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The dirt under your nails - ARCANE

Pugman said:
Jayce made the original Hexgems, and if I remember correctly he didn't properly seal the box he had them in (fitting his messy room) and that led to Powder obtaining them and kicking everything off.
Now, when things were starting to look up for Jinx and the others and Vander was being healed, here comes Jayce (though not in his right mind) and he blasts Viktor, leading to all the Herald had touched to fall and everything is once again ripped away from Jinx.

though I am only half serious about all of this.
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They were in a sealed box in his locked apartment's lab space.

If anything Ekko caused the entire plot by following a rich customer home and selling the location to Vi's gang.
 
Everything is Heimerdinger's fault given he funded the city and proceeded to do nothing about the undercity.
 
"If he'd found this... everything might have been different."

What interesting dialogue. I hope it becomes important.
On an only partially unrelated subject: Where are you, Ekko? I still have a crumb of optimism left.


Also, as expected with Arcane, I am once more utterly devestated not ok. Taking Isha that route wasn't cool or interesting though.
 
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My one hope at this stage is maybe sisters reconciliation and Caitlyn and Vi getting their grand make-up on. Though even then, I fear for the bed they do it in.
 
I think Anbessa is about to go down hard. Between the casualties her forces just took and the enemy she's likely just maid out of Caitlyn for all of this, she's considerably worse off than we she came to Piltover.
 
bluntblade said:
On that note I think I see her killing Enforcers in the Arc 3 teaser
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It's hard to believe she hasn't just made an enemy out of Caitlin for all of this, to be honest. She isn't responsible for what just happened to Victor, but things might have played out differently if Vi and Powder weren't busy trying to protect Vander and had been on the lookout for a crazed Hammer wielding Jayce.
 
Triggerhappy said:
It's hard to believe she hasn't just made an enemy out of Caitlin for all of this, to be honest. She isn't responsible for what just happened to Victor, but things might have played out differently if Vi and Powder weren't busy trying to protect Vander and had been on the lookout for a crazed Hammer wielding Jayce.
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I don't think they would've been able to change anything about it, because Viktor actually led Jayce to him. He invited him inside. Maybe if Vi went up to talk to him and noticed something she would've been able to at least try to stop him (before he was invited in) but I think Jinx would've only watched and not interfered. Cait would still be busy dealing with Ambessa.
 
bluntblade said:
On that note I think I see her killing Enforcers in the Arc 3 teaser
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Sadly, it looks like any mental stabilization Jinx was experiencing just went out the window. Not only did she lose both Isha and Vander, the second all over again . . . She didn't do anything obviously wrong. She's gonna spiral, convinced that there's something innate about herself that dooms the people she lets get close.
 
Only up to episode 5 on the second season so far, but the writing isn't as tight as the first season.
It seems like the writers couldn't figure out a believable way for Jinx to give a shit about Zaun so they shoe-horned in the little girl. I think the first block of episodes would have been a lot stronger without Jinx in them at all. It could have focused on Caitlyn's squad and Isha chasing rumors and looking for her, and she wouldn't get found til maybe the last episode of the block, if at all. It would have given a lot of the new characters time to cook because they feel so out of place.
 
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Feels like Viktor in Act II is the closest to how his LoL counterpart was in terms of personality. Despite misconceptions, the Machine Herald in fact does not force people against their will to be "gloriously evolved" and only takes the willing.

Him and his weird cult are nice but they are clearly subsumed by Viktor's consciousness. About the same amount of moral ambiguity as his League counterpart. Hope he doesn't change too much.
 
Adding as I watch:
Starts off with a time lapse/MV. Cait is finding that 1: Jinx is very ****ing hard to track and 2: the Undercity isn't interested in complying even when Topside puts the boot in.
Wonder if Maddie knows she's the rebound for Cait.
The Noxians are pushing, not really a surprise. Ambessa has plans.
"You could withdraw from the Underground." "Not without Jinx." Yeah, saw that coming.

Well Jinx seems to be in a better place even if she's still....Jinx (even if she says she's not).

Noxians attempting to figure out Hextech: I'm getting particular vibes from their attempts.
"Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!"
"I'm sorry sir but, I'm not Tony Stark."
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Considering that they should have access to Hextech pieces and still can't copy it; either J&V hide thier notes/papers much better after Jinx made off with them or Jinx is just that good when it comes to this sort of thing.
Oh good, Caitlyn doesn't completely trust Ambessa. And it looks like the situation is leaving Ambessa a bit unsure herself.

We didn't need more Salo. But it includes Lest so I guess it balances out?
"Me, a hero. How screwed up is this place?"
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It's the Undercity, Jinx. You have a week for me to give you the basic outline?

Ah **** the Firelight's tree is dying.

Ah so that's why Singed gave his blood. It was a remote activation for Warwick.
And **** me does Singed make a potent killing machine.
 
Shadows said:
Will respectfully but violently disagree.
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Yeah, the writing is still great. Though I do agree that they're suffering from some story-debt brought on by last season's finale. Kinda hard to go anywhere with a Jinx who has just killed her third dad and and Guy Foxed parliament unless she pulls out of the spiral.

My theory for this week is that the series ends with Jinx alive but the future left ambiguous. Either she escapes or Caitlyn captures her, possibly by Vi convincing her to come willingly.

Caitlyn certainly has an appetite for revenge, but she also wants justice, her own desires MIGHT be sated by merely throwing Jinx in a well padded cell and that might be a compromise that Piltover agrees to in exchange for ending hostilities with Zaun.

They don't want to turn Jinx into another Martyr for the cause, after all. Whether Jinx remains captured also would remain ambiguous . . .
 
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Triggerhappy said:
Yeah, the writing is still great. Though I do agree that they're suffering from some story-debt brought on by last season's finale. Kinda hard to go anywhere with a Jinx who has just killed her third dad and and Guy Foxed parliament unless she pulls out of the spiral.

My theory for this week is that the series ends with Jinx alive but the future left ambiguous. Either she escapes or Caitlyn captures her, possibly by Vi convincing her to come willingly.

Caitlyn certainly has an appetite for revenge, but she also wants justice, her own desires MIGHT be sated by merely throwing Jinx in a well padded cell and that might be a compromise that Piltover agrees to in exchange for ending hostilities with Zaun.

They don't want to turn Jinx into another Martyr for the cause, after all. Whether Jinx remains captured also would remain ambiguous . . .
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I would be shocked if Jinx is still in Piltover/Zaun at the end of the series.

And yeah, story debt is a good way to put it. The first episodes felt frantic, a rush to get everything into position for the rest of the season. It's still good, but s1 was a very impressive season of television.
 
Paloswag said:
And yeah, story debt is a good way to put it. The first episodes felt frantic, a rush to get everything into position for the rest of the season. It's still good, but s1 was a very impressive season of television.
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Isha actually makes a bit of sense when you look at how having to live for someone else influenced both Vander and Silco. Yeah, it didn't turn Silco into a good person, but by the end, even he realized there was something human he valued more than the abstract idea of Zaun.
 
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