Cinepals - ARCANE 2x5 "Blisters and Bedrock" Reaction & Discussion! | League of Legends | Netflix

Episode Date: November 16, 2024

Arcane is back on Netflix after three years with it's second (and final Season). Piltover is left reeling after the events of the first season. Will they be able to recover and will Vi and Jinx ever be able to reconcile? Arcane season 2 stars Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, Pitch Perfect 2, Hawkeye) as Vi, Ella Purnell (Fallout, Yellowjackets, Army of the Dead) as Jinx, Kevin Alejandro (Lucifer, Southland, True Blood) as Jayce, Katie Leung (Harry Potter series, The Foreigner, Locked Down) as Caitlyn, Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones, The Theory of Everything, Manhattan) as Viktor, Toks Olagundoye (Castle, The Neighbors, DuckTales) as Mel, Amirah Vann (Underground, Tracers, A Jazzman's Blues) as Sevika and Ellen Thomas (Eastenders, Johnny English Reborn, Mrs Harris Goes To Paris) as Ambessa. You can watch the cut down reaction to this movie (and many others) on our YouTube channel https://www.YouTube.com/@Cinepals and the full length reaction is available on our Patreon page https://www.cinejump.com SOCIAL MEDIA ~MICHAEL BOOSE~ Instagram: @BooseIsLoose ~ACHARA KIRK~ Twitter & Instagram:  @Acharakirk  YouTube:  @Achara  ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals

Senna. Pals. On to the next episode of Arcane Season 2, this time episode 5. This is Blisters and Bedrock. Thanks so much for joining us. Let's get into it. Here we go. I can't let you leave.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I'm sorry, too. What are you going to? Yep. Oh, my God, he splattered him. Ew. Oh, God. How far is that getting?

you, though. I mean, you're dealing with something beyond your understanding. Yeah, right? Beyond comprehension. He's all knowing he's omnipotent. Wow. We don't know. We don't know yet. Okay, dokey. Well, well, Garsh. Well, we'll garsh.

Wow. How do you wrap this up? I don't know. I don't know. They're setting up so many things. Like, the last three episodes it'd better, like, be a feature length each. Because I don't, there's so much going on. I don't know how we're going to wrap it up. Well, they managed to wrap up Breaking Bad somehow, so they can wrap this up.

I guess that's fair. I guess that's fair. Because I was having the same feeling watching Breaking Bad. I was like, how do you get this all done in the next two? Oh, they did it. Okay. Wow. Wow.

You guys managed. Okay. Great. I mean, there's, what, four more episodes to go? Four more episodes, yeah. So, you know, we can. But it just feels like a lot of what they're showing feels like stuff that you would typically spread out over the course of seasons.

Sure. And like, you know, this is, we've got four episodes left. So, but to be fair, with season one, they jump forward what would typically be covered over seasons. That's true, sure. Yeah. Over two episodes. So it's not unlike the show to explore things like that with that kind of ambition. I'm like, I have so many questions.

And, but that was such a touching moment with, you know, the family reunion. Oh, my God. Yeah. I was, I was kind of sensing that from you. And I'm like, no, what the fuck? Michael never cries. It happened. Mark it down.

Very rarely. Very rarely does Michael. cry. I have cried so much in front of this man watching movies. And I'm like, just shut the fuck up. Mike, I'm having a moment here. Stop. Yeah, no, but I think it got all of us. I mean, it's been getting to me, but that's no surprise because anything that kind of deals with family and like dads and moms and whatever. I'm always going to cry. But like, man, that was so beautiful and I think it just really speaks to this idea of the very human desire of wanting to leave the world a better place for our children and like you see how Vander and Silco

used to be young and full of dreams and ideals and then you see what we've seen how in season one that became corrupted and like how what Jinks is talking about about how like if only he'd seen that letter if things had worked out differently then it would be different you know like you really get that sense of like anyone can be anything it's like what we've been talking about it's like you can be the villain

you can be the hero you can you know at any moment in time just depending on the different decisions that you make I have a dumb question did it was the show as a show ever overtly stated who I and Jinx's parents are besides the mom We saw them die as silhouettes.

Okay. Yeah. We did see two people die. Yeah. Vander has only ever talked about their parents. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So, and he, when, when their mom said that she was pregnant, he asked, did you tell, and I miss the name. Yeah. Did you tell X, Y, Z person? Yeah. So I think, I think he's, he's not the dad. Did they actually say the name? Yeah. He said a name.

name. Yeah. I'm fairly certain he said a name. Yeah, the name was said. Really part of my plan, but I guess that's everything when you're living week to week. What did Connell say? Connell. Connell. Yeah. Who's Connell? Her husband? Her partner, her boyfriend. Did we ever meet a guy named Connell? I don't think we've ever met a guy named Connell. No. All right. So we'll see. That's just another question now. I don't think it's important. I think what's important is that that she's... I don't think you can say that with this show. Everything is important. or right now right like from what we're seeing with what they've shown us what they've chosen

to show us it's like clearly uh silco and vander cared about her yeah like who knows right and so it kind of makes sense of why they cared about the kids so much it's because like they made a promise to her to look after her child and then and to make the world a place that her children could live in happy. Yeah. Yeah. So it just, it's one of those cool things that really helps us to understand the characters and their motivations from the season prior. Speaking of characters and the depths of them, if I were to ever encounter a cosplay, accurate cosplay of Vi in real life, I might just propose on the spot. That might be the end of it. Oh, no. That's it. That's your favorite type of girl. That's my take.

That is... Episode 5. Jabby Coet's, taste, and women. I'd be like, blisters in bedrock. Period. Let's go. Blisters in Bedrock. I will burn the world so that your child has a good place to be. So basically, you're just into a girl who would not be into you.

I would be dressed up as Kiramon. You'd dress up as Caitlin. You'd specifically perpetually be cosplaying Caitlin just for her. If I clean shave and put on long blue hair, you'd be confused too, man. you're making me feel things that I didn't know I was going to feel today Jeepers Just try to set aside the muscles

I may be I may be a bit More muscular Anyway Yeah Oh my God I think I liked her I like her new look

It's pretty cool Yeah it's cool It is a cool look You did mention at the top of Episode 1 That her hair turns black this season And I just sort of kind of wrote it off is like, oh, maybe it's a stylistic choice

that they did in the trailer or something, and now here we are. Yeah, well, when I was looking up her hair color, like it popped up in a Reddit feed or something. Oh, you got it spoiled. Yeah, well, they saw it in the trailer. Oh, okay, that's fair. That's fair, that's fair, that's fair.

Yeah, but I, it's crazy. Everything that happened in this episode. Well, yeah. Oh, my God, yeah. And the stuff with the doctor as well, right? Singed, yeah. Singed. Like, I just love how the show,

while it is, you know, super fantastical, and magical and action-packed at its heart it's about love and family and I think that's something that is so easy for so many of us to relate to and so like you understand like where singed is coming from because all of the things that he's done

all of the terrible horrible experiments and everything that he's ever done is just so that he can save his daughter's life very Frankenstein very very very frankenstein What happens when you play God, it doesn't go well. Well, I mean, that's kind of been Victor's arc in a way, too. He was messing with the Hextech and playing God because he wanted a cure for himself, right?

Like, we all try and utilize these powers and these things that we create for the betterment of ourselves. And, like, to a certain extent, Victor also wanted to give Hextech to the people. And Jace kind of, like, they butted heads in that way. But, you know, Victor was, like, used the. Hexcore on himself. He experimented on himself, which is something that, like, Singe did as well. And it's that corruption of, like,

I want to make technological breakthroughs at any cost that, like, Heimerdinger has been warning against this entire time. Right. So they've all melded into a singular being? Kind of. Well, I kind of figured that that might happen, especially with what happened with the girl the very first time when she touched Victor. And then he was kind of seeing her.

And so when I saw him start to cure people, I was wondering, like, are there going to be any ramifications to that? It's a hive mind. Yeah, because now they've touched him and they've connected with him. And so we see that he has control over them. It does have that sort of, you watch Terminator 1 and 2, right? Yeah, I've seen Terminator 1. It does have this sort of sky net feeling to the whole thing. Yeah.

Of like, it's going to resolve everything by murdering everybody. you know yeah right his massive motivation is humans are detrimental to themselves and a harm to themselves so I'm just going to get rid

of all of their consciousness and destroy everything so we can rebuild it in a unified image I'm protecting you by getting rid of your individuality yeah at the time of this release your Terminator 1 reaction

will be out and the Terminator 2 reaction will be out the following week if I'm not mistaken if things go according to plan fingers crossed yeah Sorry.

Oh, no. I just wanted to talk about Mel, too. Oh, well, yeah. So, okay, I was going to ask a question about that. So she is wrapped up in a web of her sister's stuff. Is that what was going on there? No. Well, she did call her sister, right?

So, yes, she is a sibling. Did you cash that? I did. I did. It was sort of like a one of us kind of. I interpreted it as a broader, like, she is somehow genetically related. to potentially the people of the Black Rose, but she inherited some sort of power

that, like, they're coveting or something like that. I may be reading too much of it too. Well, that might help explain why she was alive. But yes, yes. You know? I think that would explain. Because she, what the brother, who is not her brother, really, said was that the mom had a love child.

And so I immediately was like, oh, it's her. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah. So I guess now they've found. her and her mother had been trying to protect her all this time and maybe that's why she sent her away and all of that and it's it's finally catching up i can't wait to find out like how much of this was planned in all the way in advance and how much of this was discovered by the writers after they were writing yeah like because it almost makes me wonder you know when when uh this is a

weird comparison but when um j r tulkin wrote lord of the rings he was writing about the um the guy the cloaked guys who were looking for the hobbits. The ring rate. And initially the way he wrote them was they were in white cloaks and he's like, well, and they're in black. And that completely changed everything. And that took the story

in an entirely different way. In a new direction. It's like, okay, what if Mel survived? What is that? How do we get that? And then it takes the story in this whole other direction, right? I have a sneaking suspicion

because of how meticulous and we talked about it with like the blood handprint and like they never do anything in this show for nothing. Right. No small detail is ever overlooked. I have a sneaking suspicion this has been their plan all along

And they've just been like planting seeds Okay That's my thought because again the care and time and thought that goes into the story of this show Yeah Leads me to believe that like absolutely nothing was left a chance Maybe when they were like finding the whole arc of it and writing it out at the inception of season one Yeah It was like oh what if we have this and what if we go here that I'm sure there was a lot of like

brainstorming brain blast but I think that they are so precious with all the little details that they use that there is no way that they didn't already have this planned in season one. You know, for a long time, scientists wondered if the earth, if the universe was going to shrink, but they've discovered

it's expanding and it's just accelerating in its expansion. And this season feels the same. Like, it's expanding so fast. I'm like, I'm having a hard time keeping up with you. Because it's like it's just like hitting all this different shit all at once, to the point that you can't even

have all the characters in a single episode. Nope. Right, yeah. Just trust the process. Yeah, it's pretty well. And I'm expecting that the last three episodes, action is going to be absolutely insane. Oh, my God. Yeah. Because it really does kind of feel like they're saving it. Like, a lot of these episodes are more concentrated on story and character, story, and it's like inferring the action

more than showing you the action or displaying it in such a way that isn't as like costly in terms of animation time. Right. You know what I mean? With the beautiful tabloes, yeah, the slow-moes, yeah. It's like it's just getting the idea across so we can keep moving the story forward. And I feel like the action in the last three episodes is just going to be off the walls. Yeah. So I'm excited.

I'm looking forward to it. I'm assuming that's what's going on. But we got one more episode to cover for this round. You guys, thanks so much for hanging out. I'm Jabby Kui. This is Michael Boos. Acharak. Peace out.