:43:03 +0000 UTCIMO Ekko tells Vi that Powderâs gone and that all is left is Jinx is because Ekko has seen the transformation himself. He has been in Zaun and saw the transition in the Undercity the past 6 years, whereas Vi still believes Powderâs in there somewhere because her last memory and impression is that of her little sister since sheâs been in prison. Vi is ignorant to the fact that Jinx has been working closely with Silco, doing his bidding, and the bond that they have, as Sevika said in previous episode âsheâs like his daughter.â I think Ekko wants Vi to preserve any of her memories of Powder as who she was and not who she is now, just as he has by painting her on the mural.
Susan Lee
2025-01-22 02:25:48 +0000 UTCLol! 21:15 was the time stamp I was referencing. đ
Valeria Antelo
2025-01-22 01:57:11 +0000 UTC1:04:42 when Jinx is having symptoms of mania while stapling her injury, she points her fingers in a gun gesture toward a fire fly. That is when she develops the idea of making the mechanical explosive fire flies you saw in the bridge scene.
Valeria Antelo
2025-01-22 01:52:51 +0000 UTC58:00 So in the game, ekko has the ability to rewind time by exactly 4 seconds, that's his ultimate in the game. In show at this point, this was a bit of an artistic homage by the creators to the game character by making Ekko remember how they played as kids, her shooting patterns, play it out in his mind, and then "rewind" it and moving slightly different in the end (he has a chest plate on his chest this time, vs in his memory, that's why he wears on now, and so that's a bit of an artistic take and easter egg for the gamers out there. Fun fact: the entire duration of that fight that he replays is exactly 4 seconds of animation, like his in-game ultimate ability.
Cyber
2025-01-22 00:53:26 +0000 UTCfun little tidbit: when jinx fires her gun at vi/caitlyn, Caitlyn HUGS vi to shield her from the bullets, but Vi PUSHES caitlyn away to separate them. There's a little subconsciosu trait here about their personalities: Caitlyn is attached to Vi to protect her, but Vi's automatic defensive fight/flight/freeze approach is to PUSH people away from her, her subconscious has always been abrasive and push-back on those who get too close to her when she feels like people are always in danger around her. That mirrors how she reacted when she punched Powder in the first arc or lashed back at milo and vander etc.
Cyber
2025-01-22 00:46:57 +0000 UTCActually, u can see in episode 4 there's a similar butterfly mechanical thing , and jinx's working on those firelights mechanical thingies when the "get jinxed" music is playing and silco comes yelling at her. It's also seen on the table when jinx's hotpatching her leg at the beginning of this episode.. Basically, jinx has been creating these micro explosive firelights and "blending them" with the the other firelights (real ones) to slowly build up her explosive arsenal, that's why Vi said "i've never seen so many of them though" because jinx's been feeding them in the population, flying around. When she got angry at the bridge, jinx let htem loose on the piltovers
Cyber
2025-01-22 00:41:04 +0000 UTCGirl in the painting was Vi, ekko thought she was dead. The girl Jinx mistook for Vi is right under Vander, I believe.
anadoob
2025-01-21 23:16:36 +0000 UTCGods I always absolutely love the scene with Viktor Jayce and the bomb, I think its one of the absolute best bits of symbolic storytelling in the whole series. When faced with a destructive force that risks their health and safety (The grenade; the undercity) with the timer literally ticking down until theyre harmed both Jayce and Viktor are forced to make a decision. Jayce freezes up unsure of the right action. Defend himself, get rid of the threat, do nothing, he's unsure and looking to others to help him decide. he's removed from the problem (furthest from the grenade; not experienced with the undercity) so his input is superficial at best. Viktor looks at the problem and thinks it through. Destruction is preventable through careful thought. "there is always a choice". Viktor is close to the source here (proximity to the grenade and how it functions; knowledge of the undercity's needs) so he's able to address the "threat" directly in a way that deescalates the situation and prevents destruction of either side
Raven
2025-01-21 23:05:02 +0000 UTCAnother great reaction! I 100% agree that Singed (the scientist) has some incredible quotes. I really love his character because every time heâs on screen, he offers great lines and plenty of food for thought. Iâve noticed others have already pointed out some of the things I wanted to mention, so I wonât repeat myself, but I do want to highlight why Viktor didnât know about the blockade. Everything happened quickly: he left for the Undercity right after Jayce told him to do what he believed was right while Jayce dealt with Heimerdinger. The blockade was ordered right before Heimerdinger was thrown out of the Council, so Viktor couldnât have known. Itâs fascinating to see Viktor firmly tell Singed that Jayce would understand, only to then see how Singedâs suggestion of the contrary took root in his mind. After a small misunderstanding with Jayce about the blockade (I love that Jayce immediately apologizes when he realizes his misstep), Viktor decides to hide the fact that Singed gave him Shimmer. The same dynamic happens later in the lab, where Viktor misinterprets Jayceâs words about Heimerdingerâs inaction as a call to arms. (Mel definitely knows how to phrase things to get what she wants.) All these little moments of doubt and tensionâcaused entirely by the political and security situation, as well as Jayce trying to do his bestâlead to Viktor questioning Jayceâs intentions, misunderstanding his worries, and ultimately deciding to start experimenting on himself in secret. A single line by Singed had such a subtle but important impact on their dynamic. And it all feels very human: decisions born of miscommunication, good intentions that turn into unintended harm.
luana_reads
2025-01-21 22:41:08 +0000 UTCOh yeah. Ha ha ha. That is exactly what I mean. I can just imagine the youtube comments now! An ocelot is a big cat isn't.....FML
StuBoy
2025-01-21 22:34:59 +0000 UTCThere is a deleted opening flashback for this episode where Ekko tries to rescue Jinx from Silco after Vander's death, just for her to say, "I don't want to be rescued; I am Jinx now." This is probably where the sarcastic "boy savior" comes from, Jinx mocking Ekko that he failed to rescue her. This is also why he is so certain that Powder can't be rescued when he talks with Vi. They decided to scrap the scene because they thought it conveyed the same feelings as the fight at the end of the episode, which is honestly a shame because it would have given so much more context to the episode. You can listen to a writer of the show talking about the deleted scene here: https://x.com/arcaneindetail/status/1847266930459341056
Ludo
2025-01-21 22:33:20 +0000 UTCDear friend, across the river đ¶
Matt Sturgeon
2025-01-21 21:43:01 +0000 UTCMy thoughts, opinions, and probably some details I like. First of nice on ya for calling Jayce out on the, "Its hard to believe what their capable of", he's losing touch. Also Mel is absolutly manimuplating him but to what end? I don't think sevika is they type to hold that sort of michivious grudge, she's very vocal with her dissaprovment of Jinx. Even if silco won't tolerate it. I think she Just needed silco to stop panicking to go to the chembaron assembly. I love how much Jinx fights against the voices in her head. It feels very true to the experience, and shows that her intention is to be sane. Ekko say's powder is gone and Vi say's that powder is still in there. Their both wrong in my opinion. Vi thinks powder is hidden and Ekko doesn't think Jinx is Powder, But powder is right there thats her. I guess I should probably be saying Jinx is right there because of the whole name thing but it makes the sentiment harder to understand. We learn this episode that silco used to work in Piltovers mines, the air he brings the chembarons is from those same mines. Its harsher than even Zauns air, but silco is still adapted to it from his time working there. He truly has seen the worst of piltovers oppression, somthing the young upstart Fin hasn't. Silco should be aware that Vi is back for powder. (episode 6) "I'm going to find her, and erase whatever fucked up delusions you put in her head". But I think the sentiment is still true (at least in silco's eyes). He still believes Vi left by choice, and that going with Vi will only hurt Jinx. And also he does need jinx. I believe he projects Vander and his relationship onto Jinx and Vi. Jinx knows silco and knows that there is a level of manipulation here but still kind of goes along with it (for now) The firelights were actually Jinx's butterfly bombs (you can see them on her desk earlyer in the episode). They seemed to target specifically enforcer weapons, (i believe so others wouldn't get caught in the crossfire) and it mostly worked, their were three people on that bridge that were "not enforcers" Vi, Ekko, and Caitlyn, and of them caitlyn only got hit by some shrapnell despite being face to face with one. (also the song Jinx hums while aproaching is the one she sang on the bridge in episode 1) Vi has left Jinx four times (counting this episode). 1. to go save vander (left by choice) 2. After powders explosion (taken by enforcers) 3. In episode 6 (firelights) 4. To take care of caitlyn (by choice). This is the first time by choice Vi left the new Jinx. To make things worse (episode 6) "you can fire that thing (gattling) if you want to but im not going anywhere, im not going to abandon you again." Jinx fired at Vi and Vi chose to leave. Jinx just got left by Vi, she knows silco lied to her (and manipulated to some extent), and now she's fighting her childhood best friend to the death. Its too much, she can't do it so she drops the grenade. If the plan was to kill ekko she could have attached it to him.
Last Thing
2025-01-21 21:39:49 +0000 UTCNot sure if somebody else has said, but I think the word youâre after is Axolotl rather than Ocelot đ
Abbie Lloyd
2025-01-21 21:17:02 +0000 UTCWhen Ekko pulls out the pocket watch and starts swinging it side to side, Jinx's face changesâitâs the same expression Powder used to have. Itâs also the same face painted on the mural in the memorial the Firelights made, where the giant tree is. Jinx immediately gets whatâs happening because itâs a game they used to play as kids: one would shoot, and the other would dodge. Thatâs why she doesnât shoot Ekko right away. Even though sheâs crazy and has become a killer, I think she appreciates the gesture and, in a way, respects the ritual of their game. Plus, she likes being challenged and probably still thinks sheâs better than Ekko. When Ekko charges at her, and they look directly into each other's eyes, Jinxâs normally intense blue eyes shift to the same color they had when she was Powder. Her facial expression also changesâher eyebrows drop, and her forehead furrows slightly, revealing a vulnerability that shocks Ekko. This moment is accompanied by the same music that played during the memorial scene. Iâm still trying to figure out why Jinx decided to take her own life with the grenade. It makes me think of what Silco told her a couple of episodes earlier: "You need to let Powder die so the fear of pain will no longer control you." Maybe Jinx thought sheâd moved past all her fearsâbetrayal, deathâbut in that moment, she realizes Powder is still alive inside her. In her messed-up mind, she decides to take her own life to finally destroy Powder and, at the same time, take Ekko with her... PS. The "Enemy" music video by Imagine Dragons x J.I.D shows more about Powder and Ekkoâs relationship as kids, which adds a little context to this scene.
Drabolik Lz
2025-01-21 21:02:19 +0000 UTCThe doctor is just called Singed but you dont remember his name because itâs never said. Donât worry you didnât forget it. He is definitely full of interesting quotes and that continues into season 2. He has some real hard hitters.
HeyItsVayy
2025-01-21 20:56:21 +0000 UTCI don't think sevika gave silco that piece of parenting advise (she will come to you when she is ready) to give jinx time to do something stupid. I think she really meant in in a nice helpful way, and also a little bit to try and put silcos mind back in the game. She wanted him not to be distracted for the chembarons meeting and focus on the "business".
Lu
2025-01-21 20:19:43 +0000 UTCFor me the fight between ekko and jinx is a clearly a memory from their past. 1. I think it should symbolise how the grew up fighting/shooting for fun but now it is not fun anymore. The fight /shoot to hurt/defend. 2. It should shoul that based on they past, ekko knows jinxs moves, and can predict them and therfore ditch her bullets. Furthermore, the facial expression on ekkos face when he is about to punch jinx is realisation. Before, he was so sure about who jinx is. He says to Vi: powder is gone, only jinx is left and you can't save her. But then, when he sees her, ekko is not so sure anymore. Suddenly, he sees his friend powder again and that second of hesitation could cost him his life.
Lu
2025-01-21 20:12:44 +0000 UTCThat is the younger Vi in the forefront of the memorial mural beneath Powder, because they believed that she too, had died. The pink haired girl Jinx killed is in the top corner still being added to the mural, as she was the most recent loss.
Summer Devin
2025-01-21 20:12:25 +0000 UTCThanks, I thought that stance must have signified something as it was such a significant shift.
StuBoy
2025-01-21 20:12:22 +0000 UTCThanks
StuBoy
2025-01-21 20:11:10 +0000 UTCSome nice insights there, thanks
StuBoy
2025-01-21 20:10:49 +0000 UTCOthers have mentioned the symbology of the musical part of the bridge duel so I'll add this instead, Jinx shoots with the stance Milo shoots with when he misses every shot in their paintball shooting gallery. Jinx choosing to try to kill them both with a grenade at the end pretty much sums up where she is mentally when she thinks Vi is leaving her again
Patrick Dawson
2025-01-21 19:56:35 +0000 UTCAnother small detail in earlier episodes is when Jinx is working at her desk you can see her working on her Firelights
Patrick Dawson
2025-01-21 19:38:30 +0000 UTCJust some piecewise comments on some of the comments/questions from this ep #The voice Jinx hears The voice Jinx hears is Mylo, and she obviously sees him a ton as well as her main antagonistic hallucination. I love this detail since he was the biggest prodder of her core insecurity when he was alive. We haven't seen Claggor in this light at all, but he's still somewhat present. # The Silco scene Silco has no reason to believe Vi wouldn't be there to reconcile with Powder. I find it hard to consider it anything other than manipulation. He's terrified of that happening, as everything unravels if it does. He loses his ace soldier in Jinx if she's freed from his grasp, and he knows that he can't truly compete with Vi for Jinx's "allegiance" if Vi and Jinx reconcile. This is why we saw Silco lose his cool for the first time at the end of episode 6. He ran out of possible moves to stop Vi from bringing this to pass. Luckily for him the firelights ruined the reunion. This kinda extends my comment from last episode, as I didn't want to spoil it, but, this scene had Silco leveraging that need that Jinx has, playing up her insecurity that Vi still cares for her/can accept her again, and re-extends the emotionally safe option for validation to Jinx: Silco. #Jinx's bridge comments As for Jinx saying "she wouldn't do that, not again", and calling Vi a liar. It refers to Vi failing to prioritize her needs again. In Jinx's mind the mental anguish she's in should be prioritized over the safety of Caitlyn, Ekko, or the security of the gemstone. When they reunited Vi said that she wouldn't abandon Jinx again, and it's very easy to see this de-prioritization as abandonment when the wound is still open. It almost feels like a very heightened expectation of prioritization is there for Jinx, as if Jinx can only feel resolution if she sees that nothing in the entire world matters more to Vi than getting back to her. It's also worth noting that Jinx didn't make a move at all until she saw Vi run back. It's almost as if she didn't feel the need to secure the gemstone(and Silco's validation) when Vi was still en route to return to her, but as soon as she saw Vi prioritize something else, she went to secure the gem herself, not caring who she killed when doing it(I assume she at least knew she wouldn't kill Vi with them). # Firelights Those explosions weren't firelights, they were the butterflies Jinx stole during progress day(We first see them at around 4:15 in Episode 4 during the Progress Day celebration). We see them circling her at the end of Episode 5 when she cracks hextech. They can also be seen when she's patching herself up with the staplegun this episode. # Jayce picture That Jayce picture of him with the cape and hammer is just a reference to him in the game, pretty much. #Jinx humming the bridge song I wonder if Jinx humming that tune she sang in the opening of episode 1 was a soothing mechanism for her when seeing the war-torn bridge again. #Jinx/Ekko Duel sequence It felt like the show was trying to firstly show how tragic it is that these kids who used to play this game have come to this. Secondly it's to show that he's recalling her shooting patterns so he knows how he can close the distance based on her shooting habits, it'd feel a bit cheap if Ekko could just sprint through a marksman's volley at such a distance otherwise.
Harris
2025-01-21 19:32:42 +0000 UTCFurther on this in the Jinx - Silco scene, the camera pans down to show him clenching his fist and restraining himself when she hurts him.
Patrick Dawson
2025-01-21 19:31:39 +0000 UTCThe Firelights are native to Piltover / Zaun but Jinx made mechanical ones to attack the bridge. (Which I've been thinking about a lot recently because there are a lot, I wonder how long that took her).
Kabidu
2025-01-21 19:28:03 +0000 UTCJinx even made him a Cup
Kabidu
2025-01-21 19:24:08 +0000 UTCThere are all sorts of little Powder/Jinx-related bits and bobs in Silco's office. For a man who is very concerned with a clean appearance (he uses makeup and fiddles with his hair constantly), he seems to be able to tolerate some disorder in his living space if it's Jinx-related.
Patrick Dawson
2025-01-21 19:15:14 +0000 UTCThe humming on the bridge was what powder was singing in the bridge scene of episode 1
TheKebabSeller
2025-01-21 19:11:53 +0000 UTCWelcome to peak Arcane, this act is cinema from start to finish Some things to clarify: the girl you were pointing at in the mural is Vi, who everyone thought was gone, but the girl you were talking about and looking for was being added on the right side of the mural since that was a recent loss. Jayce's picture was him with, unsurprisingly, a large hammer. Jinx was humming Dear Friend Across the River, the same song she sang in the first scene of Arcane. And no, Ekko doesn't have a special gadget for bullet dodging, he just played the fight out in his head, that's why he didn't get shot the same way in the 'preview' as in the actual fight; however, time is a big theme for his character, you got that spot on. His first sentence was, after all, "just give me a second". Singed did indeed invent shimmer, he's a very brilliant scientist, and I find him often to be the exact opposite of Heimerdinger. If you actually stop to think about what Heimerdinger is saying, all his proverbs are just nonsense, honestly. He acts smart because he has the benefit of respect from age and experience but actually I don't find anything he says insightful at all. Singed on the other hand is full of actually deep quotes which come from relentless pursuit of the topics he educates on. He's, as far as I'm concerned, the most intelligent character on the show. Marcus' dying moments are directly caused by himself. If he didn't choose to stay with Silco in this one last chance for redemption he had, I believe he could have lived, since Vi wouldn't be running back to save Cait and Ekko and it might not have set off Jinx. Maybe it's wishful thinking, since Jinx was supposed to take care of the bridge one way or another, but I do believe that this butterfly effect caused Marcus' own downfall. As for what Mylo's whispering to Jinx, my interpretation is that he's saying Vi is leaving her again, and Jinx calls Vi a liar for saying she wouldn't leave. What I'm interested in is the aspect of Jinx that is so desperately trying to figure out the truth, calling everybody a liar, when her own perception of reality is extremely distorted. I wonder if you have any insight as to why she is so obsessed with calling everyone a liar. Maybe something to do with always thinking everyone else believes her weak?
MatÄj Macek
2025-01-21 19:10:59 +0000 UTCVi is on the memorial wall, along with Powder. It was assumed that Vi was dead because of the line Ekko said when meeting her "You look good, for a dead girl". The girl Jinx shot is on the right hand side being painted. I think the reason Powder was there is because in Ekko's eyes the girl he knew was also lost that night. Jinx called Vi a "liar" because after they met in the previous episode she said that "I won't abandon you again". Also when it comes to Ekko, I'm not going to spoil anything but have you noticed that he also has an hour glass painted on his face? On this occasion I would say that this a memory of what it was like when they were younger vs the present, where this is no longer a game. She has a real weapon, with real consequences.
Craig
2025-01-21 18:51:14 +0000 UTCLmao đ€Ł
LiL' CuTzZz
2025-01-21 18:49:23 +0000 UTCOh yeah. My monkey brain forgot that she was dead from their perspective.
StuBoy
2025-01-21 18:47:09 +0000 UTCVi is the one under Powder on the memorial painting by Ekho. The girl on the right of Milo and Vander is the girl from the ship that Jinx thought was Vi.
LiL' CuTzZz
2025-01-21 18:25:45 +0000 UTCWere you in Shaun of the Dead? đ
Heather Armstead
2025-01-21 18:02:47 +0000 UTCThanks patreon for choosing such as lively default thumbnail picture where it looks like im about to sit on a toilet. Edit: Just realised I wrote 'lively' instead of lovely. Was going to change it but lively fits equally as well.
StuBoy
2025-01-21 17:58:42 +0000 UTC
