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Arcane - Ep.2X6 "The Message Hidden Within the Pattern"

🕑 Added 2024-11-21 22:08:09 +0000 UTC

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Eli

I'm so sorry for the text walls lol, I just also want to add anecdotally that the "remember me"/watercolor flashback segment when Viktor's healing Vanderwick is like the hardest I've cried at a show in recent memory. Just destroyed me. Isha sacrificing herself also got to me, but not quite as bad. I had a feeling she wouldn't make it the moment she was introduced-- she was too wholesome! Every single episode while I was watching it with my friends, I kept joking saying she'd explode or something because she's too good of a bean... and so when she actually, GENUINELY exploded, my jaw was on the floor. Like guys, I was KIDDING! T_T

Eli

I have so many complex feelings about Ambessa. She's just SO badass! Combining a ruthless warlord with fierce motherly overprotectiveness and love is so unique for a character. I really *really* suggest watching the "Blood Sweat & Tears" cinematic/music video the official League account put up on Youtube if you have the time-- it's like a "lore" music video for Ambessa. It's very cryptic and HEAVY on symbolism. There aren't any spoilers of course, but I definitely think it reveals potentially interesting context about Mel as well if my personal theory is correct! Also, it's made by Fortiche-- the studio that animates Arcane, so it's freaking gorgeous! With both Ambessa and Silco, I LOVE Arcane's "villains". There's so much to unpack with them. So much of Arcane is focused around daughters continuing the legacies of their parents, and I really love how they navigate that with the more morally gray/antagonistic parent characters.