The Reel Rejects - ARCANE 2x09 League Of Legends FINALE Breakdown & Review

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Starting point is 00:01:36 How do you feel it? I feel like there's going to be a sequel show. I feel like there's got to... I think Arcane is done. But League of Legends animation isn't done. It feels like League of Legends animation is only just beginning. I hope. It felt like a season conclusion, not a serious conclusion.

Starting point is 00:01:56 Yeah. And it feels like there are... other stories that you can tell in this world and even i could almost imagine this being the type of thing almost like a you know the way an open world or any mMO behaves or even like an anthological thing like a sin city almost where it's like you could do another story and hey maybe violet and whoever else aren't like main characters but you still see them popping up you know uh yeah i mean i thought that the finale had the best action out of the like i think the emotional weight of the episode three fight is still my favorite of all the fight scenes

Starting point is 00:02:34 in this whole series the one where um the episode where vander dies um or guys and dies the first time the first time uh but in terms of just choreography scope camera angles uh all of that i i just thought it was brilliant and and what they did like it was an action-packed roller coaster of an episode truly that was still like i love the convergence of how it all did come together like with echoes ability there's like a lot of fate in there and in an episode that talks a lot about order and chaos uh it's weird how some stuff does feel and and and the idea of choice is the ultimate freedom yet some stuff feels like it was written in destiny yeah which is not choice you know it actually contradicts it like anti-choice yeah so i i'd like the it's

Starting point is 00:03:34 quite fair word is duality between the different themes here so yeah i think there's a lot of beautiful strengths i have some things that i do feel like i i craved a bit more of or that stuff i'll go into but overall i mean i think uh this should be a celebration of the amazing series that would be my main takeaway forever uh and i i think that there is a a really solid season uh overall yeah there's some stuff that i would like to be like i kind I feel like this could, but I won't immediately ruin the joy. No, I mean, yeah, it certainly culminates in a very, you know, climactic way, and there's certainly a lot going on. It's certainly like thick in a way with, yeah, conclusions and all

Starting point is 00:04:37 sorts of things. And, you know, I can certainly, again, I can imagine a version of this where you have like an extra episode or something just to give some breathing room to certain is weird it's like i don't begrudge them this ending and certainly the way it ends and the pace at which it ends certainly suggests yeah there's more in the future like if these were the only two seasons we ever got i would still be pretty thrilled but i am sort of like buoyed and bolstered by the fact that it certainly seems like there's more we can explore here um so i'm not as upset about not having like i feel like a lot of shows will end on like the second last episode is the big physical climax and then the last last episode is where you know you let

Starting point is 00:05:24 the dust settle and you kind of do a denouement as they would say um whereas this you know concludes pretty quickly yeah like once it's done it's done um but i mean yeah like the journey up till now it's like it's it's fun to be in this position where yeah there's certain things that i'm sure we'll get into in a few minutes that you know you can discuss and kind of look at from different angles about how this was executed or whatever but it's i think it's a really it goes without saying across this entire show from beginning to end there has been such thoughtful care and and craft put into the characterizations the arguments the themes the story the art like yeah no matter what specifics we might dive into and be like oh they could

Starting point is 00:06:10 done this or this like this is a real tour to force you know yeah period you know no no no i don't know what phrase i'm looking for there just yeah like this was a true like i said living breathing piece of art that you know is is quite staggering and it's inspiring to see something that's able to exist in the fashion this is and that has as much care put into again all those different departments all those different facets and something that does at least for me you know really make you excited to go back and now look at this all in totality again and relive this journey and see what else, you know, might smooth out now that you know the big picture of it all. And yeah, I mean, you know, certainly we were talking about the previous episode,

Starting point is 00:06:57 feeling kind of the most like the most sort of transitory episode where it's like, okay, there's a bunch of stuff happening. It's kind of all to get you to the actual centerpiece that is the finale or i guess the you know the the coda and uh and and yeah i thought this certainly like hit with a lot of impact and uh and yeah i would say it certainly stuck the landing regardless of whatever nuance we're about to get into and uh yeah like we were talking about in the previous episode like kind of wishing for that real conversation between jace and victor and certainly that bit of context that revealed like oh it has been you guiding me here all the long and it seems like it's been over so much time because you know he appears too young jace you

Starting point is 00:07:44 know when he's a child and sets this all in motion and they hint at the idea that yeah like there are sort of multiple versions of how this happened and multiple timelines so to speak that could have been explored and could have been possible and yeah it was all leading to this and it makes sense in hindsight. Yeah, why. Jace didn't really want it to, like in the previous episode and somewhat in Act 2, you know, you have that

Starting point is 00:08:14 sort of like Batman v. Superman thing where you're like, you just talk first. But now you see the totality and you're like, oh, I get why he didn't want to necessarily talk in reason because Victor himself has been like, hey, you know, I didn't I thought I could reach a certain

Starting point is 00:08:29 conclusion and I found that I couldn't and I need you to kind of see past. the whatever appeals that version of me is going to kind of throw at you and you know see this through the end and I thought that was you know as of you know their con they're there of them like conferring in the astral plane in the cosmic realm I thought was a really nice sort of way to tie a lot of that up and then finally having that sort of lead them into this very physical cross you know with the other characters that we've been following kind of bringing everything full circle in that way this is really striking he's really rich in a lot of ways see you've got some notes here it's on your notepad

Starting point is 00:09:13 is jinx really dead is jinx really dead probably probably I mean seemed like she was going to die from the beginning of the season yeah I mean it's one of those things

Starting point is 00:09:25 where you know I feel like if they wanted to somehow some way and that's what's cool about not knowing as much about the overarching like League of Legends existing lore because these are characters in the game it's like one of those things where you don't fully see so like maybe in the future she could pop up in some other and this is a world too where like you know you never know who's going to like find her body

Starting point is 00:09:49 and turn her into something else or whatever but yeah it certainly seems like for this story for these two seasons that sacrifices what it is well i think thematically it works really well when you have the beginning of act three take place in an alternate world where vi is dead and there's this version of powder out there who misses her sister and ended off where powder does sacrifice herself to save her sister when they're at the culmination of another situation of debris falling and they got to get out of this building they will die to have the tragedy of that to have that tragedy of all three characters there after what happens at episode three of season one yeah to have just this complete reversal of

Starting point is 00:10:44 everything shows that you know sacrifices the ultimate form of love and jinx or powder really does love by i think it's absolutely tragic everything with bander because it's just like was not on stop like bander dies apparently has been uh just under an experiment this whole time and transformed into this creature and then they finally comes reunites and is stripped away and then is turned into something even more is uh absolute like terrible tragedy that i'm not really sure what that's why i don't feel like he's dead him specifically because i'm not really sure what's a make a bad in terms of like it doesn't really lead to like it does create a reunion for um powder and and uh buy in the show but it and it does a lot of them to have a resolve with

Starting point is 00:11:40 each other but then he just kind of like comes back and dies yeah the the the whole warwick thing is interesting because it it i mean up to a point i was like oh maybe they will be able to live together or maybe he'll be able to just be a, you know, continue on living as Warwick, but, you know, with his green juices, benevolent, you know, memories, you know, restored, all that stuff. And then when they delete it out of him, you know, when Victor, you know, overrides everything, it does seem like at that point as he's done. And I don't know what to make of that. Because part of me was thinking, like, in those moments, you know, you want Vander somewhere to still be down in there,

Starting point is 00:12:24 but I don't think that would gag would necessarily work twice. A whole like, oh, no, And there's still a little bit of a little trace element. And as long as he sees his daughters, it'll come back out, you know. And like, again, that's what you want. But I don't think it, I don't know if it would really work as well without some added element or some kind of, well, he's not going to be the obviously physical transformation. But it's like we've already coped with that when seeing him in the Warwick form and then him being, again, broken of the brainwashed rage. I don't know Yeah

Starting point is 00:12:58 I would be curious To see if it like I'll never write anything off in a show like this I like it to that powder I did not I'm calling her powder I like that she does use her leadership She embraces it at the end Where oh my god totally playing on her name The arm

Starting point is 00:13:19 Oh Savika Seveka yeah yeah We got there The Seveca rejects fighting alongside and it's not until powder agrees and in episode four you see that there's this rivalry that kind of carries on between echo and powder but then they come to the resolve because of what echo experience so he sees that that person's still in there unfortunately catches jinks when she has been in a morning state where she's kind of evolved and it becomes

Starting point is 00:13:51 more grounded again yeah and and so to have that tie back around and you're wrapping up that storyline between fire lights and fire lights that's like yeah yeah fire lights and and powder and then powder using her political figure that she has become the symbol she's become to help engage in the war as well because this is all about the ultimate form of unity because at the end of the day victor his original goal was unity and to bring the people from the under city up and now he's done that and he's leveled the playing field yeah everybody yeah so story-wise like yeah that's all there and it's it's cool that they managed to actually do that and while they a lot of sacrifice was involved now now evolving into who she is now it's like this made combination of both like that would be she'd be an unstoppable leader in that realm her and jay still hooking up should be an unstoppable how she can feel about that Yeah, you know.

Starting point is 00:14:57 And what does that mean for, you know, this, the fabric of this society, certainly it doesn't seem like we're going to be relying that much on Hextech anymore, you know, or Arcane Magic. Jason is a, aren't they gone, Jason, Victor? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm pretty sure. Yeah. Five in the morning, guys.

Starting point is 00:15:18 But, but yeah, yeah, yeah, it's that thing of, you know, she is, I mean, she seems. like she is in a position where she is kind of having the arcane magic sort of flow through her. And it's interesting, like, it's one of those details where, again, people have speculated online, just that no, maybe something related to Noxas, maybe the next chapter of whatever the show becomes from here. And I could see that just because, like, the stuff with the black rose, the stuff with, we've heard so much about Noxas. We've seen so little of it. And this seems like an aspect of, again, the interplay between magic. and everything else that's a little less it's a little bit more of an unbeaten path as of now because you know we've seen the science version of magic the technological version of magic but this seems like something wholly other from that or at least like a very different iteration of that and one that in true kind of witchy fashion doesn't seek to like completely harness it for only you know to like tell it what to do but you know to kind of conduct it and that

Starting point is 00:16:26 whole beat at the end where she's like you know i see your true face deceiver or whatever that is like that just that brought me more curiosity as to again the true nature of this black rose cult and and the interplay between umbessa and the you know greater again fabric of noxas and just the fact that like they acknowledge you know you're becoming this mage and you are again conducting and and interplaying with the arcane magic but again it's like totally totally different colors and it has like this just the motifs are very different and like opposite from hex tech everything blue and everything's kind of shimmery and beautiful whereas in the black rose dimension it's all kind of hellish and hellraiser and it's red and black and it's very imposing and kind

Starting point is 00:17:11 of sinister and i feel like there's a fair amount to still explore there and yeah i mean mel seems like with a little practice she could probably be even more you know devastatingly formidable and i mean that that idea too and those are details i'm excited to go back and kind of revisit because yeah it's like she's this special child she's you know in this weird position with her mother because you know she's all of her mother's love went to her brother and now she is this kind of strategic instrument for her mother's ends and there is a part of ambessa that does love her but also she's kind of wanted to and has entangled with the black rose in order to get mel to this point of unlocking this potential, but yet because of the nurture side, you know, her nature isn't something

Starting point is 00:18:00 that Ambessa can just bend her own will. So she's kind of created this whole, you know, chaotic, you know, force unto herself. And certainly Mel has a lot more benevolent motivations up until this point. And it seems like somebody who still maintains a lot of that after her transformation. So, you know, it's an interesting, makes me think of the, the, the, the scale of in like dungeons and dragons you have that like lawful you know evil etc chaotic neutral all these different like character classifications and i feel like this show is like good at moving characters in and out of different classes of that i don't know where to put mel from here because she certainly seems like she has a certain like lawful a certain goodish quality but she's also yeah in this again she's been transformed into you know a conductor of magical ability so and that's i don't know like i'm curious about what happens to the world from here on out because that side the black rose seems like it's you know it's a full-on thing and it's doing fine whereas like hextech and and again the the harnessing of arcane

Starting point is 00:19:13 magic at large seems like it's been sort of dismantled from here so what does that do to the balance of nature and the forces of nature in this world as we know it well i think hex tech was the thing that was um hex tech was a thing that was of but not magic itself magic still is yeah no but but yeah no totally but but it just seems like i don't know it seems like an interesting counter even though it like comes from the same source i guess that's true that's true

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Starting point is 00:22:25 of legends fans who probably are able to who probably maybe thought it was perfect because they're able to latch onto everything much faster quicker easier because they have all the additional context of being a league of legends player they're sitting there shouting at the screen going it's not that hard guys and then there's other people who probably will just plain and simple feel like No, there was exactly what they wanted. And even though the, there might be other people who go, hey, I've never played League of Legends. And while I feel like there's some stuff that we could have had more, I'm just still so happy with what we ultimately got in the end. There's parts of me that are a bit distracted, though, from the other elements of it.

Starting point is 00:23:14 I do feel in these last couple of episodes, it did suffer from a case of we have to, rip the series up and we're going to like skip over some shit and we're going to rush through some shit uh i do think they i mean i think they tried to do it like tonally wise and editing and stylistically wise when they were talking about hey we're going to be going to war let's cut to like a moment of a vie here and okay we're going to go they're talking about that and then now we're like way deep into the battle um right when we cut to it like there's not really a buildup to it and like we're so deep into it that we kind of just skip over a lot to get there there's other characters like like the mattie thing was a big moment um at the same time i'm like we really

Starting point is 00:24:03 spent much time with mattie and her it wasn't really a relationship we we were involved with it all uh outside of like two scenes you know and then yeah i remember being like actually the guy who we look like vander but wasn't vander he dies and he kind of just dies and there's not really a moment out of it when the way he was introduced in this season really seemed like he was going to be some kind of character he's even the one when by wakes up out of being injured in the previous episode he's the one who greets her in bed and he kind of just dies uh so that was a bit bothersome so i do think they kind of rushed over some stuff and i do think that these last three episodes for me personally my favorite parts and as it is for a lot of people

Starting point is 00:24:52 in terms of characters is vying jinx or viand powder and i really don't feel like we spent much time with them in these last three episodes yeah and while yes they were like predominantly uh more like the last act was them and and i feel like that's what they were doing was like okay one two three there's a real focusing act one here's a focusing act two is real focusing act three here's what we're gonna focus on and this one was mainly dedicated to jace echo and uh victor right yeah so i get it like i do structurally wise i do feel like we missed out on some stuff so as as sad as it was to see jinks go um it was also still feel like i kind of feel like you kind I kind of feel like we kind of rushed it here.

Starting point is 00:25:38 Or we didn't get enough breathing. There was stuff that just felt like, there was a bit of like Marvel Disney Plus finale element to it in the sense of like we're going to go big finale action, but we're kind of, we kind of rushed over a lot of stuff because we have to wrap up this series. So by the time the story was done,

Starting point is 00:25:57 that calm after the storm, you don't really have. It kind of does just end it. It doesn't quite as propose, yeah, it's like there's something about, the way season two is versus season one where again all of the pieces have been there this whole time but season one maybe more markedly feels like it's a big ensemble and you have a lot of storylines that are equally important and get equal pretty equal amounts of focus but it does

Starting point is 00:26:26 feel like in season one that like slightly above all else it's the vi and jinx saga yeah Whereas season two feels less like the Vianjinks saga. And then once you end, I do agree. It's like for the amount of grace and the amount of actual, you know, again, breath that it gives their story earlier on. Yeah, I can agree with that. It's like here you kind of want there to be. It's like that moment between them at the end is heart wrenching and it does mean a lot. But at the same time, you kind of want some actual.

Starting point is 00:27:01 emotional catharsis between the two characters before all that happens or something some kind of other dramatic interlude or something away from all the actions something that kind of can transcend all the physicality and all the different colliding circumstances and all the stuff that's happening and just focus in on concluding them and giving them some sort of denouement instead of just quickly showing that okay will vie is back with kaitland and they're you know grieving together after jinxie's the bomb is it's a brief moment of vye crying that's it and it's like i really like the body language of that scene and then the observation of like the really human quality in the in the physical representation but yeah it's it feels like there should have been maybe a bit more grace given to their emotional conclusion and again it feels like you yeah i feel like maybe this act could have used to to really satisfy everything and to breathe completely i feel like they could have maybe use one more episode I think they could have used two or one more act

Starting point is 00:28:07 I think they could use one more act one more act or maybe make each like I would have been thrilled if each of these I think episode seven the start of act one I thought was pretty perfect I pretty much loved that episode I love the way it moved and the way it breathed and the way it was paced and then that kind of feels yeah it's like if you had either made the last two episodes like 90 minutes or something like that or a bit longer or yeah had another couple episodes or another act it's weird like I could have actually spent an act in the

Starting point is 00:28:41 alternate and then you come back and you do like three episodes on what these last two episodes did you know and then you can finish up an act four kind of yeah I think so I think you could have just had like your final act be the war too um the bat like you could have had you still could have drawn a lot of story not just like non-stop action there's still a lot of story to mine or like two episodes or the final i i feel like there wasn't much build up to this war happening the war that they were building up was the war between under city and built over yeah that's what they were building up originally yeah and there wasn't much build up to this war and then then when the war happens at the episode like we're kind of just in it yeah and that part of

Starting point is 00:29:26 of it was the element that I thought was missing a bit. So, yeah, I don't want to harp too much on it. I can imagine there's people who do feel the way we feel about it. Like when you watch Dune Part 2 and you're like, I wish we saw some of the war. Instead of just like skipping right through it in a quickie montage. You mean Furiosa? No, Dune Part 2, they have that thing where you get like three quarters of the way through

Starting point is 00:29:53 and they're like, oh, there was this crazy 40 years long war. Furiosa does it too I remember Andrew talking about it and being like I really wanted to see the war though he was very distinct about it oh but I can play with Furioso a lot Furiosa is a better example

Starting point is 00:30:09 same same idea same idea is like oh this would have been cool to see what we got is cool but like to actually expand on this and to walk around in it for a minute would have been that much richer because yeah like the last two episodes are, it's weird.

Starting point is 00:30:27 I like them and I liked what they did with what they had. Strong of them all in season two. They're the least balanced. Yeah, they're the least sort of all encompassing. I wouldn't call them weak. I would say they're the least strong. They're the least encompassing of all of the faculties

Starting point is 00:30:43 that have made this show so great. Not to say that there isn't tons of that stuff in there, but yeah, they are very physical action oriented with some good philosophical. The last one's a very physical action. Yeah, but yeah, like, there's a marked distinction between a lot of the way some of these episodes move, and especially in Act 3, going from the first part to then eight and nine, do feel like you're thrown into the finale of something rather than gracefully kind of moving through to the inevitable conclusion.

Starting point is 00:31:17 Yeah. I still, of course, everything that you said about, I mean, we're saying during the reaction, everything he said about jace and victor i thought was really strong yeah there's the alt reality where i'm like we could have like sort of built up to the debate and then they could sure whatever i'll talk on that um so yeah we have jace and uh jason victor i thought was really strong like the moments in the scenes and isolation of course were strong and as some of these scenes could have hit a little bit harder if we did have a little bit more build up and breathing room to it i think they try to do a little too much in this final episode sure you know introduce the pre-war

Starting point is 00:31:58 go to war now it's ended in the next five minutes you know yeah because it is like that watchman evening like okay now the the war you thought was coming has actually been dwarfed by some other completely all-encompassing threat for which we all need to lay down our petty squabbles and and not even that they're all even petty but yeah we all need to band together and and yeah it's like the debate of that is there but that's a really significant thing in this world for these two disparate cities to come together in common you know for common ends i feel like for an ending a series uh do you think through the last like 10 to 15 minutes ought to have been dedicated to what is happening post this that's or some type of remembrance too for

Starting point is 00:32:46 hymerdinger um dude he just like we just dropped him after yeah where did he even go well i think he died sure and he put the he did his doc brown moment but but hymerdinger's like not honored or remembered when he and especially and jace doesn't even bring it up when jace had like argued with him at the beginning the part of there's part of this show sure of no we should do it and he's like i'mard dingers like i don't really shouldn't yeah it being right like very very i remember the wars yeah yeah um that situation with uh powder in the alternate universe there's no result so we're so you're saying

Starting point is 00:33:31 that like the reed is that what happened to sky essentially kind of happened to hymerdinger there i don't know i don't know either that or he got zapped into an alternate dimension or or something but he's certainly not there for the for the last part of it's not there yeah um see he might be dead for all we know um but yeah iber dinger spin off there's There's kind of a lot, and the more I think about it, the more I feel like there's kind of a lot that they did. And it doesn't, that's why I said it feels more like a season finale than it does a series finale.

Starting point is 00:34:02 And it's, like I feel like they could just have a different title with the subtitle being Link of Legends again for whatever the follow show is. Yeah. So, yeah, I do, I do think these are the two least strong of them all. And there are parts of it that I do feel a little bit disappointed by. uh however in the immediate moment of watching it like that's a difference between like reacting

Starting point is 00:34:27 and reflecting and some of the other thoughts like i'm having a lot of these thoughts i'm talking about having that we share right now yeah i'm not really thinking too much about them in the moment because there's so much happening on screen that i got to focus on that yeah yeah but then in retrospect you know when it's done a bunch of i'm reflecting on it i'm like i do feel this though and so yeah overall though It's, it's arcane, and they did, the parts where they lack in, in writing, they make up with, I'm not going to say, I'm not going to say lack in storytelling, even though writing is such a significant part of storytelling. It is the foundation of it all. It's telling the story. Yeah, it's crafting the story.

Starting point is 00:35:15 Where they lacked in writing in the last couple episodes, I think they did so much with where the show. excels the most which is visual storytelling and allowing so much of the mood and emotion to convey via through there and there's still so many different payoffs and while there's some stuff lingering and while some stuff could have been perhaps more fleshed out to conclude like there's so much great things happening in this one episode that I I I would be a lie to say like I didn't I didn't like it it would be a lie to say that as much as I have these qualms I still feel like there's so much beautiful things that were happening in this episode that I'm like god damn I'm gonna miss it yeah I'm gonna miss it like if I'm holding out hope that this there's

Starting point is 00:36:08 gonna continue with these characters in some way God I hope so because it is such a beautiful and it's such a beautiful world and like the fact that we get this level of animation for a tv show is insane yeah it's insane that you get this level of animation for a tv show it's it's nuts his breathed whenever i see people like like the gameplay of league of legends has nothing on this show sure it's totally different yeah it's totally different utility yeah same design you know general design vibe but yeah like the painted the again you feel like you're watching a moving painting so

Starting point is 00:36:50 much of the time it's breathtaking I love I hate I hate the fact that it's over and I wish that there was I do I do crave more from it there was true joy in anticipating these and I do like it's weird it's

Starting point is 00:37:06 and it's been interesting to watch with like Cobra Kai too like there are things about the release strategy that you wonder if hindered certain aspects as we've been talking about with the storytelling, but I do really like this model of like, okay, you put out a few

Starting point is 00:37:21 episodes at a time, you let us sit with those. Those are an event in and of themselves and it makes the anticipation really palpable. Arcane and love is blind. Yeah, buddy. There you go. Two sides of the spectrum right there.

Starting point is 00:37:37 But yeah, like I love, it's like they give you a substantial amount and it's like you said before. They give you three episodes at a time, Each episode, for the most part, feels like its own piece that you want to look at and behold and dissect and talk about. And, you know, each one has that. And then the last two are kind of like a mono synthesis of that. But it's really, I appreciate because it's rare, like, really getting to bask in and relish in that anticipation. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:10 Because a lot of times there's so many things happening day to day in life that I just don't have. have the presence of mind to anticipate because I just know things will get here pretty quick. But this show has been lovely to sit in and to have that excitement of and at least as of that first, that episode seven, I think episode seven was kind of where it reached that pinnacle. I was like that was such a beauty and it had such, again, air and tone. And it's like, man, if you could have carried some of that through through the rest of it, this could have been like a 10 out of 10 out of 10, but it's still like, yeah, it's, even for the things that could have been stronger just here in these, you know,

Starting point is 00:38:47 immediate moments after the season is concluded, I am sad, I'm going to miss it, and this has been truly remarkable regardless. Like, for whatever, could have been smoother, could have been more flesh, could have been better, like few shows, even despite all that, you know, managed to reach this kind of height and, and again, this sort of all-encompassing clarity of the fact that just like, man, everyone seems like they put their heart and soul into this. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:39:19 Well, I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss it too. And you're going to miss staying up all night for another one of these. You're going to miss it when you're fast asleep. Well, gang, what do y'all think? Did they stick the landing? How much did they stick the landing? What are you hoping to see

Starting point is 00:39:37 from League of Legends on Netflix going into the future? Leave us your thoughts, your theories, and we'll catch you for whatever's next. Thank you for joining us and be well out there.

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