The Reel Rejects - ARCANE League of Legends 2x01 REVIEW!

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Starting point is 00:01:18 if you are privileged enough to listen to us on Apple or Spotify, where Real Rejects is located. We just watch our Kane season two, episode, one um john john from fawn how are you doing john from zahn i no i're going with fawn we're going with fawn i hang out with the deer uh yes absolutely do uh i am enthralled that's so cool to be back in this world like i remember back when we first saw our cane we were introduced to this world and it was like such a gratifying sort of dazzling experience of both basically an equal measure of interesting storytelling and characterization but also beautiful art and animation a lot of

Starting point is 00:02:02 punch and zap and all sorts of other onomatopoeia uh yeah and and i mean this season hitting the ground running i feel like speaks to the kind of storytelling that they've exemplified all along you know it's like they'll lead you to a place that you might have expected to go but the circumstances that get you there are never quite what you anticipated and yeah just the boiling over of this conflict now you know I have all this dread, but I'm also just so excited to get into the thick of the, you know, the conflict, the battle, the fight for the soul of, you know, Zahn and Piltover and what, you know, sort of unity could become after all of this bloodshed that is undoubtedly coming our way. Yeah, I thought this was a very strong opening episode for the season. I mean, and having just binged the first season again in preparation for this, it feels pretty much just like a direct, you know,

Starting point is 00:02:57 continuation, which after, you know, given the way season one ends, you could expect that to happen. But I wanted a 10-year

Starting point is 00:03:04 time jump. Well, I mean, they've been great at doing time jumps and, and, you know, far to be like

Starting point is 00:03:09 a passover, the war. Yes, yeah. James is dead. Yeah, so it's a hundred years into the future,

Starting point is 00:03:14 none of the characters we followed the first time or you're alive anymore. Uh, yeah, but, but, but,

Starting point is 00:03:20 but, you know, the outcome of that attack, uh, you know, being the cliffhanger from last season, I thought was nicely handled here and yeah

Starting point is 00:03:28 you know the sitting here going back and forth being like oh man I thought for sure that we were going to witness piltover invading the um what do they call them the lane the lanes you know the memorial essentially well no I mean piled over evading

Starting point is 00:03:43 the under city yeah the lanes or whatever they call it you know I yeah I too thought we were going to kind of witness that tyranny and that tyranny is brewing but there's also yeah that sort of idea that sort of idea that jinks in striking this blow has literally, as you said, you know, kind of started the revolution.

Starting point is 00:04:02 Become the joker. Has become the Joker. And now, you know, Richard. She's Arthur Fleck. She, you know, she doesn't have the cause at heart so much. You know, she is like a chaotic rogue. And so, yeah, in a way. She kind of does.

Starting point is 00:04:18 She kind of wants to attack the council. I mean, this is true. I mean, she's certainly more politically aware than Arthur Fleck. But certainly, I wouldn't say. say motivated solely by that she's heath Ledger's Joker with the mental instability of her through pleasure sure yes very much motivated and driven by you know the personality of harley Quinn and the personality of harley Quinn there you go it's perfect it's all the joker and adjacent Joker characters distilled uh but yeah i don't know like just the the the way we're

Starting point is 00:04:50 watching is yeah characters now grow especially katelyn as of this episode and a bit with jace kind of allowing himself to turn to you know to cross that threshold we said we would never cross with the hex tech weaponry yeah i mean there's there's more to talk about certainly but i was quite enthralled by this and you know the action is punching just as hard the animation is gorgeous it's you know very much what we saw demonstrated in the first season but i feel like they've also just kind of without any kind of massive overhaul not that it would have needed it anyway, they have sort of added to their sort of visual palette in some interesting ways and stylistic ways.

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Starting point is 00:08:11 you're stuck in the old ways different now man you're stuck in the old ways you wish you came up with this we're not learning from history we're going to create a new history you watch uh yeah i mean a big part of this show seems to be like dictated by how grief can morph you and if you look at like act one of season one that ends at such a pivotal point because it's like essentially act one of season one is really like a prologue for everything that we're going to watch unfold and that it's so dictated by the final moments of what happens with jinx and vi in their younger years and of course like the situation with silco what he's moved by then you watch here with kaitland experiencing this level of grief like it's you've seen her care throughout all the season one

Starting point is 00:08:59 that's the that's the interesting part with her character is that she she's not someone who suddenly gives a shit because her mom died she's always cared but now she's at conflict where she's battling her own emotions of hatred and trying not to develop prejudices towards people in the undercity whilst in this stage of grief trying to remain semi-rational as much as possible

Starting point is 00:09:23 and understanding that this is just a few bad apples and there's some conflict here and there's going to be some violence but that doesn't mean everyone deserves to be you know killed like that's why I really like the one-two punch of

Starting point is 00:09:38 the undercity attacking first or Silco's people whatever you want to call them attacking first those who wish to revolutionize because I mean first though generally it would be Piltover who would attack first following because it's like okay now we've seen Jinx's attack it would only make sense

Starting point is 00:09:55 and then we would react but then like oh my god just while they're mourning they're hitting them at the under city is hitting them at their most vulnerable like turning a day of mourning when they least expect it I really think that that makes just makes it even hard I like I like how watching how much it was pushing Caitlin to the point where she gets to by the end of this episode and for Vi to be hinting at at least being somewhat of a bridge between what they want to accomplish by the end.

Starting point is 00:10:25 Like, I don't know if this is all just going to burn down. I really don't know if everything's going to burn down. I'm going to find a solution by the end of it all. I really have no idea where any of this is going to go. The hope is that a solution can happen. But I think, too, they do a really good job at showing you the perspective of both sides. and enhancing the whole conflict in the fact that you're like, well, everybody's got a point and everybody's also overreacted

Starting point is 00:10:52 in some heinous way, you know, at one point or another. So, like, how do we detangle this, you know? Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I mean, it carries over a lot, and there's some really cool action, and I didn't expect there to be any action at all in the first episode, actually. And I think, like, that's great storytelling

Starting point is 00:11:09 when the action is definitely rooted in emotion and seamwork first before cool choreography and visuals. Well, it makes it feel dangerous, yeah. And the way they ramped up that moment in the memorial where you're watching these people move through the crowd and the suspicion is slowly kind of being planted. Yeah. They're really good at capturing that perspective

Starting point is 00:11:30 and making a camera, like, evoke that feeling. And we didn't even see Jinks at all this episode, and I'm really, I'm really interested to see what becomes of the position Vye has now inhabited, because to dawn the uniform, the badge, is a massive step and creates a lot of fuzzy line work, I can imagine, for people who might even know her. Anyway, yeah, I still got two more episodes to watch, so we're going to get to it. But what did you guys think about the premiere episode? Anything surprise you in here?

Starting point is 00:12:06 Did you guess that's Xander's brother, but it was really a misleaded at Silco's brother? Oh, what is it? Leave your thoughts down below. Everyone, shut up. We're going to watch the next one. David Miliora. David. If there's anyone who I feel like I would need by my side as I go into a lower class society to go take them out with my advanced weaponry, I really feel like it would be you, David.

Starting point is 00:12:39 I just get the vibe that you are someone who is just looking to inflict some pain and you know what? Beast you. You need someone like that on your side when it comes down to it because you're fighting

Starting point is 00:12:53 against people who have something to fight for their lives. I'm fighting to protect my water. So, you need someone who just wants to be violent to be violent. You need a berserker. It's David. It's David. It's David Miliaro. Let's face it, David.

Starting point is 00:13:08 Kill Yaro. Oh, dude, yeah. That's what they call him on the streets. The streets of Beverly Hills, California. That's where I want to be. He is a threat. So, David, I want to say thank you for this Thanksgiving for being part of our Patreon page and being willing to fight by my side as I justifiably go after people.

Starting point is 00:13:36 Enabling you. It's good. You need somebody to grease those wheels. If I'm not enabled, I'll still do it. See again. But it won't feel as good.

The Reel Rejects - ARCANE League of Legends 2x01 REVIEW!

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