I loved it. I loved the whole series, but Jinx's fate still hurts.
I wrote a rather gushing blog post about it the night I finished it. It's all so beautiful.
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2025
9 points (100.0% liked)
Arcane
134 readers
1 users here now
The community for Arcane, an animated series created by Riot Games portraying the origins of two iconic League champions, set in the utopian Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Very nicely written. "Every Frame a Painting" is so true.
S2 was good. It was however nowhere close to S1 in terms of quality.
I disagree with the ending being marvelous. I think it's not at the level of the rest of the show.
For me the show is 10/10 expect the ending scenario. It brutally shifts from local class war (which was core to the scenario from the beginning) to a battle for humanity, it uses a very classic time paradox trope, and it has incoherences. I would give it a 6/10, maybe.
I think they were too tied up by the Game IP requirements (show those playable characters, don't kill these, make those nice etc.) and/or maybe budget, so they abandoned plausibility and proper pacing in order to close the stories on the agreed upon schedule.